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A Supplement for Torg: Roleplaying the Possibility Wars and the D6 System

Kanawa Personal Weapons

Act One

A Supplement for Torg: Roleplaying the Possibility Wars and the D6 System

Kanawa Personal Weapons

By Nigel Findley

Arms Catalog for the Possibility Wars

Roleplaying the Possibility Wars TM

CONTENTS

Introduction

Low Technology Personal Arms

Weapons of the Early 20th Century

Extended Technology

Advanced Technology

Explosives

Espionage

Game Notes

Weapons List (Torg)

Weapons List (D6 System)

Bonus Weapons List (Torg & D6 System)

Kanawa Personal Weapons

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update the sourcebook to reflect current technological

progress or any developments in the Possibility Wars since

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provided as an relatively inexpensive means for people to

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Act One

HACHIMAN ARMS

GREETINGS

FROM OUR DIRECTOR

Welcome to the Hachiman Weapon division’s new-

est Personal Weapons Catalog!

Regular subscribers will notice few changes from

our last edition, with the notable exception of an

expanded “Evaluator’s Comments” section included

with each entry. In addition, in response to requests

from you, our subscribers, these comments no longer

undergo any editing, and so reflect the personal pref-

erences, complaints, and questions of our evaluators.

To those of you joining us for the first time, welcome.

The Hachiman Weapons division of the Kanawa Cor-

poration is dedicated to your success in this brave, and

dangerous, new world we live in. To this end, we offer

the widest range of personal weapons available any-

where on the globe at excellent prices.

Hachiman’s weaponry experts have spared no effort

in developing armaments and explosives to give you the

edge you need in these unsettled times. Although the

entries in this catalog list the weapons under the names

of their original manufacturers, the items offered have all

been constructed in Hachiman’s own manufacturing

plants. This includes all cyber gear, which is produced at

our new French facility. This guarantees you the highest

level of quality in your weapon, the quality long associ-

ated with the name Hachiman.

Hachiman prides itself on offering weapons old and

new, based on a variety of technologies ranging from

primitive flintlock muskets to sophisticated lasers and

microwave beams. This makes this catalog an invalu-

able tool for clients in those parts of the world where

recent changes have made it impossible to use ad-

vanced technological devices — or, alternatively, where

abnormally sophisticated devices are the order of the

day. Obviously, the most effective weapon for a certain

location is the one least likely to cease functioning

there. By offering a vast range of technologies,

Hachiman makes it easier for you to find the weapon

you need, while offering full freedom of choice and the

quality that you demand!

Each catalog entry includes the following infor-

mation:

• Weapon Name/Identification

• Description

• Historical Background

• Evaluator’s Comments (including strengths, weak-

nesses, significant quirks, etc.)

• Statistics (damage, ammo, range, price [with the

Torg value in parentheses])

All prices are in Core Earth U.S. dollars and are the

suggested retail price, not including shipping and

handling, should you make your purchase through

Hachiman Arms. If you select another means of ac-

quiring your equipment, you may pay more or less

depending on local circumstances and your haggling

skills.

To order any of these fine weapons, contact your

nearest Kanawa Corporation representative or trans-

mit your request along with your bank code number via

computer or fax to Hachiman Arms.

This resource is complemented by the Kanawa

Heavy Weapons Catalog. Hachiman continues proudly

as your only source for quality weaponry.

Eichiro Kasigi, M.Sc., M.B.A.

Managing Director

Hachiman Weapons Division

Kanawa Corporation

Tokyo, Japan

Game Notes: Difficulties, modifiers, damage values,

and tech levels for each item have been provided in Torg, D6

Classic, and D6 Legend terms. Mechanics relating to Torg

are preceded by a T, for D6 Classic by a C, and for D6

Legend by an L.

Skills names have been rendered as generic as posible.

Players should ask their gamemasters what the appropri-

ate skill is for the game system they’re using.

As this book was originally designed for use with the Torg

roleplaying game, players of that game will find the game

mechanics and terms herein familiar. Those using any

version of the D6 System and not playing in the Torg

universe, however, can ignore the world-specific refer-

ences to people, places, and organizations. The equipment

descriptions and statistics remain useful.

For further game notes, see the “Game Notes” chapter.

HACHIMAN ARMS

LOW TECHNOLOGY

PERSONAL ARMS

This section concentrates on firearms whose prov-

enance dates from the equivalent of Core Earth’s18th

to 19th centuries. These weapons can prove ex-

tremely valuable when visiting locales such as Aysle

and Orrorsh, where more sophisticated weaponry

mysteriously ceases to function.

Despite the primitive designs of these weapons,

their destructive capability should not be underesti-

mated. It is fairly certain that no Ayslish foe will laugh

at a blunderbuss, despite its somewhat bizarre ap-

pearance. And many a Victorian soldier has found

his Colt just as effective in driving off natives as a

more advanced riot gun might be.

There are, of course, drawbacks to the use of

these weapons. They tend to be more expensive and

difficult to repair, and their overall damage values are

below that of more sophisticated counterparts. When

outside of Aysle or Orrorsh, it is virtually impossible

to find high-grade ammunition for them, and they are

impractical when used against modern armor.

When dealing with muzzle-loaders, keep in mind

that black powder is useless when wet and, when

stored in large quantities, one runs the risk of explo-

sion. In addition, muzzle-loaders are noisy and odor-

iferous weapons to use, and so are unsuited for

missions that rely on stealth for success.

BREECH-LOADERS

Breech-loaders, like the Winchester Model 1873,

are far simpler to use than muzzle-loaders. The user

simply opens the breech (normally located above the

trigger assembly), and inserts a metal cartridge

which contains primer, propellant and projectile. This

method saves a great deal of time and mess, allows

for greater accuracy and led to the invention of

repeating rifles. Although breech-loading is appar-

ently too advanced a concept for Aysle, these weap-

ons are highly recommended for forays into Orrorsh.

Except where specified, reloading a weapon of

this type is considered to be a simple action.

AMMUNITION

As mentioned above, low tech firearms use spe-

cial types of ammunition. These weapons fall into

two groups, muzzle-loading and breech-loading, both

of which shall be looked at here.

MUZZLE-LOADING GAME EFFECTS

Loading a weapon such as the ones listed in this

section is a difficult and time consuming process. For

each muzzle-loading weapon, the number of rounds

it takes to load is given, along with the weapon skill

total required to perform the entire process in one

round. The total provided will be the one needed to

perform the entire loading process in one round.

If a character chooses, he may take the full num-

ber of rounds to reload the weapon. In all cases, this

requires the generation of a weapon skill total of T 1/

C 4/L 1 in the first round. Totals need not be gener-

ated in the subsequent rounds, but the character

cannot perform any physical attribute–based actions

(beyond passive defense) while reloading his weapon.

Should the character fail the roll, he would still lose

his physical attribute-based actions for the entire six

rounds, and would not be able to attempt to reload

until those rounds were completed.

MUZZLE-LOADING

Small arms ammunition for muzzle-loading weap-

ons is composed of three elements, the primer, the

propellant and the projectile. Whereas now all three

are contained inside the modern bullet, weapons

such as the flintlock and matchlock muskets required

that the three parts be carried separately.

The most common propellant is gunpowder, black

grains made up of charcoal, sulphur and saltpeter.

Powder is normally kept in a flask (so it will remain

dry) and poured down the muzzle of the weapon

along with the projectile. When a spark was pro-

duced in the priming pan, it ignited the gunpowder

and forced the projectile out of the muzzle.

The pan was primed with either flint, copper per-

cussion caps, or iron pyrites. Flint is preferable in that

it can spark for 20 shots before being replaced, while

copper caps can be used only once.

The standard projectile for muzzle-loading arms is

the rounded steel ball, which tends to be inaccurate.

Later weapons use an elongated, pointed bullet.

Hachiman ammunition for muzzle-loaders comes

in combustible paper cartridges containing a bullet

and enough powder for one shot along with gun flint

or percussion caps, or all three elements can be

purchased separately.

Torg Example: Beppin is reloading his

matchlock musket, a task that normally re-

quires six rounds. The difficulty of completing

the process in one round is 7. Beppin gener-

ates a successful weapon skill total of 7, and

need not spend the next five rounds reloading.

If Beppin was willing to spend the time re-

loading his weapon, he need only have gener-

ated a weapon skill total of 1.

These rules apply to all muzzle-loading weapons.

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CAT. NO. 69-54893

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