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Message no. 1
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Kamikaze/Drugs (was: Max Initiative)
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:52:11 +0000
On 17 Feb 97 at 21:02, L Canthros wrote:
[snip]
> The only bad news
> is that he won't be moving that fast for very long...very many doses of
> Kamikaze will burn out his cyber real quick.
Anyone has a decent house rule for using drugs? The way Shadowtech
describes the reduction of damagae boxes looks much too limiting to me,
especially if one wants to play an addicted character.

I think I _had_ a rule once, but as my data Harddrive went to bit
heaven (mayitrestinpeace") I have no longer :-(
Sascha
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Message no. 2
From: Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Kamikaze/Drugs (was: Max Initiative)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 09:05:45 +1100
> Anyone has a decent house rule for using drugs? The way Shadowtech
> describes the reduction of damagae boxes looks much too limiting to me,
> especially if one wants to play an addicted character.

One of Gurth's Plastic Warriors books has rules; possiblty in Paranoid
Animals, but I'm not sure. Anyway, they're very good; we use them, and
we don't tend to go in for house rules much.

Lady Jestyr

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Message no. 3
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Kamikaze/Drugs (was: Max Initiative)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 11:55:09 +0100
Sascha Pabst said on 13:52/18 Feb 97...

> Anyone has a decent house rule for using drugs? The way Shadowtech
> describes the reduction of damagae boxes looks much too limiting to me,
> especially if one wants to play an addicted character.
>
> I think I _had_ a rule once, but as my data Harddrive went to bit
> heaven (mayitrestinpeace") I have no longer :-(

The house rule I've used for drug addiction is by modifying Shadowtech's
rule a bit: instead of losing .5 Essence and a Damage Box from each track
a week, roll a Body or Willpower test (as appropriate for the drug)
against your current Addiction rating. The Essence loss is .5 / (successes
+ 1), and you lose a Damage Box if you get no successes at all.

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Message no. 4
From: L Canthros <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Kamikaze/Drugs (was: Max Initiative)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 15:54:30 EST
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:52:11 +0000 Sascha Pabst
<Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE> writes:
>On 17 Feb 97 at 21:02, L Canthros wrote:
>[snip]
>> The only bad news
>> is that he won't be moving that fast for very long...very many doses
>of
>> Kamikaze will burn out his cyber real quick.
>Anyone has a decent house rule for using drugs? The way Shadowtech
>describes the reduction of damagae boxes looks much too limiting to
>me,
>especially if one wants to play an addicted character.
>
>I think I _had_ a rule once, but as my data Harddrive went to bit
>heaven (mayitrestinpeace") I have no longer :-(
> Sascha
I think there's a set in one of Gurth's books (Project 3? I think?). I
haven't looked over it or FASA's sets real closely yet, 'cause I haven't
had time to do anything with any of it:)

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Message no. 5
From: "Arno R. Lehmann" <arlehma@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Kamikaze/Drugs (was: Max Initiative)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 05:04:34 +0100
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997 13:52:11 +0000, Sascha Pabst wrote:

>Anyone has a decent house rule for using drugs? The way Shadowtech

POST IT! POST IT! please ...

>describes the reduction of damagae boxes looks much too limiting to me,

Yup, RL drug addicts make it a lot longer than Shadowtech describes
the results.

>especially if one wants to play an addicted character.

Do you mind read, or what?

>I think I _had_ a rule once, but as my data Harddrive went to bit
>heaven (mayitrestinpeace") I have no longer :-(

It rests with mine, I think. But tht's really sorry for that rule.

> Sascha

BTW, I'm still thinking on a rule, but it worked out more diffcult
and complex than I first thought it would. I'm not yet satisfied.

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Arno
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