WEAPON QUALITIES

Here is the format for weapon entries (given as column headings on Table: Weapons, below).

 

Cost

This value is the weapon’s purchase DC. Rules for Credit checks to purchase items can be found later in the rules section. Unlike d20 Modern weapons don’t require licenses of any kind.

This cost is the same for a Small or Medium version of the weapon. A Large version adds a +2 to the purchase DC, unless the weapon is normally Large.

 

Damage

The Damage columns give the damage dealt by the weapon on a successful hit. The column labeled “Dmg (S)” is for Small weapons. The column labeled “Dmg (M)” is for Medium weapons. If two damage ranges are given then the weapon is a double weapon. Use the second damage figure given for the double weapon’s extra attack. Table: Tiny and Large Weapon Damage gives weapon damage values for weapons of those sizes.

 

Table: Tiny and Large Weapon Damage
Medium Weapon Damage	Tiny Weapon Damage	Large Weapon Damage
1d2	—	1d3
1d3	1	1d4
1d4	1d2	1d6
1d6	1d3	1d8
1d8	1d4	2d6
1d10	1d6	2d8
1d12	1d8	3d6
2d4	1d4	2d6
2d6	1d8	3d6
2d8	1d10	3d8
2d10	2d6	4d8

 

Critical

The entry in this column notes how the weapon is used with the rules for critical hits. When your character scores a critical hit, roll the damage two, three, or four times, as indicated by its critical multiplier (using all applicable modifiers on each roll), and add all the results together. For alternate critical hit rules, see the Rules Section for more details.

x2: The weapon deals double damage on a critical hit.

x3: The weapon deals triple damage on a critical hit.

x3/x4: One head of this double weapon deals triple damage on a critical hit. The other head deals quadruple damage on a critical hit.

x4: The weapon deals quadruple damage on a critical hit.

19–20/x2: The weapon scores a threat on a natural roll of 19 or 20 (instead of just 20) and deals double damage on a critical hit. (The weapon has a threat range of 19–20.)

18–20/x2: The weapon scores a threat on a natural roll of 18, 19, or 20 (instead of just 20) and deals double damage on a critical hit. (The weapon has a threat range of 18–20.)

 

Range Increment

Any attack at less than this distance is not penalized for range. However, each full range increment imposes a cumulative –2 penalty on the attack roll. A thrown weapon has a maximum range of five range increments. A simple projectile weapon (like a bow) can shoot out to ten range increments. A firearm can fire up to twenty range increments.

 

Type

Weapons are classified according to the type of damage they deal: Projectile ranged weapons deal mostly piercing damage. Other ranged weapons have additional types including explosive, fire, energy and atomic damage. Some monsters may be resistant or immune to attacks from certain types of weapons.

Some weapons deal damage of multiple types. If a weapon is of two types, the damage it deals is not half one type and half another; all of it is both types. Therefore, a creature would have to be immune to both types of damage to ignore any of the damage from such a weapon.

In other cases, a weapon can deal either of two types of damage. In a situation when the damage type is significant, the wielder can choose which type of damage to deal with such a weapon.

 

DRP

This column indicates the Damage Reduction Penetration of the weapon – a basic measure of how effectively the weapon cuts through armour. See the combat section for more details on how Damage Reduction from armour works.

 

RoF

This stands for Rate of Fire. In d20 Modern there are only 3 rates of fire. Auto, Semi and Single. In 40k there are more because the range of technology is more widely varied.

 

Automatic (Auto): Automatic weapons fire a burst or stream of shots with a single squeeze of the trigger. Only weapons with the automatic rate of fire or better (turbomatic and hypermatic) can be set on autofire or used with the feats that take advantage of automatic fire.

 

Hypermatic (Hyper): When fired on autofire the weapon fills a 3x3 rather than 2x2 square. When fired in conjunction with the Strafe feat it fills a 5x2 area. The Reflex DC in both cases is DC 25. When fired in conjunction with the Burst feat it deals an extra 4 dice worth of damage.

 

Rapid Fire (R.F.): Rapid Fire weapons can be fired on full automatic but are designed for soldiers in a static position because of their heavy recoil. Rapid Fire weapons are treated as being automatic if the character weilding has not taken a move other than a free 5ft step. If a character has moved the weapon is treated as semi-automatic.

 

Single (Single): A weapon with a single shot rate of fire requires the user to manually operate the action (the mechanism that feeds and cocks the weapon) between each shot. Pump shotguns and bolt-action rifles are examples of firearms with single shot rates of fire. A weapon with a single shot rate of fire can only be fired once per attack, even if the user has a feat or other abilities that grants more than one shot per attack.

 

Semiautomatic (Semi): Many firearms are semiautomatic. These firearms cock and feed themselves with each shot. A semiautomatic weapon fires one shot per attack (effectively acting as a single-shot weapon), but some feats, like double-tap, all characters armed with semi-automatic weapons to fire shots in rapid successions, getting in more than one shot per attack.

 

Turbomatic (Turbo): Functions as Automatic except the Reflex DC is 20 for autofire and strafe. Furthermore when fired in conjunction with Burst feat it deals an extra 3 dice worth of damage rather than 2.

 

Special

Some weapons have special features. See the weapon descriptions for details.