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<blockquote data-quote="arkham618" data-source="post: 2296159" data-attributes="member: 6419">Tuck your genitalia back in your pants and stow the feces, man. The knockback rule wasn't worded as well as it could have been, but it's pretty obvious that the effect isn't cumulative. No one but you is proposing that he meant that a long, ragged machine gun burst is going to send a man flying half a mile. One attack, one knockback check. Sheesh.The revised stat table for the various guns is missing (probably a formatting issue from the cut and paste). I've seen the original article, and in it .22s do not cause knockback. Only .357 magnums, .45s, and .50s do. And then only if the target takes Wound damage (as in Wound/Vitality points).Fair enough. This is something to think about for a revision.Again, the article mentions Wound/Vitality Points, so the recoil from the .50-cal (which can shatter bone, if I'm not mistaken) is not instantly fatal to low-level characters, because they have the soak from VP on top of WP. Again, it could have been made cleaner and clearer, but I don't think that's the point of this whole exchange. What I'm seeing here is a pissing contest between gun enthusiasts.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="arkham618, post: 2296159, member: 6419"] Tuck your genitalia back in your pants and stow the feces, man. The knockback rule wasn't worded as well as it could have been, but it's pretty obvious that the effect isn't cumulative. No one but you is proposing that he meant that a long, ragged machine gun burst is going to send a man flying half a mile. One attack, one knockback check. Sheesh. The revised stat table for the various guns is missing (probably a formatting issue from the cut and paste). I've seen the original article, and in it .22s do not cause knockback. Only .357 magnums, .45s, and .50s do. And then only if the target takes Wound damage (as in Wound/Vitality points). Fair enough. This is something to think about for a revision. Again, the article mentions Wound/Vitality Points, so the recoil from the .50-cal (which can shatter bone, if I'm not mistaken) is not instantly fatal to low-level characters, because they have the soak from VP on top of WP. Again, it could have been made cleaner and clearer, but I don't think that's the point of this whole exchange. What I'm seeing here is a pissing contest between gun enthusiasts. [/QUOTE]

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