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Message: <blockquote data-quote="[OMENRPG]Ben" data-source="post: 5845531" data-attributes="member: 6677983">Well, I designed OMEN to be fast and to make close enough sense. Not to simulate real ballistics. Were I to simulate real ballistics, then yes I would have a lot more granularity (and thus complexity) within the system. That isn't necessarily a bad thing, but at the table, rolling dice, it usually doesn't matter much. That being said, the real damage of most high-powered rifle bullets is that they scramble up all of the meat from the kinetic shockwave caused by the rifling effect of the bullet spiraling out of the barrel. When a bullet is spinning 3000 rpm, it will definitely make a huge gaping hole. And not just size and shape of the bullet, but the tip design has a huge impact as well. For example, a frangible tip explodes into powder once it hits something. This is devastating inside of a body, but useless against steel or ceramic body armor, as it just snaps apart. On the other hand, a hollow point can spread and rip through lots of organic material, but is also severely weakened by most forms of body armor (especially in a sci-fi universe in which very dense ablative materials are relatively common). And in fact, the ballistics of guns in OMEN is entirely different than that of modern Earth. The bullet's energy is produced by a Kinetic Energy Manipulation core in the back of every gun, and the ammo itself is pretty small and caseless as all of the projectile energy is launched from within the gun rather than using powder and chemicals. I'm not unfamiliar with gun design or ballistics, but when it broke down to it, saying a sniper was +6, an assault rifle was +5, a pistol was +4, and a sword was +3, it simplified and expedited game play. In the end, the character's modifier is much much more important than the weapon being used.</blockquote>

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