| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Availability (was Re: Physads and weapon foci) |
| Date: | Wed, 30 Apr 1997 12:20:09 +0100 |
> ... but according to the rules, all that using SI does is it lets you
> take 2 off the availability target number. If you've got a decent street
> et you can probably get the focus without street index anyway!
> (of course, who knows what registration procedures you have to go to buy
> it legally, but that's not the point).
Going by Shadowtech (page 102), you're correct. SRII, however, turns it
around and gives a +2 (plus two) to the Availability for buying from an
illegal source. Paraphrased, SRII page 184 says that if you want to obtain
an item through illegal channels, the fixer (or whoever tries to locate
the item for you) gets to roll Equipment Acquisition or Etiquette against
a TN equal to the Availability +2. Once the item has been found, the cost
is equal to the base price multiplied by the Street Index.
The question here is now if SRII's +2 is a typo and should be -2, or if
the SRII rules are a revision and should be used in place of the
Shadowtech ones -- after all SRII came out later.
Note that it isn't mentioned who should roll if you want to buy the same
item in a store, or through other legal channels. Also not mentioned is
that the SI doesn't apply to legally-bought items, but that's pretty
obvious IMO.
WARNING! My house rules follow!
The way I handle Availability is that the character (not the fixer) rolls
an Etiquette test against the Availability TN, after stating whether he is
looking for the item on the street or in stores. I don't modify the TN
at all for illegal channels, and the SI applies only when bought on the
street, naturally.
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