Melding Beam Weapons and Guns

[awesomenessofme1]

Originally Posted by Daigoro

To this I'd point out that grenade launchers, gyrocs and muskets all have significant mechanical differences yet are still covered by the Guns skill.

I don't see the relevance of this. Yes, they are all covered by "Guns", but they're different skills. And GL and Gyroc default from other Guns skills with as large a penalty as Beam Weapons does.