Disruptur, Sonic and Flame Weapons

[Yasriia]

I have a couple of questions:

1) I have read that disruptor weapons are illegal (even more than blasters) and they are very deadly because they "disrupt" the atomicbonds of the target. But the weapon stats of a disruptor shows only a mere 4d to 6d damage value (comparable to a blaster). So how is the "deadliness" of the disruptor expressed? Do they ignore armor, your strength roll?

2) How do Sonic weapons deal damage? I mean do they ignore armor or vs. energy/physical bonus? Or if you have a sealed helmet like a stormtrooper aren't you affected at all?

3) When you roll your strength against the damage of a flame weapon, you add your energy armor bonus right?

[Ankhanu]

1) it's largely fluff text. It's the excruciating pain associated with being broken down at the molecular level that bumps them into the illegal.

2) Again, it's largely narrative, rather than mechanical. Sonic damage is kinda like disuption, in that it essentially shakes the target to death... has nothing to do with hearing. The only way that it would be blocked is to have some sort of sound dampening/canceling effect, which would probably be a powered system.

3) yeah, energy rating.
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[garhkal]

On the flame weapons, i asked about that in regard to it being absorbed by Ab/Dis energy, and in all the films where fire was used (well the one) we saw the jedi who got hit by flame have to doff his clothing (mace windu) so he does not get burned, which to me suggests it is physical damage, not energy for armor purposes.
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[Ankhanu]

Why use the Force to deal with fire when you can just avoid it?
There's a lava dragon or something that lives in, well, lava; it's scales absorb energy to deal with the lava damage, inferring that fire is energy damage... that and the real world fact that fire is the sudden release of energy...
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[Bren]

Mostly echoing what others have said, so I'll keep it short.

1) Disrupters: The description is fluff.
One way to let the player experience some of the pain of the weapon would be to make the damage harder to heal up from. Perhaps a -5-10 to any first aid rolls or medical treatments and/or doubling time for healing.

2) It’s the vibration, not the sound per se that does damage. But there needs to be a medium to transmit the sonic waves. A vacuum should work well in damping sonic weapons.

3) I would treat fire as physical damage.

[Yasriia]

1) Okay its all about fluffy weapons and pain. Got it.

2) Okay, got the principle of the weapon. But is the damage against physical or energy armor? But maybe the armor is just another medium for the sonicwaves...

3) Okay I'll treat fire as energy damage, since there is some heat involved.

Thanks for your opinions.

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[garhkal]

I know when i run flash bang grenades, i have them go against perception vice str..
Standard FB has to be soaked against a diff per roll.
Per of 13-16 - minus 2 pips from all skills for 1d rounds
9-12 per - minus 1d for 2d rounds
6-9 per - minus 1d+1 for 3d rounds, and you can only react, no acting
5 or less minus 2d, and you are effectively incapacitated...
High yield FBs go up to base 24 to soak against..... and down 3 on the chart per -1pip...

You could run sonic weapons in the same maner.
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[garhkal]

What of high pitched stuff that blows ear drums?? are those str resisted or Per resisted?
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[Esoomian]

Still be strength because you're still resisting damage it's just like saying if someone successfully makes a called shot to the eyes the target now has to resist damage with perception.
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[Esoomian]

I'd assume that the helmet actually produces a dampening field that envelops the player disrupting the sound waves before they hit.

Either that or that it's only designed to prevent sonic stunners which tend to effect equilibrium.
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