01-16-2010, 12:49 PM | #1 |
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Cinematic Explosions: Shooting the Gas Tank
So, shooting the gas tank of a vehicle doesn't cause an explosion, as Mythbusters has shown. But it's a common cinematic trope.
Has anyone here used any house rules for this? The core explosion rules don't seem to have anything, nor the vehicle combat rules as far as I can tell.
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01-16-2010, 01:29 PM | #2 |
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Re: Cinematic Explosions: Shooting the Gas Tank
Well, since when cinematics explosions do happen the vehicle and it passengers all die, you can say: "You hit the gas tank, they all die horribly". Maybe there is a chance of 3 on 6 of it exploding...
Now, if you really really do want to assign damage dice, use enough dice to completly blow the vehicle on an average result, for example: For a car with 47 hit points, you should use 47/3.5 = 13,5 dices, or 13d+3. Just a suggestion. Sorry for the broken english. |
01-16-2010, 01:33 PM | #3 | |
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Re: Cinematic Explosions: Shooting the Gas Tank
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01-16-2010, 02:29 PM | #4 |
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Re: Cinematic Explosions: Shooting the Gas Tank
It's a special case of mook rules. Shoot any mook and he dies. Shoot any vehicle's gas tank and if it is unoccupied by anything except mooks, it explodes. Note that named characters will find that their vehicles burn just long enough for them to get to get clear, and then they explode.
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01-16-2010, 09:00 PM | #5 | |
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Re: Cinematic Explosions: Shooting the Gas Tank
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01-16-2010, 09:25 PM | #6 |
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Re: Cinematic Explosions: Shooting the Gas Tank
Wasn't it a perk called 'boomer bullets'? Basically it meant your shots always triggered explosions, Hollywood style. Cinematic games only! I'd also agree with the other posters' comments regarding mook rules and apply them to this ability.
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01-17-2010, 04:47 PM | #7 |
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Re: Cinematic Explosions: Shooting the Gas Tank
Unless they're the heroes and they're trying to escape the vehicle, in which case the explosion will blow them safely away from the vehicle.
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01-17-2010, 05:37 PM | #8 |
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Re: Cinematic Explosions: Shooting the Gas Tank
That's just Cinematic Explosions, B417.
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