Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

From: "James E. Frazer" <jimmicane@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Still more questions
Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 14:05:13 -0700
>>> * The Crawler Patrol Drone: Do you turn the drone or both the
>>> Rigger and the drone to Recon?
>>>
>>a) You turn only the Rigger, since he´s getting the Recon. Since he´s
>>turned then, the drone can´t be used except for defense.
>>
>I believe the drone is turned, not the rigger. Otherwise, using the
>Crawler Patrol Drone would limit a rigger with piloting skill of 2 or 3 to
>only using one drone on that turn.
>
>David
>

Exactly...

Look at it this way. The card itself is a 1/3 Drone, it has an ability to receive recon
at a cost of 2 nuyen. It doesn't give the rigger the ability to recon, but the rigger
still has to use his skill to control the drone. In other words, a rigger still uses one
of his alloted piloting skills for the turn if he uses the drone, but he doesn't have to
turn, much the same way a decker can nuke an electrical challenge with a Crash, but he
doesn't have to turn himself to do it.

Another way to think of it is this: a Vindicator says that it gives the user a +4/+0, it
also says "4 nuyen: burst fire", now the user doesn't recieve the ability to
burst fire (unless of course he had a bunch of burritos the night before), the gun does.

That's just my opinion, I could be wrong...

Hurricane



Free web-based email, Forever, From anywhere!
http://www.mailexcite.com

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.