Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

RoF isn't that good, TBH. You certainly don't get "3 or more attacks a turn" out of it unless you're doing very particular things.

The thing is, it's not 3 or more attacks. It's one attack that can hit multiple times...can. But practically won't much, because you need at least 2 margin of success for each additional hit.

Of course, you're focused on the 'what if the dice come up 3', and I'm not that worried about that because it's a less-than-2% chance.

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

yes

You do realize most people don't play tabletop games because they want an exact reproduction of what they'd experience IRL if they tried to do the same stuff right?

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

How would characters kill monsters or AFVs with nerfed guns?

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

How do players kill dragons with swords?

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

With great difficulty, if at all? Probably using excessively high strength based damage plus magic plus unrealistic Weapon Master bonus damage plus Vitals hit location.

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

So then what's the problem with Luck and Unkillable?!

I honestly can't figure out what your problem is, here, then. You want your players to get shot at, but you want it to not matter at all to the tune of getting shot right in the head with a sniper rifle and walking away?

So give them all Luck, Unkillable, HT 16, and DR 50!

Or did you want regular humans to shrug off head shots? Because that doesn't seem very UNIVERSAL to me.

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

So then if the PC shoot a baseline human guard in the head with a high caliber rifle, the guard's not going to die, either?

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

You can build characters to withstand gunshots, or you can let them die.

If there's a problem, it's that you don't want the solutions for some reason.


Ablative DR works great in this function.

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

By being built powerful enough to do so.

Like we do if we want them to readily survive gunshots.

So then, what is your answer to the question I posed?

Re: Help a noobie understand critical hits
 

People who are looking for decent damage aren't going to go for that sabre, which has the lowest swing damage in Characters of any weapon that isn't a knife or whip. A dedicated swordsman is also unlikely to be built with only ST 10.

Now, if your players are coming at things from the perspective of how it all works in video games (which is fine!), they may well expect even unarmed attacks to do more damage than some firearms, as that's how it often works in games to give closing to melee range a benefit. But if they're coming at things from the perspective of movies (where a gun in the hands of a protagonist is an Instant Death Wand) or real life, they're going to be expecting for their gunslinger to be able to take out foes rather readily.

That 2d(2) pi rifle, when used against an unarmored HP 10 foe, has an 8.33% chance of dropping the foe to 0 HP, and an equal probability (8.33%) of dropping the foe into negative HP. That's all of a 1-in-6 chance. Now, safe money is that it's going to deal a Major Wound (6 or more, 72.22% chance), and it has a better-than-even chance of dropping the foe below 1/3xHP (7 or more, 58.33%), so it will work alright against unaugmented street thugs or maybe some farmers... but against cyborgs, vampires, monsters, etc? Probably not.