Off the wall player actions

[garhkal]

Maybe it might have ruined it, but when you play with unstable explosives, that is what might happen.
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[daphnebluestrat]

If you're not trying to run a cinematic sort of game, then yeah, that sort of thing can happen.

But if you are...

I dunno. I see where you're coming from, for sure...and you DEFINITELY don't want the players to think they're invincible. But what, really, is the POINT of making one of the detonators go off, besides being either a. spiteful or b. super-realistic, in which case "rigging the reactor to explode" probably would have ended their lives/careers long ago, since they were dealing with VERY high-powered, super-volatile energy-generating equipment?

[Pel]

That's exactly how we play. If it's a decent idea and it's cinematic, we go with it. Bad ideas are also dealt with in suitably dramatic fashion. 8)
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[Gry Sarth]

I agree. At most, it could hit the ground in just the right way that the switch is activated, but that still means you have a little time to deactivate it.
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[garhkal]

[Pel]

Thermal detonators are extemely unstable due to their baradium charges, just like Garhkal said. We've always played them that way to great success. After all, a 10D explosion in a baseball-sized package has to come with some sort of drawback, otherwise nobody would use grenades. It's practically a pocket nuke. Makes for a great fastball, though. 8)
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[Gry Sarth]

Yeah, well, it costs about 10 times as much as a grenade. At 2.000 creds a pop, it's not something you can just sprinkle anywhere you go....

I'm glad my GM is not so sensitive about thermals and other explosives setting off accidentally, otherwise this character of mine wouldn't have lasted long....


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[Pel]

Very true. Cost has never been much of a factor in our campaigns, but then we tend to use thermals sparingly. After all, it *might* go off before it's supposed to. More cinematic that way!

To continue our thread, we were playing one night, and things were running a bit slowly. For reasons I am still unable to fathom, our adventure just wasn't "clicking". Everyone was bored. Since I abhor boredom, my bounty hunter (previously mentioned juggler) arrived at an elegant solution: I shot the hyperdrive with a DEMP gun while it was active.

Everyone's face paled, our other GM stared at me, then burst into great peals of laughter and reached for the Otherspace adventure. We were no longer bored. Mission accomplished!
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[renault]

lessee, some favorites-
the tongue tied mechanic who engineered half a dozen pitdroids into a personal army that folds away for convenient storage under your bed ala chuck norris' total gym

Not sure if this one was house ruled or not, but I use a drink in my campaigns called blue velvet, which provides a bizarre, seemingly force-related out of body experience, which I have described as seeing your own spectre floating above your body, attached by a thin silver cord. a particularly drunk bounty hunter, upon seeing this, asked if his spectral self had his spectral equipment. like an @$$ I agreed that was acceptable. whipping out his vibro blade he cut his ankle cord.

best I could come up with was a very convoluted explanation about how this was a a chemically induced representation of his inner psyche's struggle with his own dual nature, resulting in a massive aneurism.

just never cut the cord man
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[renault]

another one I had to wing pretty badly- maybe I could get some input on how someone else would have handled this as well. in the middle of a desperate flight out of an imperial garrison, the pcs took a hit to their rear thrusters, blowing their sublight and repulsors. I thought I had them dead to rights. Then daedrek rowe (the bane of my gamemastering) decided it would be a good idea to rip the sensor relay/control board out of the hyperdrive and punch the sucker into hyperspace whether they were sitting on a gravity well or not.

best I could come up with, with no sensors come no navigation, and thus no hyperspace coordinates, meaning you're straight line jumping only. as far as the results of the jump, lets just say ryloth got a new canyon and the players got a new ship (and a new npc, they broke another one dammit)
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flow endlessly like bespins plain
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[Gry Sarth]

There are two things about hyperdrives. Coordinates and gravity. If you don't have jump coordinates, you can still make a blind jump, which is extremely risky even in short hops, however it's a tempting option when you're just about to die anyway. To perform a blind jump you have to bypass your navigational computer with some tech skills (or maybe with a very lucky yank at the control board?). However, if you're in a gravity well (be it because you're too close to a planet or one such big orbital body, or an interdictor's gravity well), there's just no way to enter hyperspace, no matter what you do. There's simply no gateway into it from a place with gravity.
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[Krayt]

The most off the wall my group has ever dome while GMing was something like this:

After a long fight with stormies in an Imp base , the characters came to a dead end. The jedi cut through the wall and went through. I decided it was an large fan that was horazontal and blowing (towards it, as I told the characters). One PC who had played Jedi Knight Acadamy decided to jump in, thinking it would push him up (he didn't figure out that sucking in ment TOWARD the fan for some reason) he went in, and I had a nice time describing the juices that now covered the wall. About two seconds later (all the time they gave to mourning), the PCs just used their assencion guns (which the dead PC had too), and repelled up to the next floor.

That was just stupid.

Also, one character later decided to throw a detonator (thermal) at a group of storm commandos, even though he had no grenade skill and it was a high gravity planet. He rolled his DEX, and made a big fumble (two 1s on the wild die in a row). He dropped it at his feet, and blew himself up. They managed to save her, but she had to be borgified. She later got killed by another detonator during a firefight with a bounty hunter.

That was the last any PC saw of thermal dtonators for a while.
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