Jizmack
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Explosives are underpowered?

Sun 17 Feb 2019, 22:18

My character throws a grenade and it lands at Close range of the target, but only has 67% chance of doing 1 point of damage. Why bother, when my character can just shoot to deal the same damage... and ammo is a lot cheaper than grenades!
Shouldn’t explosives be more deadly ?
 
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Re: Explosives are underpowered?

Mon 18 Feb 2019, 10:15

We had some thoughts on this in an early episode of the Coriolis Effect, i’ll dig them out. But the first thought is, if you are using grenages against people, you should be using anti personnel, shrapnel grenades, which deal damage 2 and crit on 1 extra success
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Re: Explosives are underpowered?

Mon 18 Feb 2019, 14:15

So it was not as early an episode as I thought, rather Season 2 Episode 3 

Dave put his essay up on his Blog
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Re: Explosives are underpowered?

Mon 18 Feb 2019, 22:07

Thanks for the feedback.

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