So... shooty staves?

[JiCi]

You know in science-fiction series, when there are guards with polearms that can also fire lasers or energy blasts?

Do we have this in Starfinder? Do we have attachments that can snap a small arm to a two-handed weapon, or something similar?

[Xenocrat]

We have the Draelik shadowstaves, which are integrated both in one weapons, and the Warmonger devil in AA1 or AA2 also has a trident that has a laser integrated in it.

Also Dead Suns 1 or 2 has Golarion artifacts that included an Arclord scepter that functions both as a melee weapon and a small arm.

[JiCi]

Xenocrat wrote:

We have the Draelik shadowstaves, which are integrated both in one weapons, and the Warmonger devil in AA1 or AA2 also has a trident that has a laser integrated in it.

Also Dead Suns 1 or 2 has Golarion artifacts that included an Arclord scepter that functions both as a melee weapon and a small arm.

I do remember the trident... but I don't recall seeing more general weapons like this.

[C4M3R0N]

Ooooohhh I forgot about the trident.

And there's also mazecore and bayonet brackets.

[WatersLethe]

Jaffa, kree!

[Perpdepog]

C4M3R0N wrote:

Ooooohhh I forgot about the trident.

And there's also mazecore and bayonet brackets.

Maze-cores are real handy, but boy are they expensive.

I could have sworn there was another way to combine two weapons together that was less expensive, but also didn't let you change modes as quickly as a maze core does.

[JiCi]

Maze-cores also have another restriction: 2 items have to be powered or technological. You cannot have one analog item merged into a powered one... when I fail to see why that analog item could just lose the analog property.

[Garretmander]

Perpdepog wrote:

I could have sworn there was another way to combine two weapons together that was less expensive

There's bayonet brackets for combining one handed melee weapons with ranged weapons. They're pretty cheap. Not always the aesthetic people want, and some people have issues with reskinning items.

[Ascalaphus]

When I say this thread title I thought "what if technomancers had staves that shot technomagical bolts based on Intelligence?"

I mean, looking at the precog, is it really a crazy idea?

And wouldn't it be an interesting break from the tedium of all the casters having to go to longarm academy?

[JiCi]

Ascalaphus wrote:

When I say this thread title I thought "what if technomancers had staves that shot technomagical bolts based on Intelligence?"

I mean, looking at the precog, is it really a crazy idea?

And wouldn't it be an interesting break from the tedium of all the casters having to go to longarm academy?

It would need to be a basic two-handed melee weapon, as most casters are proficient with basic melee and small arms.

[Garretmander]

Or just a held magic item.

[WatersLethe]

Staff of magic missiles that runs on batteries.