Less Lethal Weapons

[Todg]

Like to hear from people about how they handle less lethal weapons - rules, etc for things like Tasers. Any other interesting LL goodies?

 

[parmasson]

You mean like a 5kt nuke not a 5mt?

 

[veltyen]

Goo Guns.

Goo I use as a generic term for packet launched hull sealant, used for sealing hull breaches when time is short. Sets rapidly in air, even more rapidly in vacuum, and not a bad way of imobilising almost anyone if you splash them around the legs.

For T20 it's a touch attack requiring a reflex save to avoid, and a common toy for engineers, non-violent or otherwise.

 

[Spinward Scout]

Two stun guns for hand-to-hand combat - one in each hand. Treat as unarmed combat with the stun guns - same damage as unarmed. All subdual/Stamina damage, but stuns the person for 1d6 rounds.

 

[parmasson]

I have used a gun that uses a low power laser to ionize the air and shoot an electric shock down that laser. Using CT we give you a -5 to stay awake with bonuses for high End.

Not sure where I stole it from or if it can really work but I like it.

 

[Maladominus]

Originally posted by Corejob:
Like to hear from people about how they handle less lethal weapons - rules, etc for things like Tasers. Any other interesting LL goodies?

Stun Carbines are canon.

Stun carbines appear in Double Adventure 3 "Death Station"

 

[parmasson]

We had been using it for so long I forget where it was from!

 

[mike wightman]

Originally posted by Maladominus:
Stun Carbines are canon.

Stun carbines appear in Double Adventure 3 "Death Station"

Close, they are in DA6 Divine intrvention

 

[Maladominus]

Originally posted by Sigg Oddra:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Maladominus:
Stun Carbines are canon.

Stun carbines appear in Double Adventure 3 "Death Station"

Close, they are in DA6 Divine intrvention

</font>[/QUOTE]GAH!! You you... canonmonger!!!

 

[Andrew Boulton]

I *think* "laser tasers" are in 3G3.

 

[mike wightman]

Originally posted by Maladominus:
GAH!! You you... canonmonger!!!

Sig by name, sig by nature

 

[mike wightman]

And now for the real thing...

possibly

 

[Andrew Boulton]

That's a -ing big gun!

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Originally posted by Andrew Boulton:
That's a -ing big gun!

Well, you have to put the fusion pack somewhere!

 

[parmasson]

Could we have a low velocity projectile that acts as a capacitor? The stun round is charged as it travels down the barrel and discharges when it hits somebody or something.

How about a special strobe light that can cause a photoinduced seizure?

 

[mike wightman]

The first sounds like a piezo-electrical based taser.

http://www.shockrounds.com/shock/p2.html

The second rings a bell too. It's Traveller stats may be in T4's Emperor's Arsenal, and I think it may be in real world r&d...

 

[Andrew Boulton]

Just about all of the weapons mentioned are in EA.

 

[Fritz_Brown]

I want something a little faster-acting and a little more broadly effective (most folks aren't susceptible - especially those who survived the '70's) than a strobe-induced seizure. And, of course, seizures can be fatal (more often than a stun-gun, anyway).

I like that idea of the round being charged as it travels down the barrel (easy enough with a rail gun of some kind).

 

[parmasson]

How about this?

 

[Fritz_Brown]

Heh.