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<blockquote data-quote="threefallentrees" data-source="post: 412736" data-attributes="member: 7736">Fantasy Blasters? What?Here's a thought: blasters for your cinematic fantasy d20 game.Premise: The world is charged with magical energy.&nbsp; This energy can be harnessed in various ways.Premise: This harnessing can be mechanized, particularly by means of certain rare substances, including gold and certain mineral crystals.Consequence: The Heliolite is born.&nbsp; It is a device in the form of a flat crystal lens attached to the palm of a gold gauntlet, handflower, etc.&nbsp; It is constructed in such a way as to activate when a certain gesture is made.What does it do?It shoots energy at things.&nbsp; This energy comes in several forms.&nbsp; Some of them include:Solar: Shoots a beam of highly concentrated light; does fire damage.Electrical: Fires a crackling bolt of lightning; this has less range, but is noticeably more painful.&nbsp; Popular with evil magician types.Dissipating: These Heliolites don't actually fire energy, they just manipulate it.&nbsp; The target of a Dissipating attack suffers (untyped) disintegration damage as the energies in his body are realigned to cause his consitutent elements to repel each other.Divine: Divine heliolites can only be used by those who can channel divine energy.&nbsp; By the user's expending a turn undead attempt, these convert the (un)holy energy into a cone of magical wrath.Magical: These heliolites fire pure magical energy, for which the defenses are rare.&nbsp; They are capable of less damage then their elemental counterparts, but are much more consistent in their behavior.Defenses:Discharge: Armour with this modification is generally studded with spikes or fins along the shoulders, arms, and back.&nbsp; Rather than serving offensive or defensive functions, these absorb and scatter incoming energy from electrical attacks.&nbsp; With the use of gold and jade, they can also scatter pure magical energy.Etc.&nbsp; Very Exalted in flavour, I think.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="threefallentrees, post: 412736, member: 7736"] [b]Fantasy Blasters? What?[/b] Here's a thought: blasters for your cinematic fantasy d20 game. Premise: The world is charged with magical energy. This energy can be harnessed in various ways. Premise: This harnessing can be mechanized, particularly by means of certain rare substances, including gold and certain mineral crystals. Consequence: The Heliolite is born. It is a device in the form of a flat crystal lens attached to the palm of a gold gauntlet, handflower, etc. It is constructed in such a way as to activate when a certain gesture is made. What does it do? It shoots energy at things. This energy comes in several forms. Some of them include: Solar: Shoots a beam of highly concentrated light; does fire damage. Electrical: Fires a crackling bolt of lightning; this has less range, but is noticeably more painful. Popular with evil magician types. Dissipating: These Heliolites don't actually fire energy, they just manipulate it. The target of a Dissipating attack suffers (untyped) disintegration damage as the energies in his body are realigned to cause his consitutent elements to repel each other. Divine: Divine heliolites can only be used by those who can channel divine energy. By the user's expending a turn undead attempt, these convert the (un)holy energy into a cone of magical wrath. Magical: These heliolites fire pure magical energy, for which the defenses are rare. They are capable of less damage then their elemental counterparts, but are much more consistent in their behavior. Defenses: Discharge: Armour with this modification is generally studded with spikes or fins along the shoulders, arms, and back. Rather than serving offensive or defensive functions, these absorb and scatter incoming energy from electrical attacks. With the use of gold and jade, they can also scatter pure magical energy. Etc. Very Exalted in flavour, I think. [/QUOTE]

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