| From: | Jeremy Roberson <ROBERSON@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Colonel Huth, Arms Purveyor and GM-at-Large |
| Date: | Mon, 12 Apr 1993 19:34:52 -0700 |
Your subjects are worthy of discussion; I assume people have just been
busy and/or out of town and are only now able to turn their attention fully to
both your rules mods. Here are my comments:
Damaged armor: I agree, armor gets beat up pretty easily. I'm told
that cops regularly throw away armor that has been hit even once. I
could be wrong. At any rate, there are a variety of ways to handle it:
All three of yours seems feasible though I would make it slightly easier
than the Deadly+ staging rule you mentioned. Perhaps having the armor
make an object resistance test and lose a point each time it fails
would work, or automaticall lose a point for each successful attack
staged to Serious or Deadly, after Combat Pool dice but before Body Dice
(Let's leave it at that and not drag up that subject).
Varying recoil: Good idea. I didn't run your ideas but the concept is
valid. Perhaps blanket mods of +1 recoil for STR 3 or less and -1 for
strength 7+ would work.
Don't worry about your ego or people commenting on your stuff; the things you're
talking about can be handled in so many ways that people either don't care or
have already worked out how they handle it.
Equipment:
About time you posted that gun. You may have to explain the placement
of the magazines to some people.
Willie Pete: At first I thought that 12M was rather weak, until I
realized that the average person will be down within just over 4 rounds.
The only example I can think of is from Twilight:2000 2nd edition: the
average PC has 30 hit points in the chest and is't critically injured
until -30 points. WP does 2d6 per second; a combat round is 5 seconds
in just over 2 rounds he is toast. Since a Shadowrun round is 3 seconds,
these two games seem to agree.
Please: I hope nobody out there can "reality check" this with live
results, if you can, please don't.
Monobullets: Weird. Won't the monofilament damage the gun on the way
out? Or are the two rounds encased in the same bullet prior to being
fired? They sound pretty wacky.
Well, those are my comments for now. You've reminded me of some other bullets,
but I'm going to put them in another post that people might actually read.
J Roberson
