Star Wars Vehicles/Ship weapons vs players

[Brottor Dankil]

My GM asked me to find some rules in the Star Wars sytem for vehicle weapons or ship size weapons used against PCs or NPCs as anti-personel weapons. House rule suggestions are also welcome if these rule don't exist. Questions I need answered are:

1) Vehicle size weapons ( i.e. blaster cannons, laser cannons, heavy projectile cannons, etc.) vs. small/medium/large size races. What would be the negatives to hit with these weapons due to the size difference (Ex. Medium vehicle size vs Medium character size)? Also, could a Jedi use the deflect defense/attack against this size weaponry? Would this size weaponry do splash damage?

2) Starship size weapons (i.e. laser cannons, proton torpedo, ion cannons, concussion missles, etc.) vs. small/medium/large size races. What would be the negatives to hit with these weapons due to the size difference (Ex. Medium starship size vs Medium Vehicle Size or vs Medium character size)? Also, could a Jedi use the deflect defense/attack against this size weaponry? Would this size weaponry do splash damage?

P.S. My GM REALLY wants the party dead!

- Brottor

 

[kenobi65]

1) Vehicle size weapons ( i.e. blaster cannons, laser cannons, heavy projectile cannons, etc.) vs. small/medium/large size races. What would be the negatives to hit with these weapons due to the size difference (Ex. Medium vehicle size vs Medium character size)? Also, could a Jedi use the deflect defense/attack against this size weaponry? Would this size weaponry do splash damage?

I don't have my books in front of me, but I believe that vehicles are based on the same sizing system as characters, so you'd use the same size modifiers (which means, no minuses versus Medium-sized characters).

I believe that a Jedi could use the deflect ability against vehicle weapons...Luke does exactly this, versus the speeder bike cannons, in RotJ.

AFAIK, there's no "splash damage" (really, area of effect damage) for those kinds of weapons, though it does feel like a reasonable house rule for really big weapons (i.e., AT-AT cannons).

2) Starship size weapons (i.e. laser cannons, proton torpedo, ion cannons, concussion missles, etc.) vs. small/medium/large size races. What would be the negatives to hit with these weapons due to the size difference (Ex. Medium starship size vs Medium Vehicle Size or vs Medium character size)? Also, could a Jedi use the deflect defense/attack against this size weaponry? Would this size weaponry do splash damage?

Since starships use a different scale system from characters, I'd convert the characters to their equivalent size on the size chart near the beginning of the Starships chapter of the RCRB (which probably makes them Fine or Diminutive; again, I don't have my books in front of me), and give them a Size bonus to Defense based on that (so, it's not a negative to hit, so much as a bonus to Defense).

Similarly, if the characters are shooting back, convert the size of the starship to the character scale (which'll wind up making even the smallest starships at least Huge), and apply that penalty to their Defense, instead of the "starship size" bonus to Defense). Keep in mind that even the smallest starships have DR*, so it'll be hard for character-scale weapons to do much damage to starships.

* - In the first printing of the RCRB, the DRs for all the starships are wrong; in the second printing, they fixed it. Easiest way to tell if your copy of the RCRB is correct or not is look at the DR on the Millenium Falcon; if it's DR 10, then you need to *double* the DRs on all the starships. Fighters should generally have DR 10, medium transports like the Falcon DR 20.

Two other things to take into account in such a combat:
1) If the starship is moving at all, there's going to be a speed penalty to its attack rolls.
2) Starship weapons have *much* longer ranges than personal weapons; a blaster rifle is ineffective past 1000 meters, while a starship blaster can hit from much further than that. A smart pilot will hover and take potshots from outside of the range of character-scale weapons.

The Jedi question might be in the FAQ, but I don't think I'd allow it.

No specific rules on "splash", AFAIK, but it'd seem a reasonable house rule to me.