Chapter X: Equipment

Armour

Body armour comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, providing varying degrees of coverage and varying heaviness of materials.

Concealable Vest

Standard issue in many police forces, this vest provides maximum protection in a garment that can be worn all day long under regular clothing. While it may go unnoticed by a quick glance, it is usually visible to anyone looking closely for it.

Light-Duty Vest

A lightweight tactical vest designed for extended use by riot police and forces on alert for potential attack, this armour sacrifices a degree of protection for a modicum of comfort - at least compared to other tactical body armours.

Tactical Vest

The standard body armour for police tactical units, this vest provides full-torso protection in the toughest flexible protective materials available.

Special Response Vest

Built like the tactical vest, but incorporating groin and neck protection as well as a ceramic plate over the chest, this armour provides additional protection in battles against heavily armed opponents.

Land Warrior Armour

The standard in warzone protection, this armour incorporates additional plating on the arms and legs in comparison to a special response vest.

Forced Entry Unit

The most powerful protection available is built into this suit, which consists of a heavy torso jacket with ceramic plates over the chest and back, neck and groin guards, arm protection, and a helmet. Heavy and cumbersome, this armour is generally only donned by tactical officers heading into a dangerous assault.

Riot Shield

Ideal for forming a barricade and protecting against thrown items, riot shields are usually constructed from clear reinforced plastic. They won't often stand up to more intense impacts such as bullets, usually cracking or bending when subjected to extreme forces.

Ballistic Shield

A large, thick shield of steel, these are what you grab when you need to stop a bullet. Ballistic shields often come with a small viewport in the top half.

Noise

Unlike most melee or historical ranged weapons, guns create a lot of noise when they are fired. Unless a firearm (a ranged weapon using bullets as ammunition) has the Suppressed. property, shots from the weapon can be heard 100 feet away. Weapons that do not use bullets as ammunition (such as dart guns, tasers, compound bows, and heavy crossbows) don't generate any excessive noise when used unless otherwise stated.

Weapon Properties

Many weapons have special properties related to their use, as shown in the Weapons table.

Ammunition. You can use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a ranged attack only if you have ammunition to fire from the weapon. The ammunition of a firearm is destroyed upon use. Other ammunition, such as arrows and crossbow bolts may be recovered. At the end of the battle, you can recover half of your recoverable ammunition by taking a minute searching the battlefield.

If you use a weapon that has the ammunition property to make a melee attack, you treat the weapon as an improvised weapon.

Archaic. See "Historic Weapons".

Braced. A weapon that has the braced property is designed to be fired only when braced on a bipod, or a hard, stationary surface, such as a low wall. Bracing the weapon requires an action or a bonus action (the character’s choice). If the character moves after bracing the weapon, or drops the weapon, the weapon is no longer considered to be braced. While a weapon with this property is not braced, attack rolls with it are made at disadvantage.

Burst Fire. A weapon that has the burst fire property can make a normal single-target attack, or it can spray a 10-foot-cube area within range that you can see with shots. Each creature in the area must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or take the weapon's normal damage. The DC equals 8 + your Dexterity modifier + your proficiency bonus if proficient. This action uses ten pieces of ammunition.

Targets within the long range of the weapon make this saving throw with advantage. Creatures and objects which are larger than the targeted area automatically fail this saving throw.

Covert. You have advantage on Dexterity (Sleight on Hands) checks to conceal this weapon.

Finesse. When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you can use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.

Heavy. Small creatures have disadvantage on attack rolls with heavy weapons. A heavy weapon’s size and bulk make it too large for a Small creature to use effectively.

Light. A light weapon is small and easy to handle, making it ideal for use when fighting with two weapons. See the rules for two-weapon fighting in the Player's Handbook.

Range. A weapon that can be used to make a ranged attack has a range in parentheses after the ammunition or thrown property. The range lists two numbers. The first is the weapon’s normal range in feet, and the second indicates the weapon’s long range. When attacking a target beyond normal range, you have disadvantage on the attack roll. You can’t attack a target beyond the weapon’s long range.

Reach. This weapon adds 5 feet to your reach when you attack with it, as well as when determining your reach for opportunity attacks with it.

Reload. You can fire a limited number of shots with this weapon before you need to reload. How the weapon is reloaded depends on the type of magazine it uses to store ammunition. Reloading firearms come in three basic types: box, internal, and linked.

Box: A box magazine is any type of magazine that can be removed and reloaded separately from the weapon.

Internal: Some weapons keep their ammunition in an internal space, which must be loaded by hand. This is the case with most shotguns, as well as some rifles. This category includes the cylinder of a revolver.

Linked: Some machine guns use linked ammunition. The bullets are chained together with small metal clips, forming a belt. Typically, a belt holds 50 bullets; any number of belts can be clipped together. In military units, as the gunner fires, an assistant clips new ammunition belts together, keeping the weapon fed.

Reloading a weapon or magazine is an action or a bonus action (the character's choice). This includes reloading individual bullets, reloading a magazine, reloading using a speedloader, and loading or linking an ammunition belt. However, when reloading individual bullets by hand, a maximum of 4 can be reloaded during a reload action.

Special. Some weapons have effects that are specific to them. These will be noted in the descriptions below the table.

Spray. A weapon that has the spray property uses two pieces of ammunition for each attack made. If only one piece of ammunition is available for an attack, the damage the weapon deals is halved.

Spread. When attacking a target within this weapon's normal range, roll an additional damage die and add it to the weapon’s damage. When fired at long range, you may apply the attack roll to an additional creature within 5 feet of the target. Roll damage against the secondary target separately.

Thrown. If a weapon has the thrown property, you can throw the weapon to make a ranged attack. If the weapon is a melee weapon, you use the same ability modifier for that attack roll and damage roll that you would use for a melee attack with the weapon. For example, if you throw a hatchet, you use your Strength, but if you throw a hunting knife, you can use either your Strength or your Dexterity, since the hunting knife has the finesse property.

Two-Handed. This weapon requires two hands when you Attack with it.

Versatile. This weapon can be used with one or two hands. A damage value in parentheses appears with the property - the damage when the weapon is used with two hands to make an attack.

Bullets

Source Material

"d20 Modern" role-playing game by Wizards of the Coast.

Built heavily upon "d20 Modern 5e Conversion" by Edward Wilson.