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<blockquote data-quote="Thomas Bowman" data-source="post: 7334052" data-attributes="member: 6925649"><p>Well why then the demarcation between energy rifles and guns firing bullets, we don't actually know how much more effective an energy rifle would be over a gun firing bullets. We do know that we could easily mow down a knight in shining armor with a machine gun, but under Starfinder, those bullets would mostly ricochet off the knight in plate mail just as would a sword blow or someone firing a bow and arrow at him. If something needs a separate armor class, it would be all modern and futuristic firearms, melee weapons such as a pocket knife or an ax would use the old D&amp;D/pathfinder armor class, but modern weapons would use KAC or EAC and KAC is worse than AC and EAC is worse than KAC for a person wearing a particular armor type, thus a person armed with a modern rifle has an easier time penetrating his opponent's armor, that is why guns were invented in the first place and why modern soldiers and police officers don't wear plate mail armor.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Thomas Bowman, post: 7334052, member: 6925649"] Well why then the demarcation between energy rifles and guns firing bullets, we don't actually know how much more effective an energy rifle would be over a gun firing bullets. We do know that we could easily mow down a knight in shining armor with a machine gun, but under Starfinder, those bullets would mostly ricochet off the knight in plate mail just as would a sword blow or someone firing a bow and arrow at him. If something needs a separate armor class, it would be all modern and futuristic firearms, melee weapons such as a pocket knife or an ax would use the old D&D/pathfinder armor class, but modern weapons would use KAC or EAC and KAC is worse than AC and EAC is worse than KAC for a person wearing a particular armor type, thus a person armed with a modern rifle has an easier time penetrating his opponent's armor, that is why guns were invented in the first place and why modern soldiers and police officers don't wear plate mail armor. [/QUOTE]

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