• alyqz@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 hours ago

    I imagine that the momentum would be conserved. So if the rifle normally shot a 30 gram ball at 300 meters per second, it would shoot a 5 kilogram ball at around 23 meters per second.

    • The larger size and lower speed of the cannon ball would likely reduce the range.
    • The larger size of the projectile would spread out the impact causing reduced damage.
    • The ballistics would be significantly different making it far harder to hit with.

    This is how I would do it in my game:

    • Reduce the damage from 1d12 to 1d10
    • Change piercing type to bludgeoning
    • Reduce range from 40/120 to something like 20/60
    • Add knockback of 5 ft to medium targets or 10 for small

    The really neat thing would be shooting non standard rounds that wouldn’t be possible from a musket like incendiary or smoke rounds.