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Why I hate Pixie with Guns builds: In Picture form.

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Hobbes

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« Reply #15 on: <09-13-15/1142:00> »
Yeah I was thinking a light pistol with a custom stock, grip and forehandle would work.

A heavy pistol's recoil would knock that little flying insect onto it's back and down the hall!

Flying characters and guns in general shouldn't work out well. 

But yeah a small pistol with tiny combat grip, tiny shoulder stock, fired with both hands would be feasible.  Getting a functioning hand gun down to doll sized is possible.  Breach loaded .22s aren't much more than 3 inches long.  Wildly inaccurate, only holds one or two shots, small caliber, and you're not sticking any kind of fancy high tech high velocity rounds in a weapon that small.  But yeah, think .22 Derringer, and it's still going to be about as long as a Pixie's forearm.

Also, keep in mind some of the larger magazines are going to be as long as a Pixie's leg.  All very silly.   

Either be a Pixie mage or a go Monowhip.

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« Reply #16 on: <09-13-15/1357:45> »
LOL That is so good!
You convinced me.
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« Reply #17 on: <09-13-15/1400:04> »
I don't want to live in a world where a tiny flying thing carrying a rifle isn't thought of as cool.
Playability > verisimilitude.

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« Reply #18 on: <09-13-15/1400:24> »
Next up, Pixies on Bikes!
That's just like... your opinion, man.

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« Reply #19 on: <09-13-15/1554:39> »
And this is why I usually make the suggestion that any pixie weaponry should either be drone mounted, a drone itself, or fired with the aid of spells like levitate or magic fingers.

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« Reply #20 on: <09-13-15/1556:01> »
With all the weird gear verisimilitude issues (which are absent from the rules, because of course) pixies probably just shouldn't ever have been written as playable.

IMO nothing of value would be lost.
Playability > verisimilitude.

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« Reply #21 on: <09-13-15/1955:05> »
Agreed 100%

With all the weird gear verisimilitude issues (which are absent from the rules, because of course) pixies probably just shouldn't ever have been written as playable.

IMO nothing of value would be lost.

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« Reply #22 on: <09-13-15/1959:45> »
Perhaps that's what the Vanishing trait does. ::)

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« Reply #23 on: <09-13-15/2057:55> »
Pixie with a rifle is an artillery unit!
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« Reply #24 on: <09-13-15/2152:12> »
What can I say?

Got bored while cleaning my collection, so I figured I would use a couple to make a point.

13 down, 40 to go...
Where am I going? And why am I in a hand basket ???

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« Reply #25 on: <09-13-15/2209:11> »
 ;D This thread made me laugh........though it does make sense.....

Pixies can't use throwing weapons either (grenades, etc)
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« Reply #26 on: <09-13-15/2222:20> »
what about a pixie with the heavy weapons skill specialization [ heavy pistol ] they know how to brace for the recoil.

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« Reply #27 on: <09-14-15/1018:57> »
but a roto drone with a lmg mounted to it is ok because it has a body rating of 3 oh and I can mount another one cause the rules state:
 Treat its Body as 3 higher
than its actual Rating for determining how many weapon
mounts or customizations it can integrate.

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« Reply #28 on: <09-14-15/1035:20> »
But an LMG needs a heavy mount, which counts as two mounts, which means it can only have the one.

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« Reply #29 on: <09-14-15/1346:15> »
not to mention drones are designed for the specific purpose of firing guns, kind of like the A-10