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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kronos182" data-source="post: 6807652" data-attributes="member: 6668634">FLEAFixed Lethal Enhanced Area defense pre-fragmented shaped charge chemical explosive mines. FLEAs are mines designed to protect satellites and stations from EVA sabotage. The FLEA mines are small, not much larger than a typical claymore style mine but included a unique gravitic field lock system which varied its distance from its parent asset by gentle magnetic field manipulation on a very minor level, keying in on the gravity well of the parent asset and being pulled along with it through orbit.FLEA mines could be detonated autonomously through a series of events detected by their programing or command detonated by the parent asset as needed. Defense satellites can have anywhere from 6 to 12, while a station could have dozens to hundreds scattered about tied into the station's sensors and IFF systems. Each FLEA mine has a lethal radius of several hundred meters (in orbit) and used a shaped charge effect to shred a pre-fragmented casing into five thousand shards moving in a rapidly expanding cloud at a velocity of several miles per second. FLEA (PL5/6)Damage: 5d6Critical: 19-20Damage Type: Slashing Range Increment: 100 ft cone.Rate of Fire: Single, one time useSize: SmallWeight: 7 lbsAmmo: 1Purchase: PDC31 +3 Military for 5 mines.Game Notes: Coated with a radar absorbing material to keep from being detected, along with nonreflective paint, increase search/spot DCs to locate by 5. Has sensors to detect approaching targets +10 spot, +10 search out to 500 ft by itself, can be tied into parent asset's sensor system. [HR][/HR]Mini Grenades PL6So seeing as how I don't like how d20 future handles grenades in the future.. Let's try this shall we?Mini Grenades are a bit bigger than a 3" shotgun shell. So a little wider and a shade longer.. say 3.25". So take your regular grenades (hand or 40mm) and cram all that into this super shotgun type round. They won't work in shotguns or shotgun attachments to rifles.Now for hand grenades of PL6 take your old PL5/Modern grenade, increase damage by 1 die, increase blast radius by 10 ft, and add 5 ft to the range increment (light, more aerodynamic design, deployable fins, what have you) and increase Reflex DC by +2. Quick easy rules for PL6 grenades.ExamplePL6 Frag Grenade 5d6 slashing, 20, burst radius 30 ft, Reflex DC 17, Range Incr 15, tiny, 1 lb, PDC 15 Mil +3PL6 RocketsI did mini-rockets in a previous post, so here's just a quick rule for "regular" sized rockets for infantry.Increase damage by 2 die, increase blast radius by 15 ft, increase Reflex DC by +3, increase range increment by 50 ft. If the rocket has the ability to ignore hardness/DR increase by 3. [HR][/HR]RPG-14An improved version of the RPG-7, although lacking any special targeting systems, really just basic sight with range finder, and mass produced and fairly cheap.RPG-14 (Heavy Weapon)Damage: 10d6, 30 ft radiusCritical: 20Damage Type: ExplosiveRange Increment: 275 ftRate of Fire: SemiSize: LargeWeight: 11 lbsAmmo: 1 internalPurchase: PDC 17 (+2 Restricted)[HR][/HR]Let's take it up a knotch..PL7 ExplosivesIn my opinion, rockets, and mini rockets don't exist in PL7 and above, they would be replaced by missiles and mini missiles, except for dirt cheap non guided ones, but by this point, guidance systems should be fairly cheap so becomes moot. So basically, no rockets, just guided missiles.Increase die TYPE by 1, so d6 becomes d8, d8 becomes d10, etc. Increase number of die by 1, increase Reflex DC by +2, blast radius by +10 ft, range increment by +50 ft. If there is also the ability to ignore hardness/DR increase by 3.Add attack bonus for guidance systems, this is where GM discretion comes in.. but higher bonus (range between +1 to +5) increases price of course. Special Note: In my opinion, for anti-tank/armour/material warheads, use the above stats, but increase the ignore hardness/DR by another 5, use the original PL5 rocket/missile blast radius and decrease that by 5 feet, and don't add the extra bonus die to damage.ExampleRPG-33 PL7An improved version of the RPG-14, although lacking any special targeting systems beyond basic IR/Thermal, range finding, laser designator and wind direction and force with helpful plotted flight of the missile in the sight. Usually sold with basic missiles (+1 attack, PDC 14 for 4)RPG-33 ( PL7 Heavy Weapon)Damage: 11d8, 40 ft radiusCritical: 20Damage Type: ExplosiveRange Increment: 325 ftRate of Fire: SemiSize: LargeWeight: 16 lbsAmmo: 3 internalPurchase: PDC 17 (+2 Restricted)PL7 GrenadesNo more mini-grenades, mini missiles will be used instead basically, only with altered minimal ranges, and such.For hand grenades, take the PL6 version of the hand grenade, increase die type by 1, d6 to d8, etc, increase blast radius by 10 ft, Reflex DC by +2, range increment by +15 ft (better aerodynamics, mini flight system, like a small compressed air jet or the like, mini air turbine or whatever technobabble you want to use).Well, there you go. Some quick, basic adhoc rules for giving your character some extra hurt against massed targets and armoured targets of the future.[HR][/HR]Shredder Grenades (PL6 to early PL7)Shredder grenades are an enhanced fragmentation grenade, designed to shred soft targets to shreds. Extremely effective, but also has been banned by many governments as being inhuman. Using specially designed casing and layers of ceramics, metals and other materials, soft targets, aka humans or creepy 3 foot tall alien hordes, are shredded as the material rips through their flesh. Unfortunately, shredders aren't very effective against armoured targets.A favourite tactic of many runners and pirates is rigging a shredder or several near or in airlocks with proximity sensors to deter boarders, especially in EVA situations as they'll tear through most EVA suits unless they are armoured.Shredder Grenade (PL6)Damage: 5d6, 20 ft blast radiusCritical: 18-20Damage Type: SlashingRange Increment: 20 ftReflex DC: 19Size: TinyWeight: 1 lbsPurchase: 18 box of 5 (Military +3, although in areas where it is banned, Banned +4)Game Notes: Against targets with armour that grants at least a +2 bonus to Def, or has more than 3 hardness, or Natural armour +3 or higher, HALF the damage the shredder does as it isn't very effective in penetrating. </blockquote>

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