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DougRed4
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 Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2021 6:25 pm Post subject: Flame Rifle |
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I pulled some weapons out of Galladium's Fantastic Technology, and one I'm using is the Flame Rifle.
It says:
Skill: Flame-thrower
But I plan on simply using the Blaster skill for it (and one could specialize with Flame-thrower if they wanted to). My logic is that you essentially point and shoot like you do with other regular blasters.
Curious how others would handle this?
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CRMcNeill
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2021 6:32 pm Post subject: |
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This actually just came up recently elsewhere.
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Whill
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| Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2021 7:32 pm Post subject: Re: Flame Rifle |
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| DougRed4 wrote: | I pulled some weapons out of Galladium's Fantastic Technology, and one I'm using is the Flame Rifle.
It says:
Skill: Flame-thrower
But I plan on simply using the Blaster skill for it (and one could specialize with Flame-thrower if they wanted to). My logic is that you essentially point and shoot like you do with other regular blasters.
Curious how others would handle this? |
The recent bump to the thread about the official flamethrower skill is here...
| Quote: | | ...flamethrowers should be in a separate category from both missile and energy weapons. I have thusly updated my skill list to rename this skill flame/spray weapons... |
For my game, I expanded the blaster skill to cover all energy weapons so renamed it blaster/energy weapons. I like that being a separate skill from SW-modern missile weapons like the grappling hook/tether on ascension guns. If energy and missile are two separate skills, then it follows that flame/spray weapons should also be a separate skill. If you are going to combine spray weapons into the same skill as energy weapons, then you might as well just combine all handheld weapons into a handheld range weapons skill.
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garhkal
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| Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2021 3:46 am Post subject: |
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Exactly. While pointing a blaster and a firearm, are similar. WITH bullets youhave wind speed, mussel velosity and the like to worry about. Blaster bolts don't.
So imo you really should have at least 4 separate "point and shoot skills".
Blasters (inc sonic guns/disruptors and the like),
Firearms (which would include flamers)
Missile weapons (which includes grenade launchers)
and Other (wookie bow caster, archaic weapons)...
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