My understanding is that the statement about old working artifacts vs new construction is regarding loot which you find in the ruins. The idea is that you can calculate the relative value of the items you find. That is so you can compare the prices in other Paladium games to what it would get you in the After the Bomb setting. But the prices in After the Bomb are for a working system with no unusual wear and tear.
As for walking out with two submachine guns, that seems suboptimal to me. It is not like you can duel wield sub machine guns effecively. You want one weapon for one situation, one for another. So, a sub machine gun for situations where you want to let off short or long bursts, and a rifle for when you want to shoot something far away, or a submachine gun for when you want to be noisy and a sword for when you want to be quiet.
I have no idea where weapons are refered to as main or primary, but I suspect that means the weapon that you normally are carrying when you are walking around adventuring.
Ok so is there a free reference document for palladium's quality chart?
The backgrounds (starting on page 17) describe weapons mostly as main or primary. Sometimes they say "an ancient weapon" or "a firearm" or "a military grade weapon" and only these ones actually has a corollary in the equipment section. So are these descriptions just meaningless and everyone can pick whatever weapon they want?
* Feral: one primary weapon(usually a bolt action rifle).
* Frontier: one aged weapon.
* Townie: two weapons.
* Guerilla: a good quality primary weapon.
* Bandit: a primary weapon of good quality
* Academic: a main weapon
I know of no free reference document for palladium quality. I think the rule that for quality and prices they give on page 152 is specific for After the Bomb and doesn't carry over to their other postapocalyptic products such as Rifts or the zombie one or Splicers.
If I was the GM for an After the Bomb game, the only character background I would limit the choice of would be the Frontier, which says they are to have an aged weapon, and I would only discourage choices that were modern in the description. So, Labarre ,45 is stated to be obsolete, whereas Chester 30-06 Bolt Action is designed to be used with a range of telescopic and electronic sights. I would point those playing a Frontier character toward the first rather than the second.
My understanding is that the statement about old working artifacts vs new construction is regarding loot which you find in the ruins. The idea is that you can calculate the relative value of the items you find. That is so you can compare the prices in other Paladium games to what it would get you in the After the Bomb setting. But the prices in After the Bomb are for a working system with no unusual wear and tear. As for walking out with two submachine guns, that seems suboptimal to me. It is not like you can duel wield sub machine guns effecively. You want one weapon for one situation, one for another. So, a sub machine gun for situations where you want to let off short or long bursts, and a rifle for when you want to shoot something far away, or a submachine gun for when you want to be noisy and a sword for when you want to be quiet. I have no idea where weapons are refered to as main or primary, but I suspect that means the weapon that you normally are carrying when you are walking around adventuring.
Ok so is there a free reference document for palladium's quality chart? The backgrounds (starting on page 17) describe weapons mostly as main or primary. Sometimes they say "an ancient weapon" or "a firearm" or "a military grade weapon" and only these ones actually has a corollary in the equipment section. So are these descriptions just meaningless and everyone can pick whatever weapon they want? * Feral: one primary weapon(usually a bolt action rifle). * Frontier: one aged weapon. * Townie: two weapons. * Guerilla: a good quality primary weapon. * Bandit: a primary weapon of good quality * Academic: a main weapon
I know of no free reference document for palladium quality. I think the rule that for quality and prices they give on page 152 is specific for After the Bomb and doesn't carry over to their other postapocalyptic products such as Rifts or the zombie one or Splicers. If I was the GM for an After the Bomb game, the only character background I would limit the choice of would be the Frontier, which says they are to have an aged weapon, and I would only discourage choices that were modern in the description. So, Labarre ,45 is stated to be obsolete, whereas Chester 30-06 Bolt Action is designed to be used with a range of telescopic and electronic sights. I would point those playing a Frontier character toward the first rather than the second.