everyone has them
you know those weird-ass, not-really-thought-through ideas that you get in the middle of a game, then end up not being able to stop thinking of for the rest of the session because it seems like such a good idea even though part of you is basically short-circuiting over how forgetin dumb you are for coming up with it
like, when i play fallout, i usually come back to the idea of being able to throw melee weapons as a one-shot gambit sort of thing to catch the enemy off guard, to replace the stuffty one-shot expendable-ass throwing system that they have in place (which, honestly, i have never used as anything besides a desperation tactic while fighting the legion.) the thought usually comes to me when i'm pinned down by a lone raider like a room away with yon sniper rifle, and i can't just RUN OUT because i'll just get shot in my punk face. so i'm sitting there and i'm just waiting for him to walk down the hallway and get within melee range, but he's like 'oh man this guy has a super sledge he'll never be able to hit me from far away i'll just shoot his punk face' but then i pop out of cover and he's like "YEAH" but THENNNN
SUPER SLEDGE
BOOOOOOOOOMERANG
like holy forget it's such a bad idea but what IF, man? they'd have to rearrange balance a bit to accommodate for it, like having lighter weapons easier to throw and not soak up as much AP and fly farther and having the thrown weapon retrievable from the target's corpse (or maybe just straight-up STUCK in it, if the weapon is sufficiently pointy) but then how would enemies use it on you? would you freak the forget out if you see an enemy throw something at you? could you just dodge it? could THEY just dodge YOU? what would be the modifier for that, would it just be based on the size of the weapon? like, if i were to throw a normal-ass knife at them would it be too fast for them to react properly before it hit them, versus throwing a forgetin car bumper at them? how would strength and agility play into the mix?
man, even with the system in place, i probably wouldn't even be able to pull off a super sledge throw without the forgetin planets aligning, but it's still probably worth it.
does this type of thing happen to you guys too? it's okay, i won't judge.
though i may take notes.
(to that end, please post your justification and rambling, wild thoughts on why the forget whatever your thing won't work. tis part of the process.)
