More Player Generated Gear

By Gerhal, in Dark Heresy House Rules

Hello, I'm Gerhal. And I'm a gear-junkie. As a player, I often field myself writing requisition sheets for gear I need to acquire for my arbite, or for my comrades. Here are a couple of the items I've generated from the item generation options presented by DH and Inq.

The Harkonnen Las-Grenadier

Crunch: Good quality lasgun with auxiliary grenade launcher, and red-dot sight.
Cost: 3 x 70 + 3 x 250 + 50 = 1010
Extra Credit: The Harkonnen is a lasgun of special quality and manufacture. It comes with a low and high energy setting that allows it to control the amount of current siphoned from laspacks. The high setting deals 1d10+4 and low setting deals 1d10+3 but only consumes half as much ammo. However the Harkonnen is only compatible with overcharged laspacks because ordinary laspacks don't support this kind of variability.

The Lawbringer Mk III & Executioner Rounds

Crunch: Good quality vanahiem combat shotgun with targeter, and red-dot sight
Cost: 3 x 300 + 2250 + 50 = 3200
Extra Credit: "New" ammo type. Solid slug shotgun round with micro-brain and guidance system sacrifices the scatter trait, gains the accurate trait, and replaces the shotgun's penetration value with 3, ala errata manstoppers. Must be utilized with a targeter in single shot mode in order for the accurate trait to be enabled.
Executioner Cost: GM discretion - I'd say bolt ammo cost, or perhaps greater ala exotic ammo.

The Kovacs Tebbit Knife

Crunch: Best quality lathe combat knife with shocking and toxic traits.
Cost: 10 x 40 + 2500 + X + Y
Extra Credit: The Kovacs Tebbit knife is the weapon of a wealthy assassin. Not only is it a lathe blade equipped with shocking electrodes, it is a bio-weapon. Nestled in a small groove 3 centimeters from the tip is a self-replenishing reservoir of hemorraghic plague. The shocking electrodes as well as the plague injector may be activated or deactivated with a free action. Throw in a wrist mount for easy quick draw access.

X and Y are whatever costs you might rank with a shocking or toxic weapon.
X ~= 150?
Y ~= 1000?

The Aegis Tebbit Knife

Crunch: Best quality lathe power blade with shocking and toxic traits.
Cost: 10 x 1750 + 2500 + X + Y
Extra Credit: Pity. Sometimes you get lucky with power weapons when they seal over your freshly cut wounds. But once you've been infected with the hemorraghic plague, that hardly seems to matter...

(I've duplicated this post which I also made on DarkReign's forums)

Sorry but the power sword cant really have toxic, and shocking would be very very hard to make.

Because the force field around the weapon prevents actual contact with the target so the poison never touches the target..
And the shocking would have to come from a sparking lightning boltstream that would have cross the gap between the sword and the power field, very tricky to make.

Valid concerns, but given the exotic nature of the technology involved and its vague definition... I don't really care for the purposes of my group's game-verse. Power fields can represent anything from sheets of force, or fields that simply dissolve molecular chains. One can even hypothesize that a best quality powerfield (and its horrendous pricetag) may spontaneously generate toxins in the air as it passes.

Now i think about it the force field turn off as the sword is drawn back from a wound and allowing contact, are simply have an on/off contact operated by the tumb.
this would only the best power sword be able to survive, as the multiple start up power surge would possible fry the curcuit of any lesser power sword

or the field would only be along the edge of the weapon.

maybe doable, but definatly extremly hard and expensive.

Gerhal said:

The Aegis Tebbit Knife

Crunch: Best quality lathe power blade with shocking and toxic traits.
Cost: 10 x 1750 + 2500 + X + Y
Extra Credit: Pity. Sometimes you get lucky with power weapons when they seal over your freshly cut wounds. But once you've been infected with the hemorraghic plague, that hardly seems to matter...

What would be the purpose of a lathe blade having a power field? The field effectively nullifies the advantages to the lathe upgrade. Meaning the bonuses from the lathe quality would only be used when the power field is off. Basically a lathe blade is a mono edged best quality weapon with an immunity to powerfields and 1 extra point of penetration. As per the errata the mono upgrade can be applied to a power weapon but will only gain the advantages of this when the field is off.

Zarkhovian_Rhythm said:

Gerhal said:

The Aegis Tebbit Knife

Crunch: Best quality lathe power blade with shocking and toxic traits.
Cost: 10 x 1750 + 2500 + X + Y
Extra Credit: Pity. Sometimes you get lucky with power weapons when they seal over your freshly cut wounds. But once you've been infected with the hemorraghic plague, that hardly seems to matter...

What would be the purpose of a lathe blade having a power field? The field effectively nullifies the advantages to the lathe upgrade. Meaning the bonuses from the lathe quality would only be used when the power field is off. Basically a lathe blade is a mono edged best quality weapon with an immunity to powerfields and 1 extra point of penetration. As per the errata the mono upgrade can be applied to a power weapon but will only gain the advantages of this when the field is off.

I personally would enjoy this in my version of the 40k universe as a wonderful creation of Papa Nurgle to not truly kill but to ensure decay and spread of disease. The fact that the viruses can stay alive within the power-field is pleasantly tough like Nurgle is, and the effect of the field charging them so that they strike out at the targets much like iron fillings being pulled by a magnet only further enhances the wonderful blessings of Grandfather.

Yes, yes the Lathe blade is already considered best quality as per the writeup and sure it would be only useful should the powerfield no longer wrap the blade, but the fact that it's got a backup generator so when the primary charge fails and drops the Lathe blade is now akin to an Officers sword from IH, albeit much better considering the fact that the virus is still viable to infect the wound made from the now very sharp blade that stuns the target into senslessness ;)

Gerhal said:

The Kovacs Tebbit Knife

Crunch: Best quality lathe combat knife with shocking and toxic traits.
Cost: 10 x 40 + 2500 + X + Y
Extra Credit: The Kovacs Tebbit knife is the weapon of a wealthy assassin. Not only is it a lathe blade equipped with shocking electrodes, it is a bio-weapon. Nestled in a small groove 3 centimeters from the tip is a self-replenishing reservoir of hemorraghic plague. The shocking electrodes as well as the plague injector may be activated or deactivated with a free action. Throw in a wrist mount for easy quick draw access.

X and Y are whatever costs you might rank with a shocking or toxic weapon.
X ~= 150?
Y ~= 1000?

Hehehe, Takeshi Kovacks would make an impressive acolyte

Lath blades are always considered best quality and mono (last one depends on your point of view) and The Vanaheim allreay has a Red-Dot and a Melee attachement.

See descriptions of the weapons...