03-05-2017, 01:25 PM | #11 | |
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Re: Banestorm Victims in Dungeon Fantasy
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Ice guns and partisan needlers are pretty lousy weapons by DF standards; 2d pi- x3 will barely take down an unarmored orc and will fail terribly against the undead and constructs. I'd really want a heavy laser pistol and a portable solar recharger, but while ultra-tech says that power cells are rechargeable, it doesn't have any game mechanics for doing so nor a portable solar recharger.
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03-05-2017, 02:07 PM | #12 |
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Re: Banestorm Victims in Dungeon Fantasy
Unless this character had time to prepare, why would anyone carry weapon solar rechargers? Wouldn't a normal person just replace the batteries/capacitors and/or hook them up to their vehicle or local outlets?
Even a weird over-geared survivalist is unlikely to be carrying a heavy military style laser weapon, right? I suppose you could posit they came from a world with DF style beasts roaming the lands, but boy is that guy a nut for wandering around alone to be banestormed.
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03-05-2017, 04:35 PM | #13 |
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Re: Banestorm Victims in Dungeon Fantasy
I know a few people who carry solar chargers in various formats for their cellphones or laptops; some built into the tops of backpacks, some as separate deployable thingamies. They're not crazy survivalists, they're people who think extra batteries and/or stealing power from coffee shops is annoying/gauche, or are making an ecological statement.
If you're going hunting with a laser rifle, for like two weeks? I would bring a solar charger instead of pounds and pounds of power cells.
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03-05-2017, 05:32 PM | #14 |
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Okay, I concede. It isn't completely absurd, especially when talking about banestorms and DF.
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03-06-2017, 08:18 AM | #15 |
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Re: Banestorm Victims in Dungeon Fantasy
There are also chargers that work by sticking one end in a campfire (or other heat source) and filling another end with water. I have one in my car kit and one in my backpack, as a useful emergency phone charger.
Tight-beam burning isnt terrible in DF (pretty much x1 vs everything but diffuse, and has the option of a vitals shot). An Omni-Laser (a pulse-beam laser (+1 CF) with an electrolaser stun/lethal option (+1 CF roughly) gives you tight-beam burning, cr ex, electrical stun and electrical save or die. If that is rechargeable, well, you can go a long time on that. Make it Sig Gear though! I would definitely go a rifle, even if it is just the survival laser. Acc 12 is unheard of in DF, and even without gunslinger will basically sell the package. For TL 6-8, using the rules in After the End to reload modern cartridges with black powder could extend a banestorm victims ammo supply. DF doesnt _cannonically_ have blackpowder, but there have been articles effectively adding it without any real violence to the setting. Here, the WWII guy with a heavy rifle built to be used as a club, with the addition of a bayonet, is basically a Musketeer with better ROF. They will have to pick up DF armor at some point, but could probably make it through the first delve with a flak jacket and a helmet. Sig Gear on the rifle is still probably a good idea. Neither the Demolisher nor the Musketeer have a UB, so 10 points for ROF 3 WWII guy, to 20 points for ROF 10 TL 8-10 guy, would be my gut instinct. Allow Gunslinger as a powerup for the character and let them rock out.
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03-06-2017, 04:48 PM | #16 |
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Does Dungeon Fantasy have a setting of sorts that this person would be dropped in?
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03-06-2017, 05:41 PM | #17 |
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Huh. Assuming they had no way to get modern tech, would high TL be a disadvantage here? Like if you had your dude be a random person who got dropped in without any particularly useful equipment?
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03-06-2017, 09:11 PM | #18 |
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03-07-2017, 05:41 AM | #19 | |
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Actually some of the templates from Monster hunters sidekicks+35 points for high TL and 15 points more in advantages/attributes might make interesting DF characters as they already kind of do similar things by design so have some of the skills. |
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