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Dec 17, 2012 -- 4:25PM, SaltandPepper wrote:

Dec 16, 2012 -- 9:56AM, richterbelmont10 wrote:

Dec 15, 2012 -- 2:50PM, StevenO wrote:

Ritcherbelmont's diagrams work well for medium and huge creatures (although you may need to fill in some more corners with a huge) but for a large creature the splash radius would look something like the burst diagrams.
 

I think if a target of a splash weapon is Large, then a 1-sq splash radius would be all squares adjacent to the Large target. A 2-sq splash radius would be all squares 2sq from the Large target. Same principle applies for Huge and targer targets.

PS: I was incorrect in stating that all weapons in the Core Rulebook have 1-sq splash since I overlooked the vehicles and starships which have weapons that deal 2-sq splash and 4-sq splash radius.

With great respect, I completely disagree. Throwing a grenade at a Gen'Dai doesn't make the explosion bigger than it would've been if you'd thrown it at a Jawa, so why make the splash area increase? I know there might be some game balance issues there but I really don't care, I'm a fan of logic.

I understand that it makes little sense. Why is the splash bigger when hitting a larger target? But that's how it works in the rules.

Dec 23, 2012 -- 6:51AM, ChainmailJedi wrote:

So if you throw a grenade at a ship, it's explosion is the size of the ship plus one square radius?  That's kind of ridiculous...

No, a grenade is not a splash weapon. It's a burst weapon. It would affect the normal amount of squares. But a splash weapon like a blaster canon would work as you describe.

Anyway, most of the time when you're firing at a ship, it's in the air and there are no targets adjacent to it. Most of the time this isn't an issue. Sure, you can fire a splash weapon at a huge crate and try to hit all adjancent targets in the secondary blast. But then the enemies will know you have a powerful splash weapon and be sure not to stand next to anything that will explode.