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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 1488920" data-attributes="member: 463">Burst Fire - each burst (of 3 or 5 rounds) has its own Recoil, say 6; you can roll to hit once per burst with a hit being 1d3 or 1d5 actual hits.  For full autofire area-saturation you can use the d6 system I discussed previously, roll 1d6 per bullet, each 6 is a hit; Recoil is totalled per 10 bullets & if total recoil exceeds STR remove some d6s prior to roll - eg STR 10 firer fires 2 10-round bursts with recoil 8 each, 8x2=16, so 6 in 10 bullets automatically miss, only 8 d6s are actually rolled.Double Tapping - in the real world double-tapping is used at short range to roughly double the effect of the 2 individual bullet wounds (by creating opposing shock waves within the victim's body).  If you want to model it realistically, then it's a Feat where if the firer is within 30' and he hits the target with 2 consecutive shots, the total damage is doubled.  I would restrict it to handguns only.Myth of the gun - as I've advocated previously, a single small-calibre bullet certainly ought to be less damaging on average than a hit by a big melee weapon, composite longbow arrow, & such.  Yet it's certainly true that guns are more lethal than melee weapons - in the UK because guns are rare, psychos on killing sprees often have to use katanas or machetes.  They rarely kill more than 1-2 people on a spree, whereas those with access to guns often kill a dozen or more.  In d20 it's very easy to create a high-level warrior who does enormous damage with a melee weapon, power-attacking et al.  The way to do the same with a handgun is to fire a lot of bullets in a short period of time.</blockquote>

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