Advanced Rules for the Employment of Incinerator Units in SWRPG

Some special notes should be made about the nature of fire. When a target has received cumulative damage done to the target equals 10, modified for the target's nature (for example, Wookie fur ignites if the damage exceeds the STR roll by 3, but a permacrete wall ignites if the damage exceeds 20 [note: most structural, exterior walls are a speeder scale target]). The amount of damage done by this new fire is up to the GM (based on such variables as the oxygen content of the air, the flammability of the target, and other such randomness). When the target has had five Killed damage results done to it, it is totally consumed by the fire, and is no more. Feel free to ignore the technical aspects of this, and use it more as a roleplaying device (I do).

Most people just hold the flamethrower on a particular target. This is not always the best way to do this. To spread the fuel around, one fans the muzzle of the flamer around. (No difficulty modifier, but it must be in the same range. If it changes from, say, short to medium range, use the medium range difficulty.) There are two ways to do this:

method 1: The area of effect is not nessacerily a circular one. Reduce the depth of the area to expand the breadth to it by the same percentage. Example: Ungor the Gammorean has a Merr-Sonn F-93, with a 2m area of effect. He wants to cover an area 4m wide. His area is now four meters wide, but only one meter deep.

method 2: The area may be expanded by one area of effect's worth of linear space for every two additional rounds of damage that you are willing to give up. Example: Ungor doesn't want to loose the depth of his fire. As a result, he lays his fire stream out six meters wide and two meters deep, but it no longer does 4D damage for the next 10 rounds. It now does 4D damage for the next 6 rounds.

These rules may be combined. It should also be noted that the blowtorches, like the SoroSuub F-34, can not have their damage modified in this manner. They are essentially just an aerosol spray fitted with an igniter.


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