Re: (TFT) Anybody make a definative guns list?

["Steve Burchett" <sburchett@gmail.com>]

This brings to mind how things work in Classic Traveller (Little Black
Books).

If you get into combat, pretty much count on someone at least going
unconscious, if not actually dying. Guns are downright deadly, and are
portrayed as such in Traveller.

I had a problem with this in the most recent campaign I ran in Traveller, as
the group was more trended towards hack-and-slash rather than roleplay, and
my campaign was trended towards role playing because if there is a lot of
combat characters tend to die a lot. They became discontent and now we are
playing 2nd Edition AD&D-- TFT wouldn't have been much better, as it is much
more "realistic" than D&D and would have killed them almost as often.

Which is why there are so many different gaming systems out there: to each
group its own! :D

Steve

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:02 PM, <pvk@oz.net> wrote:

> I agree that guns should be added to a fantasy game carefully, because if
> they are represented even semi-realistically, and even with no ability to
> reload during a typical fight, they can alter the tactics and deadliness and
> balance a lot, and players will naturally tend to focus on them unless there
> are major disadvantages to them.
>
> There can still be good fun interesting roleplaying with different weapons
> mixes. But if the GM hasn't mastered the balance of tools in his world, and
> is just doing something like using a well-balanced setting like Cidri and
> adding stuff to it, well, an exploration of the balance effects will tend to
> ensue.
>
> Also, to me, having any gun not do enough damage to possibly kill someone
> in one shot doesn't feel like it's really a gun. The suggested 1d6+1 pistol
> damage means you probably need to shoot someone 2 or 3 times to take someone
> out of combat. Generally, you level a pistol at someone and they're supposed
> to get scared and maybe put their hands up. A single-shot 1d+1 pistol isn't
> going to have that effect.
>
> PvK
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