Concealing weapons and other stuff

Jak Nazryth

Mongoose
In the core book page 99, it describes a body pistol as having a -4 on a sensors roll to be detected. Are there any rules in the core book or other supplements that discuss what skill you use to conceal a body pistol, SMG, sawed off shot gun, blade, etc...? The only skill that makes sense is deception. Other than a sensors roll, I would assume a guard, bouncer, mob boss, etc... would simply roll a recon check if they don't have a scanner. But does anyone know of, or have created, a rule on the difficulty to conceal based on the size of a weapon? Some rules have a "bulk" number for a specific weapon, which adds to the difficulty to conceal. Maybe one could use the mass of the weapon as the negative modifier to conceal? But then a cutlass would be just as easy to conceal as a revolver. What about grenades?
The same goes for non-weapons. Like a piece of scientific equipment, recorder, hand computer, etc...
Any thoughts?
 
Jak Nazryth said:
In the core book page 99, it describes a body pistol as having a -4 on a sensors roll to be detected. Are there any rules in the core book or other supplements that discuss what skill you use to conceal a body pistol, SMG, sawed off shot gun, blade, etc...? The only skill that makes sense is deception. Other than a sensors roll, I would assume a guard, bouncer, mob boss, etc... would simply roll a recon check if they don't have a scanner. But does anyone know of, or have created, a rule on the difficulty to conceal based on the size of a weapon? Some rules have a "bulk" number for a specific weapon, which adds to the difficulty to conceal. Maybe one could use the mass of the weapon as the negative modifier to conceal? But then a cutlass would be just as easy to conceal as a revolver. What about grenades?
The same goes for non-weapons. Like a piece of scientific equipment, recorder, hand computer, etc...
Any thoughts?

I allow any skill roll if a player can role-play and narrate quickly what it is they are doing exactly at the time of concealing their weapon. If role-played, most of the time a roll isn't even required.
 
Jak Nazryth said:
In the core book page 99, it describes a body pistol as having a -4 on a sensors roll to be detected.

The only applicable sensor would be one of those portable densitometers. Deception would be the Skill to use when trying to fool the human eye.
 
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