Weapon Design System?
Hey all, I'm in the process of starting a new CP2020 campaign, and one of my players has a Techie who specializes in custom weapons (guns, specifically). Has anyone come up with any kind of system for this?
Right now I'm thinking along the lines of a new weapon project (as in designing a new weapon from scratch, as opposed to slapping mods on an existing weapoon) requiring a certain amount of (for want of a better term) Development Points to design (allocate them to various stats in the weapon in a similar manner to mech loadout in Battletech), and you earn Development Points by making a series of Tech + Weaponsmith rolls, each of which represents a certain amount of in-game time devoted to sitting up late at night hacking away at CAD designs.
Once you've got a design, the easy way to actually make the gun would be to gain access to an autofactory, and 3D print the parts individually, then assemble. If you can't get to an autofactory, you're looking at machining the parts yourself, which would be a whole other series of rolls, and probably a lot of trial an error.
If someone else has already developed something along these lines, I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but if not, I'd be happy to post the results of this little experiment.
-- Ben
Hey all, I'm in the process of starting a new CP2020 campaign, and one of my players has a Techie who specializes in custom weapons (guns, specifically). Has anyone come up with any kind of system for this?
Right now I'm thinking along the lines of a new weapon project (as in designing a new weapon from scratch, as opposed to slapping mods on an existing weapoon) requiring a certain amount of (for want of a better term) Development Points to design (allocate them to various stats in the weapon in a similar manner to mech loadout in Battletech), and you earn Development Points by making a series of Tech + Weaponsmith rolls, each of which represents a certain amount of in-game time devoted to sitting up late at night hacking away at CAD designs.
Once you've got a design, the easy way to actually make the gun would be to gain access to an autofactory, and 3D print the parts individually, then assemble. If you can't get to an autofactory, you're looking at machining the parts yourself, which would be a whole other series of rolls, and probably a lot of trial an error.
If someone else has already developed something along these lines, I don't want to reinvent the wheel, but if not, I'd be happy to post the results of this little experiment.
-- Ben
