Nuar maze core items purchasable by non Nuar or other combined weapons...


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I have a player who is running a gnome mechanic/scholar who’s focusing on being a medic. He is now level 8 and wants to find a Nuar merchant to make him a combined gun, although the argument floats around the idea of combining two analog weapons. He feels that combining two weapons that already use the same ammo and his combined weapon would function like a real world over under shotgun or a kaltek shotgun with one barreled choked and the other just smooth bore.

He wants to combine the cone shot of the scatter gun, with the breaching gun. His stated goal is as a medic/mechanic and gnome. He wants a shorter range defensive gun with optional use for engineering too. Yes both guns are one bulk but he doesn’t want to change guns... he wants to flip a switch between functions. He accepts the price rules and bulk sizes etc of Nuar weapons.

The question comes in as per what defines a technological item and also whether or not they would be available to non Nuar races. He points out that with engineering he could make a rail mount version of a shotgun to go under the breacher... so why not combine them. As there are real world versions of this type of weapon.

I am interested in other gms views about allowing it etc. personally I don’t see merging both weapons as game breaking as he can’t fire both damage types at the same time. The limited range of the weapon also doesn’t make it over powering, he accepts the bulk increase etc. and so far he hasn’t asked for or taken a single feet or anything that hasn’t been based on medic skills his alternative weapon is the needles piston he puts healing serums in to shoot teammates at range with and it is still the same first level weapon. I think at level 8 he wants to be able to be useful in combat or breaching things his low star score doesn’t allow him to do. His level stat increases were int/wis/dex/con

I guess you could say I am looking o find reasons to say no but based on more than just arguing it isn’t a technological item even if it is made with gears and springs etc.. but it really isn’t an over powering things.. he just gets the option of a single target or a cone shot.

Opinions please.??


This is all homebrew stuff, so whatever sounds good to you basically... Mazecore basically requires everything have a battery. The closest approximation would be the undermount grenade launcher attachment, but sub a shell weapon for the grenade weapon.


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This doesn't really address the question of maze core items, but what is being described against real world options sounds more accurately to be a uniclamp (weapon accesory from Armory) to attach one gun to another. The only limits on those are "handheld item of up to 1 bulk" and are literally just rail mounts to attach stuff to guns.


That's a good call. I completely forgot about the uniclamps lol. But as long as it meets the requirements and you as the GM like it (or you just greenlight it anyway) then that's an option too.

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