FASERIP

WEAPONS

All Weapons have four main attributes: Cost, Material Strength, Range, Damage and Type. Range for all melee (hand to hand combat) Weapons is Touch (Terrible) but guns and other range weapons are now given a range which may be different from the general Weapon rating (Damage) which is now a separate entry. Type explains the damage type of the Weapon for example Lethal Projectile, Blunt Melee and so on. Some Weapons have Type of Splash or Explosion. Explosion means general comic book damage- blast, smoke, shrapnel or fire lashes the target area. Splash refers to Weapons that squirt a liquid or gas and this attack spreads over a single figure unless it is noted to cover a larger area. The basic Weapons statistics are given on page 58 of the FASERIP RPG rulebook.

Also of note is that the cost of items including Weapons in the FASERIP rulebook is given as a Rank, which is supposed to modify the Wealth roll to obtain them. In this article weapons are noted as being availability in terms of Average, Rare or Luxury. Average items require a standard successful Wealth roll to obtain. Rare Weapons require a Silver roll to obtain; Luxury items require a Gold roll to obtain. Almost all the magical, superhero and bizarre technological Weapons are Luxury and the gamemaster can easily be justified in inflicting further RS penalties to obtain them. For example a Weapon with Cost of Luxury -3RS requires a Wealth roll with a Gold result having first applied a -3RS penalty to Wealth.

Weapons are under strict controls in "civilized" countries of the Earth with many either needing a license or being banned from use under various forced and spurious laws. This means that before some of these Weapons are even in use they will be the subject of law enforcement harassment or worse.

Whether Weapons are unique or produced on a production line, or by magic spells, all Weapons are Devices and at some point in the past have gone through the Prototype and Stunt process for invention ("Building Devices", FASERIP RPG, page 50). This means as in real life a suit of armor, a race car or a spaceship can be improved, by having more or better systems added to it as time goes on. It will cost a lot in terms of Karma but that is part of the point of the ten repeated step progression in FASERIP.

Adding a Scope to a ranged weapon improves its accuracy by a +3RS on its attack roll required. Cost of a Scope is Luxury tier.

Firearms and other weapons with a limited amount of ammunition or "shots" can have a Snail Shell Clip or equivalent attached. This multiplies the total ammunition available by 5 before the Weapon runs out of bullets or shots. Cost of a Snail Shell Clip is Luxury -2RS.

In the Wealth article on this site the concept of Quality is introduced. This is very applicable to Weapons. Some of the exotic Weapons may only be available secondhand from Police auctions, Scrapyards or Private auctions. Likewise some the Weapons listed here would have to be bought "hot" on the Black Market.

Ranged Weapons come with a full amount of whatever ammunition they fire. However, it is also possible to substitute different kinds of bullets, arrows, bolts and so on for the standard issue ammunition and these other types of missile will do the different damage as noted.

FLEXIBLE WEAPONS: Flexible weapons include chains, rope and whips. All of these weapons are Average +1RS to buy. Flexible weapons usually inflict only Terrible damage, but they all also inflict Great Binding on a target if the user of the flexible weapon can make a Silver Rank roll on Agility.

ARTILLERY, TANK GUNS and BIG WEAPONS

This is a broad category for Weapons "too big for any normal human to carry" and Weapons "mounted on a Vehicle, operated by a team of people or otherwise gigantic" but it also includes exceptions to the first specification - "human portable rocket and grenade launchers." Rocket launchers, grenade launchers and other human portable Heavy Weapons have a *Star next to their name.

Where an Artillery or other big gun or Weapon may be really unfamiliar it is explained a little bit. World War 2 and other historical pieces are simply listed by name.

This section also includes siege weapons, the pre-gunpowder and rocket version of artillery.

Ammunition for Artillery and other heavy Weapons can vary like any other type of projectile. The standard amount of ammunition available for Artillery and other heavy weapons is Average (6) although depending on the vehicle or where the Weapon is located the amount of shots available to fire could be much higher.

Other than the *human portable ones, all Weapons in this section require a crew of 4 or more people. Some could arguably be operated by flipping a switch if they were already to fire.

Heavy Weapons can all be fitted on Vehicles including trucks, hovercars and aircraft. Fitting them requires Specialist Military Ordnance Engineer or similar or Talent Weapons Technician to successfully attach them for use.

Unless they are human portable, in which case the user aims them, or are noted as being unguided, all missiles are equipped with homing or targeting systems of some kind. Any roll to evade a successful hit suffers a -4RS penalty to escape the impact of the weapon.

A Grenade Launcher equivalent to the 40mm Grenade Launcher can be attacked to any normal Assault Rifle. Fitting them requires the services of a Talent: Weaponsmith.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
*9K38 Igla (SA-18 Grouse)	Luxury	Great	Single Shift	Wondrous	Blast (Explosion)
*9K333 Verba (SA-25)	Luxury -1RS	Great	Single Shift	Wondrous	Blast (Explosion)
9K720 Iskander (SS-26 Stone) Single Missile Launcher	Luxury -5RS	Single Shift	Planetary	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 5 Area radius or Nuclear Warhead - Blast (Nuclear Explosion) and Affliction (radiation poisoning) in 30 Area radius
5 inch Naval Gun	Luxury -3RS	Triple Shift	Triple Shift	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 4 Area radius or Blast (Nuclear - incineration plus Affliction (radiation poisoning)) in 10 Area radius
12 inch Naval Gun	Luxury	Triple Shift	Double Shift	Phenomenal	Blast (Explosion) in 8 Area radius
13.5 inch Naval Gun	Luxury -3RS	Triple Shift	Triple Shift	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 8 Area radius or Blast (Nuclear - incineration plus Affliction (radiation poisoning)) in 20 Area radius
14 inch Naval Gun	Luxury -4RS	Triple Shift	Triple Shift	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 14 Area radius or Blast (Nuclear - incineration plus Affliction (radiation poisoning)) in 20 Area radius
16 inch Naval Gun	Luxury -4RS	Triple Shift	Triple Shift	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 20 Area radius or Blast (Nuclear - incineration plus Affliction (radiation poisoning)) in 30 Area radius
18 inch Naval Gun	Luxury -5RS	Triple Shift	Triple Shift	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 30 Area radius or Blast (Nuclear - incineration plus Affliction (radiation poisoning)) in 30 Area radius
*40mm Grenade Launcher	Average	Decent	Fantastic	World Class	Blast (Explosion) in 2 Area radius
*40mm Rotary Six-Barrelled Grenade Launcher	Rare	Decent	Astounding (maximum)	World Class	Blast (Explosion) in 2 Area radius
75mm Cannon (two wheeled artillery piece)	Average	Great	Double Shift	Phenomenal	Blast (Explosion)
*120mm Unguided Rocket Gun	Average	Decent	World Class	World Class	Blast (Explosion)
155mm Tangler Cannon	Luxury -4RS	Great	Triple Shift	Great	Binding on Kaiju or Giant Robots; Lethal Melee (crushing) on normal characters in a 5 Area radius
203mm Siege Mortar	Average	Triple Shift	Double Shift	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 5 Area radius
210mm Gun	Average	Triple Shift	Triple Shift (18 miles)	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 7 Area radius
420mm Gamma-Device	Average	Triple Shift	Triple Shift	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 10 Area radius
AK-130 Dual 5 Inch Naval Gun	Luxury -4RS	Triple Shift	Triple Shift	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 30 Area radius or Blast (Nuclear - incineration plus Affliction (radiation poisoning)) in 30 Area radius
*Alcotan-100	Rare	Decent	Wondrous	World Class	Blast (Explosion)
*AT4	Average	Decent	Astounding	Astounding	Blast (Explosion)
Ballista (giant crossbow)	Rare	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Battering Ram (8 or more people to carry or push)	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Fantastic	Lethal Melee
*Bazooka	Average	Decent	Fantastic	World Class	Blast (Explosion)
BGM-71 TOW missile	Luxury	Great	Phenomenal	Wondrous	Blast (Explosion) within 5 Areas of impact, for another 5 Areas beyond this, Lethal Projectile.
*Blowpipe	Average	Decent	Wondrous	Fantastic	Blast (Explosion)
Bofors 25mm Automatic Gun	Luxury	Single Shift	Single Shift direct fire, Double Shift parabolic fire	Phenomenal	Blast (Explosion)
Bushmaster IV 40mm Chaingun	Luxury -3RS	World Class	Single Shift	Stellar	Lethal Projectile.
Catapult (giant rock thrower)	Rare	Decent	Astounding	Fantastic	Lethal Melee (crushed by giant rock)
Cruise Missile	Average	Decent	Planetary (1500 miles), Speed Double Shift (690 miles per hour)	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 14 Area radius or Blast (Nuclear - incineration plus Affliction (radiation poisoning)) in 21 Area radius
*Dard 120 120mm Grenade Launcher	Average	Great	Wondrous	Fantastic	Blast (Explosion)
*FHJ-84 Double-Barrelled Flame Rocket Launcher	Average	Average	Astounding	World Class	Blast (Fire)
*FIM-43 Redeye	Rare	Great	Single Shift	Astounding	Blast (Explosion)
Gamma Delta Omni-Cannon	Luxury -7RS	World Class	Triple Shift	Single Shift	Blast (accelerated Gamma Radiation)
Gimlet unguided missile (Pilot's agility used to aim)	Average	Great	Single Shift	Fantastic	Blast (Explosion)
Harpoon Missile	Rare	Great	Triple Shift	Fantastic	Blast (Explosion)
*Hotchkiss M1909 Benét–Mercié machine gun	Average	Decent	Double Shift	Astounding	Lethal Projectile
*Javelin	Average	World Class	Single Shift	Fantastic	Blast (Explosion)
*LAW80	Average	Decent	Fantastic	Fantastic	Blast (Explosion)
*Lewis Gun	Average	Decent	Fantastic	Astounding	Lethal Projectile
M2 Infantry Mortar	Average	Decent	Wondrous	World Class	Blast (Explosion)
*M6 Linebacker firing FIM-92 Stinger	Average	Decent	Single Shift	Astounding	Blast (Explosion)
M61 Vulcan 20mm Rotary Cannon	Luxury	Single Shift	Wondrous	Astounding	Lethal Projectile.
M114 155mm Howitzer	Luxury -2RS	Single Shift	Triple Shift	Stellar	Blast (Explosion)
M224 Infantry Mortar	Rare	Decent	Wondrous	Fantastic	Blast (Explosion)
M242 Bushmaster 25mm Chaingun	Luxury	World Class	Astounding	Stellar	Lethal Projectile.
M252 81mm Mortar	Rare	Great	Single Shift	Fantastic	Blast (Explosion) in 3 Area radius
M270 Multiple Launch Rocket System	Luxury -7RS	Decent	Wondrous	Planetary to Cosmic (can fire up to EIGHT guided missiles at once)	Blast (Explosion)
Madsen 20mm Cannon (two wheeled artillery piece or naval gun)	Average	Average	Astounding	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 5 Area radius
MGM-51 Shilelagh missile	Luxury -5RS	World Class	Triple Shift	Stellar	Blast (Explosion) within 5 Areas of impact, for another 10 Areas beyond this, Lethal Projectile.
MGM-140 ATACMS	Luxury -3RS	Single Shift	Planetary (190 miles)	Stellar	Blast (Explosion) within 10 Areas of impact, for another 10 Areas beyond this, Lethal Projectile.
*MK47 Striker	Luxury	Great	Wondrous	World Class	Blast (Explosion) in 3 Area radius
Onager (giant rock thrower)	Rare	Decent	Wondrous	Fantastic	Lethal Melee (crushed by giant rock)
OTR-23 Oka Theater Ballistic Missile	Luxury -5RS	Single Shift	Planetary (300 miles)	Planetary	Blast (Explosion) in 25 Area radius or Nuclear Warhead - Blast (Nuclear Explosion) and Affliction (radiation poisoning) in 30 Area radius
*Panzerfaust 3	Rare	Great	Astounding	World Class	Blast (Explosion)
QLZ-87 35mm Grenade Launcher	Average	Decent	Fantastic	World Class	Blast (Explosion) in 2 Area radius
*QW Missile	Average	Great	Wondrous	World Class	Blast (Explosion)
*RPG-7	Average	Great	Wondrous (self detonates at 1,000 yards)	Astounding	Blast (Explosion)
S-75 Dvina (SA-2 "Guideline") Surface-to-Air Missile	Luxury	Single Shift	Triple Shift (28 miles)	Triple Shift	Blast (Explosion)
*Schwarzlose M7 Machinegun	Average	Great	Astounding	Wondrous	Lethal Projectile
Ship's Cannon	Average	Single Shift	Wondrous	Astounding	Lethal Projectile.
Shipunov 2A42 30mm Cannon	Luxury -2RS	Single Shift	Single Shift	Triple Shift	Blast (Explosion)
Siege Hook (giant claw to tear down walls or buildings)	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Fantastic	Lethal Melee (double damage to buildings or vehicles)
Spandau MG08 Machinegun	Average	Great	Astounding	Wondrous	Lethal Projectile
*Starstreak	Average	Great	Astounding	Wondrous	Blast (Explosion)
*Starstreak II	Rare	Great	Phenomenal	Wondrous	Blast (Explosion)
*Tear Gas Grenade Launcher	Average	Decent	World Class	Great	Affliction (Tear Gas), can also use Affliction (Choking Smoke)
Trebuchet (giant sling)	Rare	Great	Wondrous	Fantastic	Lethal Melee (crushed by giant rock) or Lethal Projectile (penetrated by shrapnel)
Type-91 Surface-to-Air Missile	Rare	Great	Single Shift	Wondrous	Blast (Explosion)
*Vickers Gun	Average	Great	Single Shift	Wondrous	Blast (Explosion)

NOTES

• Alcotan-100 attacks ignore armor of Rank Fantastic or less, meaning that if the armor Rank is Fantastic or lower it does not reduce the damage of this attack.
• Bazooka attacks can penetrate through brute force armor of Rank Great or less, meaning that if the armor Rank is Great or lower it does not reduce the damage of this attack.
• The *9K333 Verba has extremely sophisticated targeting. This inflicts a penalty of -3RS on any attempts to block it, evade it or prevent it from locking on to a target and home in.
• MGM-140 ATACMS fires only a single missile but from a camouflaged six-lid casing meaning enemy prediction can be fooled as to the exact location and trajectory of the missile as it fires. This inflicts a -1RS penalty on any character attempting the Interposing (FSERIP RPG rulebook, page 33) or Parry type combat actions.
• Panzerfaust 3 attacks ignore armor of Rank Fantastic or less, meaning that if the armor Rank is Fantastic or lower it does not reduce the damage of this attack.

FIREARMS

Firearms detonate some form of propellant such as gunpowder or blasting powder to launch a Lethal Projectile at a target. Pistols are single hand Weapons, all "long guns" or Rifles are two hand Weapons other than Carbines which can be used single hand at a firing penalty of -2RS.

Firearms fire bullets, cartridges, sabot rounds with a smaller projectile within a jacket dropped during flight to accelerate the attack and caseless projectiles. Whatever the exact type, in FASERIP in addition to whatever normal projectile the Weapon fires and whatever normal damage it does, there are also available a wide range of weird and wonderful types of ammunition. These replace the entire normal full clip or amount of ammunition for the firearm with the chosen type of weird ammo. All weird ammunition requires a Luxury -4RS to purchase.

The table below sets out the types of weird ammo available. Note the chart says "bullets" but it can mean "cartridges", "caseless ammunition" or whatever the firearm is actually firing.

___AMMUNITION___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Armor Piercing Bullets / Car Killers	World Class, ignores all physical armor and Protection rating of Vehicles	Lethal Projectile
Beanbag Rounds	Great	Affliction (Pain)
Cyanide Bullets	Average	Lethal Projectile plus victim must immediately pass an Endurance roll or die from Affliction (Cyanide Poisoning)
Flame Bullets	Great	Blast (Fire)
Frangible Bullets	Average / Great damage to unarmored targets.	Blast (Explosion) fragmentation on impact.
Freeze Bullets	Great	Blast (Cold)
Garlic Bullets	Average / World Class damage to Vampires	Lethal Projectile
Glazers	Decent	Lethal Projectile, any Silver or Gold result kills the target instantly from blood loss.
Ice Bullets	Average	Lethal Projectile, the bullet melts away completely leaving no trace of what caused the obvious wound
Mercury-Tipped Bullets	Decent	Lethal Projectile plus Affliction (Mercury Poisoning)
Mercy Bullets	Great	Blunt Thrown
Phosphorus Bullets	Great	Blast (Fire) and Affliction (burning with fire that cannot be extinguished through normal means
Rubber Bullets	Decent	Blunt Thrown
Silver Bullets	Average	Lethal Projectile, kills any Werewolf instantly on a successful hit.
Smoke Bullets	Great	Affliction (Choking Smoke)
Tracers	Great	Blast (Explosion), also lights up target making it +2RS easier to hit with next shot
Wooden Bullets	Average / World Class damage to Vampires	Lethal Projectile, Gold result instantly kills a Vampire as it slams through their heart, "staking" them

ASSAULT RIFLES

Assault Rifles are bullet firing firearms, guns operated two handed that can shoot a single bullet or a burst of bullets, or even fire fully automatic until all the bullets in the Weapon are exhausted.

By strict definition, a firearm must have the following characteristics to be considered an assault rifle:

• It must be an individual weapon operated by a single character;
• It must be capable of selective fire meaning it has the capacity to switch between single shot (semi-automatic) and burst/fully automatic fire;
• It must have Damage greater than a pistol but less than a standard rifle or battle rifle;
• Its ammunition must be supplied from a detachable box magazine;
• It should have an effective range of at least 300 metres (330 yards).
Rifles that meet most of these criteria, but not all, are technically not assault rifles, despite frequently being called such.

The default number of shots most Assault Rifles can produce before requiring reloading is World Class (30) - 30 single shots, or Decent (10) bursts of 3 bullets, or exhaust the entire ammunition store in the Weapon for fully automatic attack in a single combat round.

Firing fully automatic reduces the accuracy but potentially increases the damage. The attack roll for using the Weapon is reduced by -2RS but the Damage is +1RS.

Ammunition for guns of standard type require a normal successful roll on Wealth to obtain. In other words to buy an extra clip or box full of bullets requires a normal Wealth roll.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
9A-91	Rare	World Class	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
AAC Honey Badger	Luxury -2RS	Decent	Great	World Class	Lethal Projectile
AAI ACR	Luxury -2RS	Decent	Great	World Class	Lethal Projectile (Flechette)
ADS	Luxury -1RS	Decent	Astounding	World Class	Lethal Projectile
AK-12	Rare	Average	Fantastic	Great	Lethal Projectile
AK-63/AMM	Rare	Decent	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
AK-47	Rare	Decent	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
AK-74	Average	Great	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
APS Underwater Rifle	Luxury -4RS	Decent	Great (in air) / Average (underwater)	World Class	Lethal Projectile
ArmaLite AR-15	Rare	Great	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile (Flechette)
Automatkarbin 5	Rare	Great	Astounding	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Barrett REC7 / M4 adaptation	Luxury	Great	Astounding	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Beretta AR 70/90	Luxury	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
BR18 adaptation	Luxury	Decent	Astounding	Great	Lethal Projectile
Close Battle Quarters Receiver	Luxury	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Colt Canada C7	Luxury	Great	Phenomenal	World Class	Lethal Projectile
CZ 805 BREN	Luxury	Great	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
CZ2000	Luxury	Average	Great	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Daewoo Precision Industries K1	Rare -1CS	Decent	World Class	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Dasan Machineries K16	Rare	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
FN F2000	Luxury -4CS	Decent	Astounding	Great	Lethal Projectile
FN FNC	Average	Decent	Astounding	Great	Lethal Projectile (also fitted with integralized bayonet for stabbing damage)
Galil AR	Luxury	Great	Astounding	World Class	Lethal Projectile
HK33	Luxury	Decent	Great	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Howa Type-20	Luxury -1RS	Decent	Astounding	World Class	Lethal Projectile
IWI Tavor TAR-21	Luxury	Decent	Great	Great	Lethal Projectile
Komodo Armament D5	Rare	Terrible	Decent	Decent	Lethal Projectile
KORD 6P67	Luxury -1RS	Great	Astounding	World Class	Lethal Projectile
M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle / HK416	Luxury -2RS	Decent	Phenomenal	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Norinco Type 86S	Rare	Average	Decent	Decent	Lethal Projectile
Remington ACR "Masada"	Luxury -1RS	Decent	World Class	Great	Lethal Projectile
SA80/L85	Rare	Decent	World Class	Fantastic	Lethal Projectile
Valmet and Sako M62	Luxury -1RS	Great	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Vepr	Luxury	Average	Fantastic	Great	Lethal Projectile
XM29 OICW	Luxury -4RS	Great	Single Shift	Fantastic	Blast (high explosive with shrapnel affecting one whole Area)



BATTLE RIFLES

Battle Rifles are bullet firing firearms, guns operated two handed that can shoot a single bullet or a burst of bullets, or even fire fully automatic until all the bullets in the Weapon are exhausted. Battle rifles are full-powered rifles, full-length, fully automatic or semi-automatic rifles that have been adopted by a nation's military. Some Assault Rifles (see above) are pressed into service as Battle Rifles; they are not re-listed in this section.

Firing fully automatic does not reduces the accuracy or increase the damage of a battle rifle.

Ammunition for guns of standard type require a normal successful roll on Wealth to obtain. In other words to buy an extra clip or box full of bullets requires a normal Wealth roll.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Beretta BM59	Average	Bad	World Class	World Class	Lethal Projectile
CETME Model 58	Average +1RS	Average	Fantastic	Great	Lethal Projectile
Desert Tech MDR	Luxury	Great	Phenomenal	World Class	Lethal Projectile
FA-MAS Type 62	Rare	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
FG42	Luxury -4RS	Great	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
FN FAL	Rare +2RS	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
FN Model 1949	Average +2RS	Average	Wondrous	World Class	Lethal Projectile
FN SCAR (-L/-H)	Luxury +1RS	Decent	Astounding	Great (-L) / World Class (-H)	Lethal Projectile
Gewehr 43	Average	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
HK G3	Luxury	Great	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Howa Type 89	Luxury	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
IMBEL IA2	Luxury	Average	Single Shift, with scope Double Shift	World Class	Lethal Projectile
IWI ACE	Luxury	Decent	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle ("SLR")	Luxury	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
M1 Garand	Average	Average	Fantastic	World Class	Lethal Projectile
M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle	Luxury +1RS	Average	World Class	World Class	Lethal Projectile
MAS-49	Average	Bad	Fantastic	Great	Lethal Projectile
MG42	Luxury	Great	Astounding	World Class	Lethal Projectile
SIG MCX SPEAR / XM5	Luxury -4RS	Decent	Single Shift	World Class	Lethal Projectile
SIG SG 550	Luxury -3RS	Great	World Class	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Zastava M77 B1	Average	Bad	Great	adjustable from World Class to Astounding	Lethal Projectile

NOTES

• NOTE that the Gewehr 43 only holds 10 shots total.
• NOTE that the M1 Garand only holds 8 shots total.



PISTOLS

Pistols are held in one hand. Pistols can be revolvers, self loaders, or true automatics - machine pistols or sub machine guns (SMG) - a kind of tiny machine gun. Machine pistols have the same applicable ammunition and firing selection rules as Assault Rifles (see above). Revolvers have Average number of shots (6), modern pistols of other kinds have Great (20) shots (actually, often 21 or 22).

The default number of shots most machine pistols can produce before requiring reloading is World Class (30) - 30 single shots, or Decent (10) bursts of 3 bullets, or exhaust the entire ammunition store in the Weapon for fully automatic attack in a single combat round.

Firing fully automatic reduces the accuracy but potentially increases the damage. The attack roll for using the Weapon is reduced by -2RS but the Damage is +1RS.

Ammunition for guns of standard type require a normal successful roll on Wealth to obtain. In other words to buy an extra clip or box full of bullets requires a normal Wealth roll.

Pistols with *Star next to their name are machine pistols or SMGs capable of burst or full automatic firing.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
.22 Pistol	Average	Decent	Decent	Decent	Lethal Projectile
.38 Revolver	Rare	Great	Decent	Decent	Lethal Projectile
9mm Pistol	Rare	Decent	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
*A-M20	Luxury -3RS	Decent	Great	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Agram 2000	Rare	Bad	Decent	Decent	Lethal Projectile
Apache Revolver	Luxury	Average	Average	Average	Lethal Projectile, Blunt Melee or Lethal Melee
Arsenal Firearms AF1 "Strike One"	Luxury -3RS	World Class	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Automag .44	Luxury	Decent	Great	Great	Lethal Projectile
Beretta M9	Luxury	Decent	Great	Great	Lethal Projectile
Beretta 92	Luxury	Average	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Beretta 93R	Luxury -2RS	Average	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Brugger & Thomet APC	Luxury	Great	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Calico M950	Luxury	Decent	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Carl Gustav m/45	Rare	Average	Decent	Decent	Lethal Projectile
Colt M1911	Average	Average	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Daewoo Precision Industries K5	Luxury	Decent	Great	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Daewoo Precision Industries K7	Luxury -1RS	Great	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Desert Eagle	Luxury -1RS	Great	Decent	World Class	Lethal Projectile
Derringer miniature one-shot pistol	Luxury -2RS	Average	Bad	Terrible	Lethal Projectile
Glock 20	Rare	Decent	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Mauser 9mm Pistol	Luxury	Great	Great	Great	Lethal Projectile
Revolver, Charter Arms Bulldog	Luxury -1RS	Great	Average	Great	Lethal Projectile
Revolver, Colt 1861 Navy Revolver	Luxury	Great	Decent	Average	Lethal Projectile
Revolver, Colt Anaconda	Luxury	Decent	Average	Great	Lethal Projectile
Revolver, Colt Detective Special	Rare	Decent	Average	Great	Lethal Projectile
Revolver, Rutger Security Six	Luxury	Great	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Revolver, S333 Thunderstruck	Luxury -4RS	Average	Decent	Astounding	Lethal Projectile
Revolver, Smith & Wesson .357	Luxury	Great	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Revolver, Smith & Wesson Model 14	Luxury	Average	World Class	Decent	Lethal Projectile
*Skorpion vz.61	Luxury -2RS	Decent	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Stechkin APS	Luxury -1RS	Great	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Steyr M1912	Luxury	Great	Average	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Steyr TMP	Luxury -4RS	Great	World Class	Great	Lethal Projectile
*Tec-9	Luxury -2RS	Great	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
TP-82 Cosmonaut Survival Pistol (pistol-sized shotgun)	Luxury -5RS	Great	Decent, Great or World Class	Decent	Lethal Projectile
TT33 Tokarev	Average	Decent	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Type 14 Nambu	Average	Decent	Great	Decent	Lethal Projectile
Type-77 Pistol	Average	Bad	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
*UZI	Luxury -4RS	Great	Average	Great	Lethal Projectile
Viper Jaws .50 Caliber Pistol	Luxury -3RS	Decent	Fantastic	Astounding	Lethal Projectile
Walther PPK	Luxury -1RS	World Class	Great	Great	Lethal Projectile
Walther PPS 9mm	Luxury -2RS	World Class	Great	Great	Lethal Projectile
Walther PPS .40 caliber	Luxury -3RS	World Class	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Welrod silenced pistol	Luxury	Decent	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Z88 Vektor	Luxury	Great	Great	World Class	Lethal Projectile

NOTES

• The The Apache Revolver is a combination revolver, knuckle dusters and knife, hence the three types of damage it can deliver.
• The Welrod is a silenced pistol.
• The S333 Revolver fires two bullets per shot for devastating damage.
• The TP-82 Cosmonaut Survival Pistol is a combination double barreled shotgun and rifle round firing pistol. It can deliver one or both shotgun shells and its rifle shot at the same time. It can't attack multiple targets at the same time.
• The Welrod is a silenced pistol.



BOWS and CROSSBOWS
Bows use a stretching string, cable or thong to throw an arrow at a target. Crossbow use a mechanical device of some kind to fire a bolt.

All forms of bow and crossbow come with a quiver (bows) or quarrel (crossbows) of 30 of their arrows or bolts.

As with firearms, in addition to whatever standard form of missile the Weapon fires, weird and wonderful other types can be purchased, each for a Luxury Rank Wealth roll. "Arrow" in the chart also means "Bolt."

___AMMUNITION___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Armor Piercing Arrow / Car Killers	Decent, ignores all physical armor and Protection rating of Vehicles	Lethal Projectile
Boxing Glove Arrow	Decent	Blunt Thrown
Broadhead Hunting Arrow	Decent	Lethal Projectile, any Silver or Gold result kills the target instantly from blood loss.
Flame Arrow	Decent	Blast (Fire)
Freeze Arrow	Decent	Blast (Cold)
Frog Crotch Arrow	Decent	On any target other than rope, cable or line, it does Blunt Thrown. Striking a rope, cable or line ir instantly severs them at the point struck.
Garlic Arrow	Average / World Class damage to Vampires	Lethal Projectile
Ice Arrow	Bad	Lethal Projectile, the arrow melts away completely leaving no trace of what caused the obvious wound
Rope Arrow	Decent	Binding, or fires a rope up on to a structure allowing the rope to be used for Climbing.
Screamer Arrow	Decent	Affliction (Sonic Blast)
Silver Arrow	Average	Lethal Projectile, kills any Rakshasa demonic shapeshifter instantly on a successful hit.
Smoke Arrow	Great	Affliction (Choking Smoke)

Any of the ammunition above can, in a comic book world, be used on any kind of bow or crossbow.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Compound Bow (bow with levers and pulleys)	Luxury -2RS	Great	Fantastic	Great	Lethal Projectile
Crossbow	Luxury	Average	Terrible (Touch) or Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile
Longbow (6' long bow)	Luxury	Great	Fantastic	Decent	Lethal Thrown
Shortbow	Average	Decent	World Class	Decent	Lethal Thrown
Speargun	Average	Decent	Decent	Decent	Lethal Projectile

NOTES




MELEE WEAPONS

A melee weapon, hand weapon or close combat weapon is any hand-held weapon or weapon attached to the character's bpody used in hand-to-hand combat. The range of all Melee Weapons is Terrible (Touch) and they are for use within the direct physical reach of the weapon itself, essentially functioning as an additional (and more impactful) extension of the user's limbs. Even Over-Sized Melee Weapons still only affect one Area during combat, but can sweep across multiple opponents at the same time. Using an Over-Sized Weapon inflicts a -3RS penalty on the attack roll unless the character has a Speciality devoted to that specific type of Over-Sized Weapon for example Speciality (Over-Sized Two Handed Swords) and so on. Each Speciality slot adds +1RS meaning someone would need three slots in the same Speciality to complete negate any penalty on the attack roll with an Over-Sixed Weapon.

Over-Sized Weapons in general are not useable by anyone whose Strength is less than Great. They simply are too heavy to use. Having said that, if a player picks a super power involving an Over-Sized Weapon part of the effect of that Power is that the character who owns it despite any lack of Strength. The normal -3RS still applies.

Improvised Weapons and Slapstick Fighting allow non-weapons such as planks of wood and paint tins be used as normal weapons. These types of attacks are covered in their own article on this site.


AXES
An axe or ax is a single or double edge wedge attached to a handle or haft. Swinging the wedge down so that the edge or narrow end strikes delivers a powerful splitting blow to whatever is struck. Most axes are kept razor sharp; but the wedge tool shape of an axe means even a blunt axe deliver Lethal Blunt damage.

Axe wedges (the "head") are usually made of tempered steel. Prehistoric and very ancient versions will be stone, chipped obsidian, the tooth of some huge predatory animal, polished sharpened wood, or bronze. Axes can also be made of enchanted magical materials meaning an axe could be crystal, gemstone, hardened coral, bone or any other weird material. Likewise extremely advanced technology can make plastic, carbon or resin compounds as strong as metal.

Plastic axes do not set off metal detectors but they are far too large to smuggle either.

Theoretically, any Axe can be a thrown weapon, even if not intended as such.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Butcher's Hatchet	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee
Labrys (Double-bladed battle axe)	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee
Mattock (Hoe)	Average	Average	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee
PickAxe	Average	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee
Throwing Axe	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch) or Decent	Decent	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown
Viking Axe	Luxury	Decent	Terrible (Touch) or Decent	Great	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown
Woodman's Axe	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee

NOTES




BLUNT WEAPONS
Blunt Weapons include clubs, warhammers, maces and any other Lethal Blunt simple smashing Weapon for slugging someone.

Blunt weapons are usually made of tempered steel heads on wooden handles, or entirely of wood. Prehistoric and very ancient versions will be stone, chipped obsidian, the tooth of some huge predatory animal, polished wood, or bronze. Blunt Weapons can also be made of enchanted magical materials meaning it could be crystal, gemstone, hardened coral, bone or any other weird material. Likewise extremely advanced technology can make plastic, carbon or resin compounds as strong as metal. Plastic blunt weaponry are not as sharp as normal daggers and do one Rank less damage. However they are not detectable by most security X-Ray machines nor do they set of metal detectors. The size of most Blunt Weapons precludes smuggling them through Customs.

Any kind of Blunt Weapon can have Spikes attached. For example a simple Mace with Spikes attached becomes a Morningstar, a Scepter with one or more Spikes attached becomes a Bec de Corbin, and so on. Spikes turn whatever weapon to which they are attached into a Lethal Melee Weapon. They also shift the damage permanently +1RS. Attach Spikes requires a successful roll by a character with Talent Weaponsmith, Speciality Weaponsmithing or the laborious process of Building a Device (see page 50 of the FASERIP rulebook). If Building a Device to attach Spikes, the Spikes are going to be delivering not only Lethal Melee type damage but also whatever Power effect the Device type Spikes provide.

CHAINS are a very special kind of Blunt Weapon. They do blunt type damage but on a successful hit also create a Binding effect on the target as the chains wrap around them or part of their body. Weapons with a *Star on their name are CHAIN weapon as well as whatever else is noted.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Baseball Bat	Average +2RS	Average	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Blunt Melee
Billy Club	Average	Average	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Blunt Melee
Bommyknocker (giant Croquet mallet) (14')	Average -2RS	Average	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Blunt Melee
*Flail (chain on a stick)	Average -2RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
*Flail, Three-Ball (three chains on a stick with a spiked metal ball attached to each chain)	Luxury -2RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	World Class	Lethal Melee
Jester's Bladder (rubber chicken or similar on a stick)	Average -2RS	Terrible	Terrible (Touch)	Terrible	Blunt Melee
Mace (metal headed club)	Rare	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Blunt Melee
*Nunchaku (two sticks joined by a chain or rope)	Average	Average	Terrible (Touch)	Bad	Blunt Melee
*Prison Ball and Chain	Rare	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Blunt Melee
Telescopic Riot Club	Luxury	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Tonfa	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Blunt Melee
Tree Branch Club	Average +4RS	Bad	Terrible (Touch)	Terrible	Blunt Melee
Warhammer	Luxury -2RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	World Class	Lethal Melee
Warhammer, Lucerne	Luxury -3RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	World Class	Lethal Melee (the shaped spike on this Weapon IGNORES ARMOR)
Wooden Club	Average +3RS	Bad	Terrible (Touch)	Bad	Blunt Melee
Wooden Mallet	Average	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Blunt Melee

NOTES

• Telescopic Riot Clubs shrink down to be pocket sized but with a simple flick stretch out and lock into a lethal slightly flexible metal wand. Used correctly it can tear open the flesh, penetrate muscle to break bone or crack someone's skull open and potentially kill them on a Gold result.



DAGGERS and KNIVES
A dagger is a fighting knife with a very sharp point and usually two sharp edges, typically designed or capable of being used as a thrusting or stabbing weapon. A knife is a single-edged dagger, and usually much smaller than a dagger. Because daggers are a Weapon but some knives are mere tools, knives can descend in size far below what would inflict even one point of damage.

Daggers have been used throughout human history for close combat and as a result many cultures have used ornate or specially crafted daggers in ritual and ceremonial contexts including court room proceedings, taking and giving oaths and even human and animal sacrifice. Daggers have come to be closely associated symbolically with special forces troops, betrayal, assassination and murders.

Daggers are usually made of tempered steel. Prehistoric and very ancient versions will be stone, chipped obsidian, the tooth of some huge predatory animal, polished sharpened wood, or bronze. Daggers can also be made of enchanted magical materials meaning a dagger could be crystal, gemstone, hardened coral, bone or any other weird material. Likewise extremely advanced technology can make plastic, carbon or resin compounds as strong as metal. Plastic daggers are not as sharp as normal daggers and do one Rank less damage. However they are not detectable by most security X-Ray machines nor do they set of metal detectors.

Theoretically, any Dagger or Knife can be a thrown weapon, even if not intended as such. But throwing a butter knife at someone is not going to deliver Lethal Thrown damage to anyone except in a 10,000 to 1 type situation.

Silvering a dagger, covering the blade in pure silver metal in a very thin coating, makes the Weapon lethal to characters who cast magic spells. Anyone successfully struck by a Silver Dagger who casts magic (not magic item users or mythical or magical creatures) is killed instantly by any such attack on a Gold result. Wounds inflicted on magic users by a Silver Dagger can only be healed by rest, and no Powers or technology including normal non-magical healing medicine speeds the healing.

Daggers are very versatile Weapons, because they can be thrown as well as used in the hand. They also can be used at the same time as another one-handed Weapon to give a character possibilities of making a Parry, Interposing in a different way or even trying, based on skills or powers, to make an extra attack or take an extra action.

Daggers can be attached to a rifle or other long ranged weapon to provide a close combat lethal melee attack. This doesn't magically add an extra action in combat but it does mean a Weapon can do more than Blunt Melee (stunning) when used hand-to-hand.

Weapons with a *Star before their name are not edged and only deliver Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown by thrusting, impaling or puncturing a target.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Athame (ritual dagger)	Luxury	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Bad, World Class to magic users, magical beings, daemons and Aliens	Lethal Melee
Bone Dagger	Average	Terrible	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Butcher's Knife	Average +1RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown
Dagger	Average +2RS	Bad	Terrible (Touch) or Average	Bad	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown
Dragon Tooth	Luxury -7RS	Single Shift	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Fairbarn-Sykes Fighting Knife	Rare	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Fossil Tooth	Luxury -7RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Bad	Blunt Melee, Lethal Melee on a Gold result
Kaur (wooden knife)	Rare	Bad	Terrible (Touch)	Bad	Lethal Melee
Knife	Average +3RS	Bad	Terrible (Touch) or Average	Terrible	Lethal Melee or Blunt Thrown
Knife Gauntlet (metal glove with attached dagger blade)	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee and +2RS on parry attempts using this Weapon
Kris	Luxury -2RS	Single Shift	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee
Kyoketsu-Shoge (Dagger attached to Chain)r	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch) or Decent	World Class	Lethal Melee, Lethal Thrown or Binding
*Misericordia	Luxury	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Terrible (but see notes below)	Lethal Melee
Obsidian Dagger	Luxury	Bad	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
*Poignard	Rare	Great	Terrible (Touch) or Average (-1RS penalty to use as thrown weapon)	Average	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown
Radioactive Dagger	Luxury -4RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	to non-mutants: Decent, to mutants: Great	Lethal Melee
*Sai (Japanese swordcatcher)	Great	Average	Terrible (Touch) or Decent	Average	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown
*Stiletto	Average	Average	Terrible (Touch) or Decent	Bad	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown
Swordcatcher	Rare	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee or Parry and do damage to an enemy weapon
Throwing Knife	Average	Average	Terrible (Touch) or Decent	Bad	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown
Vampire Dagger	Luxury -13RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	World Class	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown

NOTES

• Kris: an Indonesian wavy-bladed dagger made of cold iron alloyed with meteoritic iron. All Kris have magical power, to affect fortune for good or bad. In effect, the Kris has an "alignment". There is no way of knowing whether the alignment of a Kris is for good or evil until you own it. Once owned, it is permanently bonded to the owner until either the Kris is destroyed or the owner dies or sells it to another person. An evil Kris inflicts a constant -25 Karma handicap on a hero who owns it; a good Kris inflicts a constant -25 Karma penalty on a villain who owns it. This means that the "normal" Karma of the owner is reduced by 25 as long as the Kris is owned, potentially meaning the owner has constant "Bad Karma" - a negative Karma score that must be brought up to zero before Karma is useable by that character.
• Misericordia: a small surgically sharp stabbing Knife. On a Silver or Gold result it has found the heart or another vital area and killed the target instantly.
• Swordcatcher: a dagger with a trigger on its grip that extends two side blade to make a sharp fork. The fork traps - and can break - a weapon it catches.
• Vampire Dagger: This ornate and magnificent dagger confers the Power of Regeneration on its user. When the dagger remains embedded in a victim, the Regeneration effect is activated.



POLE WEAPONS including STAVES
Pole weapons are long wooden or metal staves (plural of staff). If there is nothing attached to the pole then it is a staff or over-sized staff. A wooden staff is usually slightly over average human height and is called a Quarterstaff. Poles with blades attached are some form of polearm weapon or pike. The most common and ancient bladed polearm is the spear.

Any Pole Weapon can be thrown. Some are designed to be, others are simply able to be thrown like any other improvised weapon.

A character who as skill or Speciality with Pole Weapons can make, as a standard action, a Spinning Attack. This means that the weapon is swung all around the character and attacks everyone in range at a -1RS penalty for Blunt Melee rather than its normal damage.

A character who is Charging (FASERIP RPG page 31) can be Interposed (FASERIP RPG page 33) by a character using a Pole Weapon of any kind. If the Interposing is successful, the Charging character fails no matter what their attack result was. The full damage of the Pole Weapon user is then applied to the Charging character.

Over-Sized Pole Weapons will have a (number in brackets') after their name. This is the length of the sword in feet.

The range that a thrown spear will travel to a target is equal to the character's Strength.

As a ranged attack, the character rolls on Agility to make a Thrown Weapon attack with a spear when using it as a ranged weapon.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Demilune (fishtail-bladed Pike) (12')	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Imperial Warhammer (warhammer on a stick) (14')	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Blunt Melee
Iron Staff	Luxury	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee
Javelin	Average	Decent	Terrible (Touch) or Strength	Bad	Lethal Thrown
Mancatcher	Rare	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Binding (catches the target around the neck on a successful hit)
Naginata (two-bladed staff - sword blade at each end)	Luxury	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee
Pike (axe on a stick) (14')	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Quarterstaff	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Blunt Melee
Spear	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch) or Strength	Average	Lethal Thrown
Spear, Pilum	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch) or Strength +1RS (uses a spear thrower as part of the weapon)	Average	Lethal Thrown
Trident	Average	Great	Terrible (Touch) or Strength	Average	Lethal Melee or Lethal Thrown

NOTES

• A Trident is a metal spear with a three pronged sharp point fork on one end. It can be used in melee or thrown.



SWORDS
A sword is an edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed tip. A slashing sword is more likely to be curved and to have a sharpened cutting edge on one or both sides of the blade. Many swords are designed for both thrusting and slashing. There are high tech swords made using the most advanced science, antique and ancient swords whose construction is advanced that they remain in perfect or close to perfect condition even after centuries, magic swords whose existence is owed to magic spells and magical or divine forging, and crude or barbaric swords.

Over-Sized Swords will have a (number in brackets') after their name. This is the length of the sword in feet.

Swords are usually made of tempered steel. Prehistoric and very ancient versions will be stone or bronze. Swords can also be made of enchanted magical materials meaning a sword could be crystal, gemstone, hardened coral, bone or any other weird material. Likewise extremely advanced technology can make plastic, carbon or resin compounds as strong as metal. Plastic Swords are not as sharp as normal Swords and do one Rank less damage. However they are not detectable by most security X-Ray machines nor do they set of metal detectors.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Blade Gauntlet (metal glove with attached sword blade)	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee or Blunt Melee
Broadsword	Rare	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Broadsword, Imperial (15')	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch) but can attack two characters at once if both are in the same direction as the sword is swung	Great	Lethal Melee
Falx (Roman sickle sword)	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee
Flaming Sword	Luxury -3RS	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee and Blast (Energy - Fire)
Frost Brand	Luxury -3RS	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee and Affliction (Freezing Cold)
Giant Kriegsmesser (21')	Luxury -5RS	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Fantastic	Lethal Melee
Gladius Hispaniensis (Roman Shortsword)	Luxury	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Ixwa	Rare	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee*
Katana (Japanese Longsword)	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Knight's Sword (useable one or two handed)	Luxury	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee
Living Sword of Bytrroxx (30')	Luxury -10RS	Single Shift	Terrible (Touch) but covers whole Area and can attack everyone in it at once	Astounding	Blunt Melee
Longsword	Rare	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee
Longsword, Floberge	Rare	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee and cuts off limb or head on a Gold result
Machete	Average	Average	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee
Pirate Cutlass	Rare	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee
Pisano Hatalan	Luxury -4CS	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee
Rapier	Average	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee**
Saber	Rare	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent (slashing) / Average (stabbing)	Lethal Melee
Samsara Zanblade (25')	Luxury -4RS	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	World Class	Lethal Melee
Sawtooth Sword	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee
Scimitar	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Great	Lethal Melee
Sharkfin Shield	Luxury -2RS	World Class	Terrible (Touch)	Decent (also provides Great armor to covered area)	Lethal Melee
Shortsword	Rare	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee
Swordcane	Average	Decent	Terrible (Touch)	Decent	Lethal Melee or if Sword is not drawn from Cane, Blunt Melee
Wakazashi (Japanese Shortsword)	Luxury	Great	Terrible (Touch)	Average	Lethal Melee
Vampire Sword	Luxury -13RS	Great	Terrible (Touch)	World Class	Lethal Melee

NOTES

• Flaming Swords burst into flames on command or when drawn from their scabbard.
• Frost Brands become coated in ice and glow with a cold blue light on command or when drawn from their scabbard./li>
• *An Ixwa is a throwable longsword. When used as a thrown weapon it has Decent effective range and inflicts Decent Lethal Thrown damage.
• The Living Swords of Bytrroxx are parts of the dead (or dormant) body of the Kaiju Bytrroxx converted into huge and wide weirdly shaped swords. Each of them has an Alien green cat-pupiled eye in the hilt which contantly blinks and looks around at whatever is going on. This sword is edged but fleshy; it effectively delivers blunt trauma and smothering rather than a sharp slash.
• The Pisano Hatalan is fashioned from antelope horns combined with strange cold-forged metals. As a result damage from this weapon cannot be restored through Regeneration or any magical or technological means other than simple rest.
• **A Rapier is a weapon not of Fighting or Strength but of Agility. Thus Agility is used to make attacks with this Weapon.
• Sawtooth Swords have a serrated toothed edge that inflicts their full damage on any character, item or weapon used to block or parry their attack.
• Scimitars are large curve-bladed swords, common in the middle east and still used for public executions there.
• A Sharkfin Shield (illustrated in the picture above "Melee Weapons", above) is a sharp-edged shield. It provides 13% Cover, meaning if 13 or less is rolled on 1d100 it can apply its armor rating to any damage. It provides Great armor to the area it covers. Cover is also discussed on page 34 of the FASERIP RPG rulebook.
• Vampire Sword: This ornate and magnificent sword confers the Power of Regeneration on its user. When the sword spills blood, the Regeneration effect is activated.



RAYGUNS

Rayguns are highly engineered futuristic weapons which project a ray, series of pulses, flickering bolt or other discharge of energy.

The energy can be electromagnetic, longitudinal such a sound and vibration, or something more mysterious.

The default number of shots most Rayguns can produce before requiring reloading or refueling is World Class (30). Reloading a Raygun is usually a matter of replacing its battery or fuel cell with a new one. Cost of such a battery or fuel cell is usually Luxury -2RS.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Agonizer	Luxury	Decent	Astounding	Decent	Affliction (agonizing pain)
Blaster	Luxury -5RS	Decent	Decent	Great	Blast (Explosion)
Brown Note Gun	Luxury -1RS	Decent	Fantastic	Great	Affliction (diarrhea, stench, stomach pains, target soils itself on Silver or Gold result)
Earthquake Gun	Luxury -2RS	Decent	Astounding	Decent	Blast (Earthquake), Affliction (shaking ground, nausea) or Burrowing
Gamma Gun (particle beam pistol)	Luxury -2RS	Average	Decent	Phenomenal	Energy Blast which attacks as if a Lethal Projectile
Hurricane Gun	Luxury -3RS	Decent	Great	Great	Blast (Air Control Blast) - extinguishes all flames on or near the target
Laser Pistol	Luxury -2RS	Decent	Astounding	Decent	Blast (Light Control Blast)
Lightning Gun	Luxury -10RS	Decent	Great	World Class	Blast (Lightning Bolt)
Phased Energy Gun	Luxury -5RS	Great	Great	Astounding	Blast (electromagnetic energy and heat)
Sound Gun	Luxury -1RS	Decent	Great	Great	Blast (Sound Blast) or Affliction (deafened)



SCIENCE FICTION GUNS

Science fiction weapons are usually either extremely overpowered firearms or energy weapons that behave like firearms.

The default number of shots most Science Fiction Guns can produce before requiring reloading or refueling is World Class (30). Reloading a Science Fiction Gun is usually a matter of replacing its battery or "clip" with a new one. Cost of such a battery or "clip" is usually Luxury -2RS.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Beamer	Luxury -5RS	Great	Wondrous	Decent	Ray that inflicts Blast (Light Control Blast) and stays on as long as the finger is pulling the trigger. Each round of use is one shot used.
Blaster Carbine	Luxury -7RS	Decent	Decent	World Class	Blast (Explosion)
Chakram Carbine (fires Chakrams)	Luxury	Decent	Wondrous	Decent	Blunt Thrown
Disc Rifle (fires razor sharp metal discs)	Luxury	Decent	Fantastic	Decent	Lethal Projectile
Electro-Scrambler	Luxury	Decent	Great	Fantastic	Affliction (disorientation and deafness) on living targets; on Vehicles, machines and robots - Blast (electromagnetic energy and EMP)
Laser Rifle	Luxury -3RS	Decent	Wondrous	Decent	Blast (Light Control Blast)
Minigun	Luxury -2RS	Decent	Average	Wondrous	Lethal Projectile
Molecular Disorganizer Rifle	Luxury -3RS	Decent	Average	Great	Corruption (melting of normal matter)
Pulse Rifle	Luxury -2RS	Decent	Decent	Great	Lethal Projectile



SQUIRTERS

Squirters are highly engineered water pistols, gas sprayers, flame throwers, directed air blast fan weapons and anything else that projects a non-solid attack. They are all created in such a way that they can safely store their own ammunition, liquid, chemicals or compressors. If the Material Strength of a Squirter is overcome, the Squirter immediately explodes for Great Blunt damage on its user and inflicts a full force effect of its own normal Damage on the user as well.

The default number of shots most Squirters can produce before requiring reloading is Great (20).

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___RANGE___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Air Blaster	Rare	Great	Phenomenal	Great	Blast (Air), also extinguishes all fires on target
Bubble Gun	Rare	Decent	Decent	Average	Affliction (Soap Bubbles)
Concretor	Luxury -1RS	Great	Great	Great	Binding AND Affliction (covered in quick-setting concrete)
Flamethrower	Average	Average	Decent	Great	Blast (Fire)
Freeze Pistol	Luxury	Average	Great	Great	Affliction (covered in ice)
Gas Gun, Poison	Luxury	Great	Decent	Great	Affliction (Poison)
Gas Gun, Sleep	Luxury	Great	Decent	Great	Affliction (Sleepiness)
Gas Gun, Smoke	Rare	Great	Decent	Great	Affliction (Smoke)
Glue Gun	Luxury	Decent	Great	Decent	Binding (Glue)
Resin Carbine	Luxury -2RS	Great	Great	Great	Binding AND Affliction (covered in quick-hardening resin)
Stun Pistol	Luxury	Decent	Decent	Great	Stunning (covered in liquid anaesthetic)
Tinsel Carbine	Luxury +1RS	Average	Great	Great	Binding (Tinsel)
Web Gun	Luxury -4RS	Great	Great	Great	Binding (Webs)



THROWN WEAPONS

Thrown Weapons are thrown by the character and propelled initially at least by the character's own muscular strength.

The range that a Thrown Weapon will travel to a target is equal to the character's Strength Rank.

As a ranged attack, the character rolls on Agility to make a Thrown Weapon attack.

___WEAPON___	___COST___	___MATERIAL STRENGTH___	___DAMAGE___	___TYPE___
Belaying Pin (thrown wooden club)	Average	Average	Average	Blunt Thrown
Bolas (metal balls connected by rope)	Average	Average	Decent	Blunt Thrown plus Binding
Chakram (war frisbee)	Rare	Great	Decent	Blunt Thrown
Grenade, Alpha Energy	Luxury	Great	Great	Energy Drain - target of a successful is immediately under Affliction (Energy Drain) and their Strength is reduced by one Rank for 10 minutes.
Grenade, Fusion	Luxury -5RS	Great	Fantastic	Blast (Area Effect Explosion) and Affliction (Area Effect Radiation Poisoning)
Grenade, High Explosive (HE)	Luxury	Great	World Class	Blast (Area Effect Explosion)
Grenade, Napalm	Luxury	Great	Astounding	Blast (Area Effect Explosion) and Binding - coated with burning jelly that does not wash off
Grenade, Paste	Luxury	Great	Great	Binding - target is covered in quick drying glue paste.
Grenade, Smoke	Luxury	Great	World Class	Affliction (Area Effect choking smoke)
Plumbita (Roman throwing dart)	Average	Great	Average	Lethal Thrown
Shuriken (Throwing Star)	Average	Decent	Terrible	Lethal Thrown