Alt - War - Mechanics

alt.
War
Game Mechanics
by Frank Trollman as of 5/8/2011
Table of Contents
Table of Figures Introduction Damage and Injury
Optional Rule: Instant Death ................................ 7 Special Weapons ................................................. 4 24 Blades .................................................................. 5 25 Clubs & Chains ..................................................... 6 26 Body Weaponry ...................................................27 Grenades .............................................................27
Armor and Hardened Armor Autofire and Recoil

Recoil And Strength .............................................. 9 Exceeding Character Strength With Weapon Strength ................................................................ 9
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Missiles & Rockets ...............................................28 Mortars ................................................................28 Ammunition.........................................................29 Regular ............................................................29 Armor Piercing ................................................ 11 30 Explosive Ammunition.....................................30 Flechette Rounds.............................................31 Less Lethal .......................................................31 Stick-n-Shock ...................................................32 Tracers ............................................................32 Capsule Rounds ...............................................33 Subsonic Rounds .............................................33 Low Tech Ammunition ....................................33
The New Weapons

Holdout Pistols ................................................... 11 Light Pistols ......................................................... 11 Machine Pistols .................................................. 12 Heavy Pistols....................................................... 13 Submachine Guns ............................................... 14 Assault Rifles....................................................... 15 Battle Rifles......................................................... 16 Sport Rifles ......................................................... 16 Sniper Rifles ........................................................ 16 Shotguns ............................................................. 17 Light Machine Guns ............................................ 18 Medium Machine Guns ...................................... 18 Heavy Machine Guns .......................................... 19 Assault Cannons ................................................. 19 Laser Weapons ................................................... 20 Flame Weapons .................................................. 20 Special Weapons ................................................ 20 Grenade Launchers & Mortars ........................... 21 Vehicular Weaponry ........................................... 22 Vehicular Weaponry (continued) ....................... 23
Special Weapon Systems and Damage Rules

Lasers ...................................................................34 Flame Weapons ...................................................34 Electrical Weapons ..............................................34 Explosives ............................................................35 Shaped Charges ...................................................36 Damage Over Time (Fire, Acid, Etc.) ....................36
The New Armors

Armors of the 2070s ............................................39 Armor Mods ........................................................40 Auto-Injector ...................................................40 Bio Monitor .....................................................40
Chapter: Table of Figures
Camouflage Coloration .................................. 40 Chemical Protection ....................................... 41 Chemical Seal ................................................. 41 Chest Plate ..................................................... 41 Fire Resistance ............................................... 41 Flotation System ............................................ 41 Gel Packs ........................................................ 41 Insulation ....................................................... 42 Nonconductivity ............................................. 42 Faraday Cage ................................................. 42 Radiation Shielding ........................................ 42 Ruthenium Coating ........................................ 42 Shock Frills...................................................... 42 Thermal Damping .......................................... 42 Thermal Equalizer .......................................... 42
Pilot .................................................................44 Sensor .............................................................45 Cost .................................................................46
The Vehicle List

2-Wheeled ...........................................................47
Magic
Spells ...................................................................48 Magic Healing ......................................................49 Spirits ...................................................................50 Air Spirits .........................................................51 Beast Spirits ....................................................51 Earth Spirits.....................................................51 Fire Spirits .......................................................51 Guardian Spirits ..............................................51 Guidance Spirits ..............................................51
Vehicle Stats
Speed.............................................................. 43 Acceleration ................................................... 43 Handling ......................................................... 43 Body ............................................................... 44 Mass ............................................................... 44 Armor ............................................................. 44 Seating ........................................................... 44
43 52 Spirits of Man ..................................................

Plant Spirits .....................................................52 Task Spirits ......................................................52 Water Spirits ...................................................52 Watcher Spirits ...............................................52 Drain ...............................................................53
Table of Figures
Table 1: LMSI Condition Monitors ..............................................................................................................................6 Table 2: Net Success to Damage Conversion .............................................................................................................7 Table 3: Damage by Distance Modifiers .................................................................................................................. 35 Table 4: Delay Numbers for DOT ............................................................................................................................. 37 Table 5: Pilot Capabilities by Rating ........................................................................................................................ 45 Table 6: Sensor Capabilities by Rating ..................................................................................................................... 46 Table 7: Base Drain for Heal by Wound Level ......................................................................................................... 49
Introduction
Shadowrun 4, like any published system, has its share of objectively bad rules. Spirit Essence Drain leads to Bloodzilla, the Matrix Perception Action leads to the Infinity Mirror, and so on. But this section is not about them. This is about transforming the rules into something that can handle something they were never meant to deal with: open warfare and heavy weaponry. The 4th Edition Shadowrun rules are deliberately and completely written from the perspective of normal humans shooting pistols at each other. And for that they work pretty well. You shoot a bullet into someone and they are hurt but able to fire back. You double tap them in the chest and they pretty much fall down. That is an acceptable result. But it doesn't scale well when you get out of the humans and pistols range. When you shoot an armored truck with a powerful weapon, it is pretty much impossible to damage it you can only bounce off its armor or blow it to pieces in one shot. And that's unsatisfying. So what we will do is to present a set of rules that put damage onto the same log scale as other skill tasks are in SR4. So that we will be able to get roughly similar results firing big weapons at big monsters as we get by firing small weapons at small monsters.
Chapter: Introduction
Damage and Injury

The bigger they are, the bigger a gun it takes to make them fall.
Shadowrun 4th edition experimented with a non-proportional damage system. That is, a box of injury was supposed to represent a similar amount of damage on a troll as it was on an elf like a hit point in Dungeons & Dragons. And yes, this worked sort of OK for elves and trolls, but it completely falls apart when we deal with dogs and war machines. Things outside the human scale simply do not fit in such a system, and they never will. A small dog should drop from a single pistol shot, a light tank should be able to take two LAV rockets with serious damage. But what can be done about that? The answer is fortunately found in the mechanics of previous editions of Shadowrun: Proportional Damage. That is, when the game generates Moderate or Serious Injury, that Injury is relative to the target. A moderate injury to a small dog might have been inflicted by a sharp kick, while a moderate injury to a troll might have been inflicted with a rifle, and a moderate injury to an anthromorph combat vehicle might have been inflicted by an assault cannon. But the game generates Moderate Injury after comparing damage to soak, and we fill in the same number of boxes in every case. And that is out of the same total number of boxes in every case as well. The way this works is that we have in all cases 10 injury boxes. Your hacker has 10 injury boxes, your troll street samurai has 10 injury boxes, your Vietnamese Amphibious Troop Transport has 10 injury boxes. If it becomes important how tough a crow or a rat is they also have 10 injury boxes. And when injuries occur, we fill them out in distinct amounts based on what kind of Injury they are. Injuries can be Light (one box), Moderate (3 boxes), Serious (6 boxes), Incapacitating (10 boxes), or Deadly (10 boxes + dying). Here's how that looks:
Table 1: LMSI Condition Monitors
Uninjured:
Light Wound:
L X L X L X L X
Moderate Wound:
M X M X M X
Incapacitation:
S X
I X
But how do we determine whether an Injury should be Light or Serious? We compare it to a chart. Or, if you don't want to look up the chart, every point of unsoaked damage makes the injury one level bigger. Or if you're super into math, each greater injury is the next triangular number of filled in boxes. Or if you're autistically into
Chapter: Damage and Injury
Serious Wound:
S X
math, you fill in the number of unsoaked damage times one more than the number of unsoaked damage divided by 2 in boxes out of your 10 total. Anyway, we make our soak roll as normal, and subtract the hits from the incoming damage. And the more incoming damage is left, the bigger an injury we actually suffer:
Table 2: Net Success to Damage Conversion
Unsoaked Damage: 0 (or less) 1 2 3 4 5+ *: Also, you are dying
Injury Type: None Light Moderate Serious Incapacitating Deadly
Boxes Filled: 0 1 3 6 10 10*
That's a start. But unfortunately, in order to get things onto that scale, we're going to have to rewrite the input numbers for armor, weapons, vehicles, and critters. After all, with the proportional system, increasing damage by 5 is the entire difference between one shotting an opponent and bouncing off their armor (or manly chest, as appropriate). This allows us to get rid of all the silly stuff like missiles that do 120 damage, but it also means that we have to rewrite those inputs to make things work. So let's get started on that.
Optional Rule: Instant Death

You may want to institute a system for killing creatures outright with massive damage. To do this, you set a death threshold. That is, a number of unsoaked damage from an attack where you do not bother to keep track of a character dying and simply declare them dead. Maybe their head gets pulped like Scanners, or they get multipart shredded. But in any case, it's pretty clear that even medicine in the 2070s cannot save them. Rather unsurprisingly, the lower you set this threshold, the more often it will happen and the deadlier combat will be. If you have characters instantly die with 6 damage, in-combat instant death will happen fairly often, while if you have characters die with 9 unsoaked damage it will be almost unheard of. How deadly you want your own game is an open question.
Chapter: Damage and Injury
Armor and Hardened Armor

People will be shooting at you, you may want some of this.
At high values, the SR4 armor system completely falls apart. This was never detected in playtest because high values were never part of the street level game that was being written. The fact that the game was unable to model a missile hitting an APC really never came up. And yet, for purposes of Alt.War, where shooting antimaterial rifles at hardened targets actually is important, the rules will have to be changed into something that can handle that. Here's the core problem: when you increase hardened armor by 3, you need to inflict 3 more damage to hurt the target at all. But if the target can be hurt at all, those 3 armor dice only generate 1 hit on average for the Soak test. So when you scale vehicles up, the smallest weapon that can hurt them at all will inflict more unsoaked damage on them than the smallest weapon that could hurt a vehicle that was less armored. At the upper end of the scale, it is literally impossible to damage tanks and great dragons without one-shot killing them. And that's before we go to a proportional damage system where only 5 unsoaked damage is enough to drop a target. The first step is to change what Hardened Armor does. Now, Hardened Armor provides a die that always rolls a 5. There is no longer a minimum damage to play (save that of course, if you have enough automatic hits, you don't need to roll soak to take no damage). The second part is that if you have hardened armor and regular armor at the same time, that hardened armor is lost firstwhen enemies use weapons with armor penetration numbers. The third part is that if your armor is halved by any sort of special effect like a Fire Ball spell, then hardened armor and regular armor are halved separately. That is just the beginning though, since by these rules, the amounts of armor things are listed with are insane. So there will be a new writeup of armors, vehicles, and critters in this section. However, if you're using Shadowrun materials that are printed after this is that are not on this scale, it's best to simply divide the suggested amounts of hardened armor by 2 or 3. Chapter: Armor and Hardened Armor
Autofire and Recoil

Something you can't understand: How I could just kill a man.
Burst fire and fully automatic fire have rules that make some people (especially gun enthusiasts) very upset, but on the whole they are functional in the basic game. Some of the things they produce are extremely weird, like how the recoil on assault cannons is completely negligible because recoil only applies to next shot so Single Shot weapons never care. Or like how the recoil on a machine pistol is much worse than the recoil on a sawed off shotgun because it's based entirely on how many bullets are fired and not on how big those bullets are. But that's not the reason that alternative Autofire and Recoil rules are being introduced in this document. That is being done because in a proportional damage system where 5 points is the difference between no wound and and an Incapacitating injury, then having a long narrow burst hand out five extra damage points is totally unacceptable, right? And as long as we have to redo the autofire and recoil systemanyway, we might as well replace it with something that people like better.
Recoil And Strength

I can't hold on! I'm shooting too fast!
The first thing that is going to be done is to remove the bullet count recoil mechanics. This has to be done, because we need to remove the bullet count from the damage, meaning that we aren't going to be using the bullet count at all. So instead what will happen is that weapons will have a Strength listed on them, which is the Strength required to use them normally. Using a weapon with a higher required Strength than your character's Strength causes them to suffer penalties. Using a weapon in a faster firing mode or firing them one-handed causes the Strength of the weapon to rise, which means that your character has to be stronger in order to use weapons in those ways without penalties.
Exceeding Character Strength With Weapon Strength

They weren't kidding about this being a heavy pistol.
If the effective Strength of a weapon that you are using (after appropriate modifiers such as gas vents and firing modes) exceeds your character's strength by 1, you suffer a -1 dicepool penalty on your attack and a -2 dicepool penalty on any other action you take (including Defense rolls, but not including Soak rolls) until the beginning of your next initiative pass. These penalties are cumulative, so if you fired twice with a weapon that exceeds your character's Strength by 1, the second attack would be at -3 and a Defense roll made after both would be at -4. If the weapon exceeds your character's Strength by more than one, simply multiply those penalties by the amount of Strength you are short. So if you're 3 Strength down, you're at -3 for the attack and anything else you attempt is at -6 for the rest of the initiative pass.
Chapter: Autofire and Recoil
A good rule of thumb is that if a weapon's list Strength is 4 more than the character's actual strength (before modifiers for firing modes or weapon mods), then the weapon is too heavy for the character to use effectively. Small children just can't even use machine guns, the fact that recoil would knock them over is completely secondary.
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Chapter: Autofire and Recoil
The New Weapons

Ok, here we go
Holdout Pistols
Weapon Name Cavalier Scout Fichetti Tiffani Needler Raecor Sting Streetline Special Morrissey Elan Walther Palm Pistol Damage 3 5 (f) 5(f) 3 3 3 AP x2 x2 Mode SA SA SS SS SA SS/BF Ammo 7 (c) 4 (c) 5 (c) 6 (c) 5 (c) 2(b) Skill Pistol (Holdout) Pistol (Holdout) Pistol (Holdout) Pistol (Holdout) Pistol (Holdout) Pistol (Holdout) Strength 4 3 3 4 3 4 5R 6R 4R 7R 4R Availability Cost 500 350 100 450 175
Light Pistols
Weapon Name Ares Light Fire 70 Beretta 101T Beretta 200ST Ceska vz/ 120 Colt America L36 Colt Asp Fichetti Executive Action Fichetti Security 600 Hammerli 620S SA Puzzler Seco LD-120 Taurus Multi-6 Walther PB-120 3 3 3 3 3/4/5 3 SA SA SA SA SA SA 30 (c) 6 (c) 12 (c) 12 (c) 6 (cy) 10 (c)/15 (c) Sakura Fubuki 3 SA/BF/FA 10 (ml) x4 Pistol (Automatic) 2 10R 2000 Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Revolver) Pistol (Automatic) 2 1 3 2 2/3/4 2 6R 8R 15F 3R 7R 9R 450 650 900 250 200 400 Damage 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 AP Mode SA SA SA/BF SA SA SA SA/BF Ammo 16 (c) 12 (C) 20 (c) 18 (c) 11 (c) 6 (cy) 18 (c) Skill Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Revolver) Pistol (Automatic) Strength 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 Availability 3R 4R 7R 4R 4R 3R 12R Cost 350 200 550 350 150 175 700
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Chapter: The New Weapons
Machine Pistols
Weapon Name Ares Crusader Ceska Black Scorpion FN 5-7C PPSK-4 Collapsible Machine Pistol Steyr TMP Ares Predator Full Auto Mod Fichtti Securty Full Auto Mod 3 FA 30 (c) Pistol (Automatic) 3 6F 900 3 4 SA/BF/FA FA 30 (c) 15 (c) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) 3 4 8R 4F 600 700 Damage 3 3 3 3 AP Mode SA/BF/FA SA/BF/FA SA/BF/FA SA/BF/FA Ammo 40 (c) 35 (c) 20 (c) 30 (c) Skill Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Strength 3 3 2 3 Availability 7R 8R 8R 20F Cost 700 550 600 2800
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Heavy Pistols
Weapon Name Ares Predator IV Ares Viper Slivergun Browning Ultra-Power Cavalry Deputy Colt Government 2066 Colt Manhunter Eichiro Hatamoto II HK Urban Fighter Morrissey Alta Morrissey Elite Nitama NeMax PSK Collapsible Pistol Remington Roomsweeper Ruger Super Warhawk Ruger Thunderbolt Savalette Guardian Walther Secura Walther Secura Kompakt WW Infiltrator Damage 4 6(f) 4 4 4 4 6 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 4 4 4 4 4 AP -1 x2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 Mode SA SA/BF SA SA SA SA SS SA SA SA SA SA SA SS BF SA/BF SA SA SA Ammo 15 (c) 30 (c) 10 (c) 7 (cy) 14 (c) 16 (c) 1 (m) 10 (c) 12 (c) 5 (c) 10 (c) 8 (c) 8 (m) 6 (cy) 12 (c) 15 (c) 12 (c) 9 (c) 15 (c) Skill Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Revolver) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Holdout) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Revolver) Pistol (Revolver) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Pistol (Automatic) Strength 3 2 3 3 3 3 5 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 3 3 3 4 4 Availability 4R 5R 4R 4R 6R 4R 10R 14F 7R 6R 16R 18F 6R 4R 12R 7R 5R 7R 16F Cost 350 500 300 225 500 300 800 1400 850 450 1700 2300 250 250 750 800 300 400 1100
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Submachine Guns
Weapon Name AK-97 Carbine Damage 4 AP -1 Mode SA/BF/FA Ammo 30 (c) Skill Automatics (Submachine Guns) Ares Executive Protector Beretta Model 70 3 -2 BF/FA 35 (c) 3 -1 SA/BF/FA 30 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Colt Cobra TZ-110 3 -2 SA/BF/FA 32 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Colt Cobra TZ-115 3 -2 SA/BF/FA 32 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Colt Cobra TZ-118 3 -2 SA/BF/FA 32 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Colt M24A3 Water Carbine FN P93 Praetor 3 -2 SA/BF/FA 50 (c) 4 SA/BF 30 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Automatics (Submachine Guns) HK-227X 3 -2 SA/BF/FA 28 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) HK MP-5 TX 3 -2 SA/BF/FA 20 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) HK Urban Combat 3 -2 SA/BF/FA 36 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Ingram Smartgun X 3 -2 BF/FA 32 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Ingram SuperMach 100 Ingram Warrior-10 3 -2 SA/BF 3 -2 SA/FA/HV 40 or 60 (c) 30 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Sandler TMP 3 -2 BF/FA 20 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) SCK Model 100 3 -2 SA/BF 30 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) Uzi IV 3 -2 BF 24 (c) Automatics (Submachine Guns) 2 4R 500 2 6R 750 2 4R 350 2 4R 400 2 9F 975 2 6R 650 1 16F 2400 1 4R 550 2 8R 800 1 11F 650 2 10F 1200 2 5R 650 2 5R 475 2 5R 550 2 5R 650 3/2 9F 1000 Strength 3 Availability 4R Cost 400
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Assault Rifles
Weapon Name AK-97 AK-98 Grenade Launcher AK-297 Ares Alpha Grenade Launcher Ares HVAR Colt M22 Colt M22A3 Grenade Launcher Colt M23 HK G12A3Z Nitama Optimum II Shotgun 6 SA 5 (M) Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launchers) Longarms (Shotguns) Sernopal vz/88V 4 -2 SA/BF/FA 35 (c) Automatics (Assault Rifles) 1 8F 1650 4 4 4 4 -2 -2 -2 SA/BF/FA SA/BF/FA SA/BF/FA 40 (c) 32 (c) 30 (c) 4 4 4 Grenade -2 -2 -2 Grenade SA/BF/HV SA/BF/FA SA/BF/FA SS 50 (c) 40 (c) 40 (c) 6 (M) 4 4 Grenade -2 -2 Grenade SA/BF/FA SA/BF/FA SS 60 (c) 42 (c) 6 (M) Damage 4 4 Grenade AP -2 -2 Grenade Mode SA/BF/FA SA/BF/FA SS Ammo 38 (c) 38 (c) 6 (M) Skill Automatics (Assault Rifles) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launchers) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launchers) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launchers) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Automatics (Assault Rifles) 2 2 2 5R 9F 10F 750 1750 2200 2 2 2 11F 6R 9F 2400 1100 1600 1 3 10R 12F 3500 1700 Strength 2 2 Availability 4R 8F Cost 500 1000
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Battle Rifles
Weapon Name Combine XBR55 Damage 5 AP -2 Mode SA/BF/FA Ammo 36 (c) Skill Automatics (Assault Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) FN SFCBR 5 -2 SA/BF/FA 20 (c) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) HK G13B 5 -2 SA/BF/FA 20 (c) 50 (cy) Ares MR-62 5 -3 SA/BF/FA 15 (c) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) AZT Poctli 5 -2 SA/BF/FA 30 (c) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) 4 14F 3600 4 10R 1800 4 16F 2200 4 8F 2400 Strength 4 Availability 12F Cost 4500
Sport Rifles
Weapon Name Mannlicher Wildhunter Winchester Model 64 3 -2 SS 20 (m) Remington 750 Remington 950 AZT 577 T-Rex 5 6 7 -3 -3 -2 SS SS SS 5 (m) 5 (m) 4 (m) Longarms (Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) 3 4 6 4R 4R 12R 500 675 2400 Longarms (Rifles) 1 2R 400 Damage 6 AP -3 Mode SS Ammo 6 (c) Skill Longarms (Rifles) Strength 5 Availability 7R Cost 1200
Sniper Rifles
Weapon Name Ares Desert Strike Barrett Model 121 CZW Ostelova HK PSG Enforcer Ranger Arms SM4 Walther MA-2100 Damage 5 6 6 4 5 4 AP -3 -4 -3 -3 -4 -3 Mode SA SA SA SA SA SA Ammo 14 (c) 14 (c) 12 (c) 2 x 12 (c) 15 (c) 10 (m) Skill Longarms (Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) Longarms (Rifles) Strength 5 6 6 4 4 5 Availability 10F 18F 16F 12F 16F 10F Cost 3350 9000 6500 4800 6200 5000
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Shotguns
Weapon Name Auto-Assault 16 Damage 5 AP -1 Mode SA/BF/FA Ammo 32 (d) Skill Longarms (Shotguns) Boyd & Richards Desperado Defiance T-250 5 -1 SA 5 (m) 5 -1 SS 5 (m) Longarms (Shotguns) Longarms (Shotguns) Enfield AS-7 5 -1 SA/BF 10 (c) 24 (d) Franchi SPAS-22 5 -1 SA/BF 10 (m) Mossberg AM-CMDT 5 -1 SA/BF/FA 10 (c) Longarms (Shotguns) Longarms (Shotguns) Longarms (Shotguns) PJSS Model 55 Shotgun 5 -1 SS 2 (b) Longarms (Shotguns) Remington 990 5 -1 SA 8 (m) Longarms (Shotguns) Street Sweeper 4 -1 SS 1 (b) Longarms (Shotguns) 3 5R 175 4 4R 550 4 7R 1200 4 12R 1000 4 10R 1250 4 12R 1100 4 3R 475 4 10R 1700 Strength 4 Availability 18R Cost 8000
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Light Machine Guns

Weapon Name Ares MP-LMG Damage 4 AP -3 Mode BF/FA Ammo 50 (c) Belt Ingram White Knight Ingram Valiant 4 -3 BF/FA 4 -3 BF/FA/HV 50 (c) Belt 40 (c) Belt EMERK-V 4 -3 FA Belt Skill Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) GE Vindicator Minigun SA Nemesis 4 -3 BF/FA 60 (c) 4 -3 FA/HV Belt Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) 4 17F 3500 3 16F 5500 4 14F 900 4 10F 1200 4 12F 2000 Strength 4 Availability 12F Cost 1500
Medium Machine Guns

Weapon Name FN MAG-5 Damage 5 AP -3 Mode FA/HV Ammo 50 (box) Belt Stoner Ares M202 Ultimax MMG 5 -3 FA 5 -3 FA 50 (c) Belt 40 (c) Belt Skill Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) 5 13F 4500 5 12F 4500 Strength 5 Availability 14F Cost 5500
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Heavy Machine Guns

Weapon Name Ruhrmetal SF20 Damage 6 AP -3 Mode FA Ammo 40 (c) Belt RPK HMG 6 -3 FA 40 (c) Belt Stoner Ares M107 6 -3 FA 40 (c) Belt Ultimax HMG-2 6 -3 FA 50 (c) Belt Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) 6 15F 7500 Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) 6 15F 7500 Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) 6 16F 6000 Skill Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Strength 6 Availability 15F Cost 6500
Assault Cannons
Weapon Name Ares Thunderstruck Gauss Rifle Damage 8 AP -8 Mode SA Ammo 10 (c) +10 (battery) Skill Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) Ares Vigorous Assault Cannon 8 -7 SS 12 (c) Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) AZT Tlatlatzin Gauss Rifle 8 -8 SA 20 (c) +external power source Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) Norsutykki L-47 7 -7 SS 10 (c) Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) Longarms (Rifles) Panther XXL 8 -7 SS 15 (c) Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) 8 20F 5500 7 15F 4800 5 24F 12000 9 18F 4000 Strength 4 Availability 24F Cost 13000
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Laser Weapons
Weapon Name Ares Redline Damage 3 AP half Mode HV Ammo 200 (battery) External Power Source Ares 3rd Dawn 4 half HV 200 (battery) External Power Source Ares Apollo 6 half HV 200 (battery) External Power Source Automatics (Assault Rifles) Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Winter Systems Falling Star 3 half HV 100 (battery) External Power Source Winter Systems Evil Eye 5 half HV 150 (battery) External Power Source Automatics (Assault Rifles) Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Renraku Taiyou 5 half Fichetti Pain Inducer Special half FA/HV HV External Power Source 100 (battery) Automatics (Assault Rifles) Automatics (Assault Rifle) 1 8R 2000 5 20F 24000 5 24F 24000 Automatics (Submachine Guns) 1 16F 8000 6 24F 30000 Automatics (Assault Rifles) 3 18F 12000 Skill Automatics (Submachine Guns) Strength 2 Availability 14F Cost 7500
Flame Weapons
Weapon Name AZT F3a Damage 4 AP half Shiawase Blazer 3 half FA Mode FA Ammo 100 (tank) 80 (tank) Automatics (Submachine Guns) 2 16F 1200 Skill Automatics (Assault Rifle) Strength 3 Availability 14F Cost 1800
Special Weapons
Weapon Name Ares S-III Super Squirt Damage Chemical AP Mode SA Ammo 20 (c) Skill Pistols (Revolver) Strength 1 Availability 4 Cost 500
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Grenade Launchers & Mortars

Weapon Name Ares Antioch-2 Damage Grenade AP Grenade Mode SS Ammo 8 (m) Skill Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launcher) ArmTech MGL-6 Grenade Grenade SA 6 (c) Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launcher) ArmTech MGL-12 Grenade Grenade SA 6 (c) Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launcher) Enfield GL-67 Grenade Grenade SS 20 (d) Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launcher) M-12 Portable Mortar IRA Remote Mortar Mortar Mortar SA/BF 10 (m) Mortar Mortar SS 1 Heavy Weapons (Grenade Launcher) Gunnery (Artillery) 20F 5000 16F 2250 3 14F 4000 4 10F 2000 5 10F 1500 Strength 3 Availability 8F Cost 600
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Vehicular Weaponry
Weapon Name Ares Firelance (laser) Damage 8 AP -half Mode HV Ammo 500 (battery) External power source Ares Fogger Glop Cannon special SA 50 (belt) Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) Gunnery (Artillery) AZT Itzcoatl Gauss Cannon 12 -8 SS 50 (belt) +external power source Fleche Barrage Rocket Launcher Rocket Rocket Special 20 Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) Gunnery (Ballistic) Heavy Weapons (Rocket) Gunnery (Rocket) GE Vigilant Light Autocannon 7 -3 FA/HV 200 (belt) Heavy Weapons (Machine Gun) Gunnery (Ballistic) GE Vanquisher Heavy Autocanon 8 -4 FA/HV 200 (belt) Heavy Weapons (Machine Gun) Gunnery (Ballistic) GM Light Cannon 9 -6 SS 50 (belt) Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) 18F 50000 20F 20000 15F 10000 25F 20000 30F 600000 15R 10000 Skill Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Gunnery (Energy Weapons) Strength Availability 25F Cost 400000
(Ballistic) GM Heavy Cannon 11 -7 SS 50 (belt) Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) Gunnery (Ballistic) 22F 100000
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Gunnery
Vehicular Weaponry (continued)

Weapon Name Lone Star FlashFlood Water Cannon Damage 3N AP -half Mode FA Ammo 200 (tank) external water source Skill Heavy Weapons (Machine Gun) Gunnery (Artillery) Shiawase Microwave Cannon Special -half HV 200 (battery) external power source Heavy Weapons (Machine Gun) Gunnery (Energy Weapons) SK Taurus Gauss Cannon 10 -8 SS 50 (belt) +external power source Heavy Weapons (Assault Cannon) Gunnery (Ballistic) Winter Systems Mercury Laser 10 -half HV external power source Heavy Weapons (Machine Guns) Gunnery (Energy Weapons) 30F 1000000 25F 200000 20R 25000 Strength Availability 10R Cost 5000
Weapons (Grenade Launchers) Gunnery (Artillery)
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KC-Arms 155 Howitzer
Mortar
Mortar
SS
10 (m)
Heavy
20F
120000
Special Weapons
Weapon Name Aquadyne Harpoon Gun Ares S-III Super Squirt Ares Screech Sonic Rifle 4N special SS 10 (battery) external power source Bow Cavalier SafeGuard Crossbow, Light 2 SS 1 (ml) Archery (Crossbow) Longarms (Shotgun) Crossbow, Medium Crossbow, Heavy 6 SA 6 (cy) 4 SS 1 (ml) Archery (Crossbow) Longarms (Shotgun) Archery (Crossbow) Longarms (Shotgun) Crossbow, Pistol 2 SS 1 (ml) Archery (Crossbow) Pistols (Revolver) Defiance EX Shocker Defiance Protector FN-AAL Gyrojet Pistol Jupiter Taser Club 3N (e) -half SS 1 (m) Pistols (Taser) Clubs (Batons) Slinghot (Str/2)N SS 1 (ml) Archery (Slingshot) Throwing (Lobbed) Yamaha Pulsar 3N (e) -half SA 4 (m) Pistols (Taser) 1 150 special 5/R 2 8 1200 3N (e) 5 -half SA SA 3 (m) 10 (c) Pistols (Taser) Pistols (Revolver) 1 1 4 12F 150 1000 4N (e) -half SS 4 (m) Pistols (Taser) 2 150 3 4R 250 7 8R 750 3 4R 500 1 2 300 ( Str) 2N (e) -half SS SA 1 (ml) 6 (m) Archery (Bow) Pistols (Taser) X 1 2 100/R 275 Longarms (Shotgun) 3 16 8000 Chemical SA 20 (c) Damage 5 AP Mode SS Ammo 6 (cy) Skill Archery (Crossbow) Longarms (Shotgun) Pistols (Revolver) 1 4 500 Strength 3 Availability 6R Cost 600
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Blades
Name Ceramic Knife Claymore Combat Ax Centurion Laser Axe Cougar Fineblade Knife Cougar Fineblade Sword Halberd Katana Katar Knife Kris Reach 2 2 2 1 3 1 Damage (Str/2) (Str/2)+2 (Str/2)+2 (Str/2)+2 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2)+3 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2) (Str/2) (Str/2)+1 AP -2 -1 -2 -4 -2 -2 -1 -2 Skill Blades (Knives) Blades (Sword) Blades (Ax) Blades (Ax) Blades (Knives) Blades (Sword) Blades (Ax) Blades (Sword) Blades (Knives) Blades (Knives) Blades (Knives) Blades (Sword) Macahuitl 1 (Str/2)+1 Blades (Sword) Clubs (Batons) Monofilament Sword Nodachi Rapier Sai 1 2 1 (Str/2)+2 (Str/2)+2 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2) (Str/2)N Spear 3 (Str/2) -1 Blades (Ax) Clubs (Staff) Survival Knife Sword Tomahawk Vibro Knife Vibro Sword Victorinox Memory Blade 1 1 1 1 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2)+2 (Str/2)+1 -3 -4 -1 Blades (Knives) Blades (Sword) Blades (Ax) Blades (Knives) Blades (Sword) Blades (Sword) 1 2 3 1 2 2 4R 4 6R 8F 14F 50 350 150 1000 3 4R 150 -2 -1 Blades (Sword) Blades (Sword) Blades (Sword) Blades (Knives) 3 4 2 7R 12R 4R 4 750 2500 550 75 3 14R 3000 Strength 4 5 4 2 5 3 2 1 Availability 4 8R 8R 12F 5R 7R 8R 4R 9R 10R Cost 75 900 600 3000 550 900 1200 1000 750 20 1000
1250
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Clubs & Chains

Name AZ-150 Stun Baton Claw Hammer Club Extendable Baton Heavy Chain Jack Hammer Jupiter Taser Club Reach 1 1 1 1 2 1 Damage 4N (e) (Str/2)+1 (Str/2) (Str/2) (Str/2)+1 6 3N (e) AP -half -1 -4 -half Skill Clubs (Baton) Clubs (Hammer) Clubs (Baton) Clubs (Baton) Clubs (Sap) Clubs (Hammer) Clubs (Baton) Pistols (Taser) Kusari Gama 2 (Str/2)+1 Clubs (Sap) Blades (Ax) Mace 1 (Str/2)+1 -2 Clubs (Baton) Clubs (Hammer) Monofilament Whip 2 6 x2 Clubs (Sap) Blades (Ax) Nunchaku Sap Sledge Hammer Staff Stun Baton Stun Staff Telescopic Staff Tonfa Warhammer 1 2 1 2 2 1 1 (Str/2)+1 (Str/2)+1N (Str/2)+2 (Str/2)+1 3N (e) 3N (e) (Str/2)+1 (Str/2) (Str/2)+2 -half -half -2 Clubs (Sap) Clubs (Sap) Clubs (Hammer) Clubs (Staff) Clubs (Baton) Clubs (Staff) Clubs (Staff) Clubs (Baton) Clubs (Hammer) Blades (Ax) 1 1 4 3 2 3 3 1 4 6R 3 4R 6R 4 10R 75 30 50 50 400 650 100 50 1500 12F 3000 3 4 120 3 8F 150 Strength 2 1 1 1 4 7 2 Availability 4R 6 8R Cost 800 15 30 50 20 7500 1200
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Body Weaponry
Name Bone Density/Lacing Fangs/Horns Hardliner Gloves Hand Blade Reach Damage (Str/2)+1 (Str/2) (Str/2) (Str/2)+1 AP Skill Unarmed Combat Unarmed Combat Unarmed Combat Unarmed Combat Blades (Cyber Implant) Hand Razors (Str/2) -1 Unarmed Combat Blades (Cyber Implant) Spurs 1 (Str/2)+1 -2 Unarmed Combat Blades (Cyber Implant) Oral Slasher Shock Hand 4 3N (e) -half Unarmed Combat Unarmed Combat Strength Availability 4 Cost 100 -
Grenades
Name Flash Flash-Bang Flash-Pak Fragmentation Gas High Explosive Incendiary Ink Smoke Splash Thermal Smoke White Phosphorous Damage 4N 5 Chemical 4 Special Chemical 4 AP -4 -1 -half Unit Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Grenade Availability 6R 6R 4 10F 4+Chemical 7F 8R 6 4R 4+Chemical 6R 20F Cost 30 30 200 35 20+Chemical 45 50 35 30 20+Chemical
360
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Missiles & Rockets

Name LAW Rocket Frag Rocket High Explosive Rocket Inferno Rocket Jabberwocky Jammer Rocket Designator Seeker SAM Zapper Rocket Damage 9/4 6 5 6 2 As Rocket As Rocket 2/ 6N (e) AP -6/-2 -1 -4 -half -4 As Rocket As Rocket -4/-half Unit Small Rocket Small Rocket Small Rocket Small Rocket Small Rocket As Rocket Small Rocket Small Rocket Availability 16F 16F 20F 24F 12F +2R +8F 12F Cost 1000 500 650 1500 1600 +500 +1500 1600
Mortars
Name Anti-Bunker Fragmentation Gas/Slash High Explosive Incendiary Seeker Smoke Solar Thermal Smoke White Phosphorous Damage 8/4 6 Chemical 5 Special Mortar 5 AP -6/-2 -1 -4 Mortar half Unit Shell Shell Shell Shell Shell Shell Shell Shell Shell Shell Availability 18F 15F 6F+Chemical 12F 12F +2F 8R 8R 10R 20F Cost 210 105 60+Chemical 135 150 +500 90 120 105 360
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Ammunition
Guns don't kill people, bullets do.
As damage and armor have been changed, it is necessary to redo ammunition somewhat to conform to the new rules. In the meantime, this is also a good opportunity to adjust the ammunition types to be more balanced, because people complain about that constantly.
Ammunition Regular Armor Piercing Explosive Flechette Less Lethal Stick-n-Shock DV +1 +2 +1 -1 AP - (max -5) x2 + - (max -5) Special Explodes when Heated Reduced Maximum Range Damage is N Damage is N Target Electrocuted Tracers Capsule Rounds -2 Bonus Accuracy with additional shots Damage is N Target dosed with chemical Subsonic Reduced Noise Allows Silencer Low Tech +2 -
Regular
The ever popular: factory standard.
Regular bullets in the 2070s are made from a variety of materials. Many of them are single pieces of plasteel or high-hardness alloys. Some of them are even steel or cupronickel coated lead. The standard composition of regular ammunition vary depending upon the weapon. When firing regular ammunition, the weapon's normal profile is used. Some special Regular ammunition on the market is: Chapter: The New Weapons Steel Coat Many weapons have steel coated bullets standard, and in any case 3rd party ammunition manufacturers produce steel coated bullets in almost every caliber you could imagine, so its price is no different from any other. Steel coated bullets are the go-to weapon against Wendigos, Fairies, and other creatures with an iron allergy. Silver Bullets Silver is a perfectly decent material to make a bullet out of, but it is on the expensive side. Silver bullets are used for fighting many magical creatures, most notably shapeshifters. Silver bullets are considered regular ammo, but cost 25 a piece. Some armorers still make their own for cost reasons.
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Armor Piercing
It is my experience that anything worth armoring it worth destroying.
Armor piercing ammunition works on many different principles, from super-dense uranium (DU) to mercury cores (Jackals) to discarding sabot (APDS) to shaped charges (HEAP). These bullets are expensive, but punch through armor fairly well. Choices of ammunition are usually based on what is available for a particular weapon caliber, but for common weapons or weapons frequently used in an anti-armor capacity, choices may depend on the kinds of evidence different ammunition leaves behind. Depleted Uranium (DU): DU rounds are not highly radioactive, as they are composed almost entirely out of relatively stable U238. However, they are almost as dense as pure gold and cannot pass through an x-ray or radar sensor undetected. The radiation levels are low, but unshielded they can be detected with a Geiger counter. Mercury Core (Jackals) Denser than lead and capable of flowing through ballistic weaves without appreciable slowing, mercury is a potent (if highly toxic) weapon. Mercury filled bullets are actually quite fragile, and deform when heated or handled roughly. Only a few weapons producers in Central Asia even make Jackals, and the source can be easily determined from the precise chemical makeup of the liquid metal they leave behind. Armor Piercing, Discarding Sabot (APDS) Having a dense core that discards the rest of the bullet during flight, an APDS round achieves super high velocity and great penetration at the target. The system necessarily involves the discarded casing being left somewhere along the flight path, making the scene of shooting hard to clean. High Explosive, Armor Piercing (HEAP) A HEAP round is made of a shaped plastique charge, often with a metal tip. On contact the explosive detonates, making a tremendous amount of force at a small point. HEAP rounds can be easily detected by chem sniffers and may suffer cook offs in the same manner as Explosive rounds can.
Explosive Ammunition
Yo dawg! We put some bang bang in your bang bang, so you can shoot people while you're shooting people!
Explosive ammunition has an explosive element inside that detonates when the bullet hits a target. This causes the bullet to transmit more energy to the target and be less likely to penetrate to the other side. This makes them a go-to ammunition type for people who want to kill their targets and people who don't want to kill people behind their target alike. Explosive rounds add one to the Damage Value of the weapon, and when they are fired at a barrier or a vehicle they are always resolved as an attack on that target and never as an attack on targets behind or inside. An attack with explosive rounds is resolved as a melee attack against vehicles and barriers. If explosive rounds get very hot, they can cook off. If someone with explosive rounds in a magazine or on their person is set on fire (either by a flame thrower or a fire ball, or whatever), then 10 rounds cook off per combat round, causing as much damage as if the character had been hit with whatever weapon the bullets had been chambered for. Bullets held together in a belt, magazine, or backpack will continue cooking off even if the original source of fire is removed.
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Ex-Ex Every explosive round will tell you that their version explodes the best. There are lots of systems, with some using thermolytic reactions and others using plastic explosives and either being metal jacketed or not. Game mechanically they are the same. Second Impact A second impact round is an explosive round that is designed to detonate on the second thing it hits. They are resolved as a low tech round against the first thing they hit, and an explosive round against the second. This allows them to shoot through glass or thin walls that they would otherwise be unable to penetrate. But they are rarely used because most people shoot at what they want to hit. Persistent rumors make the rounds of the underworld that you can get these to detonate inside people, but this is basically not true. C-12 Rounds The C-12 round is a heat-safe explosive, and it does not cook off when the user is on fire. It can be detonated by electrical current however, and C-12 rounds cook off while the user is being electrocuted. Incendiaries Most explosive ammunition flings penetrating metal shrapnel that cools very rapidly. Incendiary rounds send off fragments of polymer that maintain a high temperature for a longer time. This means that the fragments start fires in a few minutes if they are used anywhere that flammable substances like wood or upholstery are available.
Flechette Rounds
Alright men, let's kill some people!
The word flechette is French for arrow and refers in weaponry to a flight stabilized metal dart. In the early 20th century, some flechette rounds were actually rather similar to 2070s APDS rounds. Quite literally the high density core of an APDS bullet is a flechette. However, by the 2040s, that terminology was pretty much gone, because flechette mortar rounds have a lot of little metal darts and are used in an anti-infantry role. So in the 2070s, the word refers to the fact that the cartridge has a lot of pieces and is used against soft targets. Many flechette rounds don't actually have any metal darts in them. Flechette rounds are devastating against unarmored targets (+2 DV), but ineffective against armored targets (the armor value of the target is doubled). They are much prized in urban warfare precisely because they have virtually no capability to damage things behind walls. Because they are composed of low mass pieces, they do not fly well for long distances. A standard flechette cartridge can't have a range profile better than a heavy pistol no matter what it is fired out of. Frangible Rounds A frangible round holds together as a unit bullet until the point of impact, and then shatters into a lot of pieces. The DV bonus is only +1 instead of +2, but the bullet is able to use the standard range profile of the weapon. Salt Rounds Composed of compact salts that are common in a living metahuman, a salt round completely disintegrates in a human body. Its low mass means that it uses the ranges of a holdout pistol regardless of what weapon it is actually fired out of. Any bullet that hits and does damage to a living creature leaves virtually no trace for forensics.
Less Lethal
Sometimes you really want to be able to say in court that you made every effort to not kill your target.
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There really isn't any kind of bullet you can shoot people with that can't kill them. A lot of force is going through those things, and they could easily stop a heart or concuss a brain or something. A lethal wound is still potentially lethal, even if it was delivered with normal damage. Less lethal ammunition is basically set up to deform on contact with the target, spreading the force out rather than penetrating it. Since they don't blast through, they actually deliver more of their force to the target than a regular bullet does but since it is spread over a larger area it is less lethal and easier to stop with armor. The weapon's DV is increased by 1, but all damage is converted to normal damage and the target's armor is increased by 50% (round down). The most common form of Less Lethal ammunition is the gel round, but the same basic concept is employed by the bean bag and the molly bolt. Limited Engagement (LE) LE shells fire very low mass bags of deforming pellets. They don't go very far and cause little in the way of property damage. LE rounds are often used as a crowd control measure because they do not threaten people distant from the confrontation who might pay taxes. LE rounds only have the range of a holdout pistol. Stickies Sticky rounds are similar to gel rounds, save that they have an adhesive on the front and an RFID inside. Stickies can be cleaned off with alcohol or paint thinner. They are used to track and identify suspects by some law enforcement contractors.
Stick-n-Shock
You would have crashed your stupid flying car anyway.
Stick-n-Shock ammo is relatively new to the market, and was virtually unknown in the early sixties. It is an adhesive bullet that discharges a capacitor on impact. An injured target must make a Body + Willpower (3) test or be stunned for 1 round for each hit they were short by. Unshielded electronics hit by Stick-n-Shock short out. The capacitors are sometimes used for other things. Jammers The capacitors in jammer rounds release several seconds of high density radio noise. A 1 meter radius around the point of impact is impeded with a rating 6 jammer for 3 rounds. Designators The capacitors in designator rounds super charge an RFID, giving it a signal that can be read 40 kilometers away for 3 rounds after the point of impact. The RFID is programmable, and can be used to guide in missiles or send distress calls.
Tracers
Tracers glow, leaving little light contrails in their path. This makes walking automatic fire into targets easier. If the target is more than 4 meters away, the user of tracer rounds gets +1 to their attack dicepool when firing in Burst Fire mode, and +2 to their dicepool when firing in Full Auto. Of course, tracers pretty much definitionally give away the attacker's position, since the little white lines can be followed both ways. Radio Tracer (RT) RT rounds do not emit visible light, but instead contain a coded RFID that communicates with a smartlink system. RT rounds do not give away the user's position except to hackers who can decode the system, but they only benefit attackers who are using smartlink systems. Chapter: The New Weapons
I like to see where I'm going and also where I am shooting.
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Capsule Rounds
It's full of gross.
Capsule rounds are small shatter vials that are filed with some liquid substance and release that substance on whatever they impact. They do very little damage, and are often filled with paint for full armor training sessions. However, they are sometimes also filled with DMSO and nerve agents. Larger guns can be outfitted with capsule rounds that carry gas weapons.
Subsonic Rounds
bang.
Subsonic ammunition is a heavier, slower bullet. Because it travels well below the speed of sound, the bullet's flight is not particularly loud. This allows the weapon to be used with a silencer without the bullet itself rendering the entire contraption pointless. Many guns, especially heavier caliber pistols and shotguns, use subsonic bullets standardly.
Low Tech Ammunition

For sooth! I have ye in my sights!
Lead bullets, hand-made ammunition, old NATO cartridges, and many other relics of battlefields past may find themselves on the battlefields of the 2070s. In general, they are all lumped into low tech and are generally considered poor. They can still be used, they just provide the target a +2 bonus to their Armor. Wooden Bullets Originally used as a terror weapon, because the organic material would pulp in the wound and practically guaranty a hideous infection, in the modern era of micro-surgery and anti-biotics, regular wooden bullets are almost never used. However, since there are critters (such as Vampires) that have a wood allergy, they are still in demand by some hunters.
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Special Weapon Systems and Damage Rules

Lasers
While photopressure exists, from a practical standpoint a laser weapon is recoilless. The Strength requirement of a laser weapon does not increase when it is fired on automatic firing modes. These are beam weapons, so there aren't literally dozens of little pellets of light. The firing modes of FA and HV actually refer to your ability to move the beam into and across targets. Laser weapons are not considered normal weapons and creatures with Immunity to Normal Weapons have no special resistance. Laser beams travel from the weapon to the target at the speed of light, and their time of flight is essentially zero at any distance combat takes place in that is not in space. Lasers use sniper rifle range, but extreme range is line of sight. Laser weapons are at a disadvantage in areas of fog, smoke, or other light-obscuring medium. In light fog/rain/mist/smoke, reduce the damage of the laser by 1 for each range increment beyond short. In heavy fog/rain/mist/smoke, reduce the damage of the laser by 2 for each range increment beyond short. If the base damage is reduced to zero in this way, the laser is ineffective.
Flame Weapons
Flame throwers project and ignite fuel (usually in liquid or powdered form). This generally comes out of an adjustable nozzle, and can come out as a cone or a stream. This is treated as Full Auto, but the adjustment of the nozzle determines which Full Auto option is used. So a user must use a change firing mode action to use a wide burst if their last attack was a walking fire action. Flame thrower streams expand to fill available space, and essentially ignore cover entirely. Literally seeing the target is not especially necessary, and the penalties for obscured visibility are halved when using a flame weapon. Flamethrower fuel used in the 2070s is pretty sticky, and anyone hit by it will catch on fire. The scenery around the flame thrower operator and target can be expected to catch fire too.
Electrical Weapons
Tasers and other shock weaponry have the ability to temporarily scramble things which require organized electrical impulses to function properly. That includes most machines and living creatures with a functional nervous system. Which means it includes metahumans and their drones, but not spirits or trees. Electrical weapons do Normal damage (which is not very effective against non-living targets), but a susceptible target must resist damage a second time, with the second soak causing no actual damage but paralyzing the target for a number of rounds equal to the amount of wound boxes that would have been filled in. The second soak test has a base damage 2 more than the base damage of the electrical weapon, but is not increased by net hits from the attack roll. The target also gets to add their Willpower to the soak test's dicepool. Note that drones don't have any Willpower and are often reset for several rounds by heavy shocks.
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Chapter: Special Weapon Systems and Damage Rules
Explosives
Explosions from things like grenades and plastique are different from bullets in ways that make them difficult to model as instantaneous attacks of fixed strength. An explosion is not dependent upon an attack roll by any specific person. A highly agile demolitionist does not inflict any more damage than a clumsy one once the explosion goes off. Explosions also do not miss characters in their blast radius, and there are no defense rolls permitted. Each explosion rolls 4 dice as an attack roll against everything within their blast radius, with each hit raising the damage before soak. However, 0 hits is not a miss, it is simply adding 0 to the base damage. Explosions attenuate with distance, with every doubling of the distance from the target to the explosion reducing the base damage by 1.5 (round reduction down), with the initial damage being good out to 2 meters. If the base damage is reduced to 0 or less, the explosion does nothing at all and does not stage itself up. Explosives can also be stacked virtually limitlessly. If you use three times as many explosives (such as using a burst of grenades or mortar shells), the base damage is increased by 1 (and the blast radius expanded appropriately).
Table 3: Damage by Distance Modifiers Distance 0-2m 2-4m 4-8m 8-16m 16-32m 32-64m 64-128m ... Damage Base -1 -3 -4 -6 -7 -9
Cover is very effective against explosives. The cover modifier is subtracted from the dice the explosion rolls to stage itself up, and an equal number of dice is added to the target's soak roll. If characters are aware of the danger and in heavy cover, they may make a Defense Roll, with the hits being added directly to their soak roll (the explosion still does not miss). Modern armor is also very effective at dealing with blasts, and the Coverage of the armor is added to armor rating of the armor (up to a maximum of doubling the armor's protective value). If the armor is Hardened, the increase from the armor's Coverage is also Hardened.
Example: Simba is caught with his figurative (but not literal) pants down as a frag grenade lands 10 meters away from his position. The fragmentation grenade has a base damage of 5, but at 10 meters out the base damage is reduced to 1. The grenade rolls 4 dice and scores 2 hits, so Simba must soak 3 damage. Fortunately Simba is wearing armor clothing. That has an armor of 3 and a coverage of 2 so it provides a total of 5 soak dice. Combined with his own 5 soak dice from his own strength, he rolls 10 dice, and gets 3 hits. The unsoaked damage is 0 and Simba is not wounded. The guard dog closer to the center was less lucky being within 2 meters of the blast, the dog was confronted with 7 damage, and with no pants to save it, the dog is chunky salsa.
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Explosives against vehicles and fixed positions are more effective unless those vehicles or fixed positions are coated in reactive armor. Explosions ignore Mass values of 2 or less, and can make called shots that ignore the Mass of a vehicle or object while targeting parts of the vehicle that are the size of a large motorcycle (or, for example, most doors). Armor values of vehicles and buildings and such are not increased for coverage against explosions.
Shaped Charges
Some explosives have a special shaping that channels the blast in a certain direction. This causes a tremendous amount of force to be focused in a small area next to the explosion. What this means in game terms is that these explosives do a lot more damage if they hit than if they miss. Shaped Charges are written with two damage numbers (and sometimes two AP numbers). The number before the slash is used for anything the charge was set against (generally whatever was actually hit with a missile, but for demolition charges it's whatever it was taped to), and the number after the slash used to determine the explosive radius and damage to everything around that immediate target. The explosive attack roll of shaped charges does not apply to the direct target damage, but shaped charges do get to increase their damage with the net hits from the attack roll (or Demolitions skill test) used to place them.
Damage Over Time (Fire, Acid, Etc.)

When a character is soaked in acid, freezing to death, on fire, or otherwise subjected to a damaging situation that is ongoing, we call this DOT or Damage Over Time. While it could be modeled as a series of tiny attacks that had a remote chance of doing damage each second, that is far fiddlier than the people actually playing the game need to deal with. DOT damage is added one wound box at a time. A DOT effect has a delay number, and that number determines how much time passes between filling in one wound box and the next. When a character is afflicted with a DOT, they are allowed to resist it, which is usually the same kind of resistance roll they might make against immediate damage (so a damage soak roll against being on fire or a poison resistance roll against having swallowed poison), save that the character's hits are added to the DOT's delay number rather than subtracted from the damage done. Being on fire is still aproblem if you are wearing turnout gear, it's just a problem that you can respond to in the near future. DOT's will continue filling in a wound box on schedule until they end. For external sources of damage, that generally means removing the noxious stimulus, while something like an injected poison usually has an amount of time it will persist based on how much was injected (this time could be cut shorter with things like antidotes or diuretics).
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Table 4: Delay Numbers for DOT Delay Number 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11+ Time Between Damage Boxes 1 second (IPs 2, 3, and 4) 1 Round 2 Rounds 5 Rounds 1 Minute 2 Minutes 5 Minutes 15 Minutes 30 Minutes 1 Hour 2 Hours Double Time Each Additional Delay Number (4 Hours, 8 hours, 16 Hours, etc...)
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The New Armors

Before selecting your weapon, you may wish to select pants.
The first thing to note is that in Alt.War, we are not keeping track of Ballistic and Impact armor. The numbers just aren't different enough to worry about it. From now on you just have an armor rating, and if you're really luck a hardened armor rating as well. Armor capacity is also handled differently in that the mods one can get for armor have a minimum capacity rating to be applied to an armor, but don't actually use any capacity up. Mods also have a coverage requirement, how much of the body has to be covered by the armor for the mod to do any good. Armor coverage also determines the difficulty of taking called shots to avoid the armor. Armor that covers more is harder to bypass with precise aiming, whether it is made of thick plates of plastisteel or a largely ceremonial ballistic weave. Like weapons, Armor takes Strength to use effectively. If the Strength requirement exceeds the character's actual Strength, then physical actions are taken with a -2 dicepool penalty for each point the armor's required Strength exceeds the character's actual Strength. Physical actions include Defense checks but do not include Soak rolls.
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Chapter: The New Armors
Armors of the 2070s

Clothes make the man.
Armor Name Clothing Leather Jacket Meta-Leather Jacket Actioneer Business Suit Armor Clothing Armor Jacket Full Body Suit Stealth Suit Lined Coat Urban Explorer Jumpsuit Form Fitting Armor Obvious Armors Chainmail Bunker Gear Containment Gear Hi/Lo Temperature Suit Riot Control Armor SWAT Armor Battle Armor Assault Armor Power Armor 2[H] 6 4 2 8 4[H] 5[H] 6[H] 6[H] 1 4 4 3 3 4 4 4 4 2 4 4 3 3 3 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 5 6 7 2 8 6 12 8 10R 16R 14R 16R 18R 900 3200 5500 7000 4000 9000 15000 24000 30000 Armor Value 0 2 4 4 3 6 6 6 6 6 1/R Capacity 1 2 2 2 1 2 2 2 4 1 0 Coverage 2 1 1 2 2 1 3 3 2 3 1/R Strength 1 1 2 2 4 4 3 3 3 2 Availability 8 2 2 10 10R 4 8 6 Cost 20-100,000 200 2,500 1,500 500 900 1,100 8000 1,000 500 500/R
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Armor Mods
Clothes make the man, but fire retardant treatment makes the clothes not catch on fire.
For the armor mods, the capacity and coverage values represent the minimum levels of both that must be present in a suit of armor for the mod to be installed.
Mod Auto-Injector Bio Monitor Camouflage Coloration Chemical Protection Chemical Seal Chest Plate Fire Resistance Flotation System Gel Packs Insulation Nonconductivity Faraday Cage Radiation Shielding Ruthenium Coating Shock Frills Thermal Damping Thermal Equalizer Capacity 2 1 1 3 2/R 1/R 1 1/R 1/R 2 3 1/R 2 1 1/R 4 Coverage 2 3 3 4 1 1/R 4-Capacity 2 1/R 1/R 4 1/R 3 1 1/R 4 Availability 4 2 5 4 6 6 2 8 8R 4 6 6 8 12R 6R 10F 12F Cost 1500 350 200 250/R 1000 1000/R 100/R 2000 1500/R 150/R 200/R 1200 100/R 7500 200 500/R 3000
Auto-Injector
An auto-injector can be included in clothing or armor. It can be triggered with a button, a wireless code, or a linked device. The linked Auto-Injector is a discrete component. A character is welcome to simply wear an AutoInjector separately if it does not fit into their armor but that would be more visible.
Bio Monitor
A character can include a Bio Monitor in their armor. The linked Bio Monitor is a discrete component. A character is welcome to simply wear a Bio Monitor separately if it does not fit into their armor but that would be more visible.
Camouflage Coloration
Camouflage has come a long way from the days of sticking twigs to people with mud. In the 2070s, camouflage is a mostly a series of squares of varying shades (called digicamo) which have angled light reflectivity to break up
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body shadows. Camo is available in a variety of styles (urban, vegetation, desert, etc.) and increases the threshold to see the wearer by 1 while they are in an appropriate surrounding.
Chemical Protection
Armor that is treated with liquid resistant materials provides Hardened Armor equal to its rating against Acid or Contact Poison attacks. This Hardened Armor ignores the Armor Penetration qualities of Acid or Contact Poison attacks, and is not halved under any circumstances. It is available in Ratings 1 to 3. Chemical Protection is of no help against inhaled, ingested, or injected poisons.
Chemical Seal
Extensive personal protective equipment can be made to environmentally isolate the wearer. The chemical seal uses a vacuum layer to fully prevent gases from reaching the user. While the chemical seal is active, the user must use an air supply. The chemical seal can be activated or deactivatd as a complex action. Armor with a direct neural interface can be activated or deactivated with a free action.
Chest Plate
The chest plate is a rigid piece of ceramic placed over the vitals in the heart region. Even in the 2070s, chest plates are heavy and uncomfortable, and are noticeably unusual therefore. A Chest Plate provides 1 point of Hardened Armor per rating, but only has a coverage of 1. A Chest Plate is available in ratings 1 or 2, and increase the Strength minimum of the character's armor by their rating. Chest Plates can be worn without armor that can accommodate them as essentially armor in and of themselves, but this is extremely obvious.
Fire Resistance
Armor that is treated with fire retardant materials provides Hardened Armor equal to its rating against Fire attacks. This Hardened Armor ignores the Armor Penetration qualities of Fire based attacks, and is not halved under any circumstances. It is available in Ratings 1 to 3.
Flotation System
The flotation system inflates even under water due to compressed air or a chemical reaction, allowing the character's armor to become super buoyant and act as a life preserver when triggered in just 3 seconds.
Gel Packs
Chapter: The New Armors Gel Packs are capsules filled with rapidly hardening shock gel that are attached to the insides of armor to provide additional protection over the vital regions. They provide an extra point of armor per rating, but only have a coverage of 2. Gel Pack systems are available in ratings 1 and 2. The protection they provide is ablative in nature. Once the packs are broken and the gel hardens and leaks they aren't really good for much. After absorbing a few shots, the rating degrades and gel has to be replaced. How many shots they can take before refills are needed will vary and it has more to do with how many individual pieces of flack are striking than how powerful the attacks are. Figure that a burst from an automatic shotgun will pretty much fuse the whole shebang, but that it will last through a whole clip of standard pistol rounds. Refilling gel packs costs half as much as getting them installed in the first place.
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Insulation
Armor that is treated with temperature maintaining materials provides Hardened Armor equal to its rating against Cold attacks. This Hardened Armor ignores the Armor Penetration qualities of Cold based attacks, and is not halved under any circumstances. It is available in Ratings 1 to 3.
Nonconductivity
The name is something of a misnomer, as Nonconductivity treatments actually employ highly conductive fibers, but arranged in such a manner as to not conduct electricity to the wearer. It provides Hardened Armor equal to its rating against Electrical attacks. This Hardened Armor ignores the Armor Penetration qualities of Electrical attacks, and is not halved under any circumstances. It is available in Ratings 1 to 3.
Faraday Cage
Fully body covering armor can provide a complete Faraday Cage.
Radiation Shielding
Made of a combination of high density materials and high Hydrogen content plastics, Radiation Shielding is heavy, but keeps out alpha, beta, and gamma particles. It provides Hardened Armor equal to its rating against Radiation attacks. This Hardened Armor ignores the Armor Penetration qualities of Radiation attacks, and is not halved under any circumstances. It is available in Ratings 1 to 3. Add the Rating to the Strength required to use the armor optimally.
Ruthenium Coating
Ruthenium coating is an electrically induced color-changing system that mimics and exceeds conventional camouflage in any terrain. It increases the threshold to spot the user by 2.
Shock Frills
Only available on armor that has Nonconductivity treatment or a Faraday Cage on it already, Shock Frills are capacitors that release a powerful electric shock to things that are in contact with it. Regular Shock Frills discharge the first time something touches them, while Shock Frills that have a DNI can be discharged at will.
Thermal Damping
Available in ratings 1 to 3, the Thermal Damping system increases the threshold to spot the user with infrared observation by its rating.
Thermal Equalizer
The Thermal Equalizer regulates the user's infrared signature based on the surroundings, and makes the user essentially invisible in the IR spectrum. They can still be seen in visible light, but an exclusively IR sensor has no chance of locating them.
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Vehicle Stats
This is a tree. It will take you from 60 to 0 in zero seconds.
Vehicles need attributes too. They don't have Agility or Willpower, but there are things about them that make them distinct.
Speed
People rarely push vehicles to their actual maximum speed. And traveling at maximum speed isn't good for vehicles anyway. So the speed is simply the highest speed before things start to rattle. Skilled or insane drivers can push vehicles to higher speed by flooring the accelerator or flipping on the afterburners, or whatever it is that their vehicle does to go faster, but for simplicity's sake this absolute maximum is considered to be proportional to the normal speed at which the vehicle can travel. Speeds are given in Kilometers per hour, as vehicles moving at maximum speed are not usually usefully measured in meters per combat round. In 3 seconds, a vehicle will move 5/6 as many meters as its KPH speed, for what that is worth.
Acceleration
Acceleration is usually a purely academic concern. It takes you 1 second instead of 2 to have to slow down because the guy in front of you has engaged hands-free GridGuide, so what? In a chase across the desert or the ocean, it won't much matter who has the faster acceleration rate, because max speed is pretty much the whole of the answer as to who catches or does not catch whom. But drag racing does exist, and more importantly people chase each other in traffic and confined spaces all the time. In those instances it usually doesn't matter how fast your vehicle could go, it only matters how quickly your vehicle can change speeds. In heavy traffic or other tight terrain, whichever vehicle has the higher Acceleration is considered faster during a Chase. Acceleration values are given in meters per second per second. This makes it easy to plug into physics equations. In combat, assume that the vehicle can accelerate by its Acceleration value on Initiative Pass 2, 3, and 4. For constant acceleration problems, the distance it actually travels will be its previous speed plus half its acceleration in meters per second.
Handling
Chapter: Vehicle Stats Different vehicles handle better or worse than others. It's a complex measurement of turning radius, responsiveness, breaking, and gear shifting for land vehicles and even more complex measurements of an airborne vehicle's ability to stay aloft with sudden shifts in direction and speed. Practically however, it's a number that modifies the driver/pilot's dicepools when they are making complex maneuvers or engaged in Chase tests in tight terrain. Handling has no effect at all on how fast your vehicle goes in a straightaway, and does not modify chases in open terrain.
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Body
Vehicles roll damage resistance tests too. A vehicle's Body attribute is the number of dice it rolls for that purpose.
Mass
Things which are very big relative to humans are more difficult to destroy with human sized weapons. A vehicle's Mass is subtracted from the damage inflicted upon it in a similar manner that damage is reduced by Hardened Armor. Mass also affects how much damage the other party receives in a crash.
Armor
Vehicular Armor is hardened by default. If you want to give a vehicle more damage resistance dice, it is usually a good idea to just give it a higher body.
Seating
Seating is simply a measure of how many people can sit in a vehicle and still get seatbelts. Obviously if the passengers are very good friends they can sit on each other's laps. And in large vehicles there may be room to stand if things get desperate. Also seats may become overcrowded if the people involved are 3 meters tall or whatever.
Pilot
Pilot is the measure of the vehicle's ability to operate itself. In the 2070s, most vehicles can drive themselves from point A to point B. These systems aren't actually intelligent and are designed for a vehicle operating under normal circumstances. When a vehicle is damaged, subtract its injury modifier from its Pilot rating. So for example: a vehicle that had suffered Moderate Damage (3 boxes) would have its Pilot reduced by 2, while a vehicle that had suffered Serious Damage (6 boxes) would have its Pilot reduced by 3. A vehicle whose Pilot has been reduced to 0 may still tryto drive itself, but will likely as not drive into a wall instead of getting anywhere useful. It is important to note that the Pilot is not merely a program that tells the vehicle what to do, it is the actual hardware that allows the electronic commands of the software to translate into the vehicle doing real things in real space. The Pilot rating acts as an attribute if the vehicle performs autonomous tasks (using software such as Clearsight and targeting programs as a skill), but the rating itself caps what the vehicle is capable of doing autonomously or under the direction of a rigger.
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Table 5: Pilot Capabilities by Rating Pilot 0 1 Cruise Control Point to point travel with explicit map path or GridGuide support Trigger basic functions such as locks and windshield wipers 2 Sensor assisted navigation in uncontrolled environments Perform strength-requiring functions such as opening doors or targeting weaponry 3 Adjust for the motion of the vehicle in order to utilize devices For example: targeting a weapon while moving 4 Perform functions given symbolically such as going to a place where someone is rather than to a specific coordinate. 5 Perform multiple body problems. For example: firing different weapons at different targets while moving. 6 Classified. Capabilities
Sensor
The sensory feed at a vehicle's disposal is represented by its Sensor attribute. More than simply duct taping a video camera to the top, the Sensor is a set of hardware that integrates a series of cameras, motion detectors, and whatever other sensory feeds into a coherent picture of how the vehicle is operating and what is around it. Of course, a vehicle can be outfitted with specific sensors that do specific things without adjusting its Sensor Rating. And these additional sensors may or may not be integrated into the vehicle's sensor array and control system. You still totally can duct tape a video recorder to the top of a car if that's what you want to do. However, when a vehicle comes with a sensor rating,you can assume that certain sensory capabilities have already been included based on its rating:
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Table 6: Sensor Capabilities by Rating Sensor 0 Usually Has... Speedometer Fuel Gauge 1 Camera GPS 2 Microphone Motion Detector 3 Sonar System Thermosensor 4 Radar Laser Range Finder 5 Magnetic Analyzer Density Scanner 6 Classified.
Cost
Vehicles below are listed with a cost, but not an availability. The cost is how much a vehicle costs to buy it new from whoever the dealer is. Buying a used or stolen vehicle will obviously cost very much less. In its first year, a vehicle loses 15-20% of its value, and continues to lose value forever, albeit at a slower rate, from that point on (assuming that it is still running at all). If a vehicle continues to be serviceable and kept in very good condition for 40 to 50 years, it becomes a classic and suddenly becomes valuable again, but that is not something that is worth thinking about over the course of a Shadowrun game. A vehicle's value to a chop shop is usually about 7% of its purchase price (which is by the way, what a chop shop in 2011 in Prague will pay for a new stolen car). Due to the nature of vehicles and how they go on roads and get checked regularly by GridGuide and all that, there really isn't the kind of shadow market that there is for other equipment that Shadowrunners use. There is no availability rating for vehicles. You either find a seller for whatever it is you're looking for or you don't.
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The Vehicle List

You! Out of the motor pool!
2-Wheeled
Vehicle Dodge Scoot (scooter) Yamaha Rapier (street bike) Harley Scorpion (chopper) Mitsuzuki Aurora (racing bike) BMW Blitzen (Kaneda's bike) 380 11 5 5 1 4 1 3 2 26300 340 10 5 3 0 1 1 1 2 15000 190 6 3 4 1 2 2 0 1 12000 220 8 4 3 0 1 1 0 0 11000 Speed 80 Acceleration 4 Handling 4 Body 2 Mass 0 Armor 1 Seating 1 Pilot 0 Sensor 0 Cost 4000
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Magic
There are things that can be done that cannot be made sense of.
With changes in combat mechanics, it seems inevitable that there would be rules changes that affect the way magic works. And indeed there are. Most changes have to do with drain management, damaging spells, and Immunity to Normal Weapons. Because those are the parts of the magic system that directly impinge on damage, which has been scaled.
Spells
You point the finger. The finger has pointed.
Direct Combat spells inflict damage to a complete creature or object and cause damage that looks to the untrained eye as if the target had shattered all over rather than that it had been struck by something in particular. When a Direct Combat Spell targets a living target, it is resisted and if the caster achieves more hits than the resistance, the target suffers damage equal to the net hits plus half the Force of the spell (rounded down). This means that yes, if you hit a person with a Force 8 Mana Bolt, that the only possibilities are that they will take no damage at all (if they completely resist) or that they will suffer a Deadly wound (since there must be at least 1 net hit for the spell to succeed, and 8/2+1 = 5, which is Deadly). When targeting people, spell forces higher than 8 are generally pointless except for the purpose of overcoming Background Count (and capping total hits, if it comes to that). Direct Combat spells that target inanimate targets are applied against the Object Resistance of the target instead of having a Resistance Test. The hits on the spellcasting test are simply reduced by the Object Resistance, and if there are any net hits, unresisted damage is inflicted equal to half the Force (rounded down) plus the net hits, and minus the Mass of the target. Direct Combat spells can be targeted against smaller parts of the subjects in order to contend with less Mass. A spellcaster can choose to Powerbolt a door (Mass 0) instead of the entire building (Mass 6), for example. Area spells ignore the Mass of the target if the target fits into the radius of the spell, but if the target extends beyond the size of the spell, the spellcaster can choose to have the spell ground through entire objects and contend with their entire mass, or to limit their spells to only affecting those parts which are within the area in order to ignore Mass. The latter option is best exemplified by the movie Akira, where everything within arbitrarily defined spheres shattered simultaneously, and things outside the globe were unaffected. Indirect Combat Spells are handled like ranged attacks, with the Magic + Spellcasting test acting as the Attack roll, and targets are allowed Defense rolls as normal. Indirect Combat Spells have a normal base damage equal to their Force and are soaked normally. Indirect Combat Spells have some sort of Elemental Effect (even if that effect is merely a blast of force), and in most cases they penetrate half of the target's armor but are resisted by the target's full Hardened Armor (if any). Visibility and Cover apply to an Indirect Combat Spell exactly as they Chapter: Magic
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would to a gunshot. In the case of Area spells, cover applies as the worst of the line of the caster to the point of origin of the spell, and the point of origin of the spell to the target. Visibility does not affect area Indirect Combat Spells at all. Drain is also somewhat different: Stun Bolt: F-1 Stun Ball: F+1 Mana Bolt: F Mana Ball: F+2 Power Bolt: F+1 Power Ball: F+3 Wrecker: F Urban Renewal: F+2 Smoke Bolt: F Smoke Ball: F+2 Fire Bolt: F+1 Fire Ball: F+3 Indirect Combat Spells now cost the same drain as their physical Direct counterparts. Spells otherwise follow the standard rules from Street Magic for designing a spell. -1 Drain for Stun-only, +1 Drain for Physical effects, +2 Drain for Area Effect. The Wrecker and Urban Renewal spells are like Power Bolt or Power Ball respectively, but do not affect living targets, and have the -1 Drain for limited targets.
Magic Healing
Healing spells work a little differently from most other spells. The drain is based on how much damage the target has suffered, not on what force the spell is cast at. The base Drain is simply one more than the damage level the target is operating under. So that looks like this:
Table 7: Base Drain for Heal by Wound Level Wound Boxes 0 1-2 3-5 6-9 10 Dying Drain 1 (why?) 2 3 4
Since the Drain level is not dependent upon the Force, but the maximum number of healed boxes are, Heal is normally only cast at two Forces. Either Force = Magic Attribute, or Force = Double Magic Attribute. The higher
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force can potentially heal more boxes, but the Drain it causes is lethal damage. Wounds caused by drain cannot be healed by magical spells, but the filled wound boxes still count for calculating Drain when using a healing spell (presumably to heal other wound boxes). A set of injuries can only be healed one amount. If you cast second healing spell on the same injuries, it only heals any wound boxes if it achieves more hits than the previous healing spell. The Stabilize spell has constant Drain, and converts a character from Deadly to Incapacitating injuries. This can be used before casting a Heal spell to reduce the base Drain from 6 to 5. Limited versions of the Heal spell exist. The spell Treat Injuries is a Heal spell that can only be used within an hour of the injuries being inflicted. The spell Wholeness of Body is a Heal spell that can only be used on living targets with no implants or spiritual possession. In either case, Drain is calculated like for Heal but one less. For example: Using Treat on a newly acquired Moderate Wound would have a Drain of 2. Expanded versions of the Heal spell also exist. Distance Medicine is like Heal but can be used out to LOS. Health Snap is a Heal spell that becomes Permanent in just a single round. These expanded Heal spells have a Drain one higher than the norm, for example using Distance Medicine on a Moderate Wound across the street would have a Drain of 4. Some magical field medics know several versions of Heal in order to adjust their use of magic to the situation.
Spirits
Who you gonna call?
Spirits have some numbers that are unfortunate. Below are the new Spirit listings. But first, we need to adjust some of the numbers that are in those writeups. Spirit Skill Ratings are now equal to half their Force, rounded down. This brings Spirit dicepools into line with what other characters have. Secondly, Spirit now have metahuman numbers in their mental attributes. Spirits below have an X in each mental attribute. For unbound spirits, X is equal to 2. For bound spirits, X is 3. For Queen spirits, X is 5. Ally spirits use the mental attributes of their conjurer. And Good Merge inhabitation spirits use the mental attributes of the host (the spirit uses whichever is higher in the case of a Good Merge Ally spirit). As always, the minimums are 1, so if a spirit has a negative modifier to an attribute equal or greater than their Force, that attribute is still 1. All spirits have a Magic and Essence equal to their Force. All spirits have the Astral Form power while they are completely Astral. All spirits have the Sapience Power. Spirits have the Materialization power if they are summoned by conjurers of a Materialization Tradition; Possession if they come from a Possession Tradition, and Inhabitation if they come from an Inhabitation Tradition. Spirits are naturally Astral, and use their regular Physical stats while on the Astral plane. While materialized, or possessing or inhabiting a physical body, spirits get Immunity to Normal Weapons, which provides Hardened Armor equal to the spirit's Magic Attribute (not double their magic attribute).
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Air Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F-2 F+3 F+3 X X X X Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Flight, Natural Ranged Weapon, Perception, Unarmed Combat Powers: Accident, Concealment, Confusion, Engulf (Air), Flight (75), Movement, Search Optional Powers: Elemental Attack, Energy Aura, Fear, Guard, Noxious Breath, Psychokinesis
Beast Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F+2 F+1 F+1 X X-1 X+1 X Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Perception, Unarmed Combat Powers: Animal Control, Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Low-Light Vision, Smell), Fear, Movement Optional Powers: Concealment, Confusion, Guard, Natural Weapon (DV = F), Noxious Breath, Search, Venom
Earth Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F+4 F-2 F-1 X X X X Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Natural Ranged Weapon, Perception, Unarmed Combat Powers: Binding, Concealment, Guard, Movement, Search Optional Powers: Accident, Confusion, Engulf (Earth), Elemental Attack, Fear
Fire Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F F+2 F+2 X X X X Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Flight, Natural Ranged Weapon, Perception, Unarmed Combat Powers: Accident, Confusion, Elemental Attack, Energy Aura, Engulf, Flight (40) Optional Powers: Fear, Guard, Noxious Breath, Search
Guardian Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F+1 F+2 F+3 X X X X Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Close Combat, Natural Ranged Weapon, Perception Powers: Accident, Fear, Guard, Movement Optional Powers: Animal Control, Concealment, Elemental Attack, Natural Weapon (DV = F), Psychokinesis, Skill (A Guardian Spirit may be given an additional Combat skill instead of an optional power)
Guidance Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F+1 F-1 F+1 X X X X
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Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Counterspelling, Perception, Ritual Spellcasting, Unarmed Combat Powers: Confusion, Divining, Guard, Magical Guard, Search, Shadow Cloak Optional Powers: Engulf (guidance), Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Vision, or Smell), Fear, Influence,
Spirits of Man
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F F F X X X X Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Perception, Spellcasting, Unarmed Combat Powers: Accident, Concealment, Confusion, Enhanced Senses (Low-Light Vision, Thermographic Vision), Guard, Influence, Search Optional Powers:Fear, Innate Spell (any one spell known by conjurer), Movement, Psychokinesis
Plant Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F+3 F-1 F+2 X-1 X X X+1 Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Counterspelling, Perception, Unarmed Combat Powers: Concealment, Engulf (plant), Fear, Guard, Magical Guard, Silence Optional Powers: Accident, Confusion, Movement, Noxious Breath, Search
Task Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F F F X-1 X+1 X+1 X-1 Skills:Artisan, Assensing, Astral Combat, Perception, Unarmed Combat Powers: Accident, Binding, Movement, Search Optional Powers: Concealment, Enhanced Senses (Hearing, Vision, or Smell), Influence, Psychokinesis, Skill (a task spirit may be given an additional Technical or Physical skill instead of an optional power)
Water Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL F+1 F F+1 X X X X Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat, Perception, Unarmed Combat Powers: Concealment, Confusion, Engulf (water), Movement, Search Optional Powers: Accident, Binding, Elemental Attack, Energy Aura, Guard, Weather Control
Watcher Spirits
STR AGI REA CHA LOG INT WIL 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Skills:Assensing, Astral Combat Powers:Astral Form, Search Chapter: Magic
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Drain
Drain of course has to be calculated differently for conjuration. Here is the new formula: Summoning: Force (round down) + Number of Hits. Binding: Force (round down) + Number of Hits (round down) Banishing: Number of Hits
In all cases, the Number of Hits refers to the number of hits rolled by the spirit in resisting the Conjuration attempt.
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Armor and Hardened Armor Autofire and Recoil

The New Weapons

Special Weapon Systems and Damage Rules

The New Armors

Chapter: Table of Figures

Pilot .................................................................44 Sensor .............................................................45 Cost .................................................................46

The Vehicle List

43 52 Spirits of Man ..................................................

Chapter: Table of Figures

Chapter: Table of Figures

Damage and Injury

Chapter: Damage and Injury

Unsoaked Damage: 0 (or less) 1 2 3 4 5+ *: Also, you are dying

Injury Type: None Light Moderate Serious Incapacitating Deadly

Boxes Filled: 0 1 3 6 10 10*

Optional Rule: Instant Death

Chapter: Damage and Injury

Armor and Hardened Armor

Autofire and Recoil

Recoil And Strength

Exceeding Character Strength With Weapon Strength

Chapter: Autofire and Recoil

Chapter: Autofire and Recoil

The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Light Machine Guns

Medium Machine Guns

Chapter: The New Weapons

Heavy Machine Guns

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Grenade Launchers & Mortars

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Vehicular Weaponry (continued)

Weapons (Grenade Launchers) Gunnery (Artillery)

Chapter: The New Weapons

KC-Arms 155 Howitzer

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Clubs & Chains

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Missiles & Rockets

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

Chapter: The New Weapons

I like to see where I'm going and also where I am shooting.

Low Tech Ammunition

Chapter: The New Weapons

Special Weapon Systems and Damage Rules

Chapter: Special Weapon Systems and Damage Rules

Chapter: Special Weapon Systems and Damage Rules

Damage Over Time (Fire, Acid, Etc.)

Chapter: Special Weapon Systems and Damage Rules