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<blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 6251763" data-attributes="member: 20805">Some thoughts on personal weapons:1)&nbsp; ION weaponry. Recommend changing the damage to read:&nbsp; &nbsp; for each MARK of an ION weapon, it deals 1 point of damage to organic creatures or 1D of damage to mechanical targets. &nbsp; &nbsp; Some mechanical targets are not shielded and may have a vulnerability to ION damage, like older model combat droids.&nbsp;&nbsp; The ION Pistol listed in the Handbook is a Mark III2) Weapon economy. In most futuristic games, the economy is important early on and then is pretty much ignored. Pricing of components can cause problems in a game when the players come across a financial windfall. I think it is better to link the cost of the components/upgrades to damage dice, reducing the damage dice in exchange for a 'better' weapon. An example is rifles with scopes. A standard rifle would not have a scope, but you could buy one for the same price that is lower caliber with a scope, say a scoped 22 long rifle. A high quality rifle gains a die for damage, but that would be traded to put a scope on it.&nbsp; In this fashion, you can price components by dice costs and achieve better game balance, as well as remove the meta-gamey upgrade limits based on weapon size and quality.&nbsp;&nbsp; Also see my next post about building a setting <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />3) Weapon quality: page 115. I just noticed the paragraph hiding under the table &quot;...cannot gain advantage of weapon quality greater than your skill level allows. You must have taken a skill level the required number of times to reap the benefits of a master-crafted weapon&quot;...&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; I don't see this in the skill chapter nor do I see specific skills tied to weapon types. Does this mean you need 'Marksman-Pistol' in order to wield the legendary pearl handled revolvers and gain the extra damage they cause? What if you do have 'Marksman-Pistol', but only two ranks. Does this mean you gain only a +2?&nbsp; &nbsp; If you are untrained and fire a suppressed sniper rifle, does it make more sound?&nbsp; Recommend removing this, possibly replace with something like:&nbsp; 'Without the proper skill, you do not gain bonus dice to attacks based on weapon quality or custom upgrades.'</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Primitive Screwhead, post: 6251763, member: 20805"] Some thoughts on personal weapons: 1) ION weaponry. Recommend changing the damage to read: for each MARK of an ION weapon, it deals 1 point of damage to organic creatures or 1D of damage to mechanical targets. Some mechanical targets are not shielded and may have a vulnerability to ION damage, like older model combat droids. The ION Pistol listed in the Handbook is a Mark III 2) Weapon economy. In most futuristic games, the economy is important early on and then is pretty much ignored. Pricing of components can cause problems in a game when the players come across a financial windfall. I think it is better to link the cost of the components/upgrades to damage dice, reducing the damage dice in exchange for a 'better' weapon. An example is rifles with scopes. A standard rifle would not have a scope, but you could buy one for the same price that is lower caliber with a scope, say a scoped 22 long rifle. A high quality rifle gains a die for damage, but that would be traded to put a scope on it. In this fashion, you can price components by dice costs and achieve better game balance, as well as remove the meta-gamey upgrade limits based on weapon size and quality. Also see my next post about building a setting :) 3) Weapon quality: page 115. I just noticed the paragraph hiding under the table "...cannot gain advantage of weapon quality greater than your skill level allows. You must have taken a skill level the required number of times to reap the benefits of a master-crafted weapon"... I don't see this in the skill chapter nor do I see specific skills tied to weapon types. Does this mean you need 'Marksman-Pistol' in order to wield the legendary pearl handled revolvers and gain the extra damage they cause? What if you do have 'Marksman-Pistol', but only two ranks. Does this mean you gain only a +2? If you are untrained and fire a suppressed sniper rifle, does it make more sound? Recommend removing this, possibly replace with something like: 'Without the proper skill, you do not gain bonus dice to attacks based on weapon quality or custom upgrades.' [/QUOTE]

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