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Message no. 1
From: Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM>
Subject: FASA's answers on the Bounty Hunter
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 1997 20:00:26 -0700
Here's another clarification from FASA. Makes using the Bounty Hunter
even tastier. ;o)

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---FASACorp2@***.com wrote:
>
>
> In a message dated 9/15/97 9:52:27 AM, you wrote:
>
> <<OK, here's a question that arose in a game I was playing last nite.
>
> The text of the Bounty Hunter card reads: "3Y. Use Bounty Hunter
> during any Shadowrun phase against any Runner who has just pulled out
> of a Shadowrun. XY: Roll a D6. 1: Target evades Bounty Hunter. 2-5:
> Target Runner is slain (Trash target Runner). 6: Bounty Hunter is
> killed (trash bounty hunter). X= Body of target."
>
> The question was does the amount of nu yen paid always equal the Body
> as printed in the Runner's threat rating? Or does the amount of nu
yen
> paid equal "current" body (i.e. - augmented by cyberware, decreased
by
> damage taken, etc.)
>
> For example, let's say I want to use my Bounty Hunter to take out my
> opponent's Gore Tusk - 7/8 (A1). He's being sent back home after a
> Corpse Light ended the Shadowrun. The challenge before that had dealt
> him 3 points of damage (lowering his body to 5). Am I paying 8 nu yen
> to the Body Guard for the Body printed on Gore Tusk's card, or am I
> paying 5 nu yen for Gore Tusks current Body? Does it change if he's
> not wounded, but has dermal plating is raising his Body to 10?
>
> Thanx!>>
>
> You pay the Runner's current Body value (however it's
modified--damage,
> dermal plating, whatever) when using Bounty Hunter.

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