Quick Questions Archive

[Mark]

For personal stories, is it all right for your character to use weapons that they could normally not summon or use in fights with other players' characters?
Say an NPC gives yours a gun but they don't have ranged proficiency, is it still okay for them to use it (but be bad at it, I'm guessing)?
Additionally, could they summon a gun anyways even without ranged proficiency (but, again, they'd probably just be absolutely useless with it)?

That would be fine. It'd fall under the "Incidental Weapons" rule in the FAQ.

Q7: Can I use incidental weapons? Guns stolen from enemies? Pots, pans and such? 

A: Yes, though you should bear in mind that, as explained in About The World, guns in the Omniverse are usually less powerful than those in real-life due to being tied to the power of the summoner. The exception is those summoned by Primes with high (5+) ATK and TEC stats. It's likely that any weapons obtained from secondaries will be very weak examples, not nearly as effective as using weapons you made for yourself, and easily broken by most Primes. 

So you'd be fine to get a gun from an NPC or summon one for story reasons. Just keep in mind the bullets would be laughably weak to even someone with the lowest DEF (think like NERF gun strength), you'd miss more than you'd hit, and it'd break pretty easily. Just don't use this as an excuse to summon a chain-gun on the fly and mow down secondaries because they're "so weak it didn't matter". If you want it to work an anywhere near usable levels, you'd need a move.