Throwing weapons' rate of fire., How many can you throw? Options

[Botch]

I'm still big into LRP and I use throwing blades with most of my characters. I have 2 blades in scabbards on each upper leg. As I use the "underarm" technique I can throw them accuractely straight from the scabbard. Did I "ready" them?

[Kagetenshi]

Do they always hit point-forwards?

~J

[Botch]

Mostly, nobody is perfect. Enough that I am confident to use them as a closing distance attack.

Bear in mind these ones are injection moulded foam weapons!!

[TheScamp]

[Kagetenshi]

[Botch]

I think, "more often than not" is a better interpretation than "most of the time".

Yes, it is difficult to hit with the point, I found that the "effective" range is dramically shorter than the distance at which I can accurately throw the knife. Although in LRP I use weighted foam, I learnt how to do this with real throwing knives into targets and have a nice scar on my leg when I got it very wrong.

As an aside to those who don't know, it is almost impossible to hit with the point when you throw a knife designed to be wielded. A throwing blade has little or no hilt and is balanced towards the tip.

Do you have a suggestion for a quick draw thrown weapon with which to replace these? Not, shuriken, I have a irrational dislike for them and have yet to be convinced they're anything but a nuisance weapon unless poisoned.

[Kagetenshi]

Depends on the shuriken. The four-pointed stars with nice, long points are actually meant to do damage, the others are poison delivery systems. Well, the spikes are also damaging, but they have the same problem as knives.

Maybe some of those throwing axes that have bladed surfaces in pretty much every direction along one plane?

~J

[Herald of Verjig...]

Hurlbats

But what should the damage be?

[Botch]

Those hurlbats are pretty to look at, but which bit do you hold to throw them? From what I know of lobbing axes you wouldn't be able to quickdraw them. The reason for the knives is to hit someone at 20 paces with ONE movement of my arm. As I can throw equally well with both hands, "more often than not" is enough when you throw 2.

[Cirenya]

I would say one weapon, pr. hand, pr. simple action.
So an ambidextrous adept with quickness 8 and quick draw, could:
Free action: ready 4 throwing weapons
1. Simple action: throw one weapon with each hand
2. Simple action: again, throw 2 weapon, one with each hand- since they ready too.

The non-adept would have to:
1. simple action: Ready 1 or 2 throwing weapons.
2. throw the throwing weapon (2 if your are ambidextros or don't care about penalties)
Free action: Find something else to do...

[LaughingTiger]

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[mfb]

Arethusa appears to be ignoring the fact that a Simple Action is not a measurement of time. it's a measure of the complexity involved in performing a certain action--hence Simple and Complex. faster people perform tasks more quickly, and are therefore able accomplish more tasks in a shorter amount of time. throwing a shuriken--an easy task, or Simple Action--can be completed more quickly by a fast person; ergo, faster people throw weapons with a higher rate of fire.

[Botch]

Sometimes I just wish that game systems actually understood ambidexterity correctly. Oh well no point in upsetting the game mechanics.

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[Kagetenshi]

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~J