Dodging and long range attacks

[Yora]

So shooting at a target that isn't dodging has a difficulty based on the range of the target. Shooting at someone point blank is Very Easy, shooting at someone long range is Difficult.

If I dodge now and my result is say 15, I get a great benefit against point blank shots but actually get easier to hit by long range shots.

Is this one of the situation where the GM should bring advantage into play and set the Target Number for medium range attack at +5 above the dodge roll, and at +10 for long range attacks?
Perhaps even set it -5 below the dodge roll for point blank shots?

Seems like a workable approach to me. Or is there anything in the rules that recommends doing something else instead?
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[garhkal]

IF you want to add to the diff, do a full dodge.
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[Raven Redstar]

1st edition stacked them together by default.
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[Naaman]

I suppose it depends on how realistic you want your game to be.

At longer ranges, a fraction of a degree can make a large miss.

I don't really agree with the "zig when you should have zagged" argument in RAW. Any move you make takes you out of the sight picture of your opponent.

At closer ranges, this means the opponent would have to make a very large correction to stay on target. At longer ranges, the slightest movement takes you way off target. At long range, even the act of pulling the trigger can spoil the shot due to the minute changes in pressure causing the barrel to change direction a little bit which translates to a large lateral distance at long range.

I do have different thoughts for combined fire, but that doesn't seem pertinent to the OP.

If I were considering the issues in the OP, I would allow the dodge to stack with the distance difficulty. Hitting a moving target that is aware of you at long range is WAY harder than "moderate" or "difficult."
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[garhkal]

So if you stack it, for regular dodges, then what benefit is there for doing a Full dodge??
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[Yora]

For my own convenience and because I think too much granularity is pointless, I've decided that Very Easy is always a target number of 5, Easy always a 10, and so on.

The most common range for shots would be short range, so I would say that the dodge roll sets the target number for short range shots. You could add the difference in difficulty for other ranges on top of that.

Going with that, the Target Number for the attack when dodging could be "Regular difficulty -10 + dodge roll".
Or in other terms, point blank range reduces the TN by -5, medium range increases by +5, and long range by +10.

Which results in just the same numbers I proposed initially. Apparently that's how the writers got the idea to give a bonus in five point steps. It mirrors increasing the difficulty rating by one level.

Full dodge would effectively mean getting a +10 bonus to the dodge roll.
Sounds very workable to me, and very much within the original spirit of the written rules and using existing methods. I think I'll go with that for the time being.
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