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Message no. 1
From: "Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Black Book martial arts.
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1993 12:20:32 -0500
]speaking of such animals, how do others run the limitations for Unarmed
]Combat concentrations and specializations? i have seen several posts that
]others have made concerning full-blown martial arts powers and skills, but
]i'm interested in "just the black book" rules. ("keep it simple,
stupid").


Sit down with the player in question and make them get really specific
about exactly what they want. Ex: Fenris, a street sam with a different bent,
want the martial arts concentration with the specialization of Judo. Although
judo does have strikes, bone breaks, holds, chokes, kicks, etc., what he wants
are the avoidance techniques and throws, i.e. "The Gentle Way." So, now he
uses that specifically, not because he was limited by the GM, but because that
is what he wanted.

-Ethan Court

(ob-Shadowrun-screw: Last time I tell a character that he can start a sammi
with "no more than wired 2." He ended up getting that, plus a softlink-4,
cyber mag 3, smartlink, and every freakin non-active chip in the book. Teach
me to try to lessen the work for me. . . )


And, whilst on the back of that particular animal, how does anyone, if
they do, make the cyber mag3-smartlink combo less of a screw?
Message no. 2
From: "Dark Thought Publications." <JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU>
Subject: Re: Black Book martial arts. (fwd)
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1993 09:49:01 -0500
As requested, here is the forwarded message. . .

From: "P. Steele" <P.C.Steele@*********.ac.uk>
Message-Id: <AA11117.199304212235@****.ncl.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Black Book martial arts.
To: JEK5313@*****.TAMU.EDU
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 93 23:35:27 BST
In-Reply-To: <199304211832.AA16121@*******.ncl.ac.uk>; from "Dark Thought
Publications." at Apr 21, 93 12:20 pm
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.3 PL11]


Ethan Court wrote (as a P.S. to his main post)

> (ob-Shadowrun-screw: Last time I tell a character that he can start a sammi
> with "no more than wired 2." He ended up getting that, plus a softlink-4,
> cyber mag 3, smartlink, and every freakin non-active chip in the book. Teach
> me to try to lessen the work for me. . . )
>
>
> And, whilst on the back of that particular animal, how does anyone, if
> they do, make the cyber mag3-smartlink combo less of a screw?

Well one way round it is to adopt the pseudo rules for combat pools which I
posted a while ago <god I'm pissed, I've just hit delete key 15 or so times>.
This effectively uses different TN's for dodging and negates the advantage of
mag 3. On a more practical note, cause many people (inlcuding the dark lord on
high) don't agree with that method you can always insist that changing the
focus on the eyes takes up a free action. So if in one action a sam tries to
shoot at two oppoents 1 at short range and 1 at long range (for eg) you then
clobber him with the new TN. <God I really am pissed. But it is thoroughly
recommended. Go to a real ale festival then come and real your mail at
11:30 pm>

The Powerhouse

--
Phillip Steele |
|
P.C.Steele@***.ac.uk |

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