Weapons

Sometimes your physical body is just not enough, and you need to arm yourself in a case of an emergency. This is where weapons come in. Weapons range from modern to antiques, from swords to guns, from melee to ranged... and everything in-between. A weapon says as much about the character as their other abilities and often reflects the personality of the one who wields it. Whether a huge hammer or a small dagger, there's always a reason why fight with the weapons they do.

If punches and kicks are not enough, you might consider buying yourself a weapon. When doing so, there are some things you must first decide about your weapon. The first is if the weapon is modern or classical. This is an important decision as it is tied with what you mean to use your weapon against. By having an either modern or classical weapon, when using it your damage type changes to one or the other. Unarmed attacks, however, have their own category. There's also a fourth, supernatural category, which is not available for normal weapons.

• Unarmed attacks do not care about the damage triangle of modern, classical and supernatural. Instead, unarmed attacks are counted as Base versus all types of armor, except for unarmored defense itself. This is explained further in the Armor Section.
• Modern weapons are things that while maybe difficult to obtain, are product of modern times. An army knife, a switchblade, a baseball bat, a pistol, a shotgun... these are all modern weapons. Modern weapons are most effective against things like mages.
• Classical weapons are things that may be exceedingly difficult to obtain in modern society, and often have a rich history behind them, meaning they have collected numen that gives them slight supernatural properties.Classical weapons are most effective against things like monsters.
• Supernatural weapons are things that cannot be found within the human world, meaning they are product of the turnside. Supernatural weapons involve claws of monsters, their fangs and whatever various insidious attacks they have. Supernatural weapons are most effective against things like humans.

Next, you must decide what size category the weapon in question is, and what its range is. The size category affects how much damage score bonus the weapon in question gives, though it also means that heavier weapons cannot be carried by those with insufficient amount of strength. The three size categories, their damage score bonuses and few examples, are as follows:

• Light Weapons cost 5 AP and give +3 bonus to your total damage score. If the weapons themselves allow it, you are able to wield two Light Weapons, one in each hand – this allows you to attack twice for each Attack you make. Things such as daggers, truncheons, shortbows and small sidearms count as light weapons.
• Medium Weapons cost 10 AP and give +6 bonus to your total damage score. Medium weapons are usually wielded with one hand, and allow carrying a shield at the same time. Things such as swords, baseball bats, crossbows and shotguns count as medium weapons.
• Heavy Weapons cost 20 AP and give +10 bonus to your total damage score. In most cases, Heavy weapons require two hands to wield, disallowing dual-wielding and carrying a shield. Things such as greatswords, sledgehammers, longbows and sniper rifles count as heavy weapons.

There are some special rules when it comes to Light, Medium and Heavy Weapons. In case of Light Weapons, it is possible to wield two Light Weapons at the same time, one in each hand. Whenever you make an attack and strike with you main-hand weapon, you can make an additional attack with your off-hand weapon. This off-hand weapon does 50% of the full damage, just as if you were making multiple attacks in a Turn. Medium weapons cannot be dual-wielded, but they require only one hand to utilize. Meanwhile, Heavy Weapons are powerful but can only be used with two hands.

There is one side note here, which is the gun category of weapons. Guns do not get their damage score from strength, as should be obvious. They are bought just like any other weapon, and have damage equal to the bonus that the Weight Class brings. In addition, the user can pay AP in character creation to increase the amount of damage that guns do. Each gun can have their damage increased to the maximum of twice the base damage, as described below. The list also shows how much +1 point of damage increase costs for each Weight Class of guns.

• Gun, Light: Maximum damage of 6. +1 Damage costs 7 AP.
• Gun, Medium: Maximum damage of 12. +1 Damage costs 6 AP.
• Gun, Heavy: Maximum damage of 20. +1 Damage costs 5 AP.

The three range categories are melee, medium and ranged. You must decide the range of your weapon as it decides what sort of fighting style should you utilize with the weapon in question. Melee-range weapons are meant to be used close up to the enemy, being things like hammers. Medium-range weapons are meant to have a range advantage over enemies with melee weapons, being things like spears. Long range weapons are meant to snipe your enemies from afar and before they can close in, being things like shuriken. Each category has their strengths and weaknesses, which we will go over now:

• Melee-range Weapons can only strike within 1 meter, no further than that. However, they do not suffer any penalties from fighting at melee range.
• Medium-range Weapons can strike within 1 to 3 meters, but no further than that. However, they halve their Accuracy (rounded down to a minimum of 1) when the target is in melee range of 1 meter.
• Long-range Weapons can strike up to your STR Rank (F equals 0, E equals 1, D equals 2 and so forth) x 25 meters. For example, with STR Rank of C, your shortbow could shoot up to 75 meters. This means they have absolute maximum range of 125 meters. However, if the enemy is within melee range of 1 meter of you, you cannot utilize your ranged weapon as it was not meant for melee combat.

There are also throwing weapons. Throwing weapons count as light, long range weapons. However, they only have half the range a normal ranged weapon would have and they can only have a maximum Natural Damage boost from your STR up to +9. In addition, throwing weapons that have their damage reduced to minimum of 1 stay at that damage even if the attack is a critical hit.

As you may have noticed, when it comes to long-range projectile weapons that do not require strength, such as crossbows and guns, this equations of STR Rank times 25 meters does not function. Instead, AP can be used to buy increased ranges for such weapons. The utmost maximum range that can be bought this way is 250 meters. However, there are some limitations regarding the size categories of the weapon in question. They are described below, as well as how much AP it costs to increase the range by 25 meters in AP for each Weight Class of guns.

• Light weapons have the maximum effective range of 50 meters. +25m range costs 7 AP.
• Medium weapons have the maximum effective range of 150 meters. +25m range costs 6 AP.
• Heavy weapons have the maximum effective range of 250 meters. +25m range costs 5 AP.

In addition, the minimum range without any bought with AP is 5 meters.

And remember: If you have an idea for a weapon that does not fit the above rulesets quite clearly, do not be afraid to suggest it. Rules can be always be adapted to feature your idea, and more unique and strange weapons can be discussed and adapted so that they have defined rules.