From:	"(No Name Available)" <mothman@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Multiple Locations
Date:	Sat, 13 Dec 1997 12:20:49 -0600

Ken & Chris Dirk sent this to me by accident. Apparently my address is
still overwriting the lists'. Sorry I thought I'd fixed that. —Mothman

Greetings to the List

First of all I wanted to say Hi
I've been watching the posts for a while and think I have a an idea to
post.

This question was recently posted
> >>>If you use no weapon, is your attack considered silenced?<<<

> >>>CONTROVERSIAL?
> >>>Shouldn't all Hand-to-Hand weapons be silenced!<<<

Mothman replied
> No (IMHO). Silenced weapons are clearly intended to be a special type of weapon.
That's probably why there's a Silencer card. I think that if FASA had intended the Katana
to be a slienced weapon, the card would say so. Also, a katana or a set of Hand Razors
doesn't necesarilly seem like it would be a quiet way to kill somebody.<

I agree, that melee weapons are not considered silenced. But how about
this for a new skill. In the RPG there are Physical Adepts that can
attack with a minimal amount of noise. Perhaps this could be a new type
of skill.

Physad: Runner using melee weapons may consider them silenced. Runner
may not use gear/cyberware cards.

Of course, this describes only one side of PhysAds in the RPG, but it is
a thought.

A second option is to simply allow runners with both melee and stealth
to
use melee weapons as if they were silenced.

Just some of my thought on the subject.

—That was the whole post (mothman again)
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