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 ==Strategy==
-Shotguns theoretically make for powerful early-game weapons due to the high damage from shotgun shells compared to ordinary [[Bullet (SLASH'EM)|bullets]], but several factors make them highly impractical for this purpose. One primary factor is the uncommon ammunition: firearm ammo will always mulch when shot, which necessitates maintaining a cache of ammo and reserving it for emergencies and similarly dire situations; [[Yendorian army]] [[sergeant]]s and [[captain]]s are the only monsters aside from shopkeepers that can generate with shotgun shells, and both only have a {{frac|2}} chance of being given the ammo along with [[Auto shotgun (SLASH'EM)|auto shotguns]] to use them.{{refsrc|makemon.c|295|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}{{refsrc|makemon.c|320|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}
+Shotguns theoretically make for powerful early-game weapons due to the high damage from shotgun shells compared to ordinary [[Bullet (SLASH'EM)|bullets]], but several factors make them highly impractical for this purpose. One primary factor is the uncommon ammunition: firearm ammo will always mulch when shot, which necessitates maintaining a cache of ammo and reserving it for emergencies and similarly dire situations; [[Yendorian army]] [[Sergeant (monster)|sergeants]] and [[captain]]s are the only monsters aside from shopkeepers that can generate with shotgun shells, and both only have a {{frac|2}} chance of being given the ammo along with [[Auto shotgun (SLASH'EM)|auto shotguns]] to use them.{{refsrc|makemon.c|295|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}{{refsrc|makemon.c|320|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}
 Shopkeepers themselves are the earliest possible sources of shotguns, which also makes them ''very'' likely to kill most heroes that attack or aggravate the shopkeeper even if that hero's goal is not taking the shotgun for themselves&mdash;while a cursed shotgun significantly weakens the shopkeeper's melee damage in theory, they are still strong enough to batter most early-game heroes to death unless that character has [[escape item]]s on hand. Additionally, most heroes that are '''both''' capable of training firearms and can either kill a shopkeeper quickly, ''or else'' engineer circumstances where they are killed off, will be very unlikely to actually need the shotgun themselves. This is especially true if the now-untended shop also has valuable weapons, armor or other items besides the shopkeeper's own [[gold]] and personal inventory.

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 A '''shotgun''' is type of a [[weapon]] that appears in [[SLASH'EM]], [[SpliceHack]], [[SlashTHEM]], and [[Hack'EM]]. The shotgun is a one-handed [[launcher]] that uses the [[firearms]] skill and is designed for use with [[Shotgun shell (SLASH'EM)|shotgun shells]]. It is made of [[iron]].
-[[Pirate]]s in SlashTHEM know the item as a '''blunderbuss'''. In Hack'EM, the shotgun appears as a [[broken crossbow]] when [[Identification|unidentified]], similar to [[Shotgun (dNetHack)|the item]] in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]].
+[[Pirate]]s in SlashTHEM know the item as a [[blunderbuss]]. In Hack'EM, the shotgun appears as a [[broken crossbow]] when [[Identification|unidentified]], similar to [[Shotgun (dNetHack)|the item]] in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]].
 ==Generation==

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	With all of the above in mind, shotguns may have a potential niche for some character builds as an emergency short-range weapon of sorts; their uncommon ammo and lower rate of fire make them tedious to use on a long-term basis, compared to [[Submachine gun (SLASH'EM)\|submachine guns]] and [[Assault rifle (SLASH'EM)\|assault rifles]].		With all of the above in mind, shotguns may have a potential niche for some character builds as an emergency short-range weapon of sorts; their uncommon ammo and lower rate of fire make them tedious to use on a long-term basis, compared to [[Submachine gun (SLASH'EM)\|submachine guns]] and [[Assault rifle (SLASH'EM)\|assault rifles]].
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		+	{{todo\|Consider detailing per-variant strategy.}}

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 ==Strategy==
-Shotguns theoretically make for powerful early-game weapons due to the high damage from shotgun shells compared to ordinary [[Bullet (SLASH'EM)|bullets]], but several factors make them highly impractical for this purpose. One primary factor is the uncommon ammunition: firearm ammo will always mulch when shot, which necessitates maintaining a cache of ammo and reserving it for emergencies and similarly dire situations; [[Yendorian army]] [[sergeant]]s and [[captain]]s are the only monsters aside from shopkeepers that can generate with shotgun shells, and both only have a {{frac|2}} chance of being given the ammo along with [[auto shotgun]]s to use them.{{refsrc|makemon.c|295|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}{{refsrc|makemon.c|320|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}
+Shotguns theoretically make for powerful early-game weapons due to the high damage from shotgun shells compared to ordinary [[Bullet (SLASH'EM)|bullets]], but several factors make them highly impractical for this purpose. One primary factor is the uncommon ammunition: firearm ammo will always mulch when shot, which necessitates maintaining a cache of ammo and reserving it for emergencies and similarly dire situations; [[Yendorian army]] [[sergeant]]s and [[captain]]s are the only monsters aside from shopkeepers that can generate with shotgun shells, and both only have a {{frac|2}} chance of being given the ammo along with [[Auto shotgun (SLASH'EM)|auto shotguns]] to use them.{{refsrc|makemon.c|295|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}{{refsrc|makemon.c|320|version=SLASH'EM 0.0.7E7F2}}
 Shopkeepers themselves are the earliest possible sources of shotguns, which also makes them ''very'' likely to kill most heroes that attack or aggravate the shopkeeper even if that hero's goal is not taking the shotgun for themselves&mdash;while a cursed shotgun significantly weakens the shopkeeper's melee damage in theory, they are still strong enough to batter most early-game heroes to death unless that character has [[escape item]]s on hand. Additionally, most heroes that are '''both''' capable of training firearms and can either kill a shopkeeper quickly, ''or else'' engineer circumstances where they are killed off, will be very unlikely to actually need the shotgun themselves. This is especially true if the now-untended shop also has valuable weapons, armor or other items besides the shopkeeper's own [[gold]] and personal inventory.

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 ==Description==
-A shotguns has a +3 [[to-hit]] bonus, a very limited range of 3 squares and a -1 rate of fire. The negative rate of fire means that a [[hero]] who is Skilled or better in firearms will generally need a shotgun with a high [[enchantment]] in order to fire more than one shot per action, as detailed in the table below.
+A shotgun has a +3 [[to-hit]] bonus, a very limited range of 3 squares and a -1 rate of fire. The negative rate of fire means that a [[hero]] who is Skilled or better in firearms will generally need a shotgun with a high [[enchantment]] in order to fire more than one shot per action, as detailed in the table below.
 ===Rate of fire===

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 {{for|the firearm in dNetHack and its derivatives|shotgun (dNetHack)}}
 {{for|the "automatic" counterpart|auto shotgun (SLASH'EM)}}
-A '''shotgun''' is type of a [[weapon]] that appears in [[SLASH'EM]], [[SpliceHack]], [[SlashTHEM]], and [[Hack'EM]]. It is a one-handed [[launcher]] that uses the [[firearms]] skill and is designed for use with [[Shotgun shell (SLASH'EM)|shotgun shells]]. It is made of [[iron]].
+A '''shotgun''' is type of a [[weapon]] that appears in [[SLASH'EM]], [[SpliceHack]], [[SlashTHEM]], and [[Hack'EM]]. The shotgun is a one-handed [[launcher]] that uses the [[firearms]] skill and is designed for use with [[Shotgun shell (SLASH'EM)|shotgun shells]]. It is made of [[iron]].
 [[Pirate]]s in SlashTHEM know the item as a '''blunderbuss'''. In Hack'EM, the shotgun appears as a [[broken crossbow]] when [[Identification|unidentified]], similar to [[Shotgun (dNetHack)|the item]] in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]].

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 A '''shotgun''' is type of a [[weapon]] that appears in [[SLASH'EM]], [[SpliceHack]], [[SlashTHEM]], and [[Hack'EM]]. It is a one-handed [[launcher]] that uses the [[firearms]] skill and is designed for use with [[Shotgun shell (SLASH'EM)|shotgun shells]]. It is made of [[iron]].

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 ==Origin==
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+{{wikipedia|Shotgun}}
 A shotgun, also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece, is a long-barreled firearm that is designed to shoot straight-walled cartridges known as shotshells: these shells either discharge "shot" (numerous small spherical projectiles) or slugs (singular solid projectiles). Shotguns are most commonly used as "smoothbore" firearms, meaning that their gun barrels have no rifling on the inner wall, but rifled barrels for shooting sabot slugs (slug barrels) are also available. Shotguns are derived from older smoothbore firearms, such as the musket widely used by European militaries from the 17th until the mid-19th century&mdash;their most direct ancestor is the muzzleloading blunderbuss, also used in similar roles from self-defense to riot control.

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