>weapon shoots a tiny piece of metal at you that pokes a tiny little hole in your body
6d6 damage
>weapon shoots a three foot long wooden pole at you that tears through your entire body and then stays lodged in you while you are trying to fight
1d6 damage
Why the fuck are game designers so fucking retarded?
"Balance"
Because they refuse to do any research. Not even skim through fucking wikipedia.
Also I need to know what system you're talking about.
Not exact numbers, but it seems extremely like Star Wars Saga Edition.
>what is energy transfer
>what is fragmentation
>what is a wound channel
I'll give you the second part, though. Thats way too little damage if the system in question puts a small caliber gun at 6d6
>wut is kinetic energy?
There's a notion that guns "ended" swordplay and as such they're mechanically meant to represent the end of the era so they're broken?
Hitpoints are terrible to begin with, OP. It's like someone took a shit in the middle of your living room and you're only complaining about the flies.
That kind of looks like Shrek.
HP is an abstraction, and arrows whizzing by as the hero returns fire is pretty common in fiction.