How does the Flamethrower actually work?

[Mightypion]

So,

in Rasputin must die there is this potentially fun, but somewhat awkwardly written weapon:
Flamethrower

I am confused by the following things:

--While a flamethrower is a modern firearm, it does not have a range increment.
RAW, this imho means that, since it has no range increment, it does not benefit from the "first range increments hit vs touch AC" rule, making it, as a flamethrower, the only firearm against which armor would work. Which seems rather debatable.

--Can you full attack with it? I dont really see why not to be honest.

--Does the "on fire" debuff stack with itself? Is it mutliple conditions? Can you only be on fire once?

I am totally not planning to throw an insane Ctixyron themed steampunk sphinx with a huge flamethrower ,who is constantly asking riddles such as "What is running away and also on fire? Oh yes, you are!" at my players.

[Lemartes]

My take:

It's fire so it is touch AC.

I don't think it was intended but you can full attack with it the way it was written.

You can only be on fire once.

You're the DM make it work how you want to. I recommend against being on fire more than once. ;)

The big bad sphinx sounds awesome. :)

[JiCi]

ALLOW ME!

I've asked that same question (and others) a while back.

1) No range increment, because it's a line. I mean, it's logical, since you're spraying a liquid, and not firing a bullet ;)

2) Yes, you can full attack with it:

Robert G. McCreary wrote:

I see no reason not to give a flamethrower iterative attacks - after all you're still limited to 6 shots total by the capacity of the fuel tank. So in that case, you could add speed to the flamethrower, and get an extra attack with a full-round action, but if that pushes you over 6 attacks for the round, you're out of luck.

That's directly from Robert G. McCreary, one of the Senior Developers for the Path.

3) Catching on Fire only happens once.

If you also want an extra piece of info: the threat range is 20/x2 even if it's a line, again confirmed by Mr. McCreary.

[Mightypion]

Thank you so much, Huge Silencing shadow shooting flamethrower he we come, (who needs fuel tanks ahahahahha).