Exotic Weapons

[twilightwyrm]

Iomma Sensei

DJ Ducki

Flails in general are mostly used for like overhead crushing blows, as the base of the swing is amplified with the chain, as you can jump start the swing of it into an even more devestating blow with the spiked ball. I could also see the Dire Flail used like a pole weapon too though, spinning it around your body at the waist in a horizontal hit, then coming into a couple flurries of uppercut like hits with it, or even coming down in the same fashion.

I'm gonna stick to quarterstaffs, they're not so shifty on me.

I agree. Plus quarterstaves = much eaiser to defend with.  

[Iomma Sensei]

twilightwyrm

Iomma Sensei

DJ Ducki

Flails in general are mostly used for like overhead crushing blows, as the base of the swing is amplified with the chain, as you can jump start the swing of it into an even more devestating blow with the spiked ball. I could also see the Dire Flail used like a pole weapon too though, spinning it around your body at the waist in a horizontal hit, then coming into a couple flurries of uppercut like hits with it, or even coming down in the same fashion.

I'm gonna stick to quarterstaffs, they're not so shifty on me.

I agree. Plus quarterstaves = much eaiser to defend with.

Currenly, I've been dealing with a combination of a gun and a knife. Army training just doesn't cover that...

It's not fun... cry  

[Fiver]

You still need to give the gun points for efficiency. You can kill a lot more people from a lot farther off with a machine gun than a quarterstaff.  

[Iomma Sensei]

Fiver

You still need to give the gun points for efficiency. You can kill a lot more people from a lot farther off with a machine gun than a quarterstaff.

Guns run out of ammo, and need training to use effectively. Sure, guns kill people faster, but breaking five ribs with your bare hands takes a bit more skill. Disarming someone of a knife, or a gun, takes ever more skill.  

[Little Green Soldier]

Bringing this back around to tabletop games, I've noticed that most games use Strength to determine the amount of damage done by a gun. Doesn't this seem counterintuitive? Are they throwing the bullets?

Does anyone have a clue what the logic behind that might be?  

[Herr_Major]

Little Green Soldier

Bringing this back around to tabletop games, I've noticed that most games use Strength to determine the amount of damage done by a gun. Doesn't this seem counterintuitive? Are they throwing the bullets?

Does anyone have a clue what the logic behind that might be?

A cool game that didn't do that (Or even use Dexterity for that reason) is Arcanum: of Steamworks and Magik Obscura. It made a new atribute, perception... which is quite odd but very useful. And the fact that taking the technological path is much more... ahem, fullfilling in that game than it is in D&D (Effigies be damned!) I find myself palying that by myself and shooting things... puppies, kids, people, little woodland animals... large woodland animals... dire woodland animals... things that could probably eat woodlands by it'self...  

[Iomma Sensei]

Little Green Soldier

Bringing this back around to tabletop games, I've noticed that most games use Strength to determine the amount of damage done by a gun. Doesn't this seem counterintuitive? Are they throwing the bullets?

Does anyone have a clue what the logic behind that might be?

As illogical as it sounds, they're just doing what they're used to doing.

That, or a higher strength means you can keep the gun more steady when you fire, thus, keeping your aim and dealing more damage.  

[Little Green Soldier]

My apologies to Herr_Major, I just realized that I accidentally clicked "Edit" instead of "Quote". I am an idiot.

If that game used a new perception stat, then we could feasibly attach guns to the wisdom stat since most games use wisdom for things related to perception.  

[Fiver]

Well, I know D20 Modern doesn't do that.

I suppose in some games they may have a kind of modified gun, like mighty composite bows. As the character's strength goes up, they start modifying the gun to have more power behind it, and therefore more of a kick, which they're strong enough to handle.

Heck, I'd allow mighty guns in Modern. >.> They'd just have to be bought that way.  

[Iomma Sensei]

Fiver

Well, I know D20 Modern doesn't do that.

I suppose in some games they may have a kind of modified gun, like mighty composite bows. As the character's strength goes up, they start modifying the gun to have more power behind it, and therefore more of a kick, which they're strong enough to handle.

Heck, I'd allow mighty guns in Modern. >.> They'd just have to be bought that way.

Hell, I'd buy one! O.O. I'm sure my strength can handle one of those <.<...  

[Dwarf Capitain]

Little Green Soldier

Bringing this back around to tabletop games, I've noticed that most games use Strength to determine the amount of damage done by a gun. Doesn't this seem counterintuitive? Are they throwing the bullets?

Does anyone have a clue what the logic behind that might be?

Having more strength means you can have a bigger weapon as well as control of aiming and holding your weapon as well..  

[Fiver]

Which is basically what I said. <.<  

[Iomma Sensei]

Yup, so how about them dire scythes ^^j...  

[Fiver]

I can picture it in my head, and it looks really cool, but I have no idea how you would weild one. eek  

[Iomma Sensei]

Just spin it around, how else would you wield one? Ya know...

Or have both ends pointing in one direction, and just make a rapid series of quick jabs <.<...