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<blockquote data-quote="Ovinomancer" data-source="post: 8297763" data-attributes="member: 16814">Most people are terrible shots -- they get lucky because they can fire quickly.&nbsp; It takes practice and effort to actually shoot accurately, especially in combat conditions.&nbsp; If you're in a line with muskets while enemy horse is charging down on you, it's very hard to actually make a good shot.&nbsp; Which is why armies didn't just conscript soldiers and stick them in lines -- they drilled them extensively.&nbsp; The benefit of the firearm wasn't that it was more accurate, but rather that you didn't have to spend much time teaching people how to use it -- you could go very quickly to how to be a solider in a line and do your job effectively.Sigh, you're arguing about game rules again, which I've expressly said shouldn't be based on anything like realism at all.&nbsp; Pick a die, that one works.&nbsp;&nbsp; In real life, bullets are more likely to kill you when they hit than a sword is. This isn't something that a game like 5e handles well at all, though, so I have no idea why people keep making arguments for game rules as if it does.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ovinomancer, post: 8297763, member: 16814"] Most people are terrible shots -- they get lucky because they can fire quickly. It takes practice and effort to actually shoot accurately, especially in combat conditions. If you're in a line with muskets while enemy horse is charging down on you, it's very hard to actually make a good shot. Which is why armies didn't just conscript soldiers and stick them in lines -- they drilled them extensively. The benefit of the firearm wasn't that it was more accurate, but rather that you didn't have to spend much time teaching people how to use it -- you could go very quickly to how to be a solider in a line and do your job effectively. Sigh, you're arguing about game rules again, which I've expressly said shouldn't be based on anything like realism at all. Pick a die, that one works. In real life, bullets are more likely to kill you when they hit than a sword is. This isn't something that a game like 5e handles well at all, though, so I have no idea why people keep making arguments for game rules as if it does. [/QUOTE]

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