Rubber band guns, Nerf weapons, pea-shooters, toy pig catapults and rubber bands fired from the fingers may be used as guns. Other similar weapons may also be allowed, but you must contact the umpire before using one so it can be approved. A direct hit is required; projectiles rebounding off walls, etc., do not count. BB guns are not allowed; do not even bother asking. If your weapon looks in any way like a real weapon you may not use it. You may consider it perfectly safe, but the law on this issue is quite strict and the Guild has no desire to see its members arrested.
Try to avoid head shots with all projectile weapons.
If you are found to be using a realistic-looking gun any kills made with it will be invalidated and you will be made wanted or removed from the game.
If you have a clear shot from less than a metre you may say ``bang" rather than actually firing your weapon to claim the kill. You cannot do this if your gun has run out of ammunition, is jammed or is otherwise unusable (although if you only discover later that the gun is not working then the kill stands). Players should always do this if possible to avoid unnecessarily shooting people (and it's for your own good, since you avoid wasting ammunition or risking a misfire).
Cap guns or other toy guns which produce a noise without actually firing anything may also be used to kill people from less than a metre. In the case of cap guns, the cap must go off for the shot to count. You may also use these weapons by saying ``bang" just like any other.
Any water pistol or water gun may be used as a weapon. You must get a definite hit with the main jet for it to count - if you just splash the target with the edge of the spray or at extreme range then the hit does not count. (This means that with larger water weapons such as CPS Super Soakers it is actually possible to get quite wet without being hit by the main jet of the blast and therefore killed.)
Players may decide whether they wish to allow water-based weapons to be used in their own rooms or not; this information should be supplied to the Umpire at the start of the game. The default state is No Water, which means that no player may fire a water weapon into, inside or through your room. If your room is a no-water area remember that you cannot fire water weapons inside it, into it or out of it either.
You may also request that your room be a Water With Care area, in which case small water weapons may be used inside it, but not larger weapons such as water bombs or CPS Super Soakers, or a Full Water area, in which case anything goes. You may also inform the umpire of any equipment inside your room which may be damaged by water; this information will be passed to your assassins.
Corridors and other indoor areas in colleges are considered to be Water With Care areas unless otherwise specified. You must not use any water weapons in non-players' rooms, shops, or any other neutral areas containing anything which may be damaged by water. If a non-player wishes to have the water status of their room changed from No Water, they should contact the Umpire.
If small water pistols are used, it is a good idea to confirm the kill immediately with the victim who might not have noticed the hit if wearing thick clothing. This avoids arguments later, when the water has evaporated.
Bottles of water, hosepipes, etc. may be used to represent flame-throwers. These should only be used outdoors in warm weather. Shaken-up bottles of lemonade or similar should not be used as the drink becomes sticky and unpleasant as it dries.
Represented by a cardboard poster tube or a newspaper rolled up and stuck with Sellotape. Either should be clearly labelled ``Cosh". The effect of a cosh depends upon the location of the hit:
| Head | Unconscious for 5 minutes |
| Body | Immobilised but conscious for 5 minutes |
| Limb | The limb is immobilised for 5 minutes |
Knives made of foam, rubber or cardboard, plastic knives with retractable blades, pens and pencils may be used as knives. Anything which is not very obviously a knife should be labelled ``KNIFE". Please be careful when attacking people with pencils or anything else vaguely pointy. Be extra-careful when throwing knives.
Arbitrary objects may not be turned into weapons simply by writing ``KNIFE" on them; this may only be done to vaguely knife-shaped objects. No metal objects including cutlery knives may ever be used as knives.
Plastic or cardboard swords may be used as swords; cardboard ones must be labelled ``SWORD". Toy lightsabres may also be used. Rolled-up newspapers or cardboard poster tubes are coshes, not swords.
Latex LARP swords and knives may also be used, providing:
Fluffy animals may be used as attack animals as long as they are labelled ``KNIFE", ``ATTACK ANIMAL", ``KILLER RABBIT", etc. Ideally all attack animals should be presented to the umpire first as the umpire likes to see what embarassing fluffy animals assassins keep in their rooms.
Toilet roll or other soft tissue paper may be used to garotte an enemy. You must not use as a garotte anything which will not tear in half easily; particularly, handkerchiefs and ties must not be used as you could really strangle someone with them.
Confetti in bags made from tissue paper or water bombs may be used. You may not employ snowballs. Use common sense with all of these. They will kill if they strike any part of the head or body. If they hit a wall and splash your head or body appreciably (ie. if you're wettish) you are dead. If you are only slightly splashed, you survive. Being splashed on the arms or legs will disable the limbs in question as normal.
An empty (large) box, or lump of expanded polystyrene may be labelled `safe', `fridge', `anvil' or similar, and then dropped. It can kill if it falls at least a meter before impact. A beachball (or similar very light ball only) at least the size of a football may be labelled as a boulder and then rolled, dropped or thrown as a weapon (not kicked, however - that would break your leg). any impact with significant speed may kill, including from rebounds (most weapons do not count on the rebound). You may also rig traps in which a boulder is positioned to fall on the victim, such as when opening a wardrobe.