I plan to have the following details in the explosives system: Different types of explosive construction for different effects, mostly with regards to armor. I may not have read the core rulebook enough, but it doesn't look like armor in EP is built to interact with the existing demolitions rules (though armor *does* state which types of explosives it works with, demolitions doesn't specify fragmentation/high-energy explosives). Bombs can be built to fall into any of three categories (always energy, always kinetic, or lowest but not effective in vacuum), or for an additional cost be designed to always take the lowest armor rating without any drawbacks. While I won't go into individual explosive materials, partly because of EP's tech advances and partly because I have a limit to how many watch lists I'd like to be on, there will be grades. Military grade explosives have a lot of bang for their buck. Most military explosives touched on in AUGC have limiter functions, allowing them to essentially self-contain the blast or neutralize some of the explosives prior to a detonation, a feature that prevents some of the hard vacuum exposure that could otherwise result. I'm using a uniform damage (i.e. no rolling) system, which uses three spheres: a kill zone, a maim zone, and a maximum effect zone. These are based on the size of the explosive (higher grade explosives mean better yield/volume), and loosely based on the concept of overpressure. If there isn't enough space to fully contain a zone, it is upgraded to the next higher type (so if the maim zone can't fit inside the tin can habitat, then the entire habitat volume is considered a kill zone). Realistically, these zones would look probably look identical across most explosives, but better bombs do more damage in each zone. I should have a preview up next week, followed shortly by the revised version that this system will need. EDIT: Working on some rajput weapons, which I hope to also make some art for (it'll be separate, because I am not a great artist).

Right now I'm working on the Sarissa. It's a high caliber bullpup battle rifle derivative, but is designed for long-term use (it uses massive helical drum magazines, has an analogue ammunition count (based on the weight of the magazine, calibrated by full magazines). Full automatic fire imposes recoil penalties, and it's right on the upper border of weapons that don't have the Unwieldy quality. Built to fire cased or modified caseless rounds, it is not an ambidextrous weapon, though the shell ejection can be redirected, allowing users with inappropriate handedness to use the weapon, albeit clumsily. It has sealed internal storage beneath the rear shockpad, which can hold another hundred rounds of ammunition and a cache of medical supplies. If empty, shells can be ejected into this storage compartment. The body of the firearm is oversized and includes another storage compartment above the trigger group and trigger guard. The Sarissa's over-barrel mounting rail can be equipped with an adapter to allow both optics and a "underbarrel" weapon to be used at the same time.

The AUGC 11 preview, with some minor improvements in a couple of places (just making text read better and whatnot), pre-made bombs, and three special rajput weapons is out now!

thebluespectre wrote:

Where did the EMP diamond beam come from? I would not have thought of that.

Absolutely no clue. It was one of those late-night free association things; originally I was thinking about having guardian nanoswarms delivered by the weapon as well as shards, but that was just too absurd (and expensive), and I wanted some anti-nanoswarm capability. I just settled on it out of the fact that it's one of the three or four anti-nanoswarm tools in my arsenal, and I didn't want to mount a flamer on my glorified shredder. The doru was designed to be to spray weapons what a sniper rifle is to kinetic weapons. While I wait on feedback for AUGC 11, I'm going to add in a couple new/updated morphs. One, the Phoenix, is a synthmorph that uses integrated fire and the like to do massive damage. The other is a rebuild of the Fenrir that doesn't have as much of an issue with life.

It's out! AUGC 11 now includes three new combat morphs, a new augmentation, cavalry battlesuits, a new exotic weapon (the targun, which immobilizes foes and can fire special painful ammo), intro fiction, expanded fluff (as always), and general improvements, including moving the explosives to somewhere other than the middle of the Exotic Weapons section. It's over 44k words now, which raises serious questions about fragmenting it. Soon I also hope to do a major release where I sync all the tables up with their actual page locations, which has been made difficult by the way LibreOffice works.

Mellonbread: I'll think about it. Part of the problem is that spray weapons are veering toward being significantly overpowered, so there would have to be a nerfing effect, but I'm not sure where it would come in. Kojak: They're on page 73, in a special table by themselves.

TheGrue wrote:

SquireNed wrote:

M Part of the problem is that spray weapons are veering toward being significantly overpowered

Is that compared to accushot liquid thermite splash assault rifles, or the slightly more expensive double-damage-when-SA-fired plasma rifle?

Well, the plasma rifle has always been a mite OP. Accushot liquid thermite splash assault rifles are an odd case because there's no explicit rule for multiple doses of a toxin/splash chemical (IIRC). I only let such things extend duration or increase by a smaller magnitude; this would actually make an accushot liquid thermite splash assault rifle slightly inferior to a standard spray weapon in most cases (since spray weapons could be used to deliver toxins and do additional damage, have decent AP, and the potential to be doing 6d10 damage), if only due to the fact that the spray weapon works quicker. Perhaps a better way to phrase it would've been: How can we make the spray weapons get another ability without rolling over into other weapons' turf, and how can we appropriately draw back from the usually insane abilities spray weapons get (perhaps -1d10 for each additional target at short/medium range, up to a limit of 3—this still leaves the problem of reducing the distinction between shots at different ranges, but has a more balanced approach).

Sadly, those typos probably won't get fixed until I have a lot more free time. I've updated LibreOffice, and at the time I was writing AUGC it was the first time I'd really prepped a book-size project in LibreOffice. The pages of tables that are all collected at the end actually wind up in a couple fewer pages now (because I did stupid anchoring), and it'll be a significant project to fix it up. If anyone's interested, the .odt files are in the PDF, and they could take a stab at fixing them up in Libre Office, especially if you're using the same version I was (I think it was 4.x?).