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<blockquote data-quote="Steverooo" data-source="post: 883237" data-attributes="member: 9410">::Sigh!::&nbsp; The point was, sooner or later, one or more of the PCs will come to the GM, asking about wooden bullets, or some other such manifestation.&nbsp; The GM needs to be ready with something better than &quot;No, I'm not going to allow that.&quot;&nbsp; In real life, reloading isn't that hard.&nbsp; I have at least six different types of ammo for my shotgun...&nbsp; If I wanted to get the reloading equipment, I could certainly reload a shotgun shell with finned &quot;wooden flechettes&quot;, or milled &quot;wooden slugs&quot; similar to the smooth-bore slugs currently available...&nbsp; Anyone with a few ranks of firearms or Mr.Fix-it skill would be capable of loading their own ammo (and need to be, if you're going to have werewolves needing silver bullets).So, my point was, what will the GM do when the player comes to them with a character based on such an idea?&nbsp; Simply negating the character concept &quot;...because I think that's silly&quot; generally won't produce the results that you want.&nbsp; It is much better to provide the players with a reason WHY it won't work!I am Legend (I forget the author's name), which was the basis of the movie The Omega Man (starring Charleton Heston) provided the basis for our solution.&nbsp; Most items passing through a vamp's heart simply leave a hole, which quickly heals over.&nbsp; Wooden items allow air in, which is what kills them.&nbsp; Wooden items which simply pass through and come out, or penetrate partway, are just like bullets, they don't keep the wound open to let air in...&nbsp; Thus, anything not large enough to pierce through the chest wall, penetrate the heart, and allow air in doesn't allow air into the heart, and doesn't kill the vamp.&nbsp; Stakes are long enough.&nbsp; So are crossbow bolts.&nbsp; Pencils are, but barely...&nbsp; Toothpicks (and all bullet- and slug-sized pieces of wood) are just TOO SHORT to go through the heart wall and also extend out of the body, to the air.That solution may not work for you, but it is convincing enough for many.&nbsp; Pseudo-plausability works well, in a vampyre game.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue&nbsp; &nbsp; :p"&nbsp; data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Steverooo, post: 883237, member: 9410"] ::Sigh!:: The point was, sooner or later, one or more of the PCs will come to the GM, asking about wooden bullets, or some other such manifestation. The GM needs to be ready with something better than "No, I'm not going to allow that." In real life, reloading isn't that hard. I have at least six different types of ammo for my shotgun... If I wanted to get the reloading equipment, I could certainly reload a shotgun shell with finned "wooden flechettes", or milled "wooden slugs" similar to the smooth-bore slugs currently available... Anyone with a few ranks of firearms or Mr.Fix-it skill would be capable of loading their own ammo (and need to be, if you're going to have werewolves needing silver bullets). So, my point was, what will the GM do when the player comes to them with a character based on such an idea? Simply negating the character concept "...because I think that's silly" generally won't produce the results that you want. It is much better to provide the players with a reason WHY it won't work! [U]I am Legend[/U] (I forget the author's name), which was the basis of the movie [U]The Omega Man[/U] (starring Charleton Heston) provided the basis for [I]our[/I] solution. Most items passing through a vamp's heart simply leave a hole, which quickly heals over. Wooden items allow air in, which is what kills them. Wooden items which simply pass through and come out, or penetrate partway, are just like bullets, they don't keep the wound open to let air in... Thus, anything not large enough to pierce through the chest wall, penetrate the heart, and allow air in doesn't allow air into the heart, and doesn't kill the vamp. Stakes are long enough. So are crossbow bolts. Pencils are, but barely... Toothpicks (and all bullet- and slug-sized pieces of wood) are just TOO SHORT to go through the heart wall and also extend out of the body, to the air. That solution may not work for you, but it is convincing enough for many. Pseudo-plausability works well, in a vampyre game. :p [/QUOTE]

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