Just a little thought experiment.
I was always a bit dissatisfied with the way thrown grenades (or similar effects) are handled. Normally, a Ranged effect's actual range is based solely on its rank, and this seems a bit odd with THROWN grenades, whos range should be defined by the throwers strength (and not the grenade's blast power). In fact, by the rules there's little difference between a hand grenade and an RPG-launcher of the same power; IMHO the grenade should be cheaper, but shorter ranged than the RPG (so far, I usually took the Diminished Range flat flaw for thrown grenades). So I came up with the following idea for a houserule:
Thrown (1p flat extra)
This extra turns a Close Range effect into a Ranged one, by making the actual Increased Range extra into an AE of the user's Strength Damage. The range categories are based on strength rank, the distances are halved for every rank below 1 (so the range for a strength 0 thrower would be 12/25/50). An effect with this extra may never be Strength-Based (for obvious reasons).
What do you think?
I was always a bit dissatisfied with the way thrown grenades (or similar effects) are handled. Normally, a Ranged effect's actual range is based solely on its rank, and this seems a bit odd with THROWN grenades, whos range should be defined by the throwers strength (and not the grenade's blast power). In fact, by the rules there's little difference between a hand grenade and an RPG-launcher of the same power; IMHO the grenade should be cheaper, but shorter ranged than the RPG (so far, I usually took the Diminished Range flat flaw for thrown grenades). So I came up with the following idea for a houserule:
Thrown (1p flat extra)
This extra turns a Close Range effect into a Ranged one, by making the actual Increased Range extra into an AE of the user's Strength Damage. The range categories are based on strength rank, the distances are halved for every rank below 1 (so the range for a strength 0 thrower would be 12/25/50). An effect with this extra may never be Strength-Based (for obvious reasons).
What do you think?
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