Heavy Weapons

Key facts

Stat

REF

Category

ranged

Overview

Heavy Weapons covers the ordnance that ends arguments with vehicles, walls, and small buildings: grenade launchers, rocket launchers, and crew-served weapons. These are not tools for a firefight in a nightclub. They exist because Night City has armored transports, reinforced doors, and things wearing enough plating that a rifle is a waste of everyone's time. At the table Heavy Weapons is a specialist's insurance policy. It rarely comes up, and when it does it is decisive: an anti-vehicle shot that strands a corporate response team, a breaching charge fired from across a lot, a launcher pointed at something the crew was not supposed to meet. The limits are practical. The weapons are expensive, illegal everywhere, impossible to hide, and their collateral damage tends to become next session's problem.

How it works

Linked Stat: REF Category: Ranged Resolution: 1d10 plus REF plus skill level against a DV set by range and target size, which is why a stationary truck is a far easier shot than a running person. A natural 10 adds another roll, a natural 1 subtracts one. Practical constraints: Ammunition is expensive and scarce, reloads are slow, and area weapons do not distinguish between targets and bystanders. Carrying one openly guarantees a police or corporate response regardless of what you did with it.

Tips and playstyle

Best for: Crews that regularly face vehicles, drones, or armor, and campaigns where the opposition arrives in something with wheels. Character concepts: An ex-military weapons specialist, a Nomad convoy defender, a Tech who builds their own launcher rounds, a Solo who came from a corporate war. Synergies: Demolitions shares the mindset and the safe-distance math. Weapons Tech maintains and modifies the launcher, Trading and Bribery source the ammunition, and Drive Land Vehicle gets the whole conspicuous kit off the street afterwards.

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