From:	Tony Rabiola <rabiola@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: FASA Questions
Date:	Mon, 22 Sep 1997 08:07:42 -0500

You wrote:
>
>> 1. Media chick: She can be used more than once per turn, but can
you
>> spend 5 nuyen on her to risk a +/- 50 point change in reputation?
>> (please say no!)
>
>All effects are "pumpable" multiple times unless it says so on the
card
>(thinking - Bam Bam, Clutch). In most cases, you're working upwards
>from zero, so the Reputation loss isn't really a loss..

Not according to FAQ 2.0; it says Bam Bam only once, while Tin Man and
Stiletto as much as a player can afford.

>All the Chick does is ensure your 'pone is going to hit you with a GAW
>or Wild Goose Chase, anyways.
>

Very true, cause a player can now make a Shadowrun, pump 7 nuyen into
the Media Chick, and win the game on one run...kind of unbalancing,
don't you think?

>Can The Fat Man use another player's Chick to bump up his own player's
>run? That seems to be the case..

That would speed up games for all, first to use a MC for the big score
wins, no matter who plays her...

>
>> 2. Ambidexterious/Melee Weapons: Now that Hand Razors add Melee
skill
>> to Attack value for each one, does a Runner with Ambidexterity and
two
>> Katanas add the value in twice?
>
>Hmm. Each Katana would add Melee to the damage done, but not twice
>melee. In other words, an Ambidextrous Hatchetman with two Katanas
>would do 4 (base) + [2 (katana) +1 (melee)] + [2 (katana) + 1 (melee)]
>for a grand total of 10 damage.
>
>They may, of course, disallow two Katanas, since it's pretty clumsy
>using two at once IRL (but not impossible - I've seen it done.)
>

Let's get really silly and attempt to use two Monofilament Whips at
once!

>> 3. When is a Runner considered present or in play when certain
events
>> happen? On the table, on the run, in the safehouse, or what?
>
>Consider there to be two separate areas: the "safehouse" area and the
>"shadowrun" area (Locations may or may not count as a separate area -
>you go out of the safehouse to visit them (GAQS), but I'm not sure if
>you're considered away from the safehouse for the entire turn (so as
to
>avoid Adam Bomb - now *there's* a Runner that oughtta be antisocial!)
>A Runner can pretty much be in one or the other, but not both - and at
>the end of your turn, all your Runners return to the safehouse --
>Abducted being excepted, of course.
>
>Any specific cases you want answered?
>
Some cards read "all runners in play", so does that mean all of them on
the table? When it reads "all Runners present" that must refer to
present where that runner is at, then.

Argent