From:	Sorrow <sorrow@*******.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Challenge Question
Date:	Mon, 25 May 1998 10:46:58 -0500

>Skill-sleazing only happens when the card lists specific skills
>(Hellhound, for instance, has a skill sleaze of Stealth-2). If the
>Runners can fulfill this skill requirement, the card is trashed
>immediately.

Ok, let's say a running team can fulfull the skill requirement.
However, for whatever perverse reason, the player decides
instead to fight the challenge (Yak Attack, Chomps 2000, etc.).
Is that called facing the challenge?
Just trying to clear up terminology: the rule book says "the
player must sleaze or face each challenge..." Is the connotation
of the OR such that you can do either or? Or is it that you face
the challenge only when you fail to sleaze it?

>Otherwise any text effect has to be resolved -- a fight
>starts, or you roll D6 for each Runner, or a random Runner gets blown
>up, or, or, or. :) Generally if the card isn't trashed by skill-sleaze
>or by special effects, the alarm goes off; any card that is trashed
>after its text effect (like Ambushed En Route) should say so.

So challenges like Mine Field, Hit and Run and Sabatoged
controls only go away if they are sleazed? And there is no
other way to get rid of them? None of the above mentioned
cards say to trash the challenge. The only thing it says is that
"if the alarm is triggered..." and alarms are only triggered if
the team cannot meet the skill requirements.
If something like Sabatoged Controls never goes away unless
sleazed, it's a really good wall that can never be hurdled unless
the opposing player uses a fair amount of riggers.

>It does make a deck Gear-intensive. It may also mean that rather than
>get into a lot of Runenr fights, you just go running every turn, since
>you can dodge most Challenges.

Well, it'll suck really bad if you cannot seem to draw those necessary
cards. With only being able to have 4 max in any deck, that greatly
diminishes the reliability of drawing those cards. And if your runners
are such that they *need* those skills to sleaze because they cannot
fight very well, your deck is effectivly shut down.

>By the way, your mailer is over-riding the automatic mail-to reply
>function of the list. In Netscape, the 'Reply-To' field under
>Option-General-Identity needs to be cleared.

I didn't know that it would override the mail-to reply function, but it's a
necessary evil, unfortunatly. :(

Thanks for the info and hopefully you can clear up my questions.

Sorrow
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