Gunblade FFVIII (3.5e Equipment)

We all remember how awesome it was to play Squall in Final Fantasy VIII but i felt that the heroic actions to replicate his interesting weapon was indeed a fail. What gunblade would deal 1d4 as a medium slashing weapon? if anything this monstrosity should be treated as a Revolver with a longsword blade attached... which is exactly what i did to the page. In the DMG1 they had a blurb about d20 moderns "modern day" weapons... so using the revolver statistics and adding on a longswords slashing properties made this weapon somewhat more bearable in my mind. Any ideas on how to fix the Auto Trigger capability from the game short of a 5% lucky shot would be helpful. Perhaps rolling a d20 on the side and having guessed a number between 1 and 20 as to whether you successfully pulled the trigger, but only on a declared attack?

A Gun Blade

Gun Blade(melee)

Exotic One-Handed Critical: 19-20/×2 Range Increment: — Type: Slashing Hardness: 10
Size	Cost1	Damage	Weight1	hp
Fine	6 gp, 2 sp, 5 cp	1d2	1/2 lb	1
Diminutive	12 gp, 5 sp	1d3	1 lb	1
Tiny	25 gp	1d4	2 lb	1
Small	50 gp	1d6	4 lb	2
Medium	50 gp	1d8	8 lb	5
Large	100 gp	2d6	16 lb	10
Huge	200 gp	3d6	32 lb	20
Gargantuan	400 gp	4d6	64 lb	40
Colossal	800 gp	5d6	128 lb	80
The SRD only gives a means to determine costs and weights of weapons for Large and Small versions based on the Medium weapons. Any other supplied values are the author's best determination.

Gun Blade

Exotic One-Handed Projectile Critical: ×2 Range Increment: 30 ft Type: Piercing Hardness: 10
Size	Cost1	Damage	Weight1	hp
Fine	6 gp, 2 sp, 5 cp	1d4	1/2 lb	1
Diminutive	12 gp, 5 sp	1d6	1 lb	1
Tiny	25 gp	1d8	2 lb	1
Small	50 gp	2d6	4 lb	2
Medium	50 gp	2d8	8 lb	5
Large	100 gp	3d6	16 lb	10
Huge	200 gp	3d8	32 lb	20
Gargantuan	400 gp	4d6	64 lb	40
Colossal	800 gp	4d8	128 lb	80
The SRD only gives a means to determine costs and weights of weapons for Large and Small versions based on the Medium weapons. Any other supplied values are the author's best determination.

Note: Blade is longer than shown in picture

This Pistol like weapon has a blade attached to the barrel giving it the ability to be used in melee combat.

Lucky Shot: 5% chance that when being used in melee combat it will shoot off a bullet doing 1d8 extra damage.

Bullets for a Gunblade cost 3gp for 10 you can also get silver bullets for 12gp for 10.
A pack of 10 Bullets weighs 1 lb.

Bullets in extreme heat(140 degrees and up) have a 50% chance of exploding dealing 1d4 fire damage per bullet to whoever has them in his/her pack.

A Gunblade holds 6 bullets (like a revolver) in a clip.

Loading a Gunblade is a full round action that provokes an attack of opportunity, you load six
bullets in at a time. You can shoot, but not load, a Gunblade with one hand at no penalty.
You can shoot a Gunblade with each hand, but you take a penalty on attack rolls as if attacking
with two weapons.

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