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<blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 1540560" data-attributes="member: 5171">Howdy, not-military-knowledgable-person here:If you want stuff to be slightly lower on average and very random, you can model this very easily by changing the damage dice.&nbsp; Instead of 4d6, use 3d8, 2d12, or even 1d20.&nbsp; The fewer dice you use, the more random things get, meaning that people are more likely to either get pulverized or take a really low amount of damage.As an outsider, I also like the blast increment rules.&nbsp; If you made the blast increment something like 10 feet, and dropped the damage by 4 points from 11-20, 8 points from 21-30, and so forth, you could still conceivably get somebody 30 feet away who takes (from 2d12) 24-8 = 16 damage, fails his MDT, and drops like a rock.&nbsp; (I'm modelling the drop-damage thingie off of the shotgun rules in the core book).But again, no military knowledge whatsoever. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="takyris, post: 1540560, member: 5171"] Howdy, not-military-knowledgable-person here: If you want stuff to be slightly lower on average and [b]very[/b] random, you can model this very easily by changing the damage dice. Instead of 4d6, use 3d8, 2d12, or even 1d20. The fewer dice you use, the more random things get, meaning that people are more likely to either get pulverized or take a really low amount of damage. As an outsider, I also like the blast increment rules. If you made the blast increment something like 10 feet, and dropped the damage by 4 points from 11-20, 8 points from 21-30, and so forth, you could still conceivably get somebody 30 feet away who takes (from 2d12) 24-8 = 16 damage, fails his MDT, and drops like a rock. (I'm modelling the drop-damage thingie off of the shotgun rules in the core book). But again, no military knowledge whatsoever. :) [/QUOTE]

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