| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Damion Milliken) |
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| Subject: | Suppressive Fire (Was munchkins) |
| Date: | Tue Oct 16 06:10:01 2001 |
> HIM: I take out my sniper rifle and decide I want to Suppress his head.
> GM: You want to what?
> HIM: I want to fire my rifle in Suppressive Fire, targetting the meter of
> space that his head occupies.
> GM: Um...no...
Just out of curiosity, how do you handle situations like:
Blat Man: I suppressive fire the doorway.
GM: The Yak courier runs through the doorway <rolls for suppressive fire> and
ducks inside, carrying the briefcase. You think he copped a round or two,
but he was still up and going.
<Any character played by Dumb Jeff>: I run to the doorway and look inside.
GM: OK <rolls for suppressive fire, and Dumb Jeff's latest character
survives>, at the doorway the 5 goons the Yaks had waiting inside open up on
you.
<Dumb Jeff's character>: <Rolling lots of karma to survive> "I yell to my
teammates that there's a death squad waiting for us inside!"
Blat Man: Heck, I keep suppressive firing the doorway, if they come out,
they'll kill me. Sorry <Dumb Jeff's latest character>.
How do you resolve the suppressive fire into the doorway which is already
occupied by someone?
The way I read your description above, you wouldn't allow Blat Man to
suppressive fire the doorway once <Dumb Jeff's character> was in it - he'd
have to shoot <Dumb Jeff's character>.
I don't see a problem with someone suppressive firing at a place they know
someone is occupying, but who they cannot actually see.
The idea of suppressive fire is, in some ways, to eliminate the need for
actually pinpointing your target, and just filling the air with enough lead
that you're going to hit them. This, naturally enough, is going to allow the
firer to avoid some situational penalty modifiers, such as visibility.
However, it is going to mean that ammunition is used inefficiently, with a
generally low chance of hitting the target. However, the actual chance of
hitting the target may be significantly more than a single aimed shot if
visibility is so poor. That's what you get for filling the air with 10 times
as many rounds.
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Damion Milliken University of Wollongong
Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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