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Message no. 1
From: elventear@***********.net.pe (Pepe Barbe)
Subject: Grapple Gun Mechanics
Date: Wed, 05 Mar 2003 23:54:52 -0500
Hiyas,

IIRC there are no specific mechanics in the SR3 rules for shooting a
Grapple Gun and grabbing to something? Am I correct? If not, please could
you point out where are they?

If I am ... What do you use to check this? Or do you automatically asume a
success?

Thank you,
Pepe
Message no. 2
From: gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject: Grapple Gun Mechanics
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:51:33 +0100
According to Pepe Barbe, on Thursday 06 March 2003 05:54 the word on the
street was...

> IIRC there are no specific mechanics in the SR3 rules for shooting a
> Grapple Gun and grabbing to something? Am I correct? If not, please
> could you point out where are they?
>
> If I am ... What do you use to check this? Or do you automatically asume
> a success?

It looks like the rules assume that if you hit the target, it gets grappled
automatically. If you don't want it to be that easy, you could always
apply a TN modifier to reflect the chance of the grapple hooking onto the
target -- call it +1 for a tree with lots of branches, to +8 for a
telephone pole.

Alternatively, you could roll 1D6 independent of the test to hit with the
grapple gun. If it rolls equal to or under some number that sounds good at
the time (say, 5 for a tree with lots of branches down to 1 for a
telephone pole) the grapple hooks, else it comes falling back down again.

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