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Originally Posted by Emerald Cat
What were the problems you encountered with firearms in D20 systems?
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Mostly that I had to house-rule the snots out of it to get them to work. Remember that at the time this was 3.0, not 3.5 or Pathfinder; those came much later. D20 Modern was out, but the low-damage/high-crit stats for their firearms didn't seem right to me, nor were there rules for waiting in order to get the better shot. A few D&D-ites at the time said, "just treat them as refluffed crossbows", meaning use the exact same stats as a crossbow; I hated that method. (I also seem to recall that method being proposed by a few of the "how dare you have guns in your fantasy!" crowd, too....)
Your point about massive HP scores compared to firearms' low damage was also a factor. It's not easy pulling a rifle on a dragon, after all.....
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