Speaking of Racial Weapons

The rules state that for the computers and robotic skills equipment of an alien design carries a -20% mod for performing any subskill on it.<br /><br />I think to a certain degree this is appropriate for weapons designed for a specific race.<br /><br />ie a human using a vrusk designed weapon. <br /><br />Stuff on the standard equipment list can be deemed to be of a design that is easily modifiable/convertable to the requirements of the core four or a player may specify that his vrusk bought an exclusively vrusk designed weapon.<br /><br />using a weapon that does not meet the universal design philosophy carries a penalty (with the exception of most melee weapons and grenades) call it -10% for things designed for the Core 4 and Rim races -20 for an unknown alien race<br /><br />dralasite reduce the above penalties by 10% due to their unique physiology so that they can use weapons from any of the known races at +0% and of an unknown race at -10%<br /><br />However, things should be judged on a individual basis by the GM because a humma's tail mace will be unusable by all race though I'd allow a dral to form a tail and use it at -10%<br />