From:	David Reis <david.reis@*****.COM>
Subject:	Re:_Leo´s_Pawn_Shop
Date:	Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:05:50 -0700

At 01:27 PM 7/10/98 +0200, Michael Niederkofler <hibou@****.TU-GRAZ.AC.AT>
wrote:
>How are you playing this card? A Friend of mine (Hi Bernhard) uses this
>card with great effect with loads of zero-cost gear (Maglock Passkey,
>Streetline Special). It says on the card:
>
>1Y: Turn a runner to visiting runner may "sell" a gear card to Leo to
>add D6-3Y to owner´s credstick (minimum of 1Y). Place sold cards under
>Leo´s Pawn Shop. Visiting Runners may purchase Gear at Leo´s Pawn Shop
>by paying the original deploymnt cost of the pawned gear card.
>
>The question is now: Can more then one gear card be sold at a time? In
>this case a runner could sell let´s say ten zero-cost gears and the
>next runner could buy them at no cost. You would only hev to pay 2Y for
>the two vbisiting runners. This seems overpowered as you could earn 3 -
>5 Y (depends on your luck) at the cost of two turned runners per round.
>
>Or: You can sell only one gear at a time, but the same runner can get
>it back. Played like this it comes down, that if you roll a five you
>will earn 1Y or if you roll a six you will earn 2Y. This is also very
>powerfull because you give each of your runners a gear with zero costs
>and let them go all to Leo´s if you don´t want to make a run this turn.
>If you´re lucky with the rolls you can make pretty much money
>
>Or: You can only sell one gear at a time and you have to turn another
>runner to buy the gear back from Leo´s. In this case you earn money only
>if you roll a six.
>
We play that you can sell as many gear cards as you want per visit, and buy
back during the same visit, as long as the same runner doesn't sell and buy
the same gear in the same visit.

When I played the card in my deck, I found it made the deck too slow for
the benefit. Basically, unless you can beat the odds, each gear card sold
only makes you 1-2 nuyen once every three turns, and there are lots better
ways to make money. Plus, you have to load up your deck with gear to sell,
taking away those precious card slots I would rather use for other, more
useful cards.

David