Preparations are key?

Okay so the first nights gaming didn’t go exactly to plan, mainly due to the fact that I was the only person who had ever written up inquisitor characters before, so we spent the night filling in paperwork, but hey, that’s the way it goes sometimes, from prior experience I’m sure it will be worth it, a brief post today on Weapons-
The weapons of Gotham are largely going to be those of the real world, and that means we have to eliminate a large chunk of the guns from inquisitor, this is a good thing however as armour is going to be rare, and anything bigger than a heavy stubber (or 30m machine gun) would be unbelievably deadly. Obviously there are exceptions to this ‘real world’ rule, but most of them have some game equivalent we can base rules on; Mr Freeze’s raygun (stasis weapon), Penguins umbrella’s (various weapons mixed up, plus a helicopter), scarecrow’s fear bombs (scare grenades) and jokers googly eyes (auspexes) and so on. We also need to assign a ‘rep’ value to each weapon, plus a new ‘common’ ‘rare’ rating etc
Whilst meandering on this point it’s worth noting that many of my fellow inquisitor players moans from the past about game balance centred around the difficulty in writing balanced warbands, the ‘ready reckoner’ at the back of the book simply goes on common, rare, unusual etc, so something as overpowered as a Frost Blade counts as much toward your rep as a servo skull that takes notes… for me it’s never been a huge issue as I choose not to play with muppets who would abuse the system, but I may at some point ‘point up’ the equipment in the basic Inq book, just to see where it would lead. Anyway enough meandering- here’s the Gotham weapons chart-

Name	Type	Range	Mode	Accuracy	Damage	Shots	Reload	Weight	avail
Stubber	pistol	F	single/semi(2)		2D6+2	15	2	15	common
9mm clip fed pistols									5 rep
Autopistol	pistol	A	single/semi(4)		2D6	20	2	20	common
submachine guns (uzi etc)									10 rep
Autogun	basic	C	single, semi(4), full(10)		2D6+2	30	2	30	rare
Assault rifles (M16, Kalashnikov etc									20 rep
Revolver	Pistol	E	single		2D6+2	6	*2*	15	common
6 shooters, colts etc									5 rep
Shotgun	basic	E	single		2D6+2	1	*1*	30	common
									15 rep
Sawn-off Shotgun	basic	A	single	-10	2D6+2	1	*1*	20	common
									15 rep
Double Barrelled Shotgun	basic	A	single/semi(2)	-10	2D6+2	1	*1*	20	common
									20 rep
Pump action Shotgun	basic	E	single/semi(2/3)		2D6+2	8	*2*	35	common
									20 rep
Automatic Shotgun	basic	C	single/semi)2/5)		2D6+2	20	3	40	rare
									20 rep
Hunting Rifle	basic	G	single		2D6+4	10	*2*	40	rare
bolt action rifles, police snipers etc									20 rep
Heavy Stubber	Heavy	C	semi(4/6)/fully(10)		3D6	40	3	45	rare
									50 rep
Hand Flamer	basic	*15*	Flame	-25%	2D6	4	6	25	rare
									25 rep
Flamer	pistol	*25*	Flame	-25%	2D6+4	6	8	40	rare
									50 rep
Exterminator	*	*25*	Flame	-25%	2D6+4	1	xx	10	rare
									15 rep
Disposable Rocket Launcher	Heavy	A	single (A1B6)	-5	3D6	1	xx	30	rare
loaded with super Krak to represent R/L bazooka, could swap for super frag for hollywood effect									30 rep
Throwing Knife	Thrown	E	single	-5	D6	1	xx	10	common
									1 rep
Throwing Star	Thrown	E	single/Semi(2)		D3+1	1	xx	10	common
									1 rep each
Smoke Grenade	Grenade	E	Blast 4			1	xx	10	rare
									5 rep
Name		Reach	Damage	Parry P	Weight	Availability		rep
Knife		1	D6	-25%	5	common		1
Short Sword/Machete		2	D10	-15%	15	common		2
Sword		3	2D6	-10%	20	common		5
Axe		2	2D6+2	-15%	20	common		5
Flail/Chain		2	D6+1	-40%	20	common		5
Spear		4	D10	-15%	40	rare		5
Staff		4	D6	-15%	40	common		5
Hammer/Club		2	D6+2	-20%	20	common		5
Falchion		3	3D6	-15%	35	rare		7
Great axe		2	3D6+2	-20%	45	common		10
Great Hammer		2	2D6+2	-15%	45	common		10
Knuckle Dusters		0	Unarmed +3	-30%	5	common		2
Armoured Gauntlet		0	Unarmed +4	-35%	5	rare		2
Improvised Weapon		1	Unarmed +3	-20%	special	special		0
Bayonet		special	D6	-20%	5	rare		2
Buckler		1	D6	special	10	rare		10
Shield		1	D6	special	25	rare		20