From:	Matb <mbreton@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	Re: stop the insanity
Date:	Wed, 10 Dec 1997 23:12:16 -0800

> I SAY WE SHOULD TAKE A VOTE OVER THIS TOPIC!!!!

Well, how is this for a proposed amendment (not that, I should say, any
of us here have a measure of officialty; just maybe if the players
organize a set of good convention rules, FASA will adapt them).

"Present" is modified to include four definitions:

1) On a shadowrun. All Runners and revealed Challenges are considered
present to each other.

2) In combat. All Runners on both sides are present with each other.

3) At a Location. Multiple Runners who visit the same Location are
present with each other. Runners "return" from the Location during
their owner's next Refresh phase (ie, when the Runners unturn).

4) In the safehouse. This includes all turned and unturned Runners.

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1) should be self-explanatory, and follows the description in the RBT.
I modified this to include plural Challenges due to some net.cards.

2) also follows the RBT.

3) is new; currently there aren't any ways for Runners at a Location to
be affected as a group. Allowing them to be present to each other opens
up some options for future cards (mini-Riots or the like).

4) is of course, the bone of contention in our most recent debate. I
believe I've spoked out enough on it.


Of course, there's a danger in deciding things by consensus; even FASA
is in the air over whether Runners should be considered present under
whatever circumstances. I would rather resolve the mechanic, the
underlying feature, that just come to a conclusion that, because
eighteen of the two-dozen (or however many) people active on the list
feel a certain way, that's how the game will be played. Democracies can
be, and often are, wrong.



-Mb