Tarangil said:
Although I'm a little hazy on multifire. Besides the obvious, how would you implement that into a combat round?
Ah! Sorry. Multifire basically lets anyone use the Rapid Shot feat for free, but at an increased penalty (-4 on every attack). It can be combined with Rapid Shot for two extra attacks per round (-6 on every attack).
Autofire is like multifire, but gives two extra attacks at a -6 penalty.*
Multifire is what handguns and rifles have; autofire is what machine guns have.
d20 Star Wars flips into D&D - and vice versa - pretty easily.
* Par example:
Bob the 2nd-level Soldier has an ranged attack modifer of +6 with his heavy blaster [HB] (M) or his light repeating blaster rifle [LRBR] (M / A).
On Bob's turn, he can make a single attack at +6 with either weapon.
If he wants to, he can set his heavy blaster or his LRBR to Multifire mode (a free action), and gain one additional attack in a Full Attack action. Multifire has a -4 penalty, so his two attacks are at +2 / +2.
If he wants to, he can set his LRBR to Autofire mode (a free action), and gain two addtional attacks in a Full Attack action. Autofire has a -6 penalty, so his three attacks are at +0 / +0 / +0.
Let's say Bob takes Rapid Shot as one of his feats. Then, with either of his weapons, he can make two attacks in a Full Attack action at +4 / +4.
He could then, additionally, set either weapon to Multifire mode (as a free action) and gain another attack. Multifire has a -4 penalty, so his three attacks are now at +0 / +0 / +0. Basically, through the expenditure of a feat, Bob's made it so that he can make most weapons into machine guns.
Finally, Bob can set his LRBR to Autofire, gaining two additional attacks with a -6 penalty, and get a total of 4 attacks at -2 / -2 / -2 / -2.
There's one additional feat called Multishot, which reduces the penalty for using a weapon's Multifire or Autofire setting by 2. This feat allows you to put quite a bit of blasterfire into the air.
The good thing about Rapid Shot and Multishot is that they work not only with personal weapons, but with vehicle and starship weapons, as well.