Re: [HoE] A few minor questions...

[dschniepp@ldd.net (Don Schniepp)]

> 2) I just got CotA, and one of my players took MIRV - my question is what
happens
> when all of the bolts are aimed at one target? The reason I ask this is
that I ran
> the adventure in the back of that book (which I found so-so) and (I don't
think I'm
> giving anything away here) the player in question launched a MIRV at one
target,
> called shot to the guts, got 2 raises (not all that uncommon with 5d12
faith), and
> proceeded to do five lots of 3d10 to the hapless target. All to the guts.
> 
> After the adventure, we agreed that if he did something like that again,
we'd do the
> bolts sort of like auto fire in terms of hit location, i.e. first bolt
can be called,
> all others randomised. I'm now thinking that maybe I should go the whole
hog and make
> it exactly like autofire, i.e. if you're firing all 5 bolts at one
target, then you
> need to get four raises for all of them to hit, and only raises above
that increase
> damage codes or something...
> 
> Any suggestions?

Ouch.  Way too powerful if you do the five lots of 3d10 all to the Guts.  I
agree completely.  The Autofire option is the way I would go.  The
description says that they can be targeted at a single target so I wouldn't
penalize the damage of each bolt.  In your example above, each bolt does
3d10 damage but since he only got two Raises, only 3 bolts manage to hit
the Target.  And like you said, only the first bolt gets to be a Called
Shot.

Don S.