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On a related subject, does anyone know how the nonlethal police guns (the ones that give you a "punch" of force; the Alliance uses them sometimes) in Firefly are supposed to work?
Since that thread has been resurrected... I have two ideas for non-lethal weapons... well actually they´re more in the crowd-dispersal department, but they could be really nasty in closed spaces.
1) a skunk oil aerosol grenade - i.e. a grenade that disperses skunk oil or something equally stinky into the air. Can´t get far enough from it fast enough; and if it gets into clothes and hair, people are going to keep stinking for quite a while, which makes it easier to find them afterwards - they´re not going to blend into ANY crowd
2) a howler grenade - i.e. a small, throwable device that, after a short delay (around the time it reaches its target) starts emitted a loud, high-pitched shrieking noise, like a burglar alarm on a car, only worse This idea actually comes from the burglar alarm on the car of the guy living across the street from me; it used to go off at the slightest provocation, much to the annoyance of residents
The "sick sticks" from Majority Report are available in my game at TL 9 - they're stopped cold by most armor, but on a successful strike a target must save against Endurance or lose 1D Endurance and become incapacitated for one round. These are popular with starship crews.
And while it's not exactly a "less than lethal" weapon per se, I also use the talking explosives from Starship Troopers: "I'm a thirty-second bomb! I'm a thirty-second bomb! Twenty-nine...twenty-eight..."