Exotic Weapon Upgrades

By Azraeus, in Rogue Trader Rules Questions

Is it possible to get a weapon upgrade for any of the Exotic weapons you may have aquired?

Like a sight for a kroot rifle you make have picked up whiles playing?

Some of the upgrades work for just Las weapons or Solid Projectile weapons, but if you have a Eldar Lasblaster, which is technically a Las weapon would a Las upgrade work on it? or is it to Unknown technologically that you cant put upgrades on it?

Technically it's not a las weapon, since it's listed under exotic weapons and not under las weapons.

Is it possible to get a weapon upgrade for any of the Exotic weapons you may have aquired?

Like a sight for a kroot rifle you make have picked up whiles playing?

Some of the upgrades work for just Las weapons or Solid Projectile weapons, but if you have a Eldar Lasblaster, which is technically a Las weapon would a Las upgrade work on it? or is it to Unknown technologically that you cant put upgrades on it?

Technically, you're wrong; The Eldar Lasblaster is technically an Exotic Weapon, as Magellan said. I know it's a technicality and that narratively, it's very much a form of las-weapon, but I get hung up on technicalities and it annoys me when people use the word "technically" wrongly.

I would say that whether an upgrade only intended for las-weapons would work on a las-weapon of xeno make is entirely dependant on the nature of the upgrade and the weapon. After all, just because a xenos weapon fires lasers doesn't mean that it works the same way as an Imperial Lasgun.

Since we are talking about an Eldar Lasblaster here, I find it highly doubtful that any upgrade intended for imperial lasguns would work. Eldar weapons are usually made out of wraithbone, contains all kinds of weird tech, and are psychically reactive, containing psychic triggers.

What upgrade are we talking about here, specifically?

It would be GM discretion, but RAW it is not authorized (as mentioned above).

I kinda guessed that you wouldnt be able to use many weapon upgrades if any on exotic weapons but just wanted to check,

Im planning on using a Pulse rifle in a campaign im going to play in and was curious if any upgrade would be compatable.

From the descriptions i think motion Predictor Upgrade is the only one available.

Oh and sorry About saying that A Eldar Lasblaster is technically a las weapon, i was trying to use it as an example as lots of upgrades say they work for a Las weapon

I kinda guessed that you wouldnt be able to use many weapon upgrades if any on exotic weapons but just wanted to check,

Im planning on using a Pulse rifle in a campaign im going to play in and was curious if any upgrade would be compatable.

From the descriptions i think motion Predictor Upgrade is the only one available.

Oh and sorry About saying that A Eldar Lasblaster is technically a las weapon, i was trying to use it as an example as lots of upgrades say they work for a Las weapon

GM call, but for a Pulse Rifle, I'd say that most presented upgrades would be out of the question. Motion Predictor should be jury-riggable or attachable, I'd say, and certainly a Sight of almost any kind.

Maybe the underslung shotgun, a melee attachment, or the one-use hand-flamer upgrade (I forget all the names), although there's an argument that a Pulse-Rifle is finely calibrated weight-wise and that added weight on the front would mess with that. Still, as a GM, I would've allowed it, citing that Pulse-Rifles are auto-calibrating.

But that's everything I can think of.