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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1240045" data-attributes="member: 5171">Lessee...General points:Yeah, I know that the PCs are currently overmatched.  I'm actually glad that the grenades are clearing things up.  I also know that I can make encounters where grenades don't help -- the fight last week, wherein the PCs got caught in a hallway with the bad guys and couldn't throw grenades without catching their own people, was a good example.  Two of the party ended up down & dying, and another was at half hit-points.  So "rethinking my tactics" isn't the issue.  I don't want to rethink my tactics and out-strategize the PCs, so that the ordinaries end up killing them.  I want to mix and match a level of appropriate challenges.Right now, having bad guy monsters with ranged weapons doesn't work.  Like I said, they're based on force-projection technology, and their range is very limited, so they can't form a gun.  At least, they can't right now.  The FGs aren't built to form ranged weapons.But......okay.  You guys are right.  I gotta figure out a way to use ranged weapons.  Maybe... okay, they can just use pieces of rock for the bullets, cracking and shaping them appropriately, and they can form something like a gun after seeing what the PCs can do.And actually, that's not bad -- the PCs currently got in way over their heads with the bad guys, trying to go right to the center of the island, and they're being jumped by a ton of them right now (and escaping by grenading their way out).  Having the bad guys adapt after this will help.So, in that case, what do we think?  2d6, 30 ft range increment, Semi-automatic?  The bad guys will get proficiency with the weapons by swapping something else out (reprogramming to lose other functionality), but no gun-feats (so these guys won't be double-tapping).  And no full-auto yet.To keep it Stargatian, the bad guys will shoot the bullets from some kind of long rail-gun-ish thing on their spears.No grenades yet, though, for bad guys.  Their grunts wouldn't have anything that powerful.Cool.  Thanks for help!</blockquote>

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