Radiation damage

Chabit Rane · Commander Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 460

How much damage does radiation do. From simple power plant blows to neutron bombardment. Anything that you guys can get me (writen and advice) would be great.

Boomer · Captain Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 688 Location: Terra Sol

I too am wondering about this. All I know of is the little blurb mentioned about the RAD Trooper about going into radioactive environments after nuclear and neutron bombardment.

This is very impoertant stuff, and can affect the outcome of certain battles if it is truly a standard enough imperial tactic to have an entire Storm Trooper division devoted to it.
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Argamoth · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 234

In classic d6 Star Wars style, I will make something up by he seat of my pants.

Assign the radiation a damage level. Every time increment, the players must make a stamina and strength roll.
Failure of stamina means the radiation is causing him to become fatigued, inccur a penalty as you see fit. Say normal fatigue rules, or perhaps a stun result.
Failure of strength means the radiation is doing damage to the PCs body. Radiation damage requires special stuff to repair, and takes longer to heal. Double the time needed to heal. If damage is Wounded Twice or worse, the PC can only worsen in contition unless they receive special medical attention.

KageRyu · Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2005 8:23 am Post subject:

Volar the Healer · Jedi Joined: 04 Aug 2003 Posts: 664 Location: Arizona, USA

The Empire doesn't appear to have nuclear weapons; at least none were shown or mentioned during any of the movies. (The proton torpedo may be nuclear.)

So radiation rules would appear to be limited to stellar/enviornmental radiation, industrial accidents, and accidents aboard starships. I would guess their power plants are nuclear or anti-matter reactors.

I could write a chart and some rules which would show the effects of radiation exposure in game terms, list some sources, and medical treatments. But it is quite a complicated subject.

Are others interested in such house rules?
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Chabit Rane · Commander Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 460

I know i would be interested in some form of rules for it.

Boomer · Captain Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 688 Location: Terra Sol

Yes. There is a Frikin RAD Trooper for this, and they mention the empire using irradiation weapons. So could someone please, please, just get the rules for radiation and the empire's neturon warheads and other such devices.
Make up something, that is what I am trying to do. There have been great suggestions here, but if all we have heard in the RAD Trooper description is undefined than this becomes more than just good suggestion, it becomes all we have to stand on in the context of RAD Warfare.
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TarlSS · Sub-Lieutenant Joined: 19 Aug 2005 Posts: 60

The Empire uses turbolasers instead of nukes, because Turbolasers have more penetration power and are more reusable and don't have fallout. A turbolaser bombardment can wipe out a city in an hour, why deal with the mess of nukes?

Oh. And Nukes can't penetrate shields. In the new books, the Joiner bugs or whatever use nukes for space battles. Not very effective. Not surprising, since conventional nukes can't penetrate underground bunkers and such, thus why things like bunkerbusters are designed.

Boomer · Captain Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 688 Location: Terra Sol

That's cute... very cute. Yes, nukes create radioactive fallout as a side effect.
I am asking about radiation as THE effect. Like a Neutron Bomb. Nothing but pure radiation, no thermonuclear detonation. Why is this so hard for people to understand.

And yes, the empire does use nukes. Mainly against primitive worlds that are affected by them. It is meant as a terror weapon.
A Thermal Detonator is also a micro nuke.
And I have rules for capital scale city destroying nukes.

But what about Neutron Bombs and other pure irradiation weaponry? Does anyone have any official rules on it, yea or nea?
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KageRyu · Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 7:39 pm Post subject:

I basically posted house rules for radiation above, relatively thouroughly too, some converted from Cyberpunk Deep Space. All you would need to do is determine the radiation of the device you wish to use. A radiation based weapon would have a damage rating, just like any weapon, only this damage represents Hard Radiation for direct exposure. An atomic detonation itself can produce widely varrying doses of radiation from 500 to 3000 RADS in the initial burst. For such weapons, determine a damage level for their initial exposure, and apply effects.
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Argamoth · Lieutenant Commander Joined: 06 Jul 2005 Posts: 234

I don't think there are any official rules.

Boomer · Captain Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 688 Location: Terra Sol

Well, sorry for flying off the handle...

But, basically, it would seem there are no rules for radiation weapons. So I am just going to wing it. I thank all for their house rules on it.
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