12-05-2022, 09:06 PM | #1 |
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Weapon stat MILLWALL BRICK
Good evening gentlemen.
I am playing a "jackie chan" type of character who is a combat pragmatist. So, cheap shots, dirty tricks, the works. So, researching to build the character i came across this hooligan weapon, the infamous millwall brick: https://www.google.com/amp/s/gatdail...-weapon/%3famp in the moat basic i guess it's like the magazine mention3d in MA. but i am interested in the newspaper + rock combination. how would you stat that? small mace? knobbed club? |
12-06-2022, 12:05 AM | #2 |
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Re: Weapon stat MILLWALL BRICK
The basic version is a fist load at best. An advanced version with a rock might be Swing +0 with a good chance to break on every hit.
EDIT Also "Millwall Brick" sounds like a good name for a British supe, circa 1980s. |
12-06-2022, 04:12 PM | #3 |
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Re: Weapon stat MILLWALL BRICK
I could see that. Also, 'Millwall and the Bricks' could be a British garbage band in the same era (or a garage band if they're a little better).
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12-06-2022, 04:38 PM | #4 |
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12-06-2022, 04:53 PM | #5 |
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Re: Weapon stat MILLWALL BRICK
As another option, treat a rolled up & flattened newspapers wrapped over the knuckles as Cheap-Quality Leather Gloves. They provide DR 1 to the user's fist, but only to avoid damage due to Hurting Yourself with punches.
The logic here is that a rolled up newspaper doesn't add that much mass to the user's fist, nor does it concentrate the force of the user's blow like Brass Knuckles or a heavier Fist Load would. Newspapers used as wrappers for heavier, more rigid materials turn into Improvised, Cheap-Quality Pommels (thr-1), Hammers (sw+0) or Batons (sw-1), depending on balance, mass, length and grip. They'd all Parry at -1, like a Small Knife, due to short length. Anything Hammer-like might be Unbalanced and become Unready following an attack or parry. |
12-06-2022, 08:33 PM | #6 | |
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Re: Weapon stat MILLWALL BRICK
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12-07-2022, 08:40 AM | #7 |
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Re: Weapon stat MILLWALL BRICK
Some decades earlier it might be a tough police detective with one of those distinctive British given names. Or he might be James Millwall Brick, but go by his middle name.
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12-07-2022, 12:14 PM | #8 | |
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The rolled-magazine baton was taught to SOE in WW II, so its not new.
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12-08-2022, 07:04 AM | #9 |
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Re: Weapon stat MILLWALL BRICK
George Lazenby as Detective Inspector James Millwall Brick on "Brick of the Mill" airing on BBC Four.
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