# Flintlock Pistols *The Black Powder Armory, Firearms, Blades, and Armour for Exodus NDS, 1400 to 1938. Source: https://oldwest.exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/black-powder-armory/flintlock-pistols* The pistols of 1650 to 1840: the age of sail, the highwayman, and the duel. A flintlock pistol fires once and takes two maneuvers to reload, so nobody reloads in a fight. They carry more pistols. A boarder goes over the rail with two, four, or six, fires each once, and finishes with a blade. **Drawing the next pistol is a maneuver.** From a sash, a baldric, or a ribbon round the neck it is free once per turn. Nearly every entry is **Unreliable**: 2 Bane or a Calamity on the attack and the pistol misfires, a flash in the pan, until an action is spent re-priming it. | Carried | Damage | Concealable | |:--|:-:|:-:| | In a pocket | 5 | 3 | | In a belt or sash | 6 | 1 | | In a saddle holster | 7 | none | **Skill:** Light Ranged throughout. ##### Pocket Pistol Muff pistol, Queen Anne pistol, turn-off pistol, toby
5 4 Short 0
Light Ranged 150 Common Ballistic Prepare 2, Unreliable, Concealable 3
A pistol short enough for a coat pocket or a lady's muff. Damage 5, once, at **Concealable 3**. It is the traveller's answer to a highwayman, and the highwayman's second gun. ##### Belt Pistol Holster pistol, officer's pistol, trade pistol
6 4 Short 1
Light Ranged 200 Common Ballistic Prepare 2, Unreliable, Concealable 1
The ordinary flintlock pistol: a nine-inch barrel and a half-inch ball. Damage 6, Crit 4, Short range. This is the reference pistol of the flintlock age, and a brace of them is two shots. ##### Sea Service Pistol Boarding pistol, naval pistol, pirate pistol
6 4 Short 2
Light Ranged 150 Common Ballistic Prepare 2, Unreliable
A heavy, plain pistol with a belt hook and a brass-capped butt, issued from the arms chest before boarding. It is fired once at arm's length and then reversed. Used as a club it is a **Weapon Butt** (Chapter 10) that deals Might+2 instead of Might+1, and switching to it costs nothing. Sailors carry them in pairs on a ribbon round the neck. ##### Horse Pistol Dragoon pistol, cavalry pistol, heavy holster pistol
7 3 Short 2
Light Ranged 300 Military Ballistic Prepare 2, Unreliable, Cumbersome 2
A cavalry pistol with a twelve-inch barrel, carried in pairs in saddle holsters. Damage 7 is the most a flintlock handgun delivers. It needs Might 2. ##### Duelling Pistol Target pistol, saw-handled pistol, a case of pistols
6 3 Medium 1
Light Ranged 700 Restricted Ballistic Accurate 1, Prepare 2
A pistol made for one careful shot: a heavy barrel, a set trigger, and a lock fitted by hand. **Accurate 1**, Crit 3, and Medium range. It is the only flintlock in the chapter that is not **Unreliable**. They are made and sold in matched pairs. The price is for one. **From 1770.** The cased pair built for the duel is a London product of the 1770s. Before then a gentleman duels with an ordinary Belt Pistol. ##### Double-Barrelled Pistol Turn-over pistol, side-by-side pistol, tap-action pistol
6 4 Short 2
Light Ranged 450 Restricted Ballistic Limited Ammo 2, Prepare 2, Unreliable
Two barrels and two locks, or one lock and a barrel block that turns over. **Limited Ammo 2**: it fires twice before reloading, and each barrel takes its own **Prepare 2**. ##### Duck-Foot Pistol Volley pistol, mob pistol, four-barrelled splayed pistol
5 4 Short 2
Light Ranged 500 Rare Ballistic Blast 4, Inaccurate 1, Prepare 4, Unreliable
Four barrels splayed like the toes of a duck, fired together by one lock. It was sold to ship's officers and prison warders, who expected to face several men at once. **Blast 4** for 2 Boons catches those Engaged with the target. All four barrels must be reloaded: **Prepare 4**. **From 1770.** Surviving examples are English work of the 1770s to the 1800s. It does not exist in the age of the buccaneers. ##### Dragon Blunderbuss pistol, coach pistol
7 4 Short 2
Light Ranged 300 Common Ballistic Blast 3, Inaccurate 1, Prepare 2, Unreliable, Cumbersome 2
A blunderbuss cut down to a pistol, with a flared muzzle and a charge of swan shot. It gave the dragoons their name. Damage 7 with **Blast 3** at Short range.
##### Pepperbox Pepper-pot revolver, bar-hammer pistol
5 4 Short 2
Light Ranged 300 Common Ballistic Limited Ammo 6, Inaccurate 1
Six barrels in a revolving cluster, fired by percussion caps. It arrives in the 1830s and is the first repeating handgun sold in numbers. It is a percussion arm, so it is not **Unreliable**, and it belongs to the cap and cartridge period: **1840, from 1835**. It sits in this chapter because it is the last pistol a flintlock-age character meets. Hand-turned flintlock pepperboxes of three to seven barrels were made from about 1790. They are rare, and they are not this entry; use the Double-Barrelled Pistol. It is muzzle-heavy and has no sights worth the name: **Inaccurate 1**. Reloading all six barrels takes six maneuvers.
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