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What weapons do your characters use?

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#1
XanderCage72344
Apr 20, 2011 13:37:05 One of my favorite things about Gamma World is what people decide their character weilds in game.

My characters weapond aren't very creative, but in the setting I think they add a lot of character. I weild dual colt revolvers, the character is basically an old west gunslinger type. But my group has some pretty cool stuff.

what we have:
The tail of an anklysaurus (a flail).
An electric guitar.
A winch secured to the arm of an Android.
One character, whose player says he has the body type of a dwarf, weilds a minigun.

So i was just wondering what you use for weapons, and how do you classify them according to the table. An throw in a description of your character if you what.
#2
mvincent
Apr 20, 2011 18:04:19 The most common weapon I've seen in Gamma World seems to be the stop sign.

Slightly off-topic: anyone else notice that Ookla the Mock (from the very Gamma-World-esque 'Thundarr the Barbarian') never had a permanent melee weapon? He always just used whatever heavy item was nearby. A big part of the fun in watching those old cartoons was seeing what he'd grab next...
#3
XanderCage72344
Apr 20, 2011 18:10:46
The most common weapon I've seen in Gamma World seems to be the stop sign.

Yeah, or some variation there of. Like a yield sign or something. The parking meter gets a lot of play also it seems.
#4
cazra
Apr 21, 2011 9:03:41 pole-mounted hydrant.
#5
huduvudu
Apr 21, 2011 10:09:05 My one player, who is running a Wheeled/Nightmare, has a pair of hedge clippers that it holds in its functional forearms next to its front wheels, and throwing stars.

The guy who's running the fetal Alien/Gravity Controller has a wrist-mounted plasma cannon that he can alter on the fly to have the effect of several weapons.

The Temporal/Doppelganger has a gun that shoots miniature time paradoxes, reflecting his Novice ability.

The least interesting is probably the Arachnoid/Pyrokinetic's web bo staff. I think I am going to try to give him a quarter machine mace that spits out capsules that turn into ancient junk for every 10+level points of damage he does per attack.
#6
ChaoticGood
Apr 24, 2011 2:45:58 Our party's loadout looks like this:

+ Plant/Arachnoid: Hedge clippers.

+ Gravity Controller/Radioactive: Airplane propeller, with armor made from the fuselage.

+ Photonic/Mind Breaker: Eye beams, much like Cyclops from the X-Men. Requires her to press both temples to fire.

+ Speedster/Seismic: A modified shotgun that draws gravel his body to use as buckshot.

+ Magnetic/Doppelganger: Railgun built into his arms, so that he can stick any old chunk of metal to his chest, hold both arms out straight, and fire away. Also, a whip made from chainsaw blades.

+ Temporal/AI: He's a little boy whose arm was replaced by a time-travelling cyborg arm, which essentially acts as a temporal anomaly generator that fires (I am not making this up... this the player's idea all the way) tiny Buddha statues snatched from a kitschy souvenir stand in modern-day New York. All this so that he can yell, "Buddha Buddha Buddha!" and pump his fist whenever he fires it.
#7
carl_brisgamer
Apr 25, 2011 5:31:02
Felinoid/Engineered Human (ninja commando) - Katana (2 handed light melee), 5.56mm M4 assault rifle (2 handed light gun);

Empath/Mind Coercer (lay preacher farmer) - Scythe (2 handed heavy melee), Hatchet (1 handed heavy thrown);

Temporal/Magnetic (former Large Hadron Collider security guard thrown forward in time 150 years during the Big Mistake) - Extendable baton (1 handed light melee), 9mm Glock pistol (1 handed light gun);

Mind Breaker/Shape Shifter (Old West style harlot) - Parasol with sharpened point (2 hand light melee), .22 calibre small frame revolver (1 handed light gun).

My son's radioactive/seismic character uses a salvaged repeating gauss rifle.
#8
serok42
Apr 27, 2011 8:11:55 My Saurian / Temporal, Jurassic Mark, wields a T-Rex leg bone as a heavy club.
#9
scottymet
Apr 28, 2011 13:20:54 Rad-Cat(TM): Radioactive Felinoid - Uses a sledge hammer, and has a skateboard as a light shield (he also uses it to move around on, especially when he switches from using his claws to the 2-handed sledge).

George: Android Yeti - Uses a parking meter. We figured that his critical bonus to damage is coins flying out of the parking meter on a hit, pelting the target. Why do the coins never run out? *shrug* Who knows?! ;) He uses a big hunting crossbow for a ranged weapon.

Egor: Empathic Mind-Coercer - length of rebar. He has a bunch of golfballs that he bats at targets with the rebar as a ranged weapon.

Madame Blanc: Cryokinetic Reanimator - uses a spear that is half a pair of sharpened garden shears secured to the wooden handle of a rake, and she solidifies daggers of ice out of the air as a thrown weapon.

B'l'OB: Gelatinous Alien - uses a chainsaw that never runs out of fuel.
#10
raddchadd
May 06, 2011 11:16:46 I run a demon giant who weilds a a primal gord cursed to live his imortal life inside a sheep stripped of his power as a two handed heavy.
#11
clockworkpuck
May 07, 2011 19:19:32
Felinoid/Wheeled - Back mounted catapult and claws attached to rings to the wheels (which have replaced the feet)

Simian/Coercer - A barrel of rabid monkeys to throw and fists to pummel.

Giant/Android - Modular arms that transform into weapons/shield (giant robot)

Pyrokinetic/Cryo - Steam
#12
Feetz
May 07, 2011 20:07:59 My Seismic Doppelganger Reelz is an archeologist searching for the lost history of the ancients. He believes movies are recorded history pre-Big Mistake. He's constantly quoting movies and warning the party of the dire consequences of Terminator and Beverly Hills Cop 2. Whenever he finds a movie he records it on to his laptop which has a built in projector. He carries around a portable projection screen which serves as his heavy 2h weapon when rolled up. He uses laserdiscs for his ranged weapon. What else are they good for?

#13
matt_sheridan
May 09, 2011 9:45:08 I just ran a game last night in which a Cryokinetic PC fought with swords and javelins made of his own frozen urine. Yeah.
#14
Tusa
May 26, 2011 6:59:18 We've got an electric craving knife - that isn't plugged in, a zombie who hits people with his dismembered arm, a large doll whose button eye dangles on a string which she uses as a ranged weapon, a plastic ghost that chucks stationary at people.....it all gets a bit silly, as is only right and proper.
#15
darth_versity
Jun 03, 2011 9:16:29 I have a cockroach/doppelganger that uses a bazooka and a car bumper. He also has a tendency to hit his enemies with their recently deceased friends!

My favourite part is that I only have 1 shot for the bazooka but I only have my doppelganger use his one so I get unlimited ammo!
#16
philipsnowman
Jun 30, 2011 9:37:08 In my party, there's someone playing a radioactive rat swarm. His ranged weapon? "Rat-a-pult".

That same character, every time we enter a conversation of any kind with anybody, is the target of almost universal disgust. He just wants to find more rats!

(I stand by my assertion that a giant rat swarm would just be a badger swarm, or a wolverine swarm)
#17
chefkiyo
Jul 07, 2011 22:47:43 My players consist of a Giant/Felinoid wielding a Lawn Mower, and a Doppleganger/Speedster wielding a pressured shirt bazooka. I love this game.
#18
wyrmwrath
Dec 17, 2011 0:43:19 My machine/techology hating Temporal Yeti "Tatonka" uses a bow made from a leaf spring, a high tech, prototype firemans axe that id +3 to hit VS anything metal/stone/wood ish, and the bolas I listed elsewhere but will repost here:

Bolas

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 XanderCage72344 Apr 20, 2011 13:37:05	One of my favorite things about Gamma World is what people decide their character weilds in game. My characters weapond aren't very creative, but in the setting I think they add a lot of character. I weild dual colt revolvers, the character is basically an old west gunslinger type. But my group has some pretty cool stuff. what we have: The tail of an anklysaurus (a flail). An electric guitar. A winch secured to the arm of an Android. One character, whose player says he has the body type of a dwarf, weilds a minigun. So i was just wondering what you use for weapons, and how do you classify them according to the table. An throw in a description of your character if you what.
#2 mvincent Apr 20, 2011 18:04:19	The most common weapon I've seen in Gamma World seems to be the stop sign. Slightly off-topic: anyone else notice that Ookla the Mock (from the very Gamma-World-esque 'Thundarr the Barbarian') never had a permanent melee weapon? He always just used whatever heavy item was nearby. A big part of the fun in watching those old cartoons was seeing what he'd grab next...
#3 XanderCage72344 Apr 20, 2011 18:10:46	The most common weapon I've seen in Gamma World seems to be the stop sign. Yeah, or some variation there of. Like a yield sign or something. The parking meter gets a lot of play also it seems.
#4 cazra Apr 21, 2011 9:03:41	pole-mounted hydrant.
#5 huduvudu Apr 21, 2011 10:09:05	My one player, who is running a Wheeled/Nightmare, has a pair of hedge clippers that it holds in its functional forearms next to its front wheels, and throwing stars. The guy who's running the fetal Alien/Gravity Controller has a wrist-mounted plasma cannon that he can alter on the fly to have the effect of several weapons. The Temporal/Doppelganger has a gun that shoots miniature time paradoxes, reflecting his Novice ability. The least interesting is probably the Arachnoid/Pyrokinetic's web bo staff. I think I am going to try to give him a quarter machine mace that spits out capsules that turn into ancient junk for every 10+level points of damage he does per attack.
#6 ChaoticGood Apr 24, 2011 2:45:58	Our party's loadout looks like this: + Plant/Arachnoid: Hedge clippers. + Gravity Controller/Radioactive: Airplane propeller, with armor made from the fuselage. + Photonic/Mind Breaker: Eye beams, much like Cyclops from the X-Men. Requires her to press both temples to fire. + Speedster/Seismic: A modified shotgun that draws gravel his body to use as buckshot. + Magnetic/Doppelganger: Railgun built into his arms, so that he can stick any old chunk of metal to his chest, hold both arms out straight, and fire away. Also, a whip made from chainsaw blades. + Temporal/AI: He's a little boy whose arm was replaced by a time-travelling cyborg arm, which essentially acts as a temporal anomaly generator that fires (I am not making this up... this the player's idea all the way) tiny Buddha statues snatched from a kitschy souvenir stand in modern-day New York. All this so that he can yell, "Buddha Buddha Buddha!" and pump his fist whenever he fires it.
#7 carl_brisgamer Apr 25, 2011 5:31:02	Felinoid/Engineered Human (ninja commando) - Katana (2 handed light melee), 5.56mm M4 assault rifle (2 handed light gun); Empath/Mind Coercer (lay preacher farmer) - Scythe (2 handed heavy melee), Hatchet (1 handed heavy thrown); Temporal/Magnetic (former Large Hadron Collider security guard thrown forward in time 150 years during the Big Mistake) - Extendable baton (1 handed light melee), 9mm Glock pistol (1 handed light gun); Mind Breaker/Shape Shifter (Old West style harlot) - Parasol with sharpened point (2 hand light melee), .22 calibre small frame revolver (1 handed light gun). My son's radioactive/seismic character uses a salvaged repeating gauss rifle.
#8 serok42 Apr 27, 2011 8:11:55	My Saurian / Temporal, Jurassic Mark, wields a T-Rex leg bone as a heavy club.
#9 scottymet Apr 28, 2011 13:20:54	Rad-Cat(TM): Radioactive Felinoid - Uses a sledge hammer, and has a skateboard as a light shield (he also uses it to move around on, especially when he switches from using his claws to the 2-handed sledge). George: Android Yeti - Uses a parking meter. We figured that his critical bonus to damage is coins flying out of the parking meter on a hit, pelting the target. Why do the coins never run out? shrug Who knows?! ;) He uses a big hunting crossbow for a ranged weapon. Egor: Empathic Mind-Coercer - length of rebar. He has a bunch of golfballs that he bats at targets with the rebar as a ranged weapon. Madame Blanc: Cryokinetic Reanimator - uses a spear that is half a pair of sharpened garden shears secured to the wooden handle of a rake, and she solidifies daggers of ice out of the air as a thrown weapon. B'l'OB: Gelatinous Alien - uses a chainsaw that never runs out of fuel.
#10 raddchadd May 06, 2011 11:16:46	I run a demon giant who weilds a a primal gord cursed to live his imortal life inside a sheep stripped of his power as a two handed heavy.
#11 clockworkpuck May 07, 2011 19:19:32	Felinoid/Wheeled - Back mounted catapult and claws attached to rings to the wheels (which have replaced the feet) Simian/Coercer - A barrel of rabid monkeys to throw and fists to pummel. Giant/Android - Modular arms that transform into weapons/shield (giant robot) Pyrokinetic/Cryo - Steam
#12 Feetz May 07, 2011 20:07:59	My Seismic Doppelganger Reelz is an archeologist searching for the lost history of the ancients. He believes movies are recorded history pre-Big Mistake. He's constantly quoting movies and warning the party of the dire consequences of Terminator and Beverly Hills Cop 2. Whenever he finds a movie he records it on to his laptop which has a built in projector. He carries around a portable projection screen which serves as his heavy 2h weapon when rolled up. He uses laserdiscs for his ranged weapon. What else are they good for?
#13 matt_sheridan May 09, 2011 9:45:08	I just ran a game last night in which a Cryokinetic PC fought with swords and javelins made of his own frozen urine. Yeah.
#14 Tusa May 26, 2011 6:59:18	We've got an electric craving knife - that isn't plugged in, a zombie who hits people with his dismembered arm, a large doll whose button eye dangles on a string which she uses as a ranged weapon, a plastic ghost that chucks stationary at people.....it all gets a bit silly, as is only right and proper.
#15 darth_versity Jun 03, 2011 9:16:29	I have a cockroach/doppelganger that uses a bazooka and a car bumper. He also has a tendency to hit his enemies with their recently deceased friends! My favourite part is that I only have 1 shot for the bazooka but I only have my doppelganger use his one so I get unlimited ammo!
#16 philipsnowman Jun 30, 2011 9:37:08	In my party, there's someone playing a radioactive rat swarm. His ranged weapon? "Rat-a-pult". That same character, every time we enter a conversation of any kind with anybody, is the target of almost universal disgust. He just wants to find more rats! (I stand by my assertion that a giant rat swarm would just be a badger swarm, or a wolverine swarm)
#17 chefkiyo Jul 07, 2011 22:47:43	My players consist of a Giant/Felinoid wielding a Lawn Mower, and a Doppleganger/Speedster wielding a pressured shirt bazooka. I love this game.
#18 wyrmwrath Dec 17, 2011 0:43:19	My machine/techology hating Temporal Yeti "Tatonka" uses a bow made from a leaf spring, a high tech, prototype firemans axe that id +3 to hit VS anything metal/stone/wood ish, and the bolas I listed elsewhere but will repost here: Bolas