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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Theo R Cwithin" data-source="post: 5263307" data-attributes="member: 75712">That's a good point... but what about cases where the shooter can hit on a roll other than a nat 20?  Or, alternatively, why does accuracy improve in low-g?Doubling range increments basically means a shooter can hit a target twice as far away with no decrease in accuracy (or precision, really)-- even though from his perspective the target is now half as big across (or 1/4th the area).  This makes perfect sense for Far Shot, which presumably means "archer has learned to steady his aim".It doesn't make as much sense for low-g, though.  Lower gravity certainly improves distance because the projectile is effectively lighter.  But there's nothing about low-g that should decrease the error in his aim.  Or, put another way: low-grav doesn't make distant targets bigger and therefore easier to hit.Nevertheless, for my current purposes, I think I'll be doubling the size of the range increments, because as I mentioned before, it's cinematic and makes for some awesome sniping.  But there is value to the idea of simply doubling the number of range increments-- which would make extreme range attacks suitable for volleys & keeping the enemy's head down, but not so much for sniping.I'll cop out here and say: it depends on the campaign.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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