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<blockquote data-quote="zarionofarabel" data-source="post: 8293824" data-attributes="member: 7026405"><p>My vote is to keep them as is!</p><p></p><p>The extra damage is a way of extrapolating one of two things, the AP nature of firearms (because you can stop a knife thrust with your hand, but not a bullet), or to compensate for not getting STR bonus to damage (do firearms get DEX bonus to damage???).</p><p></p><p>Anyway, bullets cause catastrophic damage to a human body, same as any weapon. The only real advantage firearms have over melee weapons is range. The real advantage firearms have over bows and crossbows is ammunition and rate of fire. You can blast away thousands of rounds, hundreds of rounds per minute, with a man portable machine gun. That would require hundreds or thousands of troops and wagon loads of arrows or bolts. One guy can carry several thousands rounds of alone. Even black powder firearms have the advantage of ammunition, as a single soldier could carry several hundred shot. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight...</p><p></p><p>Extrapolate all that in an RPG...</p><p></p><p>Yeah, guns do more damage!!!</p><p></p><p>......</p><p></p><p>Yay!</p><p></p><p>.....</p><p></p><p>Let's play D&D!</p><p></p><p>(Yeah...just keep whatever rules are in the game. Then play D&D!)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zarionofarabel, post: 8293824, member: 7026405"] My vote is to keep them as is! The extra damage is a way of extrapolating one of two things, the AP nature of firearms (because you can stop a knife thrust with your hand, but not a bullet), or to compensate for not getting STR bonus to damage (do firearms get DEX bonus to damage???). Anyway, bullets cause catastrophic damage to a human body, same as any weapon. The only real advantage firearms have over melee weapons is range. The real advantage firearms have over bows and crossbows is ammunition and rate of fire. You can blast away thousands of rounds, hundreds of rounds per minute, with a man portable machine gun. That would require hundreds or thousands of troops and wagon loads of arrows or bolts. One guy can carry several thousands rounds of alone. Even black powder firearms have the advantage of ammunition, as a single soldier could carry several hundred shot. Don't bring a knife to a gun fight... Extrapolate all that in an RPG... Yeah, guns do more damage!!! ...... Yay! ..... Let's play D&D! (Yeah...just keep whatever rules are in the game. Then play D&D!) [/QUOTE]
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