Originally Posted by sjmdw45

Rifle accuracy is odd anyway. My understanding is that, in real life, it's almost impossible to hit someone from 3 miles away, but in GURPS that is only an extra -4 relative to the 1000-yard shot. I.e. if you can hit someone 50% of the time at 1000 yards, you can hit them 10% of the time at 3 miles. As I understand it, that's very unlikely in real life because more factors come into play at extreme range: the bullet tumbles differently, you have to factor in gravity, you have to account for different wind for all the points between you and your target. (That is, in real life, difficulty is not log-linear with distance as it is in GURPS. It's log-quadratic or something.)

If you really wanted to simulate this correctly, you'd probably have Accuracy vary as a complex formula depending on bullet weight, distance to target, and environment. Failing that, set the "max" range for a rifle lower than its "real" max range and just say that it maxes out at 1000 yards for man-sized targets, and exceeding that requires special rules and circumstances.

-Max

Originally Posted by Captain-Captain

Depends. The Lone Ranger shoots the triggers off'n the pistols of three bandits afore they kin clear their guns out of their holsters. We give him your 25 maximum and Gunslinger so he gets the +2 Acc of his .45 without having to aim. Ok, he has silver bullets which by the legend if not actual fact shoot straighter. Another plus 2.

He makes his fast draw roll. Bang! Bang! Bang!

RoF = ~3 range penalty is -6, Recoil is 4 Size modifier is about -7 and that's generous. He's starting out with an effective skill of 14- with a 4 Recoil. Not looking good for the home team. He really needs a higher skill than 25 to fit into the shooting skills reputedly possessed by the Lone Ranger.

Originally Posted by Captain-Captain

Depends. The Lone Ranger shoots the triggers off'n the pistols of three bandits afore they kin clear their guns out of their holsters. We give him your 25 maximum and Gunslinger so he gets the +2 Acc of his .45 without having to aim. Ok, he has silver bullets which by the legend if not actual fact shoot straighter. Another plus 2.

He makes his fast draw roll. Bang! Bang! Bang!

RoF = ~3 range penalty is -6, Recoil is 4 Size modifier is about -7 and that's generous. He's starting out with an effective skill of 14- with a 4 Recoil. Not looking good for the home team. He really needs a higher skill than 25 to fit into the shooting skills reputedly possessed by the Lone Ranger.

Originally Posted by Captain-Captain

Then of course, there ae the skill levles of players who write themselves up as GURPS characters. While there are some honest examples of this, MOST of the estimates players give themselves are inflated to extremes.

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

While seduction is a fairly universal concept, trained erotic performance was largely non existent in western culture.

Originally Posted by Ze'Manel Cunha

That's really doing a disservice to Western culture, not only has erotic performance long been lauded, but there's a reason why prostitution is called the oldest profession, don't go confusing Victorian prudishness and anglo ineptness with real Western Culture. ;p

Originally Posted by JAW

Well if the bullet starts tumbling randomly in the air you clued said that the shot exceeded the maximum accurate range of the gun (wich is stat lacking from GURPS..) and the skill becomes quite irrelevant. With a laser rifle or such one could fire accurately 3 miles avay with really steydy hand etc.. Winds and such could be a situational penalty - and one could use a different skills or percpetion roll to notice them..

Originally Posted by sjmdw45

Recoil doesn't matter unless you're auto-firing. He could do the job with skill 25 and Rapid Strike/Ranged x3 bought up from -12 to +0 (as High-Tech allows). If he does the trigger thing frequently he might buy that up from -7 to -4 using some kind of TA(Pistol/Trigger) equivalent.