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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormborn" data-source="post: 2277832" data-attributes="member: 14041">I have been contemplating this one myself.  Making all firearms a ranged touch attack gives them an advantage, target is more likely to get hit,  but if you are going to balance that then you need to make them much more expensive than they are in most d20 books, including the DMG.  Increasing a threat range might work, but I don't think that either of those ideas really translates well to the "harder to hit, but more damage" idea.I have read lots of ideas in d20 for early firearms but I am with GlassJaw in that I don't think any of them make guns scary.I suppose you could take the Dex modifier away from the ranged  attack (to represent the unpredictablity of early firearms), make all attacks with firarms touch attacks, and maybe increase the HD of damage dealt.More thought and input is needed.</blockquote>