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<blockquote data-quote="kreynolds" data-source="post: 555893" data-attributes="member: 2829">Ultramodern Firearms is kinda cool in that it notes some weapons have the ability to alter their automatic rate of fire. In the real world, this is true. Some weapons can have their cyclic rate cut in half. Unfortunately, there's no feature in the rules to cover this. I've been kicking around a couple solutions to this though. I think either one would work.1) For weapons that allow it, a reduced-rate autofire attack only expends 5 rounds instead of 10. The area you target is reduced to 5 feet x 10 feet (instead of 10 x 10) and the Reflex DC stays the same....and/or...2) For weapons that allow it, a reduced-rate autofire attack only expends 5 rounds instead of 10, but you can target a specific person instead of just an area. The net effect is as if you had a lesser version of the Burst Fire feat, except the number of rounds used is not reduced. For example, you make a reduced-rate autofire attack, you fire 5 bullets, suffer a -2 penalty to the attack roll, but deal +1 dice of damage. So, if you normal deal +2d6, you would deal +3d6.Both options would still leave you good reason to go ahead and pick up the Burst Fire feat anyways, especially for those automatic weapons that don't feature a variable full-auto rate of fire.What do you think?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="kreynolds, post: 555893, member: 2829"] Ultramodern Firearms is kinda cool in that it notes some weapons have the ability to alter their automatic rate of fire. In the real world, this is true. Some weapons can have their cyclic rate cut in half. Unfortunately, there's no feature in the rules to cover this. I've been kicking around a couple solutions to this though. I think either one would work. 1) For weapons that allow it, a reduced-rate autofire attack only expends 5 rounds instead of 10. The area you target is reduced to 5 feet x 10 feet (instead of 10 x 10) and the Reflex DC stays the same. ...and/or... 2) For weapons that allow it, a reduced-rate autofire attack only expends 5 rounds instead of 10, but you can target a specific person instead of just an area. The net effect is as if you had a lesser version of the Burst Fire feat, except the number of rounds used is not reduced. For example, you make a reduced-rate autofire attack, you fire 5 bullets, suffer a -2 penalty to the attack roll, but deal +1 dice of damage. So, if you normal deal +2d6, you would deal +3d6. Both options would still leave you good reason to go ahead and pick up the Burst Fire feat anyways, especially for those automatic weapons that don't feature a variable full-auto rate of fire. What do you think? [/QUOTE]

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