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From: dam@uvacs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.frp
Subject: Re: High Tech in AD&D (help).
Message-ID: <101@uvacs.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 18-Jan-86 23:20:12 EST
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Posted: Sat Jan 18 23:20:12 1986
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Reply-To: dam@uvacs.UUCP (Dave Montuori)
Organization: U.Va. CS dept.  Charlottesville, VA
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Keywords: High Tech, AD&D
Summary: Some help and a request for still more help


Having been through some very strange uni- and multi- verses, I've
run across many different ways to run blasters. I suppose it would
help those of us who run high-tech in AD&D dungeons if we had a set
of specs for the high-tech weapons, such as: what size are the
projectiles (if any)? How much force is behind the blast? Is the target
area very narrow (as with a rifle bullet or laser) or wide (shotgun)?

By way of comparison, I've also run across "normal" guns; a rifle or
pistol bullet does about 1-6 hp with a check for hit location, and a
.20 gauge shotgun does 1-8.

As for laser knives, I give them 1-4 damage but with much less mess than
a dagger generates. I would be happy to hear more discussion on this
topic since I am readying a campaign based on Clarke's Third Law myself.

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