Re: [HoE] Junkman Cometh

[Steve Wallace <ceesrw@cee.hw.ac.uk>]

> Which is intended? I think the former, but... The examples in the book aren't
> helpful, as they aren't delineated. In fact, I've had no success designing the
> same thing from scratch. Even the simplest calculations are no good -- for
> example, the Drain for a bolt weapon is three times the ammo size (times the
> drain mod for the Range Increment). Supposedly, the Drain for Marv's
> bolt-throwing plasma weapon on p. 100 is 8, working back from that results in
> an ammo size of 1.3333333333... which one can't get as an ammo size.
> Especially starting from 4d8 with a 5 yard blast radius, which comes out as
> 0.2 x 4 x 1.4 = 1.12, which means a drain of 6.72, which, even rounded up,
> comes out to 7, not 8...
> 
> The other stuff is worse, like trying to understand anything with the Commo
> power...

Soooo....
Would anyone else be interested in a ew set of junker rules 
that I've been working on?  Not done yet, but I'll put them 
up if people want a look at what's done so far...
--

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Then if you weren't already there I would tell you to go to hell
But if I spend my whole damn life trying to think of a curse for you
It would never be as bad as the curse that you dealt to yourself
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Steve Wallace
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