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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Stephen Manning)
Subject: I have a 2 Questions
Date: Wed Mar 14 08:00:01 2001
This is my first post so I hope you all like it. :)
1. Are the Synaptic Accelerator and the Boosted reflexes compatible? I saw
nothing in the rules that says they were not. Is this just an oversight or
what?
2. Which activates first the Trauma Damper or the Platelet Factories? If you
have both it does matter which one activates first. Rules wise if the Damper
activates first then the Platelets would only activate on a Serious wound or
higher, as a moderate wound becomes a light wound cause of the Damper. If
the platelet factories kick in first then you can take a moderate and take a
light stun and light physical. See what I mean it is important.

Paradox
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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Sven De Herdt)
Subject: I have a 2 Questions
Date: Wed Mar 14 08:35:01 2001
Stephen Manning wrote:
>
> This is my first post so I hope you all like it. :)
> 1. Are the Synaptic Accelerator and the Boosted reflexes
> compatible?

I would say they are, but I'm not a 100% sure because I don't have the books
at hand.

> 2. Which activates first the Trauma Damper or the Platelet
> Factories?

This is a hard one and my explanation might become a bit confusing, but I'll
give it a try.

I would say the Trauma Damper kicks in first, because it's something that
intervenes at nerveous level (IIRC), and afterwards the Platelet Factory,
because the last are injected in the blood stream and would need a bit more
time to react.

However for the game terms I would rule in favor of the players and apply
both benefits as if both reacted at the same moment.
The reasoning behind this last is that the Trauma Damper actually makes the
brain think the wound is less severe, but actually the wound is still the
same (no healing occured yet). And thus the Platelet Factory starts to
close the wound because they are not built to reason, but merely react
whenever a certain physical condition is met. The wound actually (not on
the PC's character sheet) still looking like M, S or D wound, the Platelet
Factory just starts producing the necessary stuff to close the wound.

Just my thoughts,

-sven ;)
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Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Sebastian Wiers)
Subject: I have a 2 Questions
Date: Thu Mar 15 00:05:01 2001
>1. Are the Synaptic Accelerator and the Boosted reflexes compatible? I saw
>nothing in the rules that says they were not. Is this just an oversight or
>what?

Per M&M rules, they are compatable. Its not an oversight. However, like
anything else,
you can dis-allow it in your own games if you wish.

>2. Which activates first the Trauma Damper or the Platelet Factories? If
you
>have both it does matter which one activates first. Rules wise if the
Damper
>activates first then the Platelets would only activate on a Serious wound
or
>higher, as a moderate wound becomes a light wound cause of the Damper. If
>the platelet factories kick in first then you can take a moderate and take
a
>light stun and light physical. See what I mean it is important.

The platelet factory works when you take a moderate physical or greater
wound. If a trauma damper reduces that to a light stun and two boxes of
physical, well, you still TOOK the moderate wound, it just didn't hurt you
as much.
The effect would be as you have above for the platelet factory taking effect
"first".

-Mongoose
Message no. 4
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject: I have a 2 Questions
Date: Thu Mar 15 05:20:33 2001
According to Stephen Manning, on Wed, 14 Mar 2001 the word on the street
was...

> This is my first post so I hope you all like it. :)

Welcome :)

> 1. Are the Synaptic Accelerator and the Boosted reflexes compatible? I saw
> nothing in the rules that says they were not. Is this just an oversight or
> what?

I found it very strange that this was left out of M&M, when it specifically
does mention move by wire and wired reflexes. What I use is that only the
highest number of dice applies, unless the rules specifically say two
bonuses stack.

> 2. Which activates first the Trauma Damper or the Platelet Factories? If you
> have both it does matter which one activates first. Rules wise if the Damper
> activates first then the Platelets would only activate on a Serious wound or
> higher, as a moderate wound becomes a light wound cause of the Damper. If
> the platelet factories kick in first then you can take a moderate and take a
> light stun and light physical. See what I mean it is important.

I'd say they activate together. The platelets work on the Serious wound to
turn it into 5 boxes physical, while the trauma damper works on the
Serious wound to turn it into 5 boxes physical and one Stun. You'd end up
with 5 boxes physical damage and one Stun, IMHO. Yes, that does mean this
isn't a very handy combination because you're worse off than with just the
platelet factories :)

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