Re: [HOE] Shooting into combat

[Robert Holland <robert@macauley.com>]

>The players in the group i play with do not agree with the rule of shooting 
>into combat. If someone is about 5 yards away and they try to shoot either a 
>gun or use a power like Atomic blast, that they have to add the persons 
>fighting brawling level onto the target number. Now in the new rules it 
>states, " when shooting whille in hand to hand combat you must add the 
>opponents fighting level to the tn," but i can not find any rules to firing 
>into combat which involves two or more other people that might be at some 
>distance away. Do any of you think that you should not add there lv or you 
>should, or have you got any other ideas as to where i should be looking to 
>resolve this issue.

you shouldn't add the target's level if he's not actively focused on
evading/deflecting the attack, which he won't be if he's in hth with someone
else. however, there will be a good chance of accidentally hitting whoever he's
meleeing with.

--robert holland