Re: [BNW] Firearms

["g. m." <gm1970@hotmail.com>]

>How prevalent are the use of guns by your heroes.  BRW seems to be a world
>that is a little "grittier" than the world of say Marvel comics (which is
>cool btw!), and I noticed that a lot of the heroes in the archetypes use
>conventional firearms and kevlar jackets and such.
>
>Does most of everyone's groups do the same thing, or do they rely on their
>Delta powers to get the job done.

Well, my current "Beta Testers" that I'm running BNW for consists of a 
Teleporter and a Tough. The TP broke out a gun in the second game, but 
didn't like having to use it. it doesn't "fit" with his character. He has 
used home-made bombs that are about 1/2 strength of grenades (which are 
seriously powerful, btw. More so than they look.) His other trick is to port 
an opponet into the air for the falling damage. First time he did it tho, he 
killed the poor bastard. Not that the gunner didn't have it comming. =] He 
also does a neat bit with the Teleport Others and Entangle tricks. he just 
slides a target into a wall without doing exploding damage. And unless 
you're a goliath, getting out is gonne be tough.

The Tough uses martial arts and the body-weapon trick to gain extra damage 
to be able to bring the pain and hasn't had to use a gun.

I can see that most classes, except for the Goliaths, Gadgeteers, Toughs, 
Scrappers and Fu Fighters will tend to have to use guns to be effective 
against their opponets. And give them AP ammo, and they can do a number on 
all their targets, and can even make the Toughs sweat.

As for how this affects the feel and power level of the game, it is one of 
the things that attracted me to the game, rather than sticking with HERO or 
going to ABBERANT or the new Marvel game. I'd been itching for a game with 
this kind of "feel". Not so much as the "low level" as in that the 
characters are impacted in the combat. Sort of like in SAVAGE DRAGON by 
Larson, where super-battles have consequences for the characters. There have 
been the standard "Ow! Stop! I give" like in most comics, but there also 
have been characters maimed, crippled, blown into comas and killed outright.
In most super-hero games, the characters, like most comic characters, aren't 
in any "real" danger. Whereas Spider-Man and Superman are protected by the 
marketing department, characters are protected by the rules. It's nice for 
combat to have serious consequences for a change.

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