Throwing Weapons, Questions about them Options

[Zazen]

[Dr Komuso]

I actually have a player playing a ninjaesque character who was curious about how she might throw three knives at once. Y'know, like they do in the old ninja movies?
I wish I'd thought of the take out two, throw one in the air, throw two, grab the falling one and throw it strategy, if only for it's coolness :D But I basically came up with this instead....

Physical Adept Power:
Throwing Weapon Burst
Cost: 1 power point.

Allows the physical adept to throw three identical knife sized weapons (Defined in this case as no longer than 12 inches) exactly akin to a 3 round burst from an automatic weapon. Stage the damage code up by 1 (Typically L to M) and the power up by 3. All other factors, range, ability mods, etc, are identical to a single thrown weapon.

This gets really vicious when your ninja is using 3 dikoted knives with a 6 strength :eek:

[mfb]

rather than trying to limit the size of the weapon, i'd just limit it to L damage.

oh, and give it a cooler name. "dragon breath lights the eastern sky" or somesuch.

[El_Machinae]

If you threw a grenade, would you allow someone to do "brick" damage to the opponent, and then roll scatter? That'd be pretty funny.

Allofasudden, you'd get people throwing grenades, with intent to kill.

[mfb]

i don't see why not. maybe -1 power from brick damage (-3 for minigrenades), as a grenade simply doesn't have the mass of your average brick. but, yeah.

er, wait. i'd allow the grenade to smack the target if the scatter were reduced to 0 with successes. i doubt even a troll could throw a grenade hard enough to bounce it a meter or more off of a metahuman.