Questions about UT smoke, lasers, and plasma.

[lwcamp]

Originally Posted by Ulzgoroth

Which is only about 6d(2), in typical GURPS laser stats.

Yeah, but now you need to deal with the fact that the person now has a channel of several hundred or more atmospheres of ionized plasma in him pushing out in all directions. This exceeds the material strength of meat and gristle and bone by a large margin. You end up with a messy splat. Admittedly, the diameter of the messy splat depends on the initial diameter of the channel, so a needle-thin beam might only blow out a cm or so wound channel - but how are you going to get your plasma down a needle-thin channel anyway?

Luke