So I'm working up a character who is going to be focused on throwing weapons, obviously, and was wondering what ideas the board could come up with for ammo. Just need some more randomness for my grab bag, haha. So far I've kind been hovering around the idea of a clean and fingerprintless business card for someone else to find. Then there is the oddity factor of throwing a bullet, case and all, at a person and having it kill them.

But what I really wonder about would be multiple stage weapons. For instance would any of you think throwing a tranq patch would be out of the question? Or perhaps a glass vial with a DMSO cocktail. Would it do damage and THEN transfer the chemical or would the glass just break? And finally, what about dinking someone in the head with a Hail Mary live grenade pass?

Additions or answers much appreciated.

pink cotton balls dipped in DMSO and something else

Back in second edition, me playing a missile-mastery using adept at a Gencon game got toothpicks banned .

For "calling cards", what about (empty) credsticks?

kinda like throwing pennies at people today and calling:"BOOOOOH!"? *snickers*

I like the credstick thing but I actually meant like a business card. Like the ICF (British soccer hooligans from the 70's) used to leave behind when they beat up other hooligans that said "Congratulations, you've just met the ICF" on them.

So you want to play Bullseye from Marvel Comics. Here you go:



Death by peanut!

Pretty much, haha

Personally, I like things like those squeeze toy stress relivers. Though beaning someone upside the head for damage with a live (pin pulled) grenade sounds like a fun idea.

My old throwing mastery character used the above mentioned squeeze toy stress relivers, plus bounce & mega-bounce balls, little toy gliders, die-cast cars, rubber duckies (the bounce ball kind, not the really big kind), marbles, ball bearings, yoyos, and kids pirate 'Gold' coins during his toy phase. Kitchen phase led to toothpicks, spoons, forks, cheese graters, spatulas, pizza cutters, etc. Just look at all the weird and crazy stuff in your kitchen drawers.

Bad Guy with Pistol at girls head: "Give up or I blow your girls head... *TWANG!* OH my hand! What the frig!"
Me: "Ma cha, yu know dat dar' uh cajun t'owing fork... don' ya be mak'n me use da spoon..."

I gotta update him to SR4

*facepalm*

So... how about simply RFID tagging a simple card with a transmission beacon and walking away. Not even doing damage with it.


Until the Sam down the block locks his guided rocket onto the RFID tag on the card and it flies into the guys pocket...

Buck Godot, Zap-Gun for Hire!

Now make him a Cajun and you got the character down pat. He also had a crazy tooled up SR3 heavypistol he called "T-boy".

"Ain? Dat dare coo-yon ge'cha intoduced ta t-boy righ'quick!"

Cajun English to English

"What did you say? That there 'Crazy' will get you introduced to T-boy right quick"

Clearly he needs to be modeled off of the Blue Rajah. Far better than any Bullseye or Gambit wannabe

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*Image by Zuzuzu

LOL anyway throwing erector set bits would be good or keys if he's a looker he coulf throw the keys to your harts.. you know the way to a man/ladies' hart is through his/her chest

The key is just to pick something not totally overdone and that makes people go "wait, what?!"

PC: I pull a twinkie out of my pocket and remove it from its plastic while listening to this fricker.
GM: Ok, he makes a slightly funny face and right back to talking about how important he is.
PC: I tell him "Wow, I don't think I've ever seen someone kiss their own arse so much that their lips were brown!"
GM: He stares at you in shock...
PC: *butts in* Is his mouth open?
GM: ...errrr yes.
PC: I zing the twinkie into his open mouth, full power throw. *rolls bucket of dice* 5 successes, base damage 6P
GM: *eye twitch* The twinkie shots into his gapping mouth and splatters in the back of his throat. He drops to the ground gagging and choking, rapidly turning purple.

Dry ice pellets, anything that burns hot when it comes in contact with water is also a good one (as the human body consists of mostly water.) Problem with a grenade I would think is throwing something hard enough to do more damage then an assault rifle if you hit someone with that kind of power expect unpredictability when nailing someone with it. You bounce it off someones head and you have no idea where it will go.

Or it explodes. Throw them hard enough and grenades might just do that.

Vials of Nitro!

Action Figures. Carry around a bag of little action figures or hotwheels that you use as ammunition.

A bunch of minatures from the tabletop game he plays every week.

pebbles! or marmels or however you call those little round glass things

Think I already covered a lot of these in later post.

I'm still partial to the super-bounce balls. Read up on some of the tricks the halfling rock skipping champ can do (its on GitPG) and imagine that will a ball that will bounce crazy far with little force. You can buy a bag of 250 of them for less than $50 shipped.

Carry around boxes of wax crayons. Your runner can sharpen them during social scenes, leaving little piles of shavings in his wake. Get a list of the colors here...

^^^
I like that one myself. Death by hot... wax?

Make it a spiky grenade (maybe wrap it in one of those dog collars) and it will stick to his forehead and THEN explode!

Peter

Some how spiked collar makes me think of having an imbued dog and a raw hide bone. Who's a good boy, Who's a good boy? Now go fetch the bone from the bad guys corpse. Good boy.

hamsters....I've never seen a rodent thrower in any game and think it would be kewl!

Fuck the toothpick: Q-Tip

Say it with me...

Grenades with nanites!!

- J.

cigarettes! think of the cheesy lines you could use!
as for the calling card get the right B/R skills and build yourself daikoted razor business cards, complete with whatever you want them to know.
paintballs filled with dmso and lsd! or even Gama-scopoline if you're feeling un-imaginative. you can also throw CD's.

I like the ball-bearings. Maybe etched with a picture or short verse.

Glass Vials of White Phosphorus.

It BUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRNNNNNNSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

mmm at Dragon con 08 I had a throw adept that killed a man with a microwaved eggroll.

Would you have to ready a cigarette that you are smoking before you do 11+P damage?

http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlockes-guide-to...e/602035p1.html

You could also throw a carrot into someones eye and tell them to have more vegetables a la Shoot em' Up. There are a few lines in that movie you could probably end up using at one point or another.

optical chips. then it can literally be a calling card. complete with recorded laughter or something.

Well, this thread has got me started at it. I'm in the process of updating Jean-Baptiste Beaudreau (ZHAW bap-TEEST boo-DROW, first name means John the Baptist) from SR3 to SR4. He is a Cajun Ork (Human looking) Throwing-Master with some Buck Godot mixed in to make it interesting.

How about a cat?

"Here puddy puddy pud... got cha..."
"Roooaaaaahhhhhhh *SPLAT*
"Oh gawd! The claws! The claws! Pull it out of my *Edited for public consumption*!"

how about drop bears?

Made me quit lurking to add this...

Jawbreakers

I mean, it can be dangerous already, but silverware is always a good choice as well. Especially the oft-overlooked spoon.

fast-food sporks

or maybe fires?