dreicunan wrote:Nightmask wrote:cosmicfish wrote:At the end of the day, does anyone really want a one-shot kill weapon against every single borg? Logically (ha ha) you could probably argue that phase weapons should tear through borgs like tissue, but it effectively removes borgs from any game with phase weapons.
So let them have some aura or whatever.
It's a pretty much one-shot weapon against people in power armor or vehicles as well, what about them? Maybe the borg should suffer the same fears as everyone else on the remote chance phase weapons show up, have to actually spend money on systems to protect against phase weapons just like everyone else instead of getting protection the rest don't get. Seriously, 'oh I'm a big bad borg I don't have to fear anything in my MDC body! Wait, I have to fear Phase Beamers like everyone else?! No that can't be right I'm a borg I'm supposed to be special and not have to worry about stuff like that! I can't be treated like any other flesh and blood creature having to worry about this rare weapon it shouldn't be able to hurt me either!'
Kevin S clearly disagrees with you.
Also, phase weapons are not pretty much one shot kill weapons against people in power armor or vehicles unless they have terribly low hp and sdc combined. The Robot Pilot OCC (standard power armor trooper) has both Body Building and Running, so including those at first level it gives an average of 15 hp and 32.5 sdc with no other physical skills that boost sdc taken. I forget if there is a more powerful phase weapon in later books, but in Phase World the strongest damage from a phase weapon against sdc is 4d6, so to do a one shot you would need a max damage critical hit. I don't see "statistically least likely outcome" (tied only with a crit that rolls all ones for damage) being sufficiently frequent to justify the claim that it is "pretty much" a one shot kill. It would on average take 4 shots to kill them.
Still a far easier kill when your heavy power armor provides you not a whit of protection, which you're ignoring. Nor do I care if Kevin or anyone else declares 'oh no the poor borg player can't handle being vulnerable to this super-rare weapon and feeling like that poor guy in the power armor well since he's so fragile I'll just rule that magically he's protected anyway so he won't feel threatened like everyone else does or have to do anything to protect himself like everyone else has to.'
If the borg player can't handle that a rare weapon exists that could kill him easily just like the guy in power armor and isn't willing to take REASONABLE precautions against it then he shouldn't be playing one, if he's that afraid he should be playing a Hatchling Dragon or, oh, an ANTI MONSTER if wants to not have to worry about Phase Beamers.