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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 6540149" data-attributes="member: 4937">The more I think about this, the harder the project becomes.#1: I'm realizing the that the sort of ranges I'm putting on the rifles is too high for a standard rifle.  The effective range on a weapon depends a lot on the sort of sights you have.  A rifle with simple iron sights might have an effective range as low as say 24, where as the same rifle with a high power scope, the effective range might increase to two or three times that provided you have a skilled user.  With certain high tech features, it might well be four times that.   Tell me about how scopes interact with your rules.  #2: I don't find your 4 damage ratings particularly granular.  As I'm think about them right now, the basically break down like this:1d6: Low caliber short barreled weapons2d6: high caliber short barreled weapons, low caliber long barreled weapons3d6: high caliber long barreled weapons4d6: small cannons (12mm and up)However, there is a significant difference in punching power between a .22 and a 9mm and 9mm and a .45 and a .45 and a .44 Magnum.   So at the low end, a .22 or a .25 handgun is clearly a 1d6 and a .44 Magnum or a M4 Carbine is clearly a 2d6.   But where to categorize .38's, 9mm, and .45 handguns I'm not sure.  I'd like write something like 1d6+1, 1d6+2, and 2d6-1, or "1d6 and reroll 1's and 2's".  (Or if you had multiple dice, 1d6, 1d8, 1d10).  On the high end, 4d6 hardly seems to capture the difference between a 12.7mm, 20mm and 30mm weapon.   If getting hit by a 20mm AP shell is clearly 4d6, what is a .50 cal 12.7mm shell?   Clearly much more than the 3d6 of a .30-06, but equally much less than a 20mm cannon.   And what's a 30mm?#3: Do you already have standard rules for shotguns?  How much damage they do and how they behave is very much a function of the ammunition.</blockquote>

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