Sunday, 10 April 2022

Low-Tech Beam Weapons

Low-Tech Beam Weapons

Wait a damn second. If the power cell capacity follows increases with TL and has a defined progression, can't we reverse it and get TL3 or TL4 power cells? Now that we also have this post that tells us to multiply the weapon weight for weapons of lower TL than the TL of its introduction (I will not scale the weight further, keeping it at the maximum of 32x increase), can't we make low-tech beam weapons? Let's try and see the results.

In addition to all of the above, I will remove all the ultra-tech attachments, such as HUD link, recognition grip, diagnostic computer. Also, I will make them of Cheap quality and halve their accuracy. Power cells will be non-rechargeable. The TL decrease couple with the Cheap quality will also mean that all these weapons will have Malf 11.

Beam Weapons (Pistol) (DX-4, other Beam Weapons-4, or Guns (Pistol)-4)

TL

Weapon

Damage

Acc

Range

Weight

RoF

Shots

ST

Bulk

Rcl

Cost

LC

3^

Blaster Pistol
-          hotshot

1d(5) burn sur
1d+1(2) burn sur

2

32/96

2.2/2C

1

5(3)

6

-2

1

$1,000

3

3^

Force Beamer
-          hotshot

1d cr dkb
1d+1 cr dkb

1

3/9

0.4/2B

1

4(3)

3

-1

1

$60

4

3^

Heavy Force Pistol
-          hotshot

2d cr dkb
2d+2 cr dkb

2

44/130

5.1/2C

1

5(3)

10

-3

1

$820

3

3^

Heavy Laser Pistol
-          hotshot

2d(2) burn
2d+2(2) burn

2

50/140

5.3/C

1

2(3)

10

-3

1

$960

2

3^

Holdout Laser Pistol
-          hotshot

1d-1(2) burn
1d(2) burn

1

8/24

0.4/B

1

3(3)

3

-1

1

$70

3

3^

Laser Pistol
-          hotshot

1d(2) burn
1d+1(2) burn

2

12/36

1.1/C

1

18(3)

5

-1

1

$130

3

3^

Plasma Pistol
-          hotshot

2d(2) burn ex sur
2d+2(2) burn ex sur

2

100/300

1.7/2C

1

8(3)

7

-2

2

$1,000

3

Beam Weapons (Rifle) (DX-4, other Beam Weapons-4, or Guns (Rifle)-4)

3^

Blaster Rifle
-          hotshot

2d(5) burn sur
2d+2(5) burn sur

5

130/390

9.6/Dp

1

3(5)

8†

-5

1

$7,650

2

3^

Force Rifle
-          hotshot

3d cr dkb
4d cr dkb

5

50/150

10.9/Dp

1

8(5)

9†

-5

1

$2,200

3

3^

Heavy Laser Rifle
-          hotshot

3d(2) burn
4d(2) burn

4

360/1,100

32.1/Dp

1

6(5)

16†

-8

1

$6,450

1

3^

Heavy Plasma Rifle
-          hotshot

4d(2) burn ex sur
5d+1(2) burn ex sur

3

200/600

9.6/Dp

1

5(5)

10†

-5

2

$7,670

2

3^

Laser Carbine
-          hotshot

1d+2(2) burn
2d(2) burn

4

45/140

3.8/C

1

5(3)

5†

-3

1

$660

3

3^

Laser Rifle
-          hotshot

2d(2) burn
2d+2(2) burn

4

160/480

10.6/2C

1

4(3)

9†

-5

1

$1,920

2

3^

Plasma Rifle
-          hotshot

3d(2) burn ex sur
4d(2) burn ex sur

3

150/450

4.6/2C

1

2(3)

7†

-3

2

$3,260

2


Am I crazy, or does it look... reasonable? Considering how bad Malf 11 is and how few shots you can get off, this does not really look that wild (aside from plasma weapons, maybe). I guess you could use these for games set in worlds such as Might & Magic, for example.

P.S. Table formatting is extraordinarily awful on blogspot. Blogspot is awful in general.



3 comments:

  1. Looks about right to me. Now my hungry gamers will have more to chew on. Thanks for the ideas!

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  2. These are awesome! Though it takes a lot of looking at them closely to really get the hang of them.

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  3. Ye old blasters, nice. Also yes, Blogspot is crap. One of these days I'm gonna jump ship to another platform. I just need to stop putting off learning how to transfer my stuff.

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