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Message no. 1
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: Taser Razor and Full Impact
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 12:41:35 -0700
Robert said:

>>I'm not going to pick apart this item because most everything I was going
>>to pick apart has already been picked.

>>But responding to Jason Carters post about the RazorTasor having to go
>.against full impact, I have a real problem with that.

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>>Tasers are just plain nasty, as I've talked about before. They are much
>>more nasty than ShadowRun gives them credit for. I also cannot see how
>>any type of armour can really protect you unless it is specifically made
>>of insulating material that keep you from grouding the charge through your
>>fragile body. (for example, rubber boots would very likely save you, if I
>>understand my several-year-old high school physics).

You missed my reasoning. The dart is a hand razor blade. The blade is curved
downward and goes to a point somewhere from 45-90 degrees downward. When you
shoot this at someone, the chance of it bouncing off body armor or of it not
getting the fully contact needed is much greater than that of a pointed tazor
dart. Hence armor would protect you better against a razor taser than a normal
tazor.

Does that make sense?

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Taser Razor and Full Impact
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1993 14:45:23 -0500
On Fri, 13 Aug 1993, Jason Carter, Nightstalker wrote:

> You missed my reasoning. The dart is a hand razor blade. The blade is curved
> downward and goes to a point somewhere from 45-90 degrees downward. When you
> shoot this at someone, the chance of it bouncing off body armor or of it not
> getting the fully contact needed is much greater than that of a pointed tazor
> dart. Hence armor would protect you better against a razor taser than a normal
> tazor.
>
> Does that make sense?

The question is, is armor naturally insulating, requiring the dart to go
through the armor before it can shock? Realistically, all the dart has to
do is to touch the person, find some way to be grounded and ZZZZAAAAAPPPP.

Game Balance{tm} says it has to go through armor first.

I guess I don't have an opinion on this issue, but mostly because Tasers,
as represented, are way too wimpy.

*shrug*

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