What is a "weapon with capacity"?


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I was reading the Recharge Weapon cantrip and noticed in its target the sentence “1 weapon with capacity”. But what's capacity?

In PF2e, capacity is a trait for weapons with multibarrels, but such a trait doesn't exist in SF2e; the only references that I found about the term are the carrying capacity of some containers like the Null Space Chamber, but it isn't related to weapons.

So what's the capacity defined in this spell? Is it defined somewhere?


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Capacity was the original development term for what the rules currently refer to as magazines. If you go all the way back to Field Test 1 you can see it being defined there. However, sometime between Field Test 1 and the playtest they changed the name, probably to avoid confusion with the PF2 trait.

Recharge Weapon referencing capacity must have been missed when they made the change and needs errata. For now though I'd treat a weapon with capacity as any weapon that has an entry on the magazine column of the weapons table.

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