increasing weapons beyond the maximum

[ifurin]

ok so i have a player playing a barabel character. he has a vibro-axe and wanted to up the dammlage he could inflict but he was already at the maximum and wated to see if he could increase it. i don't know of any rulle that would allow this (or any reasoning that would allow this either). so i said no to increasing the dammage but we could impliment a house rule that we had used in another game that seemed to work. when rolling to hit a target for every 10 points above the difficulty to hit add 1 pip to the dammage. has anyone here used a simmilar rule, or have a better suggestion?

[Gry Sarth]

I agree, the limit is there for a reason. It's the limit, that's it, no going beyond that. However I'm not against adding damage for extraordinary success.
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[Ankhanu]

Sounds pretty sensible to me. I think there may be a similar rule in place for ranged weapons in the Spec Forces Handbook.

[garhkal]

One rule i have used is that you can 'willingly exceed a melee weapons maximum damage' but if you do so you run the risk of breaking it.

EG a Talos vibro-dagger has a max damage of 6d+2, This gives us a 6x6 +2 for 38 max damage.
If you say, spend a force point and are now at 8d+4 (example), and you roll 49, that gives you 11 over the max damage, which is rolled as damage against the weapons 2d body (or what ever it has listed)..
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[ifurin]

[Endwyn]

The force point only doubles you and your personal skills; not your gear. So a force point spent using a blaster yields extraordinary shots but not any extra damage. (Unless you decide to just make all your shots be called shots to the head.) But that is a different reason.
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[Ankhanu]

[Tupteq]

Official D6 Space rules say that if you hit target in possibly vital area (torso or head for human), then for every 5 points of success (points above difficulty) you add +1 (not +1 pip) to damage.
My addition: Some weapons or special abilities may alter required number of success points (for example blade with serrated blade may add +1 for every 4 points of success).

[Esoomian]

When I played an Esoomian (7D strength naturally) the GM said that normal weapons wouldn't exceed their maximum damage (Which for the most part was around 7D) but it would allow me to do different types of damage. For instance if I was using a vibro axe (strength plus 3D max 7D) I would be more effective at hacking down walls or doors even though the damage I'd do with my fists was the same.

Fortunately he also said that any authentic Esoomian weapons would have no max damage cap as it made no sense for Esoomians to manufacture weapons that couldn't be used in conjunction with their high strength.

[Ankhanu]

[Tupteq]

[garhkal]

[Ankhanu]

I'm not sure where they're statted as a species, but in the Bounty Hunters book, one of the example hunters is Tantor, an Esoomian with 7D strength.

[Esoomian]

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