From:	Brett Barksdale <brett@***.ORST.EDU>
Subject:	Re: "Attached" Challenges
Date:	Fri, 12 Sep 1997 16:04:46 -0700

>(>) In our last episode, Steve Kramarsky wrote:
>
>> Incidentally we've been playing that challenges 'attached'
>> to an objective effect all runs against it by any plater
>> INCLUDING the player who played the challenge.
>
>Nope, chummer. I got the official ruling from Jim Nelson @ FASA:
>
>1. When you succeed in taking YOUR OWN objective, what happend to your
>own challenge cards (ie. that stack that you didn't have to face)? Do
>they simply return to your trash pile? Or hang around till next time?
>
>Answer: They go in your trash pile.
>
>2. Does this rule apply to EVERYBODY's objectives? (Shadowrun Phase,
>Step 1, Rules pg.56, never states whether or not you can also ignore
>your own challenges on your opponents' objectives?)
>
>Answer: Yes. You never face your own objectives unless forced to by a
>card.

Two things. One, it should say you never face your own CHALLENGES unless
forced to by a card. (not objectives - you can freely run on your own
objective in play). The second is that I would argue that the challenge
(such as Motion Detectors) that gets attached to an objective is, in fact,
the very card that forces you to "face your own objective" in this case.

In short, I agree that if I play Motion Detectors on an objective and
my opponent sets it off, any time I run against his challenges on that
same objective, I am forced to deal with the implications of the Motion
Detectors as well.

Of course, I have no clue in what the "official" interpretation is. And,
based on the recent rulings, I'm beginning not to care...

- Brett