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Message no. 1
From: caseless@*****.com (Stephen Allee)
Subject: Astrally Perceiving Mages and Surprise
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2004 22:21:35 -0700
I have two questions:

A: An astrally perceiving mage recieves a bonus to his reaction (I
think it is something like +20). Does the mage roll an additional 20d6
for surprise tests?

B: If so, is the target number 4, like normal, or is the number higher
for the surprise test, and if so, what is the correct target number?

Regards,
~Caseless
Message no. 2
From: l-hansen@*****.tele.dk (Lars Wagner Hansen)
Subject: Astrally Perceiving Mages and Surprise
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 09:00:01 +0200
From: "Stephen Allee" <caseless@*****.com>
> I have two questions:
>
> A: An astrally perceiving mage recieves a bonus to his reaction (I
> think it is something like +20). Does the mage roll an additional 20d6
> for surprise tests?

Only +20 to his initiative.

So no increase to Reaction , and thus not to surprise tests.

> B: If so, is the target number 4, like normal, or is the number higher
> for the surprise test, and if so, what is the correct target number?

It's still 4.

Lars
Message no. 3
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Astrally Perceiving Mages and Surprise
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 11:10:21 +0200
According to Stephen Allee, on Saturday 31 July 2004 07:21 the word on the
street was...

> A: An astrally perceiving mage recieves a bonus to his reaction (I
> think it is something like +20). Does the mage roll an additional 20d6
> for surprise tests?

No. The magician gets +20 _initiative_, not +20 Reaction.

> B: If so, is the target number 4, like normal, or is the number higher
> for the surprise test, and if so, what is the correct target number?

The TN for surprise tests is always 4, plus modifiers for stuff like wounds
and other distractions, and the -2 for being the party that causes the
surprise test to be rolled.

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Message no. 4
From: shadowrunnerdingo@*****.com (Dingo)
Subject: Astrally Perceiving Mages and Surprise
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 04:59:55 -0700 (PDT)
--- Gurth <gurth@******.nl> wrote:

> According to Stephen Allee, on Saturday 31 July 2004
> 07:21 the word on the
> street was...
>
> > A: An astrally perceiving mage recieves a bonus to
> his reaction (I
> > think it is something like +20). Does the mage
> roll an additional 20d6
> > for surprise tests?
>
> No. The magician gets +20 _initiative_, not +20
> Reaction.
>
> > B: If so, is the target number 4, like normal, or
> is the number higher
> > for the surprise test, and if so, what is the
> correct target number?
>
> The TN for surprise tests is always 4, plus
> modifiers for stuff like wounds
> and other distractions, and the -2 for being the
> party that causes the
> surprise test to be rolled.

If I remember correctly, the +20 Initiative is granted
to mages Astrally Projecting, not Perceiving. Am I
wrong?

Dingo




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Message no. 5
From: maxnoel_fr@*****.fr (Max Noel)
Subject: Astrally Perceiving Mages and Surprise
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:31:26 +0200
Le 31 juil. 2004, à 13:59, Dingo a écrit :

> If I remember correctly, the +20 Initiative is granted
> to mages Astrally Projecting, not Perceiving. Am I
> wrong?
>
> Dingo

No, you're right. I think the +20 represents the fact that you're no
longer bound to inertia, gravity and the such.

-- Wild_Cat
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"Look at you hacker... A pathetic creature of meat and bone, panting
and sweating as you run through my corridors... How can you challenge a
perfect, immortal machine?"
Message no. 6
From: l-hansen@*****.tele.dk (Lars Wagner Hansen)
Subject: Astrally Perceiving Mages and Surprise
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:37:26 +0200
From: "Dingo" <shadowrunnerdingo@*****.com>
>
> If I remember correctly, the +20 Initiative is granted
> to mages Astrally Projecting, not Perceiving. Am I
> wrong?

You are right, only +20 Initiative when projecting, and only from the
following round. So the mage with Initiative 13 who projects on his first
Initiative pass, will not recieve the +20 Initiative intil the beginning of
the next round.

The opposite is however true, that when you stop projecting you will loos 20
points of you current Initiative immediately. So the mage with Initiative 23
who stops projecting on his first Initiative pass, will not get any more
actions until next turn.

It's all on page 174 of the BBB.

Lars
Message no. 7
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Astrally Perceiving Mages and Surprise
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 19:11:57 +0200
According to Dingo, on Saturday 31 July 2004 13:59 the word on the street
was...

> If I remember correctly, the +20 Initiative is granted
> to mages Astrally Projecting, not Perceiving. Am I
> wrong?

You're not wrong -- Stephen was, and I read his post quickly enough that I
didn't notice he was talking about astral perception, not projection :)

--
Gurth@******.nl - Stone Age: http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
... in real life, which was styled after the film.
-> Possibly NAGEE Editor & ShadowRN GridSec * Triangle Virtuoso <-
-> The Plastic Warriors Page: http://plastic.dumpshock.com <-

GC3.12: GAT/! d- s:- !a>? C++(---) UL+ P(+) L++ E W--(++) N o? K w(--)
O V? PS+ PE@ Y PGP- t- 5++ X(+) R+++$ tv+(++) b++@ DI- D+ G+ e h! !r y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998
Message no. 8
From: shadowrunnerdingo@*****.com (Dingo)
Subject: Astrally Perceiving Mages and Surprise
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 14:14:34 -0700 (PDT)
Cool. Thanks for the confirmation.

Dingo



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