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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1516987" data-attributes="member: 5171">Thing is, though, as somebody who's played around with tined weapons... an "all tines hit" hit on an opponent has got to be a critical.  If you've got a shell on each tine of a pitchfork, the only time all three tines hit somebody is if you've just nailed 'em with a crit.  Most of the time, you probably just hit your opponent with one tine -- or more likely, graze them, in the abstract hit point system of d20 Modern.  Accepting that a graze is enough to make those shells go off, let's say that that does 2d10 -- plus a little bit from the pitchfork impact, minus a bit from the fact that it's not a perfect design, like a gun-barrel is -- some force is wasted.  So, 2d10.  If you wanna be generous, you could say that, for three tines, he gets 3 hits, but on a critical, all three go off at once.But really, you gotta draw the line.  What if he grabs one of those nail-covered planks the fakirs lie down on and puts a shotgun shell on each and every nail.  That'd be, what, 10 columns x 20 rows x 2d10 per shell, for 400d10 damage on a hit?  No.  He's trying to game the system, every bit as much as the low-Charisma PC whose player is telling you "Okay, and this is what I say and how I say it so that my low Charisma doesn't come into play," or the guy with no ranks in Disable Device who says, "Okay, but can I look inside the lock and maybe rake this tiny write inside it and see if I can move any of the tumbler pins?  That's not that hard."</blockquote>

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