From:	Donald Arganbright <jayden63@*******.COM>
Subject:	Re: Card Idea
Date:	Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:16:23 PST

Hoi,

>>Hi,
>>
>> I'm reading one of the Shadowrun books, and I just came across the
>>Tamanous -- flesh eating ghouls. Interesting... This is what I'd
>>like: runner must "eat"(frag) one runner or personel challenge per
>>turn to stay in play. It can eat things from the owner's trash
>>pile, or when present at the defeat of a runner, or personel
>>challenge. Also I would like it to be pumpable via the eating
>>method. It shouldn't be too expensive because of the HUGE drawback
>>of fragging till the cows come home. But here's a chance to have a
>>Tin Man that works for card drawing decks with low income -- you >>can
toss at will, so you draw like crazy and toss to feed the >>Tamanous...
Can you guys throw around balanced-like cards for >>this? Maybe a whole
set of runners? Note: I've been real busy >>with school stuff, but I'm
definately still in to Shadowrun -- and >>I love the Amerindian stuff,
and will be playing with it soon!

>>Have a better one,
>>Chad

>I personally think having this as a Runner card is bad news. Soundz
>to me as if it would be better off as a Challenge card. Something
>close to what Stormwalker has.....

>Tamanos
>Challenge (Awakened/Indoor)
>Athletics Sorcery Stealth
>3/3 (A1)
>If alarm is triggered, owner of Tamanos may trash a Runner or
>Personnel Challenge from their hand to send Shadowrunning team back >to
the safehouse before combat. Damage from Tamanos is armor->piercing.
>"What do you know.....tastes just like chicken."
>
>I'm not sure what sourcebook it's in, and I'm not familiar with the
>creature....so I'm not sure if the sleaze requirements I posted >sound
right or not, but here you have a tough to sleaze >Challenge....and it
gives you three options if the alarm is >triggered. One, if you know
it's setting off Challenges you want >the Running team to face....let it
go.....Two, if it looks like >they're gonna walk on through the rest of
them, use it's >ability....Three, put it on the bottom of the challenge
stack and if >the alarm is triggered, the card would stay and you use
it's special >ability to send 'em home. This also enables the card to
stay where >it is as long as you "feed" it. Kinda nasty in it's own
way, eh? >Laterz......Kev

Actually its really nasty, and is more effective in run stoping than the
dreded elite security mage. I think the fragging of just one card to
stop a run cold is a little too powerfull, coupled with the fact that
the card does not go away, especially in the later parts of a game.
Maybe frag a card for each runner present, or like the security mage a
card for every runner to be sent home. Or just have it trash itself at
the end... it ate what it wanted and then went home.

BTW... your personal E-mail address is over riding the reply-to field

*** Knife Sharpens on Stone... Man Sharpens on Man ***
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Jayden Stormwalker
Donald Arganbright


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