| From: | Tim Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: The Chromium Mage |
| Date: | Wed, 30 Jul 1997 11:48:17 EDT |
>> >Do you allow dikoted stuff at CharGen?
>As long as you remember that Dikote is heat - pressurized diamond.
>Whatever it is welded on needs to be able to take a couple of
>thousand degrees celsius. (Only for a *very* short duration, though,
>so some objects won't be affected.. but firearms, raincoats,
>backpacks etc. would *definitely* be affected. (The electronics in
>the firearms, if nothing else. The backpack, raincoats etc. would
>flash ignite.). As for dikoting armor jackets and such... remember
>that dikote is *not* flexible. Dikoting armor jackets etc. which is
>basically flexible will possibly stiffen them beyond usefulness,
>even if you could dikote them without ruining them.
Also remember that you wouldn't Dikote the ENTIRE cloth jacket... just
the ballistic inserts...
Given that they use melee weapons in the examples it's safe to assume
that things of that nature are able to withstand the temps involved (by
that I mean, things of that grade of metal or what ever). And finally, I
don't think you'd just hand over your entire Ares Predator with all it's
electronic toys attached and they just pop it in the Dikoting microwave
and when it goes DING they hand you back a nice shiny, albeit slightly
useless, weapon... it seems likely that they'd break the weapon down and
only dikote those parts that COULD wistand the heat... hm?
Just use some common sence when deciding what can and can't be dikoted
(I'd say no to a raincoat too..) and the rest is up to you and your
houserules as to how and when it wears.
~Tim
