Keklas Rekobah
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I've done my searches, check my archives, and asked around my local gaming stores and clubs. What I am trying to determine is the answer to the following question:
"What do the attack and damage matrices look like for Longbow, Shortbow, Crossbow, Ballista Catapult, and other notary sojac involving pre-gunpowder missile weapons?"
I run Traveller under Classic rules. I don't have any of the following:
- Traveller's Aides,
- Spinward Marches Campaign books,
- FLGS, or
- LBB's[/u];
I also don't have all the canonical CT adventures, and I'm not interested in an esoteric (non-canonical) D&D to CT conversion formulae or in converting MTU from CT to GURPS or d20. I'd just like to see what treatment Marc Miller has done on these archaic weapons.
There are times where a slingstone smashing into the faceplate of a TL8 Vacc Suit on a world with a poisonous atmosphere would be as effective (and quieter) than a shotgun blast at fifty meters - dead is dead, in either case.
And a merchant prince who takes an arrow in the back of the head during trade negotiations is just as wounded (or dead) as if he had been shot in the head with a laser.
I need to teach some hot-shot, hardware-laden, bohunk player characters that for all their high-tech gadgetry, armor and weapons, they can still be taken out by a TL3 hunter using a TL1 weapon.
"What do the attack and damage matrices look like for Longbow, Shortbow, Crossbow, Ballista Catapult, and other notary sojac involving pre-gunpowder missile weapons?"
I run Traveller under Classic rules. I don't have any of the following:
- Traveller's Aides,
- Spinward Marches Campaign books,
- FLGS, or
- LBB's[/u];
I also don't have all the canonical CT adventures, and I'm not interested in an esoteric (non-canonical) D&D to CT conversion formulae or in converting MTU from CT to GURPS or d20. I'd just like to see what treatment Marc Miller has done on these archaic weapons.
There are times where a slingstone smashing into the faceplate of a TL8 Vacc Suit on a world with a poisonous atmosphere would be as effective (and quieter) than a shotgun blast at fifty meters - dead is dead, in either case.
And a merchant prince who takes an arrow in the back of the head during trade negotiations is just as wounded (or dead) as if he had been shot in the head with a laser.
I need to teach some hot-shot, hardware-laden, bohunk player characters that for all their high-tech gadgetry, armor and weapons, they can still be taken out by a TL3 hunter using a TL1 weapon.
) It does have shock batons though.
