[FT] Wave Guns Redux (again!)

In message <002001c1c774$fa752700$36179fd4@kitsune>
> "Adam Benedict Canning" <dahak@dahak.free-online.co.uk> wrote:

> > From: Charles Taylor <nerik@monkslode.fsnet.co.uk>
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> >
Hmm... don't think I like having the required charge to fire being inversely
proportional to the ship size, for several reasons, one of which you
mentioned.

I'm not sure that there is a problem with charging becoming more certain
(but I need to think about multi-wave gun designs a bit more I think),
as the more certainty you have, the longer it will take to charge. A lot of
people would quite prefer that there is no uncertainty at all
:-).
An alternative would be for the charging to still be random, but with a range
based on the ship size (a bit problematic if we stick to d6's, but
do-able:

a) Have a negative modifier based on ship size (or FTL size) applied to
the charge dice (i.e. 1d6-4, 1d6-1, etc.) The fastest charge rate would
be 1d6.

b) Replace the 1d6 charge rate with a number of beam dice based on the
ship size (but no re-rolls). The number of charge dice rolled is based
on the ship size.

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> > Well, thats probably enough for now :-)
Yes, I saw some of these on the Starblazers ship sheets - I'm almost
afraid to ask!