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Old 07-10-2015, 03:25 PM   #2
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Default Re: Bulk and SM

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Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth View Post
So, Bulk effects need to adjust for scale. But how? Bulk is one of the somewhat black-box stats in GURPS, as far as I know. But based on the beam weapon design article (Pyramid 3/37), it goes with the square root of weight.
It should probably be noted that it scales like that for non-turreted beam weapons; it is not clear whether the same formula would apply to other weapons, and in fact I suspect that at least some found in the three Techbooks will not match the formula.
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