From:	Michel Racicot <harlequin@*********.CA>
Subject:	Re: GAQS and Timing: The Non-MtG View
Date:	Sat, 13 Sep 1997 15:45:31 -0400

> I just want to add one new perspective to this debate. I and my
> friends are older SR RPG players who have always hated and feared
> the dreaded CCG which we feel is destroying the hobby, ruining
> cons, attracting a bad element etc. etc. etc. [insert your old
> fogey comments here]. As a result none of us has ever played MtG
> or any other card game. We love SR the RPG so we picked up some
> cards and now play constantly much to our fiscal dismay.

My point of vue is that srtcg is not ruining shadowrun rpg at all... it is
promoting it! I've get a lots of demands to be a GM since peoples started
to play strcg at our college rpg local...!!!

> Anyway with that in mind I should say that I don't see this
> "timing issue" everyone is complaining about. What happens
> in our group is the challenge is revealed. The running
> player looks at it, if he can sleaze it he says "Okay,
> well Sam the Sleuth is able to sleaze this so the alarm
> doesn't go off". At this time his opponent may say, "Nope,
> because Sam gets the trots [GAQS] and must go home, so
> no sleaze".

I'm approving this... this make the game far more easy and a lot funniest
to play than mtg... I personnaly know some phreaks of mtg that call ALL
their phases in their turn!!! geez! if srtgc become like this, i will quit
it now! It is a game after all... so why bothering with stupid «timing»
issues... just use your common sense and if two players argue, roll the
dice! :)

Michel Racicot aka Harlequin
harlequin@*********.ca