----------| Am 25.03.2008 13:14 schrieb rekres: |----------
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 6:01 AM, Thomas Thrien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
----------| Am 25.03.2008 03:00 schrieb Brandon Cope: |----------
> Of course, the ST 17 means that virtually all firers will take double recoil
penalties.
>
> Brandon
>
... and this matches with reality; ...
So what practical use will have a handgun with such a caliber when it is
at least as dangerous for the firer than for the target? It is bulky,
heavy, expensive - and really loud if used. So why going for a .600NE
Revolver when I can get the same from a Rifle with .308 HS/HV or AP -
that does not try to kill me when I fire it?
IIRC, the OP stated it was for a CyberPunk style game where artificial
limbs with added ST would be commonplace. I might even go so far as
to specify it can't be fired by an un-modified human... give a bennie
to those borg wannabes. :D
I have to confess that I overlooked that the gun was meant for a
CyberPunk game. But to be honest, I always thought, that MinST for a
fireweapon should refer to the basic strength. A weapon with a recoil
requiring MinST 17 will definitely rock the whole body, not only your
arms and hands. So some mass is required to compensate that - and
(basic) ST is in GURPS used as a rough equivalent for mass (correct me
if 4E will treat this differently).
In case of a modified human with artificial limbs, I would use a formula
like this to get the effective ST to compensate the recoil of a fireweapon:
(baseST + 2 x LimbST)/3
perhaps with some modifiers to baseST for overweight, fat and very fat
(i.e. +1, +2, +3).
And because rifles behave different from handguns (and therefore might
require a different calculation ...), it does not seem to be really
clever to do so ...
thr
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