SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN

BASE ITEM
WEAPON
RANGED
LEVEL 1

REQUIRES LEVEL 1

SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN is a ranged weapon, wielded from level 1. DEXTERITY is the stat that scales it.

The requirement cuts both ways: nothing below level 1 ever drops one, and a hero below it banks the find rather than wearing it.

Nothing in the campaign is authored to pay it out, so it turns up only where the loot rules reach it on their own.

Grandpa's twelve gauge, both barrels cut down to a stub the year his eyes went. It hung over the garage door for a decade with a box of shells taped to the stock. The night Ada didn't come back he took it down, loaded both, and went looking for his old employer.

What it does

VOLLEYEach pull throws 6 projectiles across a 44° fan, and every one of them carries the full blow — so point blank it is one enormous hit and across a crowd it is 6 separate ones.
PRICED FORAbout 6 targets a swing. That is what the damage budget assumes it reaches, which is why a wide weapon carries a smaller blow than a narrow one of the same level.
CRIT WEIGHTA critical hit lands for 2.05× — a flat trait of the ranged class, the same on every weapon in it. Your build earns the crit CHANCE; the class fixes what a crit is worth.
SALVAGEIt melts down: the merchant pays double what an ordinary piece of its worth fetches.

It feeds on bullets, one round per trigger pull however many projectiles that pull throws. In exchange it never wears out and never needs a repair kit — it runs dry instead, and the hero puts it away for whatever he can still fire.

A fresh find in the hands of a hero who has spent no stat points — the piece itself, with nothing of the wielder in it. Your own STRENGTH, DEXTERITY or INTELLECT lifts these from there, as does an item level found deeper than the requirement.

Make quality

Every plain drop of this base rolls a make quality on top of the numbers above — the craftsmanship of that particular copy, stamped at the moment it drops and frozen for life. It scales the damage and the wear budget together, and it leads the name: a BROKEN SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN and a PERFECT SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN are the same base item and not the same find.

The bands overlap on purpose, so a good CRUDE can out-swing a poor NORMAL while a PERFECT always clears a NORMAL. Which one you get depends on the level of whatever dropped it: the two odds columns below are a level-1 killer and a level-60 one, and everything between is interpolated. Craftsmanship and magic are exclusive — a magic-or-better find is always normal make.

MAKE	DAMAGE	SCALE	ODDS AT MLVL 1	ODDS AT MLVL 60
BROKEN	3–4	0.58–0.82×	20%	0%
CRUDE	4–5	0.73–0.97×	25%	6%
NORMAL	5–6	0.90–1.10×	52%	54%
SUPERIOR	5–6	1.03–1.27×	3%	28%
PERFECT	6–7	1.16–1.44×	0%	12%

SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN, a base item weapon in Ada's Trail, shown on the map of GOODCO HQ where it drops — SAWED-OFF SHOTGUN — where it drops, in GOODCO HQ.