From:	"James E. Frazer" <jimmicane@**********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Rush job and Block party.....
Date:	Mon, 29 Jun 1998 08:41:28 -0700

>>last night, one of my opponents was playing his new "cheese" deck......
>>all Rockers..... He wasn't really able to make to many runs, but he was
>>raking in the money....... Well, he played Block Party, (No one can
>>make a run for 1 turn per every 5 nuyen spent) He paid about 30 Nuyen,
>>thus preventing a run for 6 turns.... After 4 turns, rush job was
>>played on him (Player must make a run in his next turn.....)
>>
>>You can all see the problem with this....... as this situation has come
>>up before in numerous different manners, (Rush job on a player with no
>>runners, or runners get arrested before they can run.....) What happens
>>if the victim of the card can not make a run? Anyone have any ideas?
>
>
>Well then they can't. In this case though, they normally would be able to,
>but a card is in the way, not a lack of runners. Roll a d6. 50/50. Either
>you must make a run, or you can't, one card wins.
>

Most cards which force you to do something say "If possible", but Rush Job
doesn't. The main reason for this was to prevent people from sending all of their runners
to a location and then saying "Sorry, all my runners are tapped, I can't make a
run". But the card itself won't negate cards like Block Party, nor will it effect
you if you have no runners in play.

The way I look at it, Block Party makes everyone skip their Shadowrunning phase, which
means they never have the opportunity to make a run.

Although, if this DID allow you to make a run through a block party, you could make an
interesting deck out of that. Make a Rocker/Ragnarock deck with Block Party, Rush Job,
and Rampaging Mutants.


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