| From: | Loki <daddyjim@**********.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Heavy Armor |
| Date: | Tue, 16 Sep 1997 17:36:37 -0700 |
>
> OK, here's something that popped up a couple days ago...
>
> Tinner had a runner with a Full Suit of Heavy Armor, and his team
> encountered a boosted Dracoform (it had +2/+2 from Operation Up and
Over).
> The character wearing it was a 6/7 and had 3 points of armor with
the Suit.
>
> Now, because of the way Heavy Suit reads (I don;t have the card with
me,
> Tinner does, so I'm not really sure exactly how it reads, but me and
Tinner
> both agreed that it could go either way), it seems that it's
possible for
> the character to take ALL the damage from a single source, then
trash the
> armor. Thus, he could absorb all 14 points from the dragon and
survive.
Here's the info off the spoiler list:
Heavy Armor (full)
Type: Gear
Description: Gear/Armor
Notes: 6¥. User receives Armor +2. Trash Heavy Armor (Full) to avoid
all damage taken in combat.
> However, this really isn;t keeping with how the game normally works,
as
> your runners cannot normally take overflow damage, so we figured it
> probably meant that he could take his max damage (In this case 10
points
> (Body 7 and 3 armour pounts), and trash the armor to avoid that 10.
that
> would still leave 4 points to be dealt.
Not necessarily true. A situation like this could be handled like
damage from a basilisk or hellhound which is applied to a single
runner and the excess just evaporates into a metaplane or something.
The following is from the FASA FAQ 2.0 (beta):
~~~~~~~~~~
Q. The damage inflicted by Basilisk ( which has a Threat rating of
6/5) must be applied to a single Runner, but the rulebook says that
you can't assign an amount of damage to a Runner higher than the
Runner's current body. If my Runner has a Body of 5 or less, what do
I do with the extra damage?
A. Nothing. Cards like Basilsik are an exception to the rule.
Hellhound, Manticore and Killer Drone work the in the same way.
~~~~~~~~~~
> Now, this leaves a couple questions? Which way is right? I would
assume
> the second, but...
I'd agree that trashing the armor would only save you from the damage
the runner could reasonably take. Damage that would take his body to
zero would kill the runner and another ruling from FASA (Ceska) has
shown a dead runner cannot trash gear to use it's special ability,
save for the Stim Patch.
> Also, if the runner follows the second option, and avoids 10 points
that
> way, could you then give him the other 4, or would that have to go
on a
> different runner?
>
> I would say a different runner, but... I think it needs clarified...
Again I'd agree with you. Still, this is just MHO.
I'll pass it along to FASA and see what we get back.
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