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This is probably a bit of a newbie-ish question, but do you still halve your strike bonus when making a pulse shot?

I guess the best example would be if using a Coalition assault rifle or (in my case) a Wilks 447 Pulse Rifle. Since it's described as being three near-simultaneous shots, I figured you wouldn't take a strike penalty, but maybe I'm wrong.

The GM seems to flip-flop between allowing it and not allowing it, and he admitted he's not sure if that's the case either. So I
figured I'd ask on here and see what everyone else thought .

remember there is a cumulative 33% chance that after every pulse blast the gun explodes doing 3d6x100 damage over a 90 foot radius.

rat_bastard wrote:remember there is a cumulative 33% chance that after every pulse blast the gun explodes doing 3d6x100 damage over a 90 foot radius.

Means there is a 1% chance that my russian roulette loving crazy PC is going to get his wish.

You can bet which way the dice are going to roll every single time.

Grrrr.
-Matt

sybert1138 wrote:

rat_bastard wrote:remember there is a cumulative 33% chance that after every pulse blast the gun explodes doing 3d6x100 damage over a 90 foot radius.

But isn't there a 98% chance that 75% of rat-bastards statistics are made up 50% of the time?

80% of board posters know that.

sybert1138 wrote:

Laux the Ogre wrote:

filo_clarke wrote:

sybert1138 wrote:

rat_bastard wrote:remember there is a cumulative 33% chance that after every pulse blast the gun explodes doing 3d6x100 damage over a 90 foot radius.

But isn't there a 98% chance that 75% of rat-bastards statistics are made up 50% of the time?

80% of board posters know that.

But only 67% of posters that know that will admit to it, and even then only 74% of the time.

So if my math is right that should mean that rat-bastard is really KS pretending to be another poster...

It is safe to assume that the math is NEVER right.