| From: | David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG> |
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| Subject: | Re: A little of this and a little of that with a Tesla cannon |
| Date: | Mon, 8 Feb 1999 09:13:36 -0700 |
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/ As for
/ the tesla gun...well Im thingin second edition lighting bolt spell
/ coupled with ares mp laser stats for power usage. the only thing is the
/ range is gonna be hard to work out...after all it will depend on
/ atmospheric conditions...any ideas folks?
Way back when I was playing Traveller there was an Arc Rifle. I don't
know if this was official, pulled from some magazine, or if the GM made
it up.
How it worked was it fired a low powered laser pulse to ionize a trail
to the target, followed immediately by the "lightning bolt".
The downside was that the lightning didn't always follow the path to
the target. Sometimes it'd veer off at the last moment. The chances
of this happening increased with the range to the target. Once it
arced into the ground 10 feet in front of the PC and sent him flying.
And, the "reload" time was slow (I think it could be fired every other
round). In SR terms I'd require a full turn between shots (ROF once
per turn).
But when it hit the target... hoo boy :)
Alternatively you could make a beefed up taser. You'd have enough energy
that you would only need on dart/line. Of course, the charge would
vaporize the line.
You could also set it up by firing little mini rockets at the target,
followed by the lightning, which would follow the rocket's ionized
smoke trail. This would probably have the same reliability problems as
the laser trail rifle.
Hope that helped.
-David B.
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