Hold out Blasters

[Theodrim]

[atgxtg]

Actually not all get bogged down that way.

One RPG that I love is the old Jame Bond RPG. In that game weapons were assigned a damage class, and that was cross indexed with the quality rating of the result (read success level) to get the wound taken.

For instance, a typical light pistol might do LW/LW/HW/HW meaning that most hits will inflict a Light Wound (LW) but a really good hit will inflict a Heavy Wound.

It played very fast.

There was even a called shot rule where you could up the damage at a penalty to hit.


As far as the Spec Forces option goes probably the best variant in terms of speed, playability and lethality is to adapt from the old 1st Edition rules upgrade for shots to vital locations on capital ships.

Before the shot trade of 2D of skill for 1D of damage. This keeps the damage down to reasonable levels of lethality, and prevents PCs from getting slaughtered when a mook rolls the inevitable lucky shot due to the wild die.

[DougRed4]

I kind of like that variant rule, trading 2 for 1.

And at, since you (like me) love the old James Bond 007 RPG, have you heard of the new version, called Classified?? From what I've heard, it's basically a remake, but with updated weapons and the like.
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[atgxtg]

[DougRed4]

You now know more about it than I do. I think it was for sale via Lulu for awhile (for a softbound book), but then he removed it, I think.

There's supposed to be a modern adventure, too; not sure if that ever got made.
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[atgxtg]

[garhkal]

Talking about bond. Any on ever have their PCs hide their blasters in innocuous items like bond always seemed to have? even if it was just say a one shot item like that bullet cigarette, or a camera gun?
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[atgxtg]

I had a character who would hide his lightsaber in a toolkit. I walked around many a Star Destroyer masquerading as an Imperial Techie.

And I had another character who put all sorts of stuff into his droid. Some of the fun bits were the shoulder straps so I could use the droid's repulsorlift to fly over obstacles.

But those were both me. Most of my players are less subtle. If it isn't worth a bonus to Intimidate, they don't want it.

[DougRed4]

I can't honestly think of any games where I've hid items like that. I used to play Top Secret, but mostly with the James Bond game I was the one running. I can't think of times where it's happened much in SW either (though my son played a Clawdite that concealed a hold-out blaster for awhile).
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[cynanbloodbane]

My son is currently playing an astro-mech droid with a holdout blaster built into his dome. It was the largest I would have let him fit in there, turns out that was all he wanted, a little surprise for when the poo doo hit the fan, and he had to give up some standard equipment just to make room.

Yes, I allow PC droids.

He has a nice little soundboard on his tablet for "communicating" with the party when not jacked into the ship.
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[atgxtg]

I'd have let him hold more. R2-D2 hid Luke's lighsaber. Just make sure that the weapon fits into the compartment. We had an astreomech store a micro grenade launcher. Smoke and Stun greandes are remarkable good for them, since they are mostly immune to the effects.

One of the funniest wishes for equipment from a droid was when our R2 unit (which kept getting damage in combat) went and sawed the shield generator off of a Droideka that the group had taken out. it had enough droid repair skill to try and figure out a way to install it.

[Bobmalooga]

[cynanbloodbane]

[DougRed4]

I've given my characters a Jedi artifact (from way back in the Old Republic days) that masks Force activity, though I've yet to actually stat it. It's always left on their ship. Of course, it will be tough to figure out how the Miraluka (the ship's pilot) gets around his own ship, if the Force is being hindered or dampened on that ship.

That same player has a hidden compartment on the ship that he wants to be immune to Force Sight, though he's not yet articulated how he expects to do that...
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[garhkal]

How masked does it make the activity? Is it like the Yssilmari in it makes a force 'dead' bubble? Does it just dampen the force use inside, so the "Ripples' don't go out?
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