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{Favorite} Sci Fi Weapons

Started by Silverlion, November 19, 2007, 05:03:27 AM

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Silverlion

November 19, 2007, 05:03:27 AM
What is your favorite, SF weapon that appears in an RPG?
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#1
November 19, 2007, 06:49:58 AM
Laser weapons in Star Frontiers. They have adjustable damage. For every SEU of power you use. You do 1d10 damage. Clips have 20 SEU. Laser pistols can use 1-10 SEU per shot, laser rifles can use 1-20 SEU per shot.
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#2
November 19, 2007, 07:02:11 AM
UV tasers. Legal, clean violence, but with the coolness of a beam weapon.
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November 19, 2007, 08:14:21 AM
Gyrojets. Cool bullet sized rockets, that never really seem to work out in real life.

AntiGrav flechets. Little metal darts accelerated to a significant fraction of the speed of light.

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November 19, 2007, 08:31:44 AM
Railguns.

Anything incorporating plasma.
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#5
November 19, 2007, 08:50:08 AM
Gyrojet weaponry, but more specifically (as I recall it), the GURPS version where you can have a 2 or 3 mag layout feeding into one pistol.

Nothing feeds a sadistic soul more than having firing a tangler, HE, HE (or HEDP) shot group into a few poor, misguided miscreants.

Follow up fave would be gauss guns of any stripe.
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#6
November 19, 2007, 11:06:41 AM
star frontiers wins, for gyrojets, variable lasers, and electrostunners

PGMPs & FGMPs and gauss weapons from traveller get the nod too

homebrew-wise, that gun from "logan's run" with the different ammo types.  i know i made SF and MT versions of it before i saw something similar in gurps ultratech

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November 19, 2007, 11:08:56 AM
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November 19, 2007, 12:31:07 PM
Plasma Gun Man-Portable
Fusion Gun Man-Portable

When you have to absolutely, positively, have to blow someone to ratshit in the middle of a firefight in Traveller.

(Although not out yet for Traveller, I've seen rules for an ultra-tech weapon that would shoot quantum black holes timed to decay into an energetic burst of gamma rays and x-rays upon entering the target. Sort of the logical evolution of the Meson Gun. I can't wait for it!)
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November 19, 2007, 07:13:08 PM
The "Projectile Defecator" used by the Symbiotes in Fading Suns.

Disgusting.

Effective.

Hilarious.
 

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#10
November 20, 2007, 12:50:40 AM
Quote from: SilverlionWhat is your favorite, SF weapon that appears in an RPG?

Lightsaber, without a doubt.  Preferably WEG-style.  I have simple tastes.

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November 20, 2007, 01:48:45 AM
Quote from: pspahnI have simple tastes.

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Me too- any kind of heavy blaster pistol, really.
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November 20, 2007, 08:24:40 AM
Quote from: eskatonicThe "Projectile Defecator" used by the Symbiotes in Fading Suns.

Disgusting.

Effective.

Hilarious.

"Projectile Defecator"

The name alone makes me want to find out more about it.
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#13
November 20, 2007, 10:28:00 AM
Quote from: jeff37923"Projectile Defecator"

The name alone makes me want to find out more about it.
Really? It makes me even less interested in Fading Suns.
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#14
November 20, 2007, 10:56:42 AM
Meson gun.
Anything that can fit in a spinal mount.
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