04-16-2010, 12:56 PM | #1 |
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Designing weapons.
Just a quick question if anybody knew good rules for designing weapons in GURPS 4ed. I'm running a TL5 post apocalyptic campaign, and there are "naturally" massive oversized ogre type mutants. Basically I wan't to be able to equip some of them with oversized Flintlocks but I don't know what would be reasonable stats for them (including ST requirements.) I know if my players get their hands on one, they'll want to try and use it :P
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04-16-2010, 05:02 PM | #2 |
Join Date: Sep 2008
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Re: Designing weapons.
There are no rules I'm aware of. However, this thread discussed a similar weapon, and I gave an estimate of ST 25† for wielding it. Assuming you have High-Tech, you could compare TL 5 muskets to the TL 5 weapon proposed in that thread (note the important parts of the design - namely, damage and range - depend on having the stats of the Hotchkiss) to come up with the stats for your weapon (if the ST 25† weapon doesn't work for your purposes).
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04-16-2010, 08:14 PM | #3 |
Join Date: Mar 2010
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Re: Designing weapons.
Although it is not technically 4ed, Vehicles includes rules for designing firearms, including strength requirements for handheld weapons. It would not be too difficult to design a handheld flintlock for any particular strength.
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04-17-2010, 04:26 PM | #4 |
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Re: Designing weapons.
I'd expect that the guns would be unusable by the PC's as simple hand weapons--but might be usuable with a rest, like the earliest muskets--or on some sort of pintle mount/wall mount.
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04-18-2010, 03:38 AM | #5 |
Join Date: Apr 2010
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Re: Designing weapons.
Gotta love the "braced" rules. :)
In my experience, one can design a custom weapon pretty well through remembering a few basic things: Damage usually scales up linearly in GURPS for rifle-like weapons - a 7.62mm Battle Rifle deals 7d damage. A .50 cal (12.95 mm) deals 13d+1 damage. I'm not entirely sure whether the same thing goes for muskets - but it's a place to start. Perhaps finding the stats of a small TL 5 cannon and comparing weight and such will yield some ideas. In my campaigns, range rarely becomes a problem. Therefore I don't exactly know lots about how to modify it - but multiplying the musket ranges by some nice number like 1.5 or 2 sounds good enough for me. As for ST requirements I recommend using the Basic Lift as a scale to work with. A normal TL 7 Assault Rifle weighs about 10 lbs. and requires ST 10 with both hands. A matchlock musket weighs 20 lbs. and requires ST 10. That does include use of a musket rest though. Bracing a weapon shaves off 1/3 of the weapon's ST requirement, so to fire the 20 lbs. matchlock musket without the musket rest, would require ST 15, which is a Basic Lift of 45. Basic Lift 45 vs. a weapon weight of 20 lbs. So it turns out that weapons usually require a Basic Lift about twice the weapon's weight. An ST 25 musket would weigh a whopping 62.5 lbs., which might be about the size you are going for.
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04-18-2010, 06:02 AM | #6 |
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Re: Designing weapons.
And change damage type to pi++.
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