At that point, the need for modifiers went away.
Explaining to your players that R2D2's *Droid Resourcefulness *is as (if not more) effective at overcoming whole groups of opponents as *Heavy Blaster* or *Lightsaber* might help it start to make a bit more sense.
Another way to drive the point home is to ask any player who writes *Heavy Blaster* or *Holdout Blaster* on their character sheet why it's there and what it represents to them. If they say "Well of course I need a blaster to fight!" remind them that they don't need *Blaster* on their character sheet to own or use one.
*Smuggler's Cunning,* *My Father's Mandelorian Battle Armor, *or Leia's *I'll do it myself Damnit!* are far more interesting and enjoyable Abilities (to me* *at least) than *Heavy Blaster*.
If you want to strongly impress on them the change in mindset, tell them that they can't have any Equipment Abilities at all but are rather expected/encouraged to come up with Abilities that describe *how* or *why*they fight/fly/open doors/end communications.
On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 2:47 PM, David Dunham <david_at_...> wrote:
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> On 26 Nov 2011, at 11:03, Bo wrote:
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> >> So how many points of damage does a blaster do isn't quite as
> >> ridiculous maybe, but it's equally unnecessary. Blasters can be used
> >> to try to resolve story situations. Perhaps there are situations where
> >> Big Blaster has an advantage over Blaster, but in most story
> >> situations it doesn't matter.
> >>
> > I was thinking about that too. One way I was thinking of dealing with
> > this (because I have gear-head friends) is to give differing weapons
> > some modifiers (Hold-Out Blaster -3, Heavy Blaster +3, etc). But this
> > looks like it might be a wrong approach.
>
> IMO it would be.
>
> Especially because any gear-head knows that a heavy blaster, since it uses
> more energy per blast, has a lower rate of fire. The total energy
> dissipation, joules/second, is the same. So they should have the same
> rating.
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>
> > But I think if I do this I
> > simply look at the contest sides (PCs have heavy blasters the opposition
> > has regular blasters the Resistance is reduced by 3). This approach
> > seems to be in the spirit of the rules and a lot easier on everyone
> > involved.
>
> Or look at it the other way around. If for story reasons you decide the
> players need a challenge, describe them as facing heavy blasters. If you
> decide they should have an easy contest, the opposition is lightly armed.
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>
> David Dunham
> Glorantha/HQ/RQ page: www.pensee.com/dunham/glorantha.html
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