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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Plane Sailing" data-source="post: 3115607" data-attributes="member: 114">One thing that I've done which you might want to consider - I've swapped round the benefit for cover and concealment.IRL, cover is better than concealment from all sources I've been able to investigate*, but in d20 world the concealment mechanic is better for you than the cover mechanic, because it  gives you a chance of escaping the damage.**So what I do is say that standard concealment gives you +4 AC and greater concealment gives you +8 AC.For cover, the %age cover you are able to take is the %age chance that an attack hits the cover instead of you. I set the maximum cover percentage roughly as followsShooting over a low wall or crate: 50%Shooting round a corner with a longarm: 60%shooting round a corner with a sidearm: 70%Peeping round a corner to see what is going on: 90%and so on.This makes taking cover a very important thing to do in a gunfight (all PCs and NPCs try to get to cover as quickly as possible when a gunfight kicks off).The other thing that I do is to only allow defence to apply against gunfire if you either (a) moved your speed last round or (b) are adjacent to cover you could concievably duck behind.I don't know if those ideas might prove useful to you.* for a couple of limited examples:<a href="http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=32796" target="_blank">http://www.officer.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=3&id=32796</a><a href="http://www.map-reading.com/ch11-4.php" target="_blank">http://www.map-reading.com/ch11-4.php</a>** most noticeably in standard d20 if attackers are much better or much worse than you. If the attacker is much better, a +4 cover bonus to AC might not make you any harder to hit. If the attacker is so much worse that he only hits on a 20 then additional cover makes you no harder to hit because he is still automatically hitting on a 20. However, a miss chance is applied after the roll to hit - so a miss chance can still save your bacon in either of those cases (and it can even save your bacon against a critical hit - something which an AC bonus doesn't help with). That is why I maintain that miss chances are a better all round defence than AC bonuses.Regards.</blockquote>

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