Disruptor And Sonic Weapons

Mojomoe · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:31 am Post subject: Disruptor And Sonic Weapons

I'm reading up on TOR-era arms and equipment, and it appears there's a prevalence of sonic and disruptor weapons for that era. Couple of questions.

Have there ever been official or unofficial D6 stats for disruptors? I know I've seen sonic weapons in places like the AOTC sourcebook, but I don't recall disruptors.

I also see that the sonic weapons listed in AOTC and the KOTOR conversion have sonic weapons fired with Energy Weapons > Sonic Weapons. Is this fan determined, or are there RAW roots for this? I suppose I would assume some sort of crossover between the sonic weapons and the Blasters skill - after all, it's point and shoot, right?

aegisflashfire · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:40 am Post subject:

Yes actually. Gundarks Fantastic Personal Gear contained an entry for a Disruptor Pistol

It did 6D+2 damage, with extremely short range (0-3/5/7) and 5 shot capacity and max fire rate of 1 shot/round. (and 4,X availability)

There was also the MSD-36 Heavy Disruptor Pistol, with 10 shots, 1 shot/round fire limit, same range and 6D damage.
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garhkal · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:23 pm Post subject:

Shouldn't sonic weapons be resisted more with Perception than straight strength though?
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aegisflashfire · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:27 pm Post subject:

I wouldn't think so. Its still a physical attack on your body. Your ability to notice something really doesn't come into play.

Just because your ears can hear (some) things that are sonic, doesn't make the attack any less physical. If you used that same logic, your Perception could be used to resist lasers too. since your eyes see light and Seeing is also governed by perception
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Mojomoe · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:55 pm Post subject:

But then what about the firing skill? Should it realy be a whole other animal from Blasters?

aegisflashfire · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 4:59 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I've wanted to move away from Blaster as a skill and move it to be more like Pistols/ Rifles /Heavy (Pistols including holdouts/sporting/heavy blaster pistols, the Rifles including rifles & Carbines and Heavy including repeating blasters, autocannons as seen in clone wars)
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willg · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 29 Apr 2014 Posts: 202

Obviously this interests me because I have a bointy hunter PC and also the use of sonic technology for non offensive use might be an interesting subtopic. Could be useful tool.

Mojomoe · Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 6:39 pm Post subject:

I'm interested as well.

What about a special rule for the skills? If at any time you want to go from Blaster to Energy Weapons (or the reverse), you can buy the other skill cheaply? Would that work?

garhkal · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 12:41 am Post subject:

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DougRed4 · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 4:10 am Post subject:

Sure, in real life (due to the laws of physics) "no one can hear you scream".

But in Star Wars, when something like the Death Star goes kablooey, we all hear a massive explosion! Wink

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aegisflashfire · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 6:43 pm Post subject:

EVEN IF a sonic weapon only attacks the ears, why would having more sensitive ears make you less vulnerable to that sort of attack?

Quite the reverse, the better your hearing the worse it would feel to hear a painful noise.

Does anyone in Epi II actually get hit with those guns?
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garhkal · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 12:21 am Post subject:

I see the per check as being you getting your ears plugged etc quicker than someone else. BUT i see your point.
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Mojomoe · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 11:50 am Post subject:

Take the Tales of the Jedi period, or even the KOTOR period (via the conversions).

We have Blasters skill, Energy Weapons skill, and Sonic Weapons skill... Are these really necessary? Do we really need 3-4 skills to fire a point-at-and-destroy gun? I'll give you Firearms, since archaic slug throwers have kickback. But in a period like KOTOR where you have all the weapon types present, having separate skills without crossover seems odd.

Specifically, it feels like a convergence of edge cases. The different skills were meant to represent eras of different weaponry. Sure, there are no Blasters at this time, so we'll make up a new skill for this era. Then, in the KOTOR era, you unfortunately have all the weapons represented at once, and I don't think the creators of the different skills intended that.

Can we brainstorm a way for the skills to overlap some? Or to provide a bonus to another skill? They very much do feel like overlap skills.

For example. I have 9D+1 in Blasters, with a 3D DEX. I pick up a pulse-weave energy weapon. "Lol wut, I don't know how this works."

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