I see that there are now a series of riflescopes that use your phone to calculate windage, bullet drop and a host of other factors to align a perfect shot. I can imagine standing at the 100-yard line and having my poor little budget Samsung do this sort of mental gymnastics...

oh, I've been looking at those. Not cheap, but they are very effective. at the moment I do not have a suitable rifle to take advantage of such capabilities , yet.

Years ago, I bought a Ruger M77 VT (Varmint Target) in .308. I took it to our club range to set up the scope, using the green-box Sellier & Bellot. The initial groups were interesting, as they were rather tight clusters, approaching the 10-ring as I zeroed. I fired the last four rounds in the box, but when I retrieved the target, there were only three holes; one in the dead center. Disappointed, I searched the target for more holes I hadn't already cataloged. Nothing. Then my brother pointed out that the center hole wasn't round. There was one tiny fiber sticking up from the bottom of the hole, and one more hanging from the top. Not so much a figure eight as a tolling O.

Shooting from a rest, of course. If I could shoot that well freehand, I'd have quit my day job.

Everything I own is loose bolted, rattly surplus long arms. mostly WW1 and 2. No AR's because California, but I am looking.

I have one AR, or at least an upper and lower receiver, grandfathered in because of Connecticut's draconian gun laws (copypasta from California). I haven't assembled the AR because 1, I'm not really fond of them, and 2, I don't have the money for the upper parts. I used to make enough that I could buy toys and still put money aside. I've been laid off for two-and-a-half years. Now I'm living on that IRA and taking security odd jobs to pay the bills. No new firearms in three years...

of course, a supers RPG must be super-complex. but nothing beats Rule err, Rolemaster. XD

of course, sometimes it depends on the structure of the rules. an old german RPG named Midgard used to have the rules distributed evenly and randomly across four thin books... nobody knows, why.
or DSA, where you have to roll a D20 three times to perform a skillcheck. three times a 1 in 20 chance to lose out, no matter how good you are... XD

The actual system is pretty easy. It's all the "special cases though" that caused rules bloat.
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Here's how to play in two pages, for free.

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/produc.....o-In-Two-Pages

and the more "Flexibility you want", the thickers the rule boks get, though. The full system is a tool kit for making a game. But there are books limited to specific genres.

ah, much like Fudge or GURPS: the core rules are a few, it's the specials that fluffs it up.

the system we play at my weekly group is loosely based on L5R, but uses different dice, and the core rules fit a hand-written page... the rest we do by-ear rather than write it up. we use it for everything we have a mind for and can agree upon. :)
the name is fitting: MEGACHAOS. XD

So many Champions flashbacks....

And so few that play it....

So many ways to cheese the heck out of the system.
Multiform was one of my favs, and megascale.... cuz it was so cheap.

Still my preferred system, though I use it for SF, or High Fantasy games. I got tired of Superheroes eventually. I'd play, but not GM superheroes now. Megascale was post 4th Edition, so I never saw, or used it. My sweet spot was 3rd edition and the big blue 4th edition book.

Eh, just shoot 'em.

Thats just like the villian describing his evil plans to the hero, who's tied up as the slow fuse/ whirling blades, swinging axes , angry, pissed off cats tied to hero get closer and closer, knowing that the hero will escape at the last second and foil the bad guys plans.

"why should I supposed to tell you all about my plans?"

"Because it's written here in your contract!"

Ah! Champions! So many memories! So many fun characters!!

Gotta big fat binder full of them XD. I may even post my sole "anthro character, who was pre-furry, for me).

Had a small robotic dragon powered by a chilli-fueled fusion reactor, Jinx, my cat who could walk through walls and had Luck and Unluck 5d6 (personal immunity to the unluck) as powers usable against others...

5D6 unluck.. your GM must have loved you XD.

Well now that I am back roughly in the bay area, I am LFG in Hero System preferably, as Champions was sort of the bay Area system, as was Runequest, and Cyberpunk 2020.

Uuuuuuuugh, this one page explains why I stopped playing Champions. All the math gave me a headache.

It wasn’t that bad after character creation was done. Every thing was based off the 3D6 roll type. But I will confess that I much preferred running Fantasy, or modern Mercenaries in Hero System, than Superheroes.