04-05-2022, 08:33 AM | #21 |
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Re: [Shotguns] Is this a house rule?
I'd have to disagree. It is completely possible to miss entirely with the first shell while hitting with some pellets from the second shell, which your houserule makes impossible. It's kind of the entire reason to fire multiple shots; your first round might miss, but if you fire enough times, one of them might hit. Your houserule only accounts for situations where you start on-target and recoil forces you off-target, but not ones where you start off-target but either walk the shots on-target or saturate the area enough that one of the later shots hit.
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04-05-2022, 10:14 AM | #22 | |
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04-05-2022, 01:51 PM | #23 | |
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Tactical Shooting AFAIK was the first to address the 'which bullets' question. I think the answer had some weird properties but it was not order-dependent.
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04-05-2022, 02:18 PM | #24 | |
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Good catch, embarassed to mess that up.
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04-05-2022, 05:43 PM | #26 | |
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It wasn't until Tactical Shooting that there were any rules that touched at all on which rounds hit. Even then, it specifically notes that the rules aren't concerned about the order of the rounds fired (which has no effect on the outcome), only the number of each type of round fired. |
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04-05-2022, 06:15 PM | #27 |
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Re: [Shotguns] Is this a house rule?
TS6, under the "Shot Shredder" myth (for reference, that's the myth that a shotgun "shreds" its target at close range; it suggests that, realistically, a close-in shotgun should use the Rcl statistics of a slug and boost damage to pi++).
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04-05-2022, 09:00 PM | #28 | |
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HT104 has those alt recoils, meaning a lot harder to land a 2nd instance of the 4d+4 but I guess with a x2 wounding one is all you'd need. |
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04-06-2022, 03:02 AM | #29 | |
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In actuality, the final average for the 4d+4-(4×DR) roll is slightly higher because very low rolls still only count as 0 rather than negative damage, but that effect is less pronounced than the smaller dice rolls. Running it through a dice calculator, it looks like the average roll after subtracting DR is a bit over 6.04, hardly a significant difference. |
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04-06-2022, 11:54 AM | #30 | |
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