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Old 11-13-2017, 05:45 AM   #1
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Default Gun skills defaults incomplete

So far as I can tell, the Guns (Pistol) and Guns (Rifle) skills in the GCA data files do not default from their respective Beams skills, and they should do so at -4. The Beams skills do default correctly.
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Old 11-13-2017, 06:39 AM   #2
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Default Re: Gun skills defaults incomplete

That would be because neither the write-up for the Guns skill nor the Weapons Tables in the Basic Set or Ultra-Tech actually give a default from Beam Weapons to the Guns specialties.
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Old 11-13-2017, 10:29 PM   #3
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Default Re: Gun skills defaults incomplete

Ah, but the Beam Weapons write-up (B179) does:

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In settings with both beam and projectile weapons, the Pistol and Rifle specialties of Beam Weapons default to the similarly named Guns specialties at -4, and vice versa.
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It certainly would've been nice if this was repeated under 'Guns', but there you go.
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Old 11-14-2017, 12:27 AM   #4
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I thought it odd that the defaults weren't both ways.

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It certainly would've been nice if this was repeated under 'Guns', but there you go.
More than nice, it's really a piece of errata as I see it. In particular, it should be listed on the weapons tables like any other skill default.
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