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<blockquote data-quote="Brother MacLaren" data-source="post: 3238601" data-attributes="member: 15999"><p>Option 3 is far too powerful. Heavy crossbows can also penetrate armor, but still have to make hit rolls. Heavy armor can (sometimes) stop bolts or bullets. Not to mention that some monsters have +40 natural armor bonuses, and to ignore this would be obsecenely overpowered. (Imagine if 100 guys with arquebuses could stop Godzilla.)</p><p></p><p>For Option 2, if you think 1d12 damage is too low, I'd suggest increasing the die size (preserving as much scatter as possible, so 1d20 rather than 2d10 or 3d6) instead of a flat bonus to damage. Maybe increase crits to x4. And remove the bonus to hit, considering the inaccuracy of early firearms.</p><p></p><p>The ones in the DMG are pretty lethal. Damage is 1d12 for a musket, and it has triple criticals, allowing for a wide range of impacts (from a graze to one-shotting a lion). It's more deadly than any bow or crossbow. [Edit: It's more deadly than any <em>standard </em> bow before Str bonus, but a composite bow has no limit to possible Str. The antimatter rifle's 6d8, median 27, is just slightly higher than the Storm Giant's Composite Longbow.]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brother MacLaren, post: 3238601, member: 15999"] Option 3 is far too powerful. Heavy crossbows can also penetrate armor, but still have to make hit rolls. Heavy armor can (sometimes) stop bolts or bullets. Not to mention that some monsters have +40 natural armor bonuses, and to ignore this would be obsecenely overpowered. (Imagine if 100 guys with arquebuses could stop Godzilla.) For Option 2, if you think 1d12 damage is too low, I'd suggest increasing the die size (preserving as much scatter as possible, so 1d20 rather than 2d10 or 3d6) instead of a flat bonus to damage. Maybe increase crits to x4. And remove the bonus to hit, considering the inaccuracy of early firearms. The ones in the DMG are pretty lethal. Damage is 1d12 for a musket, and it has triple criticals, allowing for a wide range of impacts (from a graze to one-shotting a lion). It's more deadly than any bow or crossbow. [Edit: It's more deadly than any [I]standard [/I] bow before Str bonus, but a composite bow has no limit to possible Str. The antimatter rifle's 6d8, median 27, is just slightly higher than the Storm Giant's Composite Longbow.] [/QUOTE]
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