Recent content by ResslynHalvik

This is a very good idea. That becomes just shining a torch on the target, though? I agree. I don't like it much. I did suggest that it lets anyone with Gun Combat 0 get up to GC 1 in everything pretty quickly, but he doesn't seem troubled. I'd be much happier if it at least had to be...

Our ref has ruled that while kicking our heels on board ship, we can practice things, and using a variant of "experience points" from the Companion. If we can successfully make a roll, we get an experience point. Up to once per shipboard day. I want to improve my Gun Combat (energy hand...

Yeah, we're at crossed purposes. I meant what the in-world effect is - what the character sees, rather than what the players and referee see in the dice.

That JTAS article seems to describe one stunner that can also function as a laser but doesn't mention variable power output.

With a stunner, how does the shooter know what ring they hit?

Thank you for taking me back down memory lane to the days when I would be directed by ATC to eg "squawk 7040 with ident"

Thanks. So, you are thinking it needs specialist equipment, rather than just hanging a rolled up tarp from a cargo strap, or whatever I can find in corners of the hold or engineering?

IYTU the stunner has power levels? Do you handle that as number of dice, or something?

What sort of "register" are you thinking of here?

Is that how the stunner works? For some reason I assumed it's yobba rays.

That's what I'm thinking. Maybe some aluminium foil over the front of a white flat surface, and on a successful hit the white shows a scorch mark? So a 30x30cm square of wood or thermo-sensitive plastic, swinging from a cargo strap?

Sure, but how does someone firing a stunner at a dummy know if they have hit it? Does it bounce around from the shock, maybe?

If I want to practice firing my stunner during some downtime, what am I shooting at? If I have a slug hand gun or a laser pistol and I want to practice, I can paint a target on the cargo hold wall, or set up some cans, and see how well I do. If I'm practicing my stunner, what do I shoot at and...

You and me both - if there's a loose thread, I'll pull on it 🤣

Yes, that would help the initial understanding. And diagrams. My current questions are about what the different levels of the assorted interface packages mean, and also what appear to be pretty basic contradictions between CRB and CSC. I'm going to look back through the older parts of the...