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Dumpshock Forums _ Shadowrun _ One Cyber-arm, Two handed rifles

Posted by: Samaels Ghost Jun 22 2006, 04:57 PM

Is shooting a rifle "careful coordination of several limbs" and therefore uses the average of the two limbs? I know very little about guns so maybe RL knowledge of someone else could help here....

Posted by: Lagomorph Jun 22 2006, 05:18 PM

Yes, I believe that falls into the group of tests where it would be averaged.

Posted by: Shrike30 Jun 22 2006, 06:04 PM

You could shoot a rifle one handed, but you'd be taking penalties to do so... even the shortest carbines are really built to be handled with two hands.

Of course, if the hand doing the shooting vastly outperforms the other one, it might end up with more dice despite a penalty than it would if you averaged your two arms out anyways...

Posted by: BlueRondo Jun 23 2006, 08:15 PM

Are pistols assumed to be fired with one hand? If so, that would mean only the attribute of the shooting arm would be considered, right?

Posted by: Shrike30 Jun 23 2006, 08:27 PM

Yes. Which is one of the reasons I ruled around things like Agility boosts for cyberarms

Posted by: BlueRondo Jun 23 2006, 08:33 PM

Based on the other thread about cyberlimbs, I thought people were trying to make them more useful.