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Originally Posted by Bruno
Because sometimes it just seems stupid to be taking ranged attack penalties for your enormous flashy swath of destruction attack. Substitute "uncool" or "not awesome" for "stupid" as desired.
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It also depends on whether you're going for an instant blast or something you can direct a bit, more Force Lightning-y.
Although, a cone being an area attack, what do you need to aim anyway? With the usual blast it's pretty obvious, you aim the center and everything within the radius either dodges and drops or suffers damage. With a 1 yd line, do you aim the end point or can you choose pretty any point on it (which would make it a bit too easy if you got a hex map and an close enemy, though)?
If it's the end, then that would be a -11 for the canonical TOG lightning bolt (120 yd line). Default accuracy of +3, aim for the hex +4, so you'd need Accurate 4 [+20%] to have the same chance as Jet. Probably cheaper than to buy Increased Range for the Jet.
Edit: Oops, that's a 120
feet line, so a -8 penalty. So you'd need a single level of Accurate.