Weapons

A weapon is an object with combat stats. The list is deliberately short — one noun carries many real items as adjectives (a carbine is a light rifle, a sawn-off is a cut-down shotgun), so add variety with a modifier, not a new row.

Damage Class (DC) is the number that meets the Damage table; the whole scale is anchored to three points — an inhuman fist is 4, a 9mm pistol is 8, a 7.62 rifle is 11. PM is the ease-factor bonus for using it as intended. Damage type is Mechanical (cutting), Impact (crushing), or Burning/ballistic; a trailing P means it pierces armor (which armor resists with its own Absorb). Range is short–long in metres (melee weapons give reach); RoF in brackets is the automatic burst size.

A weapon is only a benchmark, not a licence: in combat, magic and gear alike are judged against what a good archer does without either. That's why the humble Bow sits on this list as a yardstick.