EXPANDED HIT TABLES

Author: unknown.

It’s easy! Just roll 2 dice, one for the main location and one for the sub-location. This is a much more realistic hit location chart. Leg shots, are less common (original they had a 40% percent of being hit), and torso shots are more common (just like real life).

[Karsten’s Note: I tried this out – it slows down play AND gives you the problem that you need to be much more detailed about what your armor protects. Covers Skinweave your eyes? If so, even when they are opened? Are your most private parts skinweaved? Would that work? If you stay realistic here, skinweave would probably NOT protect eyes, groin, and joints. This rule makes chars much more easy to kill. And having to look up stuff in the larger table slows down play.]

(0)	Head	(1-5)	Torso	(6)	Right Arm	(7)	Left Arm	(8)	Right Leg	(9)	Left Leg
0	Mouth	1-4	Chest	1	Shoulder	1	Shoulder	0	Hip	0	Hip
1-3	Skull	5-7	Stomach	2-4	Upper Arm	2-4	Upper Arm	1-5	Thigh	1-5	Thigh
4-5	Eyes	8	Left Hip	5	Elbow	5	Elbow	6	Knee	6	Knee
6-8	Face	9	Groin	6-8	Forearm	6-8	Forearm	7-8	Shin	7-8	Shin
9	Throat	0	Right Hip	9-0	Hand	9-0	Hand	9	Foot	9	Foot

ELECTROTHERMAL WEAPONS

Author: unknown.
These weapons are very unrealistic and overpowered. The default rules don’t talk about the many disadvantages of such weapons. Will all know that an electrothermal upgrade can only be preformed on a gun that fires cased shells. While the increase in firepower is considerable, the large list of disadvantages may make you think twice about using such weapons.

Heat:

Think about it, using plasma to fire a copper cased shell is not by any means smart. The copper casing ejects from the side of the gun through the sliding action. These casings are extremely hot and can burn your skin. Even normal casings can burn you if you catch them, but with electrothermal casings the chances of starting fires and such are greatly increased. Burning your hand on a casing inflicts 1 point for a normal casing and 1d6/2 for a electrothermal casing. There is also a 15% chance that a hot casing will start a fire if it lands on something flammable.
Also note that blowing up a clip of electrothermal ammo is a bad idea. Throwing a clip into a fire, will likely cause it to explode (most ammo will). Continue reading “Electrothermal Weapons in Cyberpunk 2020”