Mythras Pulp Guns

I also think that, for some reason or the other, Chapman isn’t telling the truth. Though it may be a foible with him, it seems ridiculous for a district attorney to carry a .28 caliber pistol. I’ve never yet known a police official or a man who habitually carries weapons to use anything less than a .32. The stopping power of a .28 isn’t great enough. And then the silencer; of course, that was sheer rot.

The Vesper Service Murders (1931)

… to continue this short detour into the Mythras rules system. Mythras does offer a free supplement on modern weapons, Mythras Firearms. Here’s the selection it contains:

Mythras firearms

As one can see there are pretty slim pickings for the Pulp Era, especially a setting tied to 1930. Magnum revolvers, for instance, were not introduced until the mid-1930s.

Here is a slightly expanded selection:

Mythras firearms for the Pulp Era

The homebrew table has been standardised on the official Mythras table so that crossover entries are identical and everything else is scaled off them.

Of course if one wants non-standard calibres like the silenced .28 these tables will become baroque …*

For real world data see:

A big gun for a woman

*Addendum

Looks like the “.28” is a fantastical cartridge. The only pistol cartridge of that calibre for sale was the 7mm Bar Pistol patented in 1897. The Bar pistol was a double-barrelled pocket pistol soon converted to the standard .25 ACP/6.35mm. Presumably Mason was thinking of the .25 or this was a typo.

Information from H.P. White, Pistol and Revolver Cartridges (rev. edn, 1967).