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Message no. 1
From: DS01813@*******
Subject: car wars
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 92 19:44:00 CDT
I am looking for a program that a friend mentioned to me. He said it
is a program for Car Wars for designing vehicles. This includes weapons,
modifications, and all vehicles.
I'm interested in this so that I can change it for Shadowrun vehicle
creation.
If anyone has this or knows where I can get it via VFTP, please let
me know. I graduate Friday and won't have access to the computer after that.


Darkoth
Message no. 2
From: Tim Coxon <Tim.Ntoo@**********.COM>
Subject: Car Wars
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 20:04:55 -0000
Hmmm. Has anyone done a conversion of the Car Wars rules for shadowrun, I
know that gurth did one for Uncle alberts catalouge a while back but I kind
think it would be cool if there was a set of rules that incorporate both sr
and cws.
last thing What is the maximum theoreticle initive possible (not
munckinising just trying to put together a good moving rule)

And that was another thought from the black depths of my mind.
****Tim-Ntoo****
Tim.Ntoo@**********.com
Message no. 3
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Car Wars
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 19:00:41 EST
On Sat, 15 Feb 1997 20:04:55 -0000 Tim Coxon <Tim.Ntoo@**********.COM>
writes:
<snip Car Wars>
>last thing What is the maximum theoreticle initive possible (not
>munckinising just trying to put together a good moving rule)

I've heard it's something like 22 + 5D6 or thereabouts...I once had an
NPC with 18 + 8D6, but that required cheating:) (but it scared the crap
out the player with the highest initiative at the time...)

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Message no. 4
From: Tim Coxon <Tim.Ntoo@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Car Wars
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 10:44:21 -0000
> <snip Car Wars>
> >last thing What is the maximum theoreticle initive possible (not
> >munckinising just trying to put together a good moving rule)
>
> I've heard it's something like 22 + 5D6 or thereabouts...I once had an
> NPC with 18 + 8D6, but that required cheating:) (but it scared the crap
> out the player with the highest initiative at the time...)
>
> --
> -Canthros
Okay I hate to do this but last night I got bored so I tired Maxing out a
character, I ended up with a guy that could have a permanate intitive of
(assume all six's are rolled) of 54 and a few times of 61 :)
However I just thought that with that new edge from the companion (the one
where you reroll the six's) theorectically but improbably could be infinate
(unless you use my "loaded dice")

Back to Car Wars:
Who do people handle acceleration of cars??? I was playtesting a raw
version of the conversion of the rules last night (with my brother!!!) and
basically when you start accelerating does the car start when the persons
turn comes round or at the begining of the turn? I spent a long time
working out how long each car had been accelerating, doing stuff like
working out the maximun intitive that the players could get and then
working out if the car was accelerating for that fraction of the turn how
far it would get, how fast it would be going etc. (physic and newtonian
maths helped :) )

Any way I am TOTALLY lost on this one help?

Tiny skull this is your prompt to mickey take. :)




And that was another thought from the black depths of my mind.
****Tim-Ntoo****
Tim.Ntoo@**********.com
Message no. 5
From: "Paul J. Adam" <shadowrn@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject: Re: Car Wars
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 14:29:29 +0000
In message <199702152050.UAA14090@********.btinternet.com>, Tim Coxon
<Tim.Ntoo@**********.COM> writes
>Hmmm. Has anyone done a conversion of the Car Wars rules for shadowrun, I
>know that gurth did one for Uncle alberts catalouge a while back but I kind
>think it would be cool if there was a set of rules that incorporate both sr
>and cws.

I use Car Wars to design smaller SR vehicles (and Fire, Fusion and Steel
for larger ones). Works pretty well overall.


--
There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable and
praiseworthy...

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk
Message no. 6
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Car Wars
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 11:20:44 +0100
Tim Coxon said on 20:04/15 Feb 97...

> last thing What is the maximum theoreticle initive possible (not
> munckinising just trying to put together a good moving rule)

Let's see, if we take the Speed Samurai and replace his wired refs by
move-by-wire 4, a synaptic accelerator 1, and a reaction enhancer 6, he
gets an initiative of 26+6D6. The cost would be horrific in both nuyen and
Essence, but it can be done.

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Message no. 7
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Car Wars)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 03:50:14 EST
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 03:24:50 +0000 Droopy <droopy@*******.NB.NET> writes:
>> From: Bull <chaos@*****.COM>
>> Subject: Re: Max Initiative (was Re: Car Wars)
>> >rigging/decking and don't have any other initiative enhancements)
What
>> >are "loaded dice"?
>> >
>> Weighted dice that will roll certain numbers almost every time...
Usually
>> these are D6's designed to roll 6's...:)

My friend's loaded dice (he bought a set of real ones to match, but now
we won't let him use ANY red dice...) had a tendancy to come up 1's
almost as often as they came up 6's. The weight was on the 1's side (the
6 is directly opposite), so most of the time the weight pulled that side
down and left a 6 [ just in case some of you don't know how loaded dice
work :) ]. But as it goes, the dice also have a tendancy to settle with
the weight on TOP too. I think it broke down into something like 6(60%),
1(30%), 2-5(10%).

>
>Not that you'd know from personal experience, right? <BG>
>--Droopy

~Tim
Message no. 8
From: Tim P Cooper <z-i-m@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Car Wars)
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 14:01:12 EST
On Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:33:06 +1100 Calvin Hsieh writes:
>
>Cool. So what is CoC?


"Call of Cthulhu"
A game based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft (circa 1920, held to be
one of the forerunners of modern horror fiction - the writer, that is,
not the game).

~Tim

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