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<blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 1580411" data-attributes="member: 13637">So, it is decided. We rule it to be so. Making house rules is fun <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=":)" />One other thing bothering me, in the Deadlands book, a shotgun blast actually gets a better chance to hit ya the further away you are. I realize their rationale, it is a cone attack and the further away you are, the harder it is to get out of the cone. However, the blast gets less dense the further away you get, which means that hitting someone with a shotgun from 90 feet away actually is harder than hitting someone point blank.So, I am tending to revise that revision on shotguns and scatter guns. Maybe a shotgun should get a +2 to hit in the first increment, a 0 in the second and a -2 in then third. And a scatter gun should get a +4 point blank range (say within 5 feet) a +2 in the first, a 0 in the second and a -2 in the third. Adding in the range increment penalties of -2 per range increment (right? I don't have my book in front of me) then we would have:Shotgun - +2/-2/-4. Scattergun - +4/+2/-2/-4The cone beneft comes from you rolling to hit anybody in the blast's cone, friend or foe, out to the maximum range of 3 range increments.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="thormagni, post: 1580411, member: 13637"] So, it is decided. We rule it to be so. Making house rules is fun :) One other thing bothering me, in the Deadlands book, a shotgun blast actually gets a better chance to hit ya the further away you are. I realize their rationale, it is a cone attack and the further away you are, the harder it is to get out of the cone. However, the blast gets less dense the further away you get, which means that hitting someone with a shotgun from 90 feet away actually is harder than hitting someone point blank. So, I am tending to revise that revision on shotguns and scatter guns. Maybe a shotgun should get a +2 to hit in the first increment, a 0 in the second and a -2 in then third. And a scatter gun should get a +4 point blank range (say within 5 feet) a +2 in the first, a 0 in the second and a -2 in the third. Adding in the range increment penalties of -2 per range increment (right? I don't have my book in front of me) then we would have: Shotgun - +2/-2/-4. Scattergun - +4/+2/-2/-4 The cone beneft comes from you rolling to hit anybody in the blast's cone, friend or foe, out to the maximum range of 3 range increments. [/QUOTE]

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