DF Artillery Mages Noodling

[Anthony]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

And this is the important part!

GURPS Magic's baseline is 1d~ as it presumes a Low-Tech setting where most attacks are 1d~ (ST 10~ with a -2 ~ +2 weapon).

The average damage output of characters at the point level of mages is upwards of 2d cutting. I'd normalize it at 3 fatigue for the equivalent of a TL-appropriate rifle (including range, accuracy, and rate of fire).