[HoE] Re: More confusion on Junkers

[Afterburner <afterburner@erols.com>]

	Got this from PEGHopler in response to my question about junkers.
Answers some questions about Junkers but I'm still confused about the
difference between "energy damage" and "physical damage."

	AB


>From: PEGHopler@aol.com
>Date: Wed, 23 Sep 1998 08:51:02 EDT
>To: afterburner@erols.com
>Subject: Re: More confusion on Junkers
>X-Mailer: AOL 3.0 for Windows 95 sub 18
>
>Howdy,
>
>I think some of the confusion is due to the cuts that were made in the
junker
>chapter. As originally written, it had more than twice the powers it
does now.
>Unfortunately, this made it three times the size of any of the other
chapters
>on special character types and much too large to actually fit in the
book. As
>a result a bunch of the powers got axed.  
>
>One of the powers that was cut is Shielding. This power allows Junkers
to
>build energy shield projectors which absorb damage. The basic Shield
works
>against physical damage only, making one that works against energy
damage is
>more expensive (and even more expensive to block spiritual damage and
magic).
>So the advantage of energy weapons is that they are more likely to work
>against Junker-built shields which don't actually exist yet (at least
not
>until The Junkman Cometh comes out early next year).
>
>Just to clarify the "creates its own ammo" modifier some, this is
intended for
>weapons like the junkgun that can process some sort of raw material and
turn
>it into ammo. Energy weapons which create their damage directly from
the
>energy drawn from the spirit battery also fall into this category.
Weapons
>which don't fall into this category are those which require the junker
to
>actually purchase or spend time creating ammunition. A good example
might be a
>rail gun type weapon for which the junker has to actually sit around
the
>campfire at night creating metal slugs.
>
>Not all energy weapons necessarily fall into the creates its own ammo
>category. A particle beam weapon would fall into the energy weapon
category,
>but it might require a reservoir of stripped Helium nuclei as ammo for
>instance. It all really depends on the player's concept of the weapon,
how
>much trouble the character has to go through to keep his weapon
supplied, and
>the Marshal. 
>
>The purpose of the "creates its own ammo" modifier was to avoid giving
junkers
>a free ride. Non-junker characters are often going to run low on ammo
for
>their conventional weapons, so we wanted junkers to have to pay a
little more
>for weapons which weren't dependent on some sort of physical ammo
supply.
>
>Hope this helps.
>
>Sincerely,
>
>John Hopler
>