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<blockquote data-quote="Roland Delacroix" data-source="post: 712908" data-attributes="member: 1753">Think carefully about increasing critical range.&nbsp; Acording to many of C. Ryans posts on the WotC d20 Modern boards there were very good reasons almost all weapons have a crit of only 20.&nbsp; With the massive damage threshold so low, increasing crit to 19-20 basically means a PC has a 10% chance to kill anything outright.&nbsp; Add Rapid Shot, or worse Imp Two Weapon Fighting (which, BTW, Mr. Ryan has clarified as NOT stacking w/ Rapid Shot) and you have a real monster.&nbsp; Unless you like us dropping a few 20th level characters a round with no trouble&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin&nbsp; &nbsp; :D"&nbsp; data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />&nbsp; This is also why there's no Imp. Crit feat.The variable DC AOE ability also goes against the basic tenants of d20 Modern.&nbsp; All AOE weapons have a set DC, and rather low at that.&nbsp; Look to Autofire for an example, or grenades.&nbsp; A scaling DC for them means, again, dropping enemies left and right with massive damage rolls.&nbsp; It ain't hard to get an attack roll higher than most Reflex saves.&nbsp; Also, as mentioned, shotguns really aren't AOE weapons.As you know I like the Spycraft version, but Hellhound has a point.&nbsp; You need to decide if you preffer the game more realistic or cinematic.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Roland Delacroix, post: 712908, member: 1753"] Think carefully about increasing critical range. Acording to [B]many[/B] of C. Ryans posts on the WotC d20 Modern boards there were very good reasons almost all weapons have a crit of only 20. With the massive damage threshold so low, increasing crit to 19-20 basically means a PC has a 10% chance to kill anything outright. Add Rapid Shot, or worse Imp Two Weapon Fighting (which, BTW, Mr. Ryan has clarified as NOT stacking w/ Rapid Shot) and you have a real monster. Unless you like us dropping a few 20th level characters a round with no trouble :D This is also why there's no Imp. Crit feat. The variable DC AOE ability also goes against the basic tenants of d20 Modern. All AOE weapons have a set DC, and rather low at that. Look to Autofire for an example, or grenades. A scaling DC for them means, again, dropping enemies left and right with massive damage rolls. It ain't hard to get an attack roll higher than most Reflex saves. Also, as mentioned, shotguns really aren't AOE weapons. As you know I like the Spycraft version, but Hellhound has a point. You need to decide if you preffer the game more realistic or cinematic. [/QUOTE]

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