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* ''[[Warhammer 40000]]''
** Combi-weapons, essentially two weapons combined into one, with the user able to fire either separately, or together if it's two of the same gun. The Ork race, in particular, is fond of simply strapping two guns together with tape. Sadly, combi-weapons aren't quite as useful as some of the other examples here—combi-weapons generally feature a special weapon with a bog-standard weapon and only allow the user to fire the special weapon once.
** The [[Tabletop RPG]] ''[[Dark Heresy]]'' has the "Exterminator" (also found in the old 40K spinoff ''[[Necromunda]]'') and "Melee Attachment" upgrades. The Exterminator is a single-use flamer pack for melee weapons that can be activated on a sucessful hit ''or'' to ranged weapon (larger than pistol). Melee Attachment is some sort of a bayonet for ranged weapons - most often normal blades. There are mono-edged or chainsaw variants, sometimes built-in, and sometimes more exotic - e.g. Persecutor combat shotgun used by Arbitrators (Imperial SWAT) has retractable shock-prod.
*** There are also entirely new combi-weapons: "Puritan-14" is ugly auto-pistol with integrated shotgun (single-shot, has range only by half longer than sawn-off and uses [[Hand Cannon]] two handed rule) made for Arbites and hit squads. "Spectre" is autogun (assault rifle using caseless rounds) with 3 selectable magazines (20 shots each, but hey, there are 3 of them) and integrated shotgun (this one with full shotgun range and holding 4 shells) - of course, it's, as heavy as a proper combat shotgun (which can fire semi-auto bursts), more than twice as expensive and its rifle part has slightly worse range than run-of-the-mill models of "autogun".
*** And a combi-weapon with melee attachment would be a ''trifurcated'' weapon.
*** ''[[Only War]]'' in addition to bayonet and underslung flamer, has Auxiliary Grenade Launcher. ''Hammer of the Emperor'' expansion adds Chain Attachment ([[Chainsaw Good|chain knife]] bayonet), Auxiliary Shotgun (single-shot
** Amongst Necrons, the Warscythe functions as both a deadly melee weapon and still a gauss flayer, as does the Staff of Light.
* ''[[Shadowrun]]'' has a few examples (mostly assault rifles with underslung grenade launchers/shotguns), though the rules allow a creative mechanic to bolt together just about anything.
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