Talent/Spell of the Week: Quick Draw (Weapon)

[hcobb]

It's the wording in the rulebook that is just so tortured.

• ITL 102: "that figure has not yet acted"
• ITL 36: "at the start of your action phase"

And can you roll twice to quick draw two daggers?

[Shostak]

Originally Posted by hcobb

And can you roll twice to quick draw two daggers?

Originally Posted by hcobb

And can you roll twice to quick draw two daggers?

A strict interpretation of RAW would say no, since the second dagger is not a shield, though that seems a little unreasonable.

[Axly Suregrip]

Originally Posted by hcobb

And can you roll twice to quick draw two daggers?

Depends if you are engaged. The option to ready a weapon when unengaged (ITL 102 (e)) lets you read ready and change around multiple weapons. The option when engaged (ITL 103 (m)) only lets you ready a single weapon. So, in the context of Quick Draw the answer I would expect you to be engage and the answer is "no".

[hcobb]

Can you quick draw javelins for your spear thrower?

[Axly Suregrip]

Originally Posted by hcobb

Can you quick draw javelins for your spear thrower?

That be Thrown Weapons skill and not Quick Draw.

I would say that is a GM's call if Thrown Weapons can/cannot work when it is not merely throwing but also "loading" a spear thrower.

[hcobb]

So it's also Thrown Weapons that enhances Lasso?

[Devious]

Considering that Fast-Draw (weapon) is a DX/easy skill in GURPS, and borrowing from GURPS, here's the Quick-Draw (weapon) write-up that I will use in my games:

Quick-Draw (weapon) (IQ 8, 1 point, p. 36):

This Talent lets you quickly draw a weapon from its holster, sheath, or hiding place. Roll 3/DX (regular DX, not adjDX). A successful roll means you ready the weapon instantly. On a successful roll, you can now make an attack. You can use the weapon to attack on the same turn. On a failure, you ready your weapon normally but may do nothing else on your turn. A critical failure of 17 or 18 means you drop the weapon! You must specialize by weapon class. Quick-Draw (sword) includes knives as well. This Talent does not apply for HTH combat.

There are two Fast-Draw skills that allow you to reload crossbow and gun weapons quickly:
Fast-Draw (crossbow quarrel): Lets you ready a single quarrel instantly. This reduces the time required to reload a crossbow by one turn. Thus, by using this Talent successfully, a light crossbow will fire every turn and a heavy crossbow will fire every other turn. If you also have a high enough adjDX of 16+ for the heavy crossbow, and if you successfully use this Talent, you can fire the heavy crossbow every turn.

Fast-Draw/TL (Ammo): Reduces the time required to reload any kind of gun. The exact benefits depend on your weapon, but a successful roll always shaves one turn off the reload time.

For the Quarrel and Ammo specialties, failure means you drop the quarrel or accidentally drop one round of ammunition. On a critical failure of 17 or 18, you drop the entire quiver or ammo box, scattering loose ammunition everywhere!

[Shostak]

Reducing the amount of reload time by one second won’t have much on an effect on anything, given that a turn is five seconds long. Did you mean “reduce by one turn” instead? If so, I don’t think that loading the crossbow bolt is the part of the action that takes most of the re-readying of a crossbow.

[Devious]

Originally Posted by Shostak

...Did you mean “reduce by one turn” instead?

My bad. I did mean "reduce by one turn." I amended my Talent description.