Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[WickedRoland]

How would you handle Pepper Spray in combat?

Here's my ideas so far but looking for help.

Pepper Spray Range 1/2/4 Damage: Special Cost: 10$ Weight: ---
Shots: Not sure

So the effects I was thinking about were... Vigor roll at -4 or be blinded for 1d6 minutes. If the roll is made they still receive a -2 to notice rolls and attack rolls for 1d6 minute or until the solution can be removed.

Application is where i'm having the most difficulty. Should it require a called shot to the eyes (-6) or just to the head (-2)?

It just has to touch them so +2 bonus from Touch attack?

Also Pepper spray needs to be less accurate at a distance as it fans out, simular to a shot gun blast. How would you represent this?

With range penalties and called shot's even with a touch attack bonus it seems pretty difficult for someone to use when it was designed to protect women with no special training in it's use.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated.
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[UmbraLux]

I'd probably handle it as an Agility trick with a +2 bonus. I might be convinced to add a -2 modifier to Spirit rolls by a shaken pepper spray victim. Still mentally debating that one though...

[Wiggy]

[SlasherEpoch]

Rolling a 1 on the Shooting roll means the user is hit instead. My cop friend tells me this is a common problem.
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[WickedRoland]

[marshal kt]

it also depends on the target.

i remember years ago, the late 1970's - early 1980's, 1 of the guys git his hands on somne mace, supposedly it was the 'military grade'.
we were all sitting, well standing and leaning, around a small campfire.. more drunk than sober. he had some and wa secretly spracying all of us. since it was cold, well cold for south florida, we had jackets on. we all got sprayed on the handds, face, lips. we all were itching and burning..but then again we all were so toasted, that we didn't notice it at 1st.

the nxt day we all had red faces, like from a bad sunburn.. and it was slightly painful.


so, i'd suggest that vs normal targets it'd b ok, but vs those on drugs, alcohol or with mind training discipline, it'd have a vigor or will save.
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[Demonicuss Krinn]

Speaking as a guy who got sprayed with the "military grade" stuff (during part of military training), depending on what you get hit with, it can seriously mess up your day. I got sprayed in early afternoon, and I was still messed up (puffy eyes, sensitive to light, stuff like that) until the next day. Then again, my NCO got hit, and he said he didn't feel a thing - until he got to the wash station. Then it started to burn.

Mechanics wise, I agree with Marshal Kit - those with altered mindsets (be it on drugs or some sort of mental training) get a chance to save.

[marshal kt]

hmm surprized markus hasn't chimed in.

i have a character in a sw babylon 5 game on rondak's portal tha thas mace.

here are the stats:

1 Chemical Mace
1 pound
Range 1/2/4.
Target has to make a Vigor Roll or be shaken. Each can contains enough for 6 doses. The trigger may be pressed down longer to release more of the substance at once. The target suffers a -1 penalty per additional dose (maximum -4), but gains a bonus of +2 per range increment.
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[Wiggy]

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[Wiggy]

Stranger things have happened
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[SlasherEpoch]

[WickedRoland]

This is actually for a Supers game...but guess it's a gritty one since dead Supers stay dead.
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