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Exodus NDS Sourcebook

The Ranged Armory

Forty Launchers and a Quiver System for Exodus NDS

Forty launchers across five families, from a shepherd's sling to a counterweight trebuchet, and a two-axis ammunition system of nine shafts and nine heads combined into quivers. Switching quivers is a maneuver, so one bow covers several roles.

12 chapters, about 17,700 words, free to read here in full. Written for Exodus NDS; the stat lines also drop into a Genesys RPG game.

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Contents

About This Book Forty launchers across five families, each built so that choosing between them is a decision rather than a comparison of damage numbers. 1. Introduction Most equipment lists treat a bow as one object with one damage number. This book treats it as half of one. 2. Reading a Weapon Entry Every launcher in this book uses the same format. Ammunition uses a reduced version of it, shown at the end of this chapter. 3. Weapon Qualities Damage and range tell you how hard a weapon hits and how far. Qualities tell you what it is for. 4. Slings and Throwing Aids Every weapon in this family is powered by the arm alone. Nothing here stores energy in a limb or a spring, which is why nothing here needs a mechanism, a bowyer, or money. 5. Bows A bow stores the shot in a limb the wielder holds drawn. That single fact produces the family's whole profile: it is the fastest launcher in the book to shoot again, and the only one whose… 6. Crossbows A crossbow stores the shot in a limb that a latch holds, not the wielder. Everything good and everything bad about the family comes from that one difference. 7. Silent Arms This is the one family in the book where damage is not the point. 8. Siege Engines Nothing in this chapter is carried, and nothing in it is bought by a character on their own account. These are unit assets: a purchase, a crew, a cart, and somewhere to put them. 9. Ammunition This is the chapter the book was written for. 10. Master Weapons Table Every launcher in this book, four ways: by family, by price, by damage type, and by quality. 10. Licensing Only the Exodus NDS Core Rules are published under the ORC License. Everything else Kaosweaver, Inc. publishes, including this book, is copyright reserved.