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Message no. 1
From: "D. Ghost" <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Alternate Staging
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 20:18:29 -0600
I never did like the way staging was handled in SR1 ... If it was
intended to represent a weapon being harder to resist damage, why was it
harder to stage UP as well?

Here's an idea for SRx:
certain weapons would have staging codes other than 2 (for example,
shotguns and assault cannons might have 3 or 4 while a hold-out might
have a staging code of 1.).

This idea requires handling staging slightly different:
1. Attacker rolls attack.
2. Defender rolls dodge.
3. Compare successes, if defender has more, Stop, attack is a clean miss.
4. If attack is not a clean miss, stage damage up (every 2 successes
increases the damage level by 1.)
5. Defender rolls body to stage damage down.
6. Every <staging code> successes stage the damage level down one level.

What do you think?

--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
"We called him Mother Superior because of the length of his habit" --
Trainspotting
"A magician is always 'touching' himself" --Page 123, Grimoire (2nd
Edition)

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Message no. 2
From: David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject: Re: Alternate Staging
Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1999 07:35:47 -0700
For the mere cost of a Thaum, D. Ghost wrote:
/
/ I never did like the way staging was handled in SR1 ... If it was
/ intended to represent a weapon being harder to resist damage, why was it
/ harder to stage UP as well?
/
/ Here's an idea for SRx:
/ certain weapons would have staging codes other than 2 (for example,
/ shotguns and assault cannons might have 3 or 4 while a hold-out might
/ have a staging code of 1.).
/
/ This idea requires handling staging slightly different:
/ 1. Attacker rolls attack.
/ 2. Defender rolls dodge.
/ 3. Compare successes, if defender has more, Stop, attack is a clean miss.
/ 4. If attack is not a clean miss, stage damage up (every 2 successes
/ increases the damage level by 1.)
/ 5. Defender rolls body to stage damage down.
/ 6. Every <staging code> successes stage the damage level down one level.
/
/ What do you think?

IMHO the current rules are fine, in that the heavier weapons are harder
to stage down because they have a higher power. Also, if you change
the staging code your going to make heavy weapons almost impossible to
resist (which may not be a bad thing) and make it almost impossible for
light weapons to cause any damage at all.

-David B.
--
"Earn what you have been given."
--
email: dbuehrer@******.carl.org
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/1068/homepage.htm

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