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how do you guys handle homebrewing dikote in your games of sr4?
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dikote ( sr4 q&a)
Bootsole- Posts : 6
Join date : 2010-12-22
Age : 35
Location : washington
Shoggoth- Posts : 17
Join date : 2010-12-21
Location : Cardboard Box
It's supposed to have been left out on purpose. Pretend everything benefits from it. Technology improved, more efficient methods, or some alternate (and more efficient) methods are used, or whatever.
But if you still insist, I'd say it goes on to improve B/I armor by 1 each, and improve AP by 1 on edged and penetrating weapons.
It's semi-retarded on material science levels. It's more or less "coating with diamond" by "depositing" it in via heat as a layer. Diamond, while hard, also tends to be brittle. Like glass, while harder than steel, is more fragile. That's why most modern cutting implements, apart from the tip which does the cutting, is made to be flexible, rather than hard. Because otherwise, it'll break after a few uses. But I digress. It's Shadowrun.
From what I remember from the first edition (...being spoiled by shinier-looking books, makes my eyes bleed when going to old ones), bladed weapons had rather poor stats when penetrating armor. Dikote, most likely, served to bring them upto par with other weapons without having to be an uberadept. Then not too soon after, SR2E came out, which changed some of the rules for staging and penetrating, making dikote bit too awesome. Then it had to persist and survive.
But if you still insist, I'd say it goes on to improve B/I armor by 1 each, and improve AP by 1 on edged and penetrating weapons.
It's semi-retarded on material science levels. It's more or less "coating with diamond" by "depositing" it in via heat as a layer. Diamond, while hard, also tends to be brittle. Like glass, while harder than steel, is more fragile. That's why most modern cutting implements, apart from the tip which does the cutting, is made to be flexible, rather than hard. Because otherwise, it'll break after a few uses. But I digress. It's Shadowrun.
From what I remember from the first edition (...being spoiled by shinier-looking books, makes my eyes bleed when going to old ones), bladed weapons had rather poor stats when penetrating armor. Dikote, most likely, served to bring them upto par with other weapons without having to be an uberadept. Then not too soon after, SR2E came out, which changed some of the rules for staging and penetrating, making dikote bit too awesome. Then it had to persist and survive.
Bootsole- Posts : 6
Join date : 2010-12-22
Age : 35
Location : washington
i suppose it does mak a strange kind of sense. but again Shadowrun has never really adhered to the paws of science.
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