Kristopher Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 One of my players for the science fiction game wants a pistol that fires a beam that causes intense heating of a spot where it hits, causing flamable materials to catch fire, etc. Any thoughts on how to build that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
薔薇語 Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Re: "Heater" Pistol One of my players for the science fiction game wants a pistol that fires a beam that causes intense heating of a spot where it hits, causing flamable materials to catch fire, etc. Any thoughts on how to build that? 6e: Major Transform - Flammable material into Flaming material. RKA: Side Effects (Flammable Material gets burned) Those seem like two general possibilities. La Rose. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucius Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Re: "Heater" Pistol I'd just subsume this under special effects. Unless it can be used like they used phasers on Star Trek that one time, to heat up rocks so they can gather around them and stay warm. You might have a Change Environment linked to the attack power. Lucius Alexander Palindromedary Enterprises Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sociotard Posted January 2, 2010 Report Share Posted January 2, 2010 Re: "Heater" Pistol The following assumes that the player wants this mainly to start large, maybe even very large, fires. RKA. Add continous, uncontrolled, and the other advantages required to make this thing keep doing damage for a few phases. Add a Naked modifier: AOE (Decide how big you want the conflagration to grow), with the "Gradual effect" limitation, plus "limited by availability of combustibles"; this power won't work if there's nothing to burn. Both powers get "Charges" and "Real Weapon" and/or whatever else you think needs to limit the power. Now, if the player wants to just shoot a guy, he doesn't use the naked modifier and all is well. If he wants to bring on the inferno, he uses it. The gradual effect makes the fire expand each phase into hexes with available combustibles. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropoint Posted January 3, 2010 Report Share Posted January 3, 2010 Re: "Heater" Pistol Build it as an RKA with the special effect "makes things really hot"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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