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Message: <blockquote data-quote="HeapThaumaturgist" data-source="post: 1977746" data-attributes="member: 12332">Not using any misfire rules beyond natural ones and Action Points.  I think that 5% is more than a big enough chance of FAILURE, I don't think catastrophic failure should be that common nor should it be random.  -I- get to activate the critical failures ... heh heh heh.Also I don't bother with concentration to reload under stress.  The two round reload time is punative enough that reloading is almost never performed IN combat to begin with.  We have three PCs (can't get a 4th player <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />) and only one of them was carrying a single firearm into battle.  The other is a pistoleerish fellow with a brace of guns and when they're empty the last two are pistol-daggers and he dives into melee with those.  The other player is a Black Company-style Wizard, who mostly runs around trying to pull off a spell or two, then falls back on his memorized spells for whumpage.  His CON is big, his Spell Energy is big, his HP are big, so he doesn't actually worry much about taking big subdual damage, he's just Student of Wizardry so anything more than a sharp fart at two paces takes 2-3 rounds.  He's wonderfully useful OUTSIDE of combat, so the player has no complaints.  The last is our Charismatic/Dedicated jack-of-all trades type (odd combination, that).  He used to carry a single musketoon into combat.  First time that happened he found he had one shot and then his pants were down for two full rounds.  He didn't like that at all, but he's got crap BAB and can't see his way to paying for a brace of pistols himself so he's now taken to carrying a crossbow as well.  HONESTLY I think crossbows should have a higher reload time, but that would totally break melee weapons to the system, then.--fje</blockquote>

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