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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Funeris" data-source="post: 2820720" data-attributes="member: 22792">So, Single Shot is one Attack at your Maximum Bonus.  It expends one round.  How do you want to modify this with a feat?  You cannot use Double Tap with a Single Shot weapon because you physically have to operate the weapon's mechanism.  For a shotgun, you have to pump in between shots.  For an old bolt-action rifle, you have to load the bolt (loading the bullet), take aim and fire.  Then you have to pull the bolt back again, reload it and fire again.  Etc.A semi-automatic will fire as many times as you can pull the trigger in a round.  This is based on your BAB first and foremost.  If your BAB is +6/+1, then you can get two shots off in a round (assuming you have enough rounds in the magazine).  Burst Fire is only applicable to Automatic Weapons.  You can use Double Tap with semi-auto weapons, there by adding an extra attack.Now, with autofire...if you use the Burst feat, you can cut the amount of bullets you waste down to 5 (or 3 if the weapon has a 3-bullet burst rate M16A2's have a 3 round burst in real life).  But you also focus on one target, as opposed to a 10' by 10' area.  Strafe is a feat you can use with automatic weapons as well.  It allows you to change the AoE for an auto weapon to a 5' wide by 20' long area.There are lots of feats that modify your ranged attack.  There's a page in the d20 Modern book actually (in the equipment section near the end of the firearm section, I think) that gives you a chart with many of the feats and how they work/what they do.I hope that helps...and wasn't too jarring.  I keep getting interrupted.  Damn work  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> ~Fune</blockquote>

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