Would it do anything to make the game unbalanced?

I find Slug throwers are really weak, and while I'm good with that, the lack of hard points kinda flies in the face of what can be done to mod a gun today.

Does increasing slug thrower hard points invalidate any other weapons that I'm not seeing?

Regarding slugthrowers, they almost seem to be more along the lines of pre-World War firearms, having the abiltiy to hold more rounds than a musket or flintlock firearm as well as cased ammo, but not much beyond that.

So it does make a some degree fo sense that you couldn't do as much with a slugthrower in terms of modification in EotE as you could with a far more modern weapon such as a blaster.

That said, if you want to increase their Hard Points by one for your own game, I don't see that as being potentially game-breaking, beyond the fact that slugthrowers are incredibly cheap to procure, and this might allow PCs to buy one or more upgrades that they might otherwise not be able to afford.

i would say the game is pen and paper and your house rules can differ group to group which is why alot of people play these types of games.

Tassedar said:

Yes, of course, but there are always unforeseen outcomes that can occur from simple rule changes.

Thanks for the input RD. I actually enjoy slug throwers in Star Wars, Made a few characters in Saga that used them for flavor.

They have to be inferior to blasters, but I like the idea of basic weapons having more flavor than "they suck."

If I find something that makes this option "unbalanced" I'll let you know. If you care.

i tend to take in game items and add rareity to them so say you kill a big brut guy in a gangster organization he has access to alot of weapons and armor that normaly would be hard to get and therefore he has a weapons with 1 extra hardpoint or is modded with a few things already that make it rare like a sniper rifle with a gernade launcher attached to it for example