Quote Originally Posted by Achernar View Post
Huh. I would have thought that unmodified die rolls of that magnitude would only be one-hit lethal at levels 1-2, maybe up to 4 for wizards... was it that big of a problem? (I rarely run games under level 5). I hadn't thought of it that way before...
It wasn't one-hit lethal as much as that they were easy to dual-wield and considered a martial weapon. So a cr-appropriate encounter against a couple of warriors with guns could flatten a level 4 or 5 quickly, particularly since we never seem to roll good initiative checks.