Hi-powered/3-round burst - Question (error?)

So I just bought this and I have a question about the custom weapons on the Battlebabe playbook.

Specifically: hi-powered (close/far, or +1harm at far)

I didn't grasp what this meant both mechanically and in fiction, so I looked to the main book for help:
3-round burst (close/far)
Hi-powered (+1harm)

That does make sense to me, a controlled burst might give close to a weapon that only has far and vice-versa.
So is that an error on the playbook?

When you say you looked in the book, do you mean 1st or 2nd edition? Cause my 2nd ed says the same as the playbook (pdf p. 28): high powered is either close/far or +1-harm at far.
3-round burst is just +1-harm.

So if you add high-powered to a pistol, it gains the tag close/far, but if you add it to a rifle, it gains +1-harm.
Did that answer your question?

This is second edition. I was looking at p.232 (custom weapons) and the playbooks pdf. I hadn't looked at p.28 which indeed lists the same tags as on the playbooks pdf.

What I don't get is that the way you describe it, hi-powered functions the same way as scoped but they are written out differently.
close/far implies to me that the weapon gains close or far depending on what it didn't have already. But then or +1harm at far would give you another option if the weapon already had far. Which would be an option within an option, which seems confusing.

So a on a handgun it's straightforward: it gains close/far
But on a rifle you would get a choice: it gains close/far or +1 harm at far

Close/Far gives it the ability to function at both ranges. If it already had one, cool; now it functions at both. +1 harm at far gives you the option of taking a harm bonus at far. You get to choose one: do you want this rifle to gain the "close" tag, or the "+1 harm at far" tag.

Did that clarify? If not, can you elaborate on what you find confusing?

Mechanically I get it I guess, but the p. 232 rules still seem more sensible.
First of all a choice within a choice is kinda odd, it doesn't happen among any other choices (gangs, holding etc.). But maybe I'm overthinking that.
But more importantly close/far for burst and +1harm for hi-powered makes more narrative sense to me.

So I'm wondering what is the correct one.

My intuition is to go by the playbooks. They get a shit-ton more scrutiny than the gear+crap section. It's the playbooks that people actually look at and play by.

That said, hey, I'd be perfectly happy to hear Vx chime in with the errata.



 

Yeah, the rules obviously contradict themselves. My gut would also be to go with the playbook, if for no other reason then because, that´s the part of the rules most accessible to the players. But I´m sure it won´t break the game if you decide to go with what you like best.

And for the record: I don´t interpret high-powered as a choice: If you add it to a weapon with the close tag, it gets close/far, and if you add it to a weapon with the far tag, it gets +1-harm (making your rifle shoot more powerfully doesn´t add to its ability up close). So functionally equivalent to adding a scope.
Again though: It probably won´t ruin anything if you allow the choice.

Go with which ever seems more Okay to you rationally.