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<blockquote data-quote="Urriak Uruk" data-source="post: 8297620" data-attributes="member: 7015558"><p>You want to know the real reason guns do so much damage?</p><p></p><p>It's not because they actually do more damage. Getting stabbed in the chest by a longsword is going to be just as deadly (probably more actually) than getting shot by a gun in the chest. </p><p></p><p>The reason guns are more dangerous is that they are extremely easy to use. People don't need much training to handle a pistol, and they don't need to be in as much good physical fitness as a skilled swordsman.</p><p></p><p>So if they rules reflected guns real strength, the damage wouldn't be very different, but it would have a much higher attack bonus; you're much more likely to hit with a gun than with a sword. The best sniper is more likely to hit more people than the best swordsman.</p><p></p><p>But 5E is designed so that you are more likely to hit than miss, so making guns even more likely to hit will just result in anyone with a gun hitting almost every attack roll. So that doesn't work, so the designers decided instead to reflect the increased danger of a gunman with increased damage.</p><p></p><p>So it doesn't really make sense, but it does sort-of reflect that yes guns are more dangerous than swords. So it works well enough if you don't think about it too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Urriak Uruk, post: 8297620, member: 7015558"] You want to know the real reason guns do so much damage? It's not because they actually do more damage. Getting stabbed in the chest by a longsword is going to be just as deadly (probably more actually) than getting shot by a gun in the chest. The reason guns are more dangerous is that they are extremely easy to use. People don't need much training to handle a pistol, and they don't need to be in as much good physical fitness as a skilled swordsman. So if they rules reflected guns real strength, the damage wouldn't be very different, but it would have a much higher attack bonus; you're much more likely to hit with a gun than with a sword. The best sniper is more likely to hit more people than the best swordsman. But 5E is designed so that you are more likely to hit than miss, so making guns even more likely to hit will just result in anyone with a gun hitting almost every attack roll. So that doesn't work, so the designers decided instead to reflect the increased danger of a gunman with increased damage. So it doesn't really make sense, but it does sort-of reflect that yes guns are more dangerous than swords. So it works well enough if you don't think about it too much. [/QUOTE]
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