Recent content by swordtart

If you do it with nothing you get DM-2 on the check, the multitool reduces it to DM-1. You need the full toolkit to get your full skill.

I guess the question is what game effect would it have. I tend to assume that people have these sorts of things by default. That is what allows you to make skill checks at -2 "without" tools. I don't care what your mechanics skill is, you are not undoing the correctly torqued screw on that vent...

If you want the above you could build it with the robot handbook. It could be a stationary size 3 robot that you strap on like a backpack. It would have extra manipulators. It could have fire control to enable it to coordinate multiple weapon attacks (and multiple fire controllers if you want to...

You need to keep your wits about you as they drop modifiers in at various stages like damage and range changes depending on Barrel length etc. Also unlike High Guard you multiply modifiers together rather than add them. For example if two modifiers increase your receiver cost by 20% the overall...

Or drink 2 pints of liquid explosive and attach a contact detonator to your naval. Go for the grapple, bear hug and boom! You they have a great justification for a full body cyborg :)

Neural Jacks explicitly state number and bandwidth of tasks they can accommodate. The most advanced can handle up to three tasks with a total bandwidth requirement of 3 (so that could be three Expert/1 packages or one Expert/3 for example). Each of these Expert packages could control a single...

It was more the "tiny claw" comment. As I said though, I am not hard over on this and for the money you would expect it to be useful. It doesn't set out in the description exactly what it can or cannot do but I am inclined to agree with you about what it can carry. However there is nothing in...

CSC uses a different rule. That said there is nothing stopping you using the special ammunition types there with custom guns from FC, just don't expect 1-1 correlation. For example: The GS-40 on p77 starts at Penetration 2 but looses a point because of the barrel length. P18 tells us that is...

The table on p18. For example Penetration +4 gives "AP 5 plus 2 per full dice of damage, -1 damage per dice of damage."

I think we use this as short hand for "Not at my F&^%&^% table" :)

Expert systems cannot be used by intelligent weapons to conduct DEX based tasks only INT or EDU ones. Your Neural Jack allows you to use expert DEX based skills as it is using your physical body to to the manipulation. Intelligent guns cannot aim or fire themselves, for that you need robot...

These replace your normal arms. These are fine manipulators "It is only a few centimetres in circumference but ends in a tiny collapsible claw capable of remarkable manual control." That doesn't read like an extra weapon carrier to me. That said they are supposedly strong and dextrous enough so...

But they are going to cost a lot more than Cr500 per cuff :)

I suspect we are circling back to that shooting with a pistol after a successful grapple argument :). If 120D is possible in a ranged attack (if all weapons hit) then it follows that the "free" hit with a pistol that automatically hits would get all 120D.

There is an argument that many bullets into the same point in quick succession could batter through armour in a way that the same number of bullets spread all over the armour wouldn't. Often a hit deforms or degrades armour to some degree or other (the energy of impact has to go somewhere)...