Odd weapons...., My players make me wonder some times... Options

[HullBreach]

Just curious what kind of odd weapons other folks have used as players or had players use as GM's.

Feel free to throw it all out there, improvised weapons, strange choices in firearms, weapon foci, etc..


I'll start us off. As a player, I actually ran a street sam who carried a baseball bat as a backup weapon.

I had a player who, as a gunslinger adept, insisted on only using Colt Single Action Army revolvers.

I had another player (playing a troll) rip the cyberarm off of a Yakuza enforcer, and proceed to beat down most of a bar with it before being brought down by multiple (4 if I recall correctly) taser hits.

[Larme]

One character that my friend played with was an Adept who used a dikoted golf club, and counted it as a mace.

[Stahlseele]

the monofilament net-gun . . grossly ineffective and hugely overpriced for ammo . . but icky and gruesome to use . . another one put a spur into a cyber-tail . . another had custom built cyber-ware this mouth whip with the thorn on it and placed into the arm

[Moon-Hawk]

Once I had a player try to build a staple-gun on a stick. He figured that when he hit people with them it would shoot a staple in and hurt more. *sigh*

[paws2sky]

Once I had a player try to build a staple-gun on a stick. He figured that when he hit people with them it would shoot a staple in and hurt more. *sigh*

That sounds like something a 9 year old would come up with.

Yoink! *files idea away in case I ever get to play or GM Changeling again*

[Jaid]

I had another player (playing a troll) rip the cyberarm off of a Yakuza enforcer, and proceed to beat down most of a bar with it before being brought down by multiple (4 if I recall correctly) taser hits.

...

did he tell the enforcer to stop hitting himself while bludgeoning him with his own arm? (if i was in charge of that character, i would've =P )

[Insomnia Strikes...]

I recently started playing and adept who is addicted to roleplaying games. Thanks to missle mastery and power throw her weapon of choice is the 12 mm dice she always carries around.

[DocTaotsu]

Hands down the goofiest weapon ever introduced into a game.

Dikoted Toaster, wielded by spinning it around by the cord and throwing it at things (was used with custom active skill "Urban Hunting")

I think the player was trying to poke fun at some of the goofy SR2-3 rules. Still...

[Rasumichin]

I had another player (playing a troll) rip the cyberarm off of a Yakuza enforcer, and proceed to beat down most of a bar with it before being brought down by multiple (4 if I recall correctly) taser hits.

Beating people up with their own arms is classic.

[Stahlseele]

i knew i had that somewhere
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1137/127697...8f78c1903_o.jpg
*gg*

[Spike]

Had a fellow player in one game who's concept boiled down to 'the latest James Bond Simsense Actor', who lived his role on the streets as part of his gig.

He used the golf club schtick but took it further, explody golfballs he'd 'launch' via tee shot, explody headed 'drivers' and so on. Guess he figured the golf club thing went with the tuxedo and goofy accent.

[Revolution]

In third edition I had a troll street sam who specialized in using a di-koted Gravestone. It was his that the company that had screwed him and thought him dead used on his empty grave, it was even still engraved with his info.

[suppenhuhn]

I once had a troll throwing adept that used a dwarven close combat adept as throwing weapon. Mebbe we played too much Blood Bowl before (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

[Tarantula]

Any adept with missile mastery is usually fairly entertaining. We had one in a game once with a moderate addiction to fast food (not to mention being obese and rigging inclined). Regardless, his preferred weapon was to huck french fries at people, then proclaim how bad they were for your health.

[Limited Infinity]

I had a were panther that had a collar that released into a monofilament whip

[Kyoto Kid]

...Tomoe Sasaki (3rd ed) was an ace with her beanball attack (called shot). Had one hell of a fastball & could usually knock an opponent out in one throw.

...the funny thing was she wasn't even an adept, just a lot of bio & cyber along with one helluva of a Throwing (Pitching) skill.

[OneThirtyEight]

A dead goose. Seriously.

[Kyoto Kid]

...now that deserves a (IMG:style_emoticons/default/notworthy.gif)

...followed by a couple three (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif)

[nathanross]

Any adept with missile mastery is usually fairly entertaining. We had one in a game once with a moderate addiction to fast food (not to mention being obese and rigging inclined). Regardless, his preferred weapon was to huck french fries at people, then proclaim how bad they were for your health.

Never imagined getting my eye taken out by a deep fried potato. Fresh fruit on the other hand...

[krakjen]

A sharpened troll-sized spade.
Using the edge for killing and the flat for stunning (well, with a few broken bones sometimes...)
That was kinda ugly.

[Cardul]

In 3rd Edition, a Troll samurai in one game picked up a Jackrabbit and threw it into a squad of corp sec(the driver, BTW, was still inside!)

I believe my reaction was "Ok..um..don't say no, assign a difficulty..and..um..OK..how much damage would a car do if thrown onto someone?"

[Method]

I currently have a throwing adept in my RL group who walks around with nothing more than a pocketful of coasters he stole at a bar and a 2' X 4' which he recently used to take out a ganger on a motorcycle...

Once had a player (running a cybersam) pull the arm off an ork ganger and beat his friends with it. Old hat, i know, except afterward the PC reattached it for him... with a knife through the shoulder. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ork.gif)

Not exactly related, but another player in that group was running a throwing adept who also happened to be a womanizing man-whore. He actually payed to have a cure disease spell anchored on his, um... "special weapon".

Had another player use an anti-ship explosive device as a melee weapon. Blew up his PC and another just to piss off the other player. This infamously came to be known as "The Hull Cracker Incident" among our group.

[ornot]

<snip>Not exactly related, but another player in that group was running a throwing adept who also happened to be a womanizing man-whore. He actually payed to have a cure disease spell anchored on his, um... "special weapon". <snip>

Hmm.. did the anchoring ritual involve tattoos?

where's the ouch emoticon?

[ElFenrir]

Hmm...i havn't seen anything odd. I have one character who loathes using firearms and even weapons, sticking to only unarmed combat, but will toss a knife or a flashbang(flash-pak setup preferred) if it's REALLY REALLY necessary, but that's more to open things up for some buttkicking.

Oh, i did have a rigger who had a cyberleg(recieved after an accident), who decided he'd pimp it out with his obsession with tinkering with everything(think the guy who is never happy with a mechanical object), and installed a blade in the foot; he heavily modified his boot so it could slip out, and he trained himself to fight with it. Not too over-the-top though. Now, if he gets the means(he's alive and well) to install a mini-rocket in his knee? Then things might get interesting. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/grinbig.gif)

Metahuman bodies(usually still alive) have been used of course(with or without permission. This never resulted in death, though. Just some bumps.)

Erm, and to the post above...well it wasn't a weapon per se but there was my ex rocker turned sam who on a drunken bet one night(he has no memory), got a certain part of his replaced with a more mechanical version. (yes, we used this object from the other game in Shadowrun.)

Though i suppose it could make for an emergency surprise if they got captured if it was outfitted with some recoil compensators and a two shot bullet sys.....arg arg arg forget i said that *grabs the brain bleach, removes brain, and begins scrubbing vigorously before throwing it in the steam washer*

#&%¤, after the dead goose i think i'm out of ideas. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif)

[hermit]

Though i suppose it could make for an emergency surprise if they got captured if it was outfitted with some recoil compensators and a two shot bullet sys

This so reminds me of that Guy from 'from Dusk Till dawn' ... Sex Machine, I think, and his crotch dual-drum revolver.

Best abuse of a weapon I've known was pretty mild - the dikote'd Barret 121 with a dikote'd underbarrel bayonet fitted. Or various improvised weapons, like flamethrowers from hair spray cans and pocket lighters, or the rapid reaction missile mastery adept who caught and threw back an arrow at the shooter, killing him.

And then there was this troll street preacher/combat adept who had this modified ... well, we ruled it'd be a halberd - a pole with a dikote'd cardbord sign that said "the end is near!" He also used to yell that at people before chopping them to bits with hs ... well, sort of halberd.