Bad News is a unique firearm created and used by Percival de Rolo. It is a larger, more elongated version of his first pepperbox pistol. It has an incredible range and its shots are more powerful than a standard pistol, but it can only hold one bullet at a time.
Bad News is a breech-loading wheel lock precision sniper musket with optics, similar to the one in The Adventures of Baron Munchausen.[3]
Properties[]
Bad News is a longarm that requires two hands to wield, and can hold only one bullet before needing to be reloaded, with a 15% chance of misfiring. Each shot deals 2d12 piercing damage, and has a standard range of 200 feet and a long range of 800 feet.[1]
Trivia[]
- The gun's name comes from the phrase "bad news travels far and fast."[4]
- Beauregard Lionett (or Marisha) mentioned reading about "this thing called a Bad News once and it would sometimes explode."[5]
- In The Legend of Vox Machina series, Percy uses the rifle to deal piercing damage to the giant's shoulder and knocks it down. He also mentioned that the gun is still a work in progress.
- This may be a reference to Percy's first usage of the gun in "Arrival at Kraghammer" (1x01), the first episode of Critical Role, where he rolls a critical hit on an ogre and blasts it in the shoulder, knocking it back into a wall.[6]
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4
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- ↑ See "Hope" (1x56) at 0:38:17. It cost Percy 400 gp to repair Bad News. Under Matt's Gunslinger rules, repairing a gun costs half as much as the price of the gun, therefore Bad News must cost 800 gp.
- ↑ See Taliesin's tweet and the compiled information at Critical Analysis.
- ↑ See "Arrival at Kraghammer" (1x01) at 2:29:14.
- ↑ See "Lingering Wounds" (2x89) at 59:43.
- ↑ See "Arrival at Kraghammer" (1x01) at 2:27:20.
Art:
- ↑ Fan art of Bad News, by Joma Cueto (source). Used with permission.