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Message no. 1
From: Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject: MITS question
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 11:48:03 -0400 (EDT)
So, say I have an adept initiate, who is trying to be
stealthy... How does Centering for an open test work? Is the only
thing I can do center against TN penalties?

Mark
Message no. 2
From: Schizi@***.com Schizi@***.com
Subject: MITS question
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 12:04:30 EDT
In a message dated 7/22/99 11:49:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time, SHODAN+@***.EDU
writes:

> Is the only
> thing I can do center against TN penalties?
>
yes, centering only reduces the T# penalties.
Message no. 3
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: MITS question
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 19:10:55 +0200
According to Mark A Shieh, at 11:48 on 22 Jul 99, the word on
the street was...

> So, say I have an adept initiate, who is trying to be
> stealthy... How does Centering for an open test work? Is the only
> thing I can do center against TN penalties?

If you have penalties on the Stealth test, you can center against them.
For example, if the GM assigns you a -4 result for trying to be stealthy
on dry leaves, you could make a Centering test and reduce the penalty as
normal. Say you get 4 successes, then you'd only have a -2 modifier to the
result of your open test.

Centering for success is more difficult, but I'd probably (this has never
come up in any game I've GMed) allow an extra die to be rolled for every
two successes on the Centering test. So, if you have Stealth 5 and get 4
successes on Centering, you actually roll 7 dice.

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Message no. 4
From: Mark A Shieh SHODAN+@***.EDU
Subject: MITS question
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 13:33:24 -0400 (EDT)
Schizi@***.com writes:
> In a message dated 7/22/99 11:49:42 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> SHODAN+@***.EDU writes:
>
> > Is the only thing I can do center against TN penalties?
> >
> yes, centering only reduces the T# penalties.

So, what would the TN be for a centering vs. penalty test?
[Forgive me if it's in there, my MITS is at home. However, I thought
the TN of the centering test was the TN of the original test, with
every 2 successes dropping the TN by 1 for the actual test... The
original test has no TN...]

Mark
Message no. 5
From: Schizi@***.com Schizi@***.com
Subject: MITS question
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 14:02:21 EDT
In a message dated 7/22/99 1:35:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, SHODAN+@***.EDU
writes:

> So, what would the TN be for a centering vs. penalty test?
> [Forgive me if it's in there, my MITS is at home. However, I thought
> the TN of the centering test was the TN of the original test, with
> every 2 successes dropping the TN by 1 for the actual test... The
> original test has no TN...]
>

I would say base 4 plus the penalties myself. 4 seems to be the base for
everything :-)
Message no. 6
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: MITS question
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 13:03:44 +0200
According to Mark A Shieh, at 13:33 on 22 Jul 99, the word on
the street was...

> > > Is the only thing I can do center against TN penalties?
> > >
> > yes, centering only reduces the T# penalties.
>
> So, what would the TN be for a centering vs. penalty test?
> [Forgive me if it's in there, my MITS is at home. However, I thought
> the TN of the centering test was the TN of the original test, with
> every 2 successes dropping the TN by 1 for the actual test... The
> original test has no TN...]

The modifiers to an open test are the opposite of the normal TN modifiers -
- with that I mean that if a TN hase a positive modifier (+2, +4, etc.),
in an open test it would be negative (-2, -4, etc.). So, that at least
sets the TN modifier for the Centering test. As for the base TN, I'd say a
4 -- most things can be done with a TN of 4, so it seems good enough for
this as well. Therefore, if the GM applies a -2 modifier to your Stealth
test result, you would have to center against a TN of 6.

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Cooking with the devil, frying down in hell.
-> NAGEE Editor * ShadowRN GridSec * Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
->The Plastic Warriors Page: http://shadowrun.html.com/plasticwarriors/<-
-> The New Character Mortuary: http://www.electricferret.com/mortuary/ <-

GC3.1: GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+(++)@ U P L E? W(++) N o? K- w+ O V? PS+
PE Y PGP- t(+) 5++ X++ R+++>$ tv+(++) b++@ DI? D+ G(++) e h! !r(---) y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998

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