Static range for blasters and other ranged weapons

[atgxtg]

Interesting. Since most firefights IRW take place with 7m, that might be a good cult off point for close range.

You might want to give pistols a slight bonus to hit at the shorter ranges to reflect the fact that they can be a bit easier to bring to bear and to keep a bead on a moving target in close.

Oh, one way you could come up with range mods for individual weapons would be to put the existing weapon range stats into a spreadsheet (or database) and find "average" values. Weapons that deviate from the average could get a modifier, sat +/-1 per 10% deviation.

For example, if the typical pistol had a close range of 10, then a weapon with a close range of 12 might get a +2 in close. If the typical pistol had a medium range of 30, one with a medium range of only 25 could get a -2

[CRMcNeill]

[atgxtg]

[CRMcNeill]

[atgxtg]

[Ning Leihrec]

This post topic read my mind. Naaman and Crmcneill are onto just the system I'm looking for. I'm going back to 1st E speed codes and using static ranges. I remember the speed codes being way simpler during action sequences and more fun. The static ranges and additional scale categories as I see them should be:
Point-blank
Short
Medium
Long
Very long
Extreme (out-of-unaided-sight)
Speeder extreme
Walker extreme
Starfighter extreme
Frigate (aka Crmcneill's "starship") extreme
Capital extreme
Super Star Destroyer extreme
Death Star extreme

[CRMcNeill]

LOL. I was actually thinking about this. I have an alternate version that might work even better...

In Mini D6, the system reverts to Star Wars 1E's Speed Codes, but then applying modifiers to the speed based on the type of movement/environment. The four classes are Primitive / Muscle Power, Ground / Water Vehicle, Aircraft and Spacecraft. I started thinking maybe a variation of this system would work here. Rather than having ranges based on scale, have them based on environment. Basically, weapons would all have uniform ranges based on the environment in which they would be used: Small Arms, Ground Vehicle, Atmosphere and Space, with the different ranges being classified in general terms or in range classes (several hundred meters, not 350 meters).
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[CRMcNeill]

So, for Small Arms, we have the usual Point Blank, Short, Medium and Long, plus Extreme.

For Space Combat, the Rebel Alliance Sourcebook lists the Primary Zone, Secondary Zone, the Kill Zone and the Long Engagement Zone, which would roughly correspond to the four basic ranges under the RAW. There would also need to be some version of Extreme to cover Sensor range. IMO, any space combat, whether using starfighters or capital ships, would use these ranges, with starfighters mostly being limited to the Primary and Secondary Zones.

So what would be appropriate uniform range brackets for ground vehicle combat and atmosphere?
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[Savar]

[CRMcNeill]

That will all be factored into the difficulty modifiers at a given range. For instance, in space combat, the shorter ranged ion cannon would have a higher difficulty modifier at Long range than would the more capable turbolaser.
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[Ning Leihrec]

Crmcneill wrote:
So what would be appropriate uniform range brackets for ground vehicle combat and atmosphere?

for this its a little trickier because of the common interplay of small arms and vehicular weapons. In this instance doesn't it make sense to retain the scale system? At least from character to speeder to walker? Once we're in outer space it makes sense for the various scales to be operating on different categories of the same range set. Or would there just be two range sets... Atmosphere and Space, with a broader list of range categories therein accounted for. The earlier scaling system seems simpler to my mind now. How would you work the mechanic for a smaller scaled assailant getting "under the guns" in the new system? Would larger weapons just not have a point-blank (or comparable) option? What am I missing here?

[CRMcNeill]

For that, I would say that certain weapons would have range values in multiple categories, much like how starfighters and capital ships have ranges in both space and atmosphere under the current system. Something like an E-Web might have the full range of personal weapons, but also have modifiers in the short or medium range for ground vehicles as well.
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[Ning Leihrec]

isnt that nearly the same thing as the scaled system?

[CRMcNeill]

[Ning Leihrec]

Wouldn't a turbolaser have no capability at point blank? Or just a high diff. mod?

For atmosphere combat it seems like one set of ranges for ground and air would be simplest. But to account for the difference in vehicle ranges and the speed at which they cross those ranges maybe speeders (land & air)would skip over some range categories, while walkers would have to cross all the categories to close distances but be ineffective at point blank.

Atmosphere Ranges:
Point Blank --- character / speeder
Short --- character / walker
Medium --- character / speeder / walker
Long --- character / walker
Very Long (out-of-unaided-sight) --- character / speeder / walker
Extreme (blaster artillery/walker cannons) --- walker