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Message no. 1
From: Joshua Bell <joshbell@**********.COM>
Subject: House Rules
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 23:25:07 -0400
Hello all Josh here,

Three rules in SRCCG piss off me and my friends, so at my house we change
things around, I know that I am opening myself up to a blatent e-mail
lashing, so as long as it is in good taste I am ready! Bring on your
opinions!

House Rules:

1. If you decide to draw more than ONE card you may STILL gain nuyen from
characters with FAME (not your 4 / turn which is forfit for the cards).

2. When you place chalanges you can place them UNDER or on TOP the old ones.

3. Biotech may be used as a response to a special/stinger. (So Hawkwind
CAN heal herself of damage caused by "Riots" before she dies.)

_________________________

Again let me re-state that these are my group's house rules, we have a
group of 15 now and getting larger...

So tell me what you think, but remember anything you say can and will be
held against you in the PEOPLE's COURT! +B>

*******************
"NO! NO! Rope the guard, BLOW the SAFE!"
-Unknown
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Message no. 2
From: "jonathan.edwards@*****.com" <jedwards@**********.ITRON.COM>
Subject: Re: House Rules
Date: Thu, 14 May 1998 23:09:33 -0700
>Three rules in SRCCG piss off me and my friends, so at my house we change
>things around, I know that I am opening myself up to a blatent e-mail
>lashing, so as long as it is in good taste I am ready! Bring on your
>opinions!
>
>House Rules:
>
>1. If you decide to draw more than ONE card you may STILL gain nuyen from
>characters with FAME (not your 4 / turn which is forfit for the cards).
>
>2. When you place chalanges you can place them UNDER or on TOP the old ones.
>
>3. Biotech may be used as a response to a special/stinger. (So Hawkwind
>CAN heal herself of damage caused by "Riots" before she dies.)

Hey, Josh.

If you're group likes those rules, I say cool, play 'em. I'm sure no one
is going to argue about that here. That's the nice thing about the game.
If you come to a consensus with the people you play with, you can make the
game as challenging in different ways as you want.

Sounds like a pretty brutal game, with 15....

Cheers,

Jon
Message no. 3
From: Sean Overton <shadowopal@****.COM>
Subject: Re: House Rules
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 11:34:27 -0500
I'm just wondering what you guys have against strategy and pre-planning.
Do you just enjoy playing excessively long games?

-Sean Overton
(a.k.a Shadowopal, The Dread Pirate Wesley)
Private E-mail Address: Shadowopal@****.com
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On Thu, 14 May 1998 23:25:07 -0400 Joshua Bell <joshbell@**********.COM>
writes:
>Hello all Josh here,
>
>Three rules in SRCCG piss off me and my friends, so at my house we
>change
>things around, I know that I am opening myself up to a blatent e-mail
>lashing, so as long as it is in good taste I am ready! Bring on your
>opinions!
>
>House Rules:
>
>1. If you decide to draw more than ONE card you may STILL gain nuyen
>from
>characters with FAME (not your 4 / turn which is forfit for the
>cards).
>
>2. When you place chalanges you can place them UNDER or on TOP the
>old ones.
>
>3. Biotech may be used as a response to a special/stinger. (So
>Hawkwind
>CAN heal herself of damage caused by "Riots" before she dies.)
>
>_________________________
>
>Again let me re-state that these are my group's house rules, we have a
>group of 15 now and getting larger...
>
>So tell me what you think, but remember anything you say can and will
>be
>held against you in the PEOPLE's COURT! +B>
>
>*******************
>"NO! NO! Rope the guard, BLOW the SAFE!"
>-Unknown
>*******************
>

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Message no. 4
From: Norman McLeod <mcleodn@***********.NET>
Subject: Re: House Rules
Date: Sat, 16 May 1998 13:39:20 -0400
>I'm just wondering what you guys have against strategy and pre-planning.
> Do you just enjoy playing excessively long games?

Huh? I don't see what you're asking this question for. These are just some
minor tweakings to the gameplay that make life easier on runners. I don't
see how they go against strategy and pre-planning. Everyone's idea of what
an excessively long game is will be different, no one will enjoy playing
what they consider an excessively long game, but I imagine that I would
enjoy longer games than other people (I am a very patient person). To me it
seems that these rules merely change strategy.

Keep reading to see my thoughts on the house rules.

>>Three rules in SRCCG piss off me and my friends, so at my house we
>>change
>>things around, I know that I am opening myself up to a blatent e-mail
>>lashing, so as long as it is in good taste I am ready! Bring on your
>>opinions!
>>
>>House Rules:
>>
>>1. If you decide to draw more than ONE card you may STILL gain nuyen
>>from
>>characters with FAME (not your 4 / turn which is forfit for the
>>cards).

Interesting. The first couple of games we played we didn't know any better,
and did this anyways. I sort of like this, but it does mildly change
strategies and puts a much higher power to rockers. Just think, if I have
two Glitz, two Thrash in play, I can get for nuyen and fill my hand every
turn! Maybe the best way to implement this would beto put a limit on when
you could fill your hand.


>>2. When you place chalanges you can place them UNDER or on TOP the
>>old ones.


This one I don't like. If you put a hcallenge down, it should be an
irravocable decision. Challenge combos and really good stacks are thus made
harder to build. Without this, Sean's right, pre-planning is diminished.

>>3. Biotech may be used as a response to a special/stinger. (So
>>Hawkwind
>>CAN heal herself of damage caused by "Riots" before she dies.)


Hmmm. I don't know, I think that as soon as a runner is dead, they should be
irrevocably so. I remember M:TG's constant "Response" debates, which caused
huge timing issues nad extended discussions.
Message no. 5
From: "Bourgault, Patrick" <pbourgau@***.CA>
Subject: House rules
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:22:00 PDT
I was just wondering what are your house rules, those that worked and
those that didn't. For instance, we ruled the following :

Bounty Hunter : We found that this card was too powerful, so a roll of
1-2 means that the BH missed his target. We also tried this : 1-2, no
effect; 3-4, TR is trashed; 5-6, trash BH. Unfortunately, the card
wasn't effective enough and it was too easy to trash BH. We came back to
: 1-2, no effect; 3-5, trash TR; 6, trash BH.

Steamroller : Finding too easy to trash Electrical damage, we boost the
roll to 3+.

Fastjack : We treat this runner as a Human. So this means he is a
suitable target for Sudden Goblinization.


Do you have some comments or interesting house rules ??
Message no. 6
From: Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject: Re: House rules
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 23:44:50 -0700
Bourgault, Patrick wrote:

> Fastjack : We treat this runner as a Human. So this means he is a
> suitable target for Sudden Goblinization.

I find his special more problematic than his race. 'Round here, we've
tried a) limiting it to looking at one Challenge stack (which changes
things in multi-player) or b) shuffling all the Challenge stacks (which
is equally fun).


- Matt

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Message no. 7
From: "(Ryan Smith)" <SnakeIzBac@***.COM>
Subject: Re: House rules
Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 20:48:03 EDT
In a message dated 8/5/98 1:27:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time, pbourgau@***.CA
writes:

<< I was just wondering what are your house rules, those that worked and
those that didn't. For instance, we ruled the following :

Bounty Hunter : We found that this card was too powerful, so a roll of
1-2 means that the BH missed his target. We also tried this : 1-2, no
effect; 3-4, TR is trashed; 5-6, trash BH. Unfortunately, the card
wasn't effective enough and it was too easy to trash BH. We came back to
: 1-2, no effect; 3-5, trash TR; 6, trash BH.

Steamroller : Finding too easy to trash Electrical damage, we boost the
roll to 3+.

Fastjack : We treat this runner as a Human. So this means he is a
suitable target for Sudden Goblinization.


Do you have some comments or interesting house rules ??
>>



We Don't Play with *Ther Z-Zone* It's a confusing card and it turns the game
into a different game.

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