Flamepunk: Weaponry
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Overview of Weaponry
Weaponry is divided into types, then presented with the following stat block:
Name of Weapon
- Price
- Target Hit Numbers:
- Type
- Encumbrance: Mobility Penalty:
Description.
Special Game Rules:
Military Melee Weapons
Crusader Firemaul
- Price: 800 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (5, 6)
- Type: Military Melee, Single Handed
- Encumbrance: 1 Mobility Penalty: 0
A thin cylindrical rod of obsidian-laced glass, the firemaul may look brittle, but it is definitely not. Thanks to the power of a fire elemental bound within the rod, the firemaul is surrounded by an aura of energy that crackles audibly and leaves a wake of sparks behind it. When the weapon is swung, the sheer heat of the attack is often sufficient to kill an enemy, with the brute bludegoning force of the magically hardened rod helping deliver lethal force.
Church Crusaders traditionally wield firemauls, partially for their efficacy, but partially because they are such impressive and obvious weapons. Crusaders can often end a fight before it begins by simply unsheathing their firemaul - most gangers know better than to mess with such a weapon.
Special Game Rules: Firemauls add +3 to Magnitude on a successful attack roll. Additionally the maul glows brightly, with the colour reflecting the wielder's emotional state, and will "crackle and roar" more loudly when battle is close. Subtle these ain't.
Greataxe
(also use same stats for double handed swords, long warhammers, long spears and any other unpowered unenhanced double handed melee weapon)
- Price: 50 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (5, 6)
- Type: Military Melee, Double Handed
- Encumbrance: 2 Mobility Penalty: 0
The problem with being an ordinary soldier is that many of your enemies are a lot bigger than you. A manifested demon the size of a small building isn't going to be greatly inconvenienced by every day pig-stickers: sometimes you need something a little sturdier.
Special Game Rules: Add +2 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon. Additionally, if you roll 3 of more "Hits", then add a further +1 to the Magnitude.
Hellsword
- Price: 1500 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (5, 6)
- Type: Military Melee, Single/Double Handed
- Encumbrance: 3 Mobility Penalty: 1 (double handed) or 2 (single handed)
Expensive, reassuringly arcane, elementally charged and devestatingly powerful, nothing says "Guild" like a Hellsword. These single-edged wide-surfaced swords are formed of red-grey steel with veins of obsidian running along and away from the cutting edge of the blade. A specific volcanic breed of fire elemental (farm bred by the Guild in flamespace) has been bound into the obsidian tracery, and as a result the weapon will create a small burst of flame and explosive force wherever it impacts. This can blast apart stone and metal, and the damage dealt to human flesh is both impressive and stomach churning.
The only downside of a Hellsword is that it is quite unwieldy, and more than a little weighty. Blades weighing upwards of thirty five kilos are not uncommon, and many struggle to use these weapons two handed, let alone one handed. If someone comes at you with Pyrecaster in one hand, and Hellsword in the other, they're probably Guild Hellforged, and you should probably be running the other way.
Special Game Rules: Add +3 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon. In addition, for each "6" rolled on the final attack roll, deal 6 additional points of fire damage. This extra damage is not multiplied by the magnitude or by other factors, but is a fixed amount.
Longsword
(also use same stats for bayonets, hammers, axes and any other unpowered unenhanced single handed melee weapon that is more than a foot in length)
- Price: 50 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (5, 6)
- Type: Military Melee, Single Handed
- Encumbrance: 1 Mobility Penalty: 0
Not every soldier wants or can afford enhanced melee weaponry. For some, a simple sword is all they get. The Guilds tend to give basic melee weapons to all its troopers, to use as a hold-out weapon if nothing else. That is not to say such weapons are low quality - even the least talented binder-forger is capable of intricacies of design and heights of craftsmanship that would be far harder for a traditional blacksmith, and a combination of ornate appearance and high standards of manufacture are standard rather than exceptional.
Special Game Rules: Add +2 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon.
Military Ranged Weapons
Bolt-launcher
(also use same stats for longbows, crossbows, spearguns and any other mechanically powered projectile weapon that is wielded in two hands)
- Price: 200 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (2, 4)
- Type: Military Ranged, Double Handed
- Encumbrance: 1 Mobility Penalty: 0
Ranged military weapon come in many shapes and sizes, from carefully hand-crafted ceramite longbows, to mass produced stub-barelled bolt launchers. Industry has allowed for all manner of clever propulsion systems beyond simple bowstring: coiled springs, complex lever arrangements and even explosive powder based mechanisms all exist. Of course, the end result is the same: you launch something fast and hard into a distant enemy.
Special Game Rules: Add +2 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon.
Firedart Launcher
- Price: 400 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (1, 2)
- Type: Military Ranged, Double Handed
- Encumbrance: 1 Mobility Penalty: 0
A firedart launcher resembles a crossbow but with three pronged arms to the front that act as a focus for the weapon's energy, and an obsidian bind stone in the core where a bolt would normally sit. They are powered by a bound flame elementals, which is stoked into a state or perpetual rage by its confinement and able to release its energy only through the firing aperture when the trigger is pulled.
Special Game Rules: Add +2 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon. All damage dealt by the firedart launcher counts as fire damage. A Firedart launcher is good for six hundred shots before needing recharging, and recharging simply requires the bind stone to be placed in naked flame for an hour.
Holocaust Heavy Plasma Coccoon Launcher
- Price: 2250 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (1, 2)
- Type: Military Ranged, Double Handed
- Encumbrance: 6 Mobility Penalty: 3
A holocaust cannon (or HHPCL, to give it it's full military designation) is the best and most powerful personnel-portable pyromantic ordnance device in general usage. Its more artillery than small arm, mounted on a 3-point hip and shoulder harness and powered by a back-mounted "dragon's nest". When a holocaust cannon fires it literally roars, then exhales a single "egg" of barely contained superheated energy. Without ear and eye protection, the noise and the glare are near-overwhelming.
The launched "egg" explodes on impact, erupting into an inferno of flame a dozen metres in diameter. Anything within the blast zone will almost certainly be melted apart, and likely fires will start both near the blast, and along the course of the egg's flightpath.
The HHPCL can only fire half a dozen times before it needs recharging (a twenty-four hour long process requiring specialist flamebinding equipment). Of course, with those six shots, it can deal more damage than a whole brigade of firedart guns...
Special Game Rules: Add +12 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon.
Pyre Caster
- Price: 600 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (1, 2)
- Type: Military Ranged, Double Handed
- Encumbrance: 2 Mobility Penalty: 1
Pyre guns project a column of heat (not flame) at a target. They must be held on target for a time to deliver their full effect, but they can start fires, burn flesh, or cut metal if used long enough.
Guild Hellforged tend to favour Pyre-guns, not so much for their antipersonnel capabilities, but because of their suitability for destroying massive enemies and large scale environmental devestation.
Special Game Rules: Square the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon (2 becomes 4, 3 becomes 9, etc.)
Against a perfectly stationary (or immobilised) target you can choose to keep the beam locked on. If you do this, then with each consecutive attack after the first you can choose to keep the Magnitude from the previous attack, or use the Magnitude from the new attack, whichever is better. If the target is moving, or if you take any other action, then you lose this advantage.
Street Melee Weapons
Ashblade
- Price: 60 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (5, 6)
- Type: Street Melee, Single Handed
- Encumbrance: 1 Mobility Penalty: 0
Fire-swords made on the cheap, Ashblades are made of the compressed and remoulded debris of pyromantic industry, and bound together with several weaker smoke and spark demons rather than a single fire elemental. No serious soldier would ever consider using an Ashblade, but street-punks (who see the value of a usable magic weapon on the cheap) have learnt to appreciate Ashblade's and to make use of their qualities. An Ashblade is slightly irregular and "sticky" so it tends to catch (and get caught on) enemy weapons. An Ashblade tends to lose pieces when it strikes, making it a little fragile, but leaving fragments in wounds. These little differences make an Ashblade a temperamental, but versatile weapon.
Special Game Rules: Add +2 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon. On each "6" on the final attack roll add +1 to the Magnitude. On each "5" on the final attack roll deduct -1 from the Magnitude. If Magnitude is reduced to 0, the attack counts as unsuccessful.
Big Dumb Stick
(also use same stats for big rocks, loose wooden doors, big metal rods and any other unpowered unenhanced double handed improvised melee weapon)
- Price: (Nil)
- Target Hit Numbers: (5, 6)
- Type: Street Melee, Double Handed
- Encumbrance: 3 Mobility Penalty: 1
A big dumb stick isn't something you'll usually carry around, but when you hit something hard there's not usually much point sticking it with a bottle. Grab a big rock, and hit the monster.
Special Game Rules: Add +3 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon.
Also, if you roll more "1"s than hits on your final attack roll (after defence and other modifiers have been applied) the weapon is considered to be ruined, and can no longer be used as an effective weapon. (If a character insists on still using it, he counts as making unarmed attacks).
Weapons with the above stats are designated nil cost, as you can easily improvise them off street junk.
Broken Bottle
(also use same stats for snapped chair legs, sharpened femurs, foot-long industrial spikes and any other unpowered unenhanced single handed improvised melee weapon)
- Price: (Nil)
- Target Hit Numbers: (5, 6)
- Type: Street Melee, Single Handed
- Encumbrance: 1 Mobility Penalty: 0
You're not always going to have a weapon on you, but with a little imagination, you'll find that weapons are everywhere. Grab that bottle and smash the bottom off, and you have a "street dagger". Take that crowbar off the wall, and you've got yourself a weapon as well as a tool. Hell, grab that half-brick over there, and you can probably stave someone's skull in.
Special Game Rules: Add +1 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon.
Also, if you roll more "1"s than hits on your final attack roll (after defence and other modifiers have been applied) the weapon is considered to be ruined, and can no longer be used as an effective weapon. (If a character insists on still using it, he counts as making unarmed attacks).
Weapons with the above stats are designated nil cost, as you can easily improvise them off street junk.
Knife
(also use same stats for punch daggers, spiked knuckledusters, kris and any other unpowered unenhanced single handed melee weapon that is less than a foot in length)
- Price: 10 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (5, 6)
- Type: Street Melee, Single Handed
- Encumbrance: 1 Mobility Penalty: 0
Soldiers may walk around with big swords, but street punks know that its not about the size of your weapon - its what you do with it. There are pros and cons to a shorter blade in actual fighting, but barring skill differences, things about even out. The typical Burner, therefore, goes for the weapons which you can hide up your sleeve, and which cost less to make.
Special Game Rules: Add +2 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon.
Street Ranged Weapons
Sharder
- Price: 80 Dragons
- Target Hit Numbers: (2, 4)
- Type: Street Ranged, Single Handed
- Encumbrance: 1 Mobility Penalty: 0
Shard Demon Glasscasters (or Sharders for short) are simple pistol-like devices with wide barrels and a clip-on ammo feed. Uniquely, the sharder's ammo feed can be packed with jst about anything with some silicate in it - mud, sand, stone or dirt. When the gun is fired the shard demon within unleashes a characteristic high pitched wail and the gun converts the dirt ammo into hundreds of tiny shards of glass, which are then expectorated from the barrel.
This weapon is very popular with street gangers, as its cheap to manufacture and maintain, has an excellent rate of fire, and doesn't set fire to surroundings or deal collateral property damage(which is a distinct advantage when you're fighting in your own neighbourhood). It is less favoured by the military, as it has a hard time dealing with armour.
Special Game Rules: Add +1 to the Magnitude of a successful attack roll with this weapon. Against armoured opponents, double the Armour Rating of the target versus this weapon. If you are making a 1-dice attack with this weapon, add a further +1 to the Magnitude of the attack.
