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Originally Posted by vicky_molokh
Thing is, they don't hit the target, but even after the scatter the target falls within the affected areas (the AE has to be very high level for this to work on all shots).
I mean, you shoot three hundred 'grenades' into a big room. Where do you think they will fall?
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The scatter rules don't make allowance for Rapid Fire attacks at all. Yes, logically they all have to land somewhere. But the way the Rapid Fire rules and enhancement are written clearly assume single-target attacks, which is why "fixing" this situation with a houserule leads inexorably to gross munchkinism. 3e had very different rapid fire rules, more amenable to tracking exactly where every shot landed, but they were apparently too complex for people to handle.
My preferred approach for cluster-bomb attacks is to build the effects rather than the fluff. The effect is to fill a wide area with overlapping attacks, for a relatively consistent degree of damage within the area that falls off rapidly at the edges. So just build it like that - a single-shot Binding with a much wider area and higher ST. If this attack can be "tightened" for greater effect within a smaller area, buy that as an Alternative Attack.