From:	"Whitehill, Chris" <chwh@***.COM>
Subject:	Re: Guard (was Re: SRCARD Digest...)
Date:	Wed, 3 Dec 1997 22:18:54 -0700

Here is the rules excerpt:

Guard: The Guard trait allows a Runner to take damage directed at
another Runner that is present. A Runner with Guard may
take damage equal to his Body. Any excess damage must be taken by the
original target. A runner using Guard during a
shadowrun need not turn to use the trait; at all other times, he is
required to turn.

"take damage directed at another Runner" seems to imply all damage. ( up
to the guard's total body of course)
Being able to choose how much to redirect seems much too powerful.

-Chris-
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Loki [SMTP:daddyjim@**********.COM]
>Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 6:20 PM
>To: SRCARD@********.ITRIBE.NET
>Subject: Guard (was Re: SRCARD Digest...)
>
>---Jeffrey Nuremburg <xanatos@********.NET> wrote:
>>
>> Hey All.
>>
>> Okay, another issue came up the last game I played, so I'll place it
>out
>> here to see what people think.
>
>First, your subject line is coming up as a generic response to the
>digest. If you could, try to change it to something more spefically
>geared to what your post is about. Thanx! :o)
>
>> When a card like Wanted or Bar Fight is played, each player
>ends up
>> with a runner involved in the ensuing combat (assuming no additional
>cards
>> cancel the bar fight or wanted). Anyway, is either player allowed
>to turn a
>> runner with Guard to redirect damage from his runner in the combat?
>Also,
>> how much damage can be moved to a runner with guard? (Do you have
>to move
>> it all, any you wish, or all up to the guards body)?
>
>I guard works in combat against a Challenge, I don't see why it
>wouldn't work for damage in runner-vs-runner combat. As for how much
>damage to soak: page 29 of the RBT says "A Runner with Guard may take
>damage equal to his body." I assume this to mean two things. One, that
>he may take damage equal to his body + armor (i.e. enough to kill him,
>but not more, as has been clarified by FASA in other areas of alotting
>damage). Two, the word MAY means he can choose to take anywhere from
>one point to the lethal number.
>
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