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    Oddball Items...

    Got in a chat a few days ago with a former player that used to game with me and we started talked about all those oddball things we always hankered for in our game. Not talking about the ber this or ber that, these are items that don't have a really defined role or are absolute crap, maybe even both. Yet you want them any ways because they are cool.. or they really speak about the character that has them.

    So,throwing this out there, what sort of item that fits that definition have you always hankered for to equip your character Me In one campaign I was always pestering my DM for a M60A2 Starship... utter crap yes, but it looked cool..
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    Toilet paper. Always bugged GMs by having my character try to find or buy toilet paper, and always gave my players opportunities to find toilet paper.
    I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons...First We Take Manhattan, Jennifer Warnes

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    • #3
      Porn.
      sigpic "It is better to be feared than loved" - Nicolo Machiavelli

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        You know you've got a hardcore player when he makes a point to get condoms, but only uses them on his firearms ...
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        Brandon Cope

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        • #5
          Rayban sunglasses. Worn 24/7.

          Or a Schofield single action revolver, cause it looks cool.
          Just because I'm on the side of angels doesn't mean I am one.

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          • #6
            Knives, I'm not talking the small-sword sized battle knives, but everything from Buck Folding Hunters to Leathermans to Gerber Multitools to just about every $%^&%^@$%%# every put out by Swiss Army.
            The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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            • #7
              At last year's Origins game, the group was playing a truck convoy, almost entirely rear-area types. One PC was former infantry (sidelined by leg amputation), and we made it a point that we thought he was SO KEWL, as he had Oakley sunglasses and a boonie hat to go with the sniper rifle.
              My Twilight claim to fame: I ran "Allegheny Uprising" at Allegheny College, spring of 1988.

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              • #8
                ACOGs would probably be pretty scarce in the T2K universe, but some of the old school Colt x4 power carry handle scopes would be a cool bit of kit for the serious gunfighter.

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                • #9
                  A 30x30 cube of polystyrene.

                  Yes, I'm serious.

                  Need an assault boat Need an insulated cold-weather shelter Need to float the team Humvee across a deep river Need to make a dummy vehicle to spook or decoy with Warm up a bayonet over a fire and you've got it.

                  More practically, I've often thought of running a character named "D.J." - he's got a working (compact!) Panasonic boom box and a stash of lovingly cared-for cassette tapes of pop music from all pre-war eras (a crapload of "best ofs") that he keeps wrapped in a flak jacket and carefully stored in whatever ride they have.

                  He also manages to come up with working "D" batteries periodically when hooking in to the vehicle is out of the question. He's a former AFRE disk-jockey pressed into service and he grabbed those items on his way to muster...
                  THIS IS MY SIG, HERE IT IS.

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                  • #10
                    The M202 Rocket Launcher, perhaps

                    Or the M247 Sergeant York AAA. Good for blowing up commie supply convoys...everything else, not so much.

                    Any large recoilless rifle...M40/WOMBAT/MOBAT. You better hit it and kill it, because you just told EVERYONE where you are!

                    The Ontos tanks destroyer...same vein as above, only worse.

                    Did the 152mm have the same issues in the M60A2 with the electronics getting all f-ed up every time you fires a conventional round

                    -Dave

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by schnickelfritz View Post
                      Did the 152mm have the same issues in the M60A2 with the electronics getting all f-ed up every time you fires a conventional round
                      Just go with the 165mm gun. More bang, less buck. :P
                      If it moves, shoot it, if not push it, if it still doesn't move, use explosives.

                      Nothing happens in isolation - it's called "the butterfly effect"

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                      • #12
                        Lighters......
                        "There is only one tactical principal which is not subject to change. It is to use the means at hand to inflict the maximum amount of wounds, death and destruction on the enemy in the minimum amount of time."
                        --General George S. Patton, Jr.

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by schnickelfritz View Post
                          Did the 152mm have the same issues in the M60A2 with the electronics getting all f-ed up every time you fires a conventional round
                          In a word....YES!!!!!!!! Not to mention problems with residue from the "combustible" cartridge case falling back into the turret. The Starship was the only tank I've ever heard of where the loader was required to not pull another round out of the ammo rack until after the breech had opened.
                          The reason that the American Army does so well in wartime, is that war is chaos, and the American Army practices chaos on a daily basis.

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                            A fiddle.
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                            • #15
                              ...

                              this strangly reminds of the time we were gonna attack Hawaii , using 1940s style german flying-boats (huge ones) Dornier Do p192/214 -
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                              We all ended laughing when I said" ...better leave the lead piano at home"

                              who would even make a lead piano hehe
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