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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7271134" data-attributes="member: 3400">I'd take a step back and realize that it's just a game and it's possible to spend WAY too much time on unimportant issues - like the variability of weapon damage against mundane (but dangerous) targets. They'll be relatively rare issues and investigators will generally not be facing them alone (just like most of those rifle-armed hunters driving megafauna to extinction across the European-dominated world).With respect to tangling with mythos issues with heavier weapons, explosives, and gasoline - sure, it's been tried. But too much emphasis on that, from a metagame perspective, takes it out of the Lovecraftian genre and it loses much of its impact. Within the game perspective, it doesn't work all that well anyway. It's great for taking out relatively weak creatures and lots of cultists, but it often doesn't solve the situation. Take Masks of Nyarlathotep as an example. Nyarlathotep's body is quite often relatively fragile. Not too hard to kill with an elephant gun fired by a skilled investigator. Doesn't matter. He just comes back to plague you again (and again, and again) in various of his thousand disguises, rightfully increasing the menace and horror felt by the players (and their investigators who can only sustain so many 1d10/1d100 sanity losses). Moreover, it won't solve the problem posed by the campaign, only delay it and that's a weak resolution for the investigators to live with (assuming they survive at all).For the most part, the firearm rules are reasonably suited to the game and the uses they will be put to - defending the investigators against the lower-scale menaces they'll encounter like cultists, deep ones, ghouls, etc as they desperately try to stop the agents of the Old Ones in this world and obtain the knowledge they need to stave off global horror... for a while.</blockquote>

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