Re: Guns are they!

Marc Alexandrovich Volovic [email removed] writes:
> >> Now - in Traveller we only have "10mm Auto." What about a "Intellarms
> >> S-56 10mm Auto with gyrostabilizer?" Or a "BendArCo 23dm double magazine
> >> 10mm?" Or "Causative XMH-242 8mm, gyrostab, integral bipod, laser
> >> rangefinder and designator?"
> >
> >A bipod on a pistol?  Novel idea, but I don't know if it would sell.  :-)
>
>   The XMH-242 is an assault weapon a-la Minimi.

I suspected something of the sort, hence the smiley.  First we were discussing
pistols; then, without warning, you included a larger weapon which would be
recognised as such only by people who know the code numbers of every weapon
in existence, including prototypes (I assume the "X" there indicates that this
gun is an experimental or prototype version).

>   I prefer a feature list to Adrian's code system.

To convert my code system to a feature list, simply delete the code number
column.  The reason for the code numbers was for the benefit of GM's whose
PCs' first action upon visiting a planet is to find the weapons shops.
Rather than say "Yes, this shop sells 9mm auto pistols", I'd say "Yes, we
sell auto pistols.  Wait a moment, I'll show you a selection."  I'd then
roll 1D6 for number of types available, then determine the code number
of each type at random.  If I felt up to it at the time, I'd add some of
the additional features as well.  It was a quick'n'dirty way of getting
some variety into the arms market.

>						     Of course, some pieces
> of equipment need additional (GM only) information (i.e. jamming mods) but
> these may be hooked in somehow.

Well, jamming mods might be known to the PC's.  Not the exact modifier, of
course, but someone might know that this particular gun has a habit of
blowing its slide off every so often, or that gun is used by the local
security forces because of its legendary ability to be dropped in a muddy
pool, thrown at a brick wall, placed in a fridge, and still be able to
fire accurately.

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