You can just put a light bayonet bracket on a small arm, so the free hands thing doesn't really balance all that much.
In fact, using bayonets is already good because it reduces the number of actions you need to draw all your weapons.
Yeah but you eat a -2 penalty on attacks if the weapon deals slashing or bludgeoning damage and that's most of the basic operative melee weapons. So you either need to spend a feat on advanced melee weapon proficiency or invest in a sword cane.
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Yeah but you eat a -2 penalty on attacks if the weapon deals slashing or bludgeoning damage and that's most of the basic operative melee weapons. So you either need to spend a feat on advanced melee weapon proficiency or invest in a sword cane.You can just put a light bayonet bracket on a small arm, so the free hands thing doesn't really balance all that much.
In fact, using bayonets is already good because it reduces the number of actions you need to draw all your weapons.
So then just get the swordcane, why not? It's not like the slashing or bludgeoning operative melee weapons are significantly better.
Is there even a need for more equipment? At least for weapons and armor everything is imo already covered.
Life should not be lived based on necessity alone.
So then just get the swordcane, why not? It's not like the slashing or bludgeoning operative melee weapons are significantly better.
In this economy? (wakka wakka)
Really, I was thinking this was more a back-up weapon anyway and I usually loot those instead of buying them to budget for better armor and guns so what I'd hypothetically be using is more determined by what my enemies were using.
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Is there even a need for more equipment? At least for weapons and armor everything is imo already covered.Life should not be lived based on necessity alone.
You've convinced me, I'm going to eat an entire sleeve of cookies now.
Some thoughts
- more items drawn from the Pact Worlds and their cultures
- more manufacturers and adventure hooks involved with those companies
- more popular culture drawn from the Pact Worlds & Vesk Empire, and propaganda from the Azlanti Empire
- more magic items (legacy PF item conversions upgraded to SF)
- options for GMs that want to include methods of gun control, magic control, anti-hacking, etc, in their campaigns. This could range from the peacebond spell updated to SF from PF, introduction of licenses, and methods on how to make a fake license (digital or material), or even technology that is the equivalent of a wheel lock clamp for your Starship/Vehicle or firearms.
- rules for different economics not based on the credit system, but can easily be adapted (barter culture, Star Trek money-free society, status system based on likes and dislikes from social media, etc)
- a katana
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With mechs coming soon, I'd like to see a companion robot (using the creature companion rules), robot building rules (with parts) or the option to get a Large drone.
I've... kinda gotten hooked to Netflix's Lost in Space :P
There is already companion robots, the Domestic Drone. But more Domestic Drones would be pretty cool.
There is already companion robots, the Domestic Drone. But more Domestic Drones would be pretty cool.
I... don't think that Domestic Drones follow the companion rules though or even the Mecanic's Drone rules for that matter.
I'd like a humanoid drone (or robot, whatever you call it :P) that follow the companion rules.
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Well, I'm glad to see I managed to kickstart the idea of adding smgs to this game. Feels good.
It would also be nice to have rules for weight of vehicles.
We already got length and weight for starships in the Core Rulebook.
For example, how much bulk is a Basic Enercycle?
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For example, how much bulk is a Basic Enercycle?
More importantly, how strong do I need to be to pick one up and club someone with it?
For example, how much bulk is a Basic Enercycle?More importantly, how strong do I need to be to pick one up and club someone with it?
Reminds me of an old radio sketch.
The car stopped on a dime... Unfortunately, the dime was in Mr. Rococo's pocket."
I would love rules for picking up vehicles and thowing them.
I would love rules for picking up vehicles and thowing them.
Funny enough, the giantblood theme got a special ability that allows you to throw things called hurl debris. But you're limited to a maximum bulk of your Strength modifier +2 and the item must be unattended or readily torn from the environment (at the GM’s discretion).
A standard car's weight according to google search is 2,871 lbs (round it down to 2,870).
To estimate bulk, as a general rule, an item that weighs around 5 to 10 pounds is 1 bulk (and every multiple of 10 is an additional bulk).
So a standard urban cruiser would be 287 bulk (GM's discretion).
So you would be able to maybe lift and hurl pieces of a vehicle.
I would love rules for picking up vehicles and thowing them.Funny enough, the giantblood theme got a special ability that allows you to throw things called hurl debris. But you're limited to a maximum bulk of your Strength modifier +2 and the item must be unattended or readily torn from the environment (at the GM’s discretion).
A standard car's weight according to google search is 2,871 lbs (round it down to 2,870).
To estimate bulk, as a general rule, an item that weighs around 5 to 10 pounds is 1 bulk (and every multiple of 10 is an additional bulk).
So a standard urban cruiser would be 287 bulk (GM's discretion).
So you would be able to maybe lift and hurl pieces of a vehicle.
Not that it matters too much, since vehicles will never be given an official bulk value, but I wouldn't be surprised if its bulk was far less than that.
Paizo doesn't seem to translate stuff from IRL to in game accurately at all, which seems intentional. Like a car is only 10ft long, drives a max of 50mph, and I would assume it wouldn't weigh as much as you would think, similar to starship weight. Even the Warmaster's Harness is only 110 bulk, and that sucker is gargantuan.
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More civilisation-specific tech would be nice. I've got a weirdly specific craving to play a Kasatha firefighter, a noble defender of the oxygen-rich peace on the distinctly flammable Idari. That, to me, just screams "Bombard Commando Soldier", 'cos fire resist and foam grenades and heavy sustained 'shooting'... Obviously, I could just use that to explain the background skills, but it'd be nice to get some cool Extinguish weapons with Profession(Firefighter), sort of like a counterpart to the Welder but a Heavy weapon with area nonlethal cold damage? Or something to that effect. Obviously, getting something that specific is unlikely, but it's exactly this sort of thing that's why I'd love to get some sort of weapon builder.
Less wishfully, I'd really just like anything that shows off the design traditions and lived realities of the various races, planets and cultures.
A Spathinae Concealed Scatter-Smallarm that's actually a bajillion tiny lasers held by a bajillion tiny insects, or a powerful Heavy weapon designed for an entire swarm to operate instead of developing individual limbs?
A Skittermander Spring-Staff developed by the Vesk in an attempt to train and exploit the octapods' bizarre ability to launch fully-grown soldiers across the room with even the slightest Leverage training?
Powered Armor designed to utilise or even weaponize a Stellifera's Water Body rather than nullifying it, perchance with ice-construct weaponry?
Biotech designed for SROs to give them the reverse-cyborg experience?
Something designed explicitly for badass Bantrids?
AndRoIDS ArE The CooLeST MOAr AnDroiD StUFFS!?
Really, the options are endless.
Biotech designed for SROs to give them the reverse-cyborg experience?
Or, as scholars know it, 'The Centennial Man'
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I've dabbled at building a ship with mid-level stuff... and I often either ran out of PCU and ran close to a limit.
At this point, there should be more power cores with way more PCUs. I mean, both the game and the rules encourage players to upgrade your ship with heavier weapons and better systems, but there aren't that many power cores with a lot of PCUs. Yes, you can convert expansion bays into core housing, but... it would far less troublesome to get a power core with a variable PCU output.
Give me a core that can have 50 PCUs x the ship's tier level, so you can upgrade only the core with a bigger output.
Stargate's Jaffa Staff could be a fun design somewhere. Either a Adv Melee weapon with Charges that can fire Unwiedly blast. Or a long Arm that comes with an effective bayonet like thing for meleee attack.
Can already make something similiar with the bayonets of course (I like the "poin tand set them on fire" flaming long arm with a baton on it)
levaloch trident my friend.
levaloch trident my friend.Stargate's Jaffa Staff could be a fun design somewhere. Either a Adv Melee weapon with Charges that can fire Unwiedly blast. Or a long Arm that comes with an effective bayonet like thing for meleee attack.
Can already make something similiar with the bayonets of course (I like the "poin tand set them on fire" flaming long arm with a baton on it)
I would go more with the Shadowstaff from AA1.
DRUGS there are not enough drugs to mess around with. plus either an archetype or series of feats that makes taking drugs more appealing/effective.
and speaking of feats, more feats to support dual wielding sidearms to better support the John Woo fantasy.
I'll second this, not necessarily in the armory, possibly in the current AP about average Joes scraping by, FFoD, but some drug centric things would be a good call. A feat or 2 to reduce the penalties and some more drug choices would be cool.
I'd love to see a lot more of the obscure and barely used weapon properties get some more limelight. Like wide line, subtle, extinguish, fiery, gravitation, mire, necrotic, more than 1 recall weapon, underwater, etc.
Especially like some useful shield projectors. As is they're just mind boggling. Fun at a glance, but the second you try to use them they're pretty much useless. Have to hit AC, provide very little actual shield, no way to increase the shielding like weapon spec, etc. Just making them an auto hit would be far more useful, then I won't have to risk failing to hit, presumably the tankiest character in my group, to provide a tiny shield that deflects on average very little damage. You could then hook it up to a computer interface even and actually make them great lol.
Certainly not power creep slapping everything together though lol. But some more of these in action would be nice. Even a ruleset for adding them on, either fusions for them or manufacturer mods, or even DIY weapon property add on rules like the starship ones for adding array and whatnot.
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More solarian fusions would be nice.
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We need more arm systems augmentations.
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Speaking of augments: I still think there's a gap that needs to be filled in augments that recreate various species' native senses/physiology.
I was surprised that these sorts of things weren't included in AA4's Species Grafts. Want to have your spine (or similar) replaced to allow you to roll into a defensive ball like a bolida, or have extra blood-sacs implated into your eyes to squirt blood at an enemy like an ikeshti, or even weirder stuff? Sure, no problem. But there aren't rules for putting plain ol' "Mk 1 Human Eyeballs" into a Vlaka that wants to see, or a voice box into a stellifera that wants to speak with sound instead of telepathy? Bah.
Gunbrella(Umbrella with Gun function)!
If you're going to do that, I want the whole Kingsmen umbrella.