Czerka T-99 “Rebuker” Light Repeating Slugthrower Rifle

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I need a big slugthrower rifle for a fanfic I'm working on, and this is what I came up with. I also want to make it available to players, so please help me make this fair and balanced. This is my rough draft, by no means a finished product:

Model: Czerka T-99 “Rebuker”
Type: Light Repeating Slugthrower Rifle
Scale: Character
Skill: Firearms: slugthrower rifle
Ammo: 24
Cost: 850 (ammo clip: 50)
Availability: 2, R
Body: 4D (125 cm length)
Fire Rate: 1 (single) or 3 (repeating)
Range: 3-30/100/300 (single) or 3-20/75/200 (repeating)
Damage: 6D+1 (4D+1 against targets wearing Space Age body armor.)
Game Notes: This weapon is a heavy, large-caliber slugthrower and cannot be wielded unassisted by characters with less than 3D Strength. This rifle is equipped with both a single shot mode and a light repeating mode. On repeating mode, the weapon actually fires three slugs per shot instead of one. Despite the fact that this weapon has a recoil suppressor, the character must brace the gun against something (such as an armpit) or it will fly out of their hands and land 1D meters away on the first shot. In repeating mode, once a hit has been established, all following shots against nearby (1 meter) targets are reduced by one difficulty level. It also features a standard night vision/infrared scope (+2D to Firearms in the dark) and a long stock. If the stock and scope are used for one round of aiming, the character receives an additional +1D to Firearms for the next shot.

Several aftermarket parts have been manufactured by Czerka and other companies for this weapon. Available for sale are the following:

Ammo:
- explosive slugs (+1D damage against hard armor; regular damage against soft armor or bare flesh)
- fragmentation or expanding slugs (+1D to damage against soft armor or flesh)
- armor-piercing slugs (-1D+1 armor piercing, the slug then does its regular damage—6D+1—rather than the 4D+1 against targets wearing Space Age armor)

Other:
- bayonets
- advanced sighting scope with rangefinder, as well as night vision, infrared, ultraviolet, motion detection, magnification, and other vision modes (+1D+2 to Firearms for single shots taken at medium or long range)
- several sizes of expanded ammo clips and drums (48- or 75-round clips; 96- or 192-round drums)
- laser sight (+1D to Firearms for shots taken at close range)
- flashlight attachment (range of 50 meters [+1D to Firearms in the dark])
- tripod with telescoping legs (eliminates the need for bracing the gun and gives +1p to Firearms when used in single shot mode)
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[garhkal]

Looks good. BUT if you want a big bore gun, how's about these!

[garhkal]

Here is A thread covering my Spray rules

This one has the full auto rules
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Those are all pretty sweet. I would like to stay away from earth weapons if I can, since slugthrowers are different than guns (I just recently learned this.)

As long as the stats looks decent as written (I changed them up a bit just now and reorganized) then I think I'm good to go.

However, I have some questions regarding slugs themselves that anyone (not just you, garhkal) is free to answer:

There are exploding slugs, but are there such things as fragmentation or expanding slugs? Or even slugs that are radioactive? I imagine they would feature a protective jacket so the user—or anyone else who handles the rounds—would not be exposed to the radiation. This jacket would be blown off when the round is fired so the target would get the full dose.
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[garhkal]

[Sutehp]

Radioactive bullets. That's like the silver nitrate bullets or the UV bullets from the first Underworld movie with Kate Beckinsale. Nasty buggers, indeed.

Just FYI, the latest Underworld movie (Underworld: Blood Wars) came out last month and a sixth film is in production.
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[Sutehp]

I haven't seen Blood Wars yet. I hadn't even heard it was out until I remembered to check last night. Truth be told, I was more interested in John Wick: Chapter 2, which I saw last week and it was awesome.

I liked the Underworld movies, but it seems they've been slowly but steadily decreasing in quality the longer the franchise goes on. While the first three were good to ok, Awakening (the fourth movie) was bleh. So I might wait until Blood Wars comes oout on blu-ray as it's been a month and a half since it came out and I might not find it in the theaters anymore now.
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Sutehp's RPG Goodies
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Just repurchased the X-Wing and Tie Fighter flight sim games. I forgot how much I missed them.

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You know what sequel was surprisingly entertaining? As in a good popcorn flick? Alien vs. Predator: Requiem. It was much more in the vein of the original Predator movies in that there was only one, and he was a badass. I agree with the critics in that there weren't really any new ideas, but the rehash was adequate in this case (unlike with SW VII...)
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[CRMcNeill]

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[CRMcNeill]

That's my point. As someone who HAS read all the WEG material, as well as a good portion of the rest of the EU, I can tell you that the concept of slugthrowers was largely that of conventional, bullet-shooting weapons like modern firearms. The exceptions, like the bowcaster, are few and far between, and are specifically noted as diferent.

I read the Wookieepedia article from Zarn's link, and while it says what it says, nowhere does it cite a specific source as to why. Even if it did, it would likely be a single apocryphal reference against the preponderance of an EU that is notoriously contradictory in the first place.
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[CRMcNeill]

I agree, it's a cool idea, and Rogue One shows it isn't just limited to Wookiee bowcasters.

If you're interested, I've done stat conversions for some of the weapons from Warhammer 40,000, as cool alternatives to blasters. I've done Bolters, Auto-Guns, Needlers and Shuriken Catapults, all of which would be useful in their own ways against a Jedi.
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"No set of rules can cover every situation. It's expected that you will make up new rules to suit the needs of your game." - The Star Wars Roleplaying Game, 2R&E, pg. 69, WEG, 1996.

The CRMcNeill Stat/Rule Index

[garhkal]