Message no. 1

From:	Fade <runefo@***.UIO.NO>
Subject:	Re: Narcojet was Re: Troll Sam: 14str 14bod. How to hurt this g
Date:	Sat, 31 Oct 1998 06:37:58 +0000

Steve Collins wrote:

> >**Delivers one dose of the Narcojet toxin (Shadowrun rules, page 147).
> >Resolve using standard Ranged Combat procedure; however, roll only Combat
> >Pool dice against the target number (reduced by Impact Armor). If the
>
> Important point here what target number? It never says anywhere.
Correct. In third edition, use normal dodge. In 2nd edition it didn't
say so your guess is as good as mine. (In fact, the same as mine.).

>Usually it would be the power of the weapon but none is ever listed
> for the Narcojet only a strength for the toxin. I usually gave it a power of
> 6 as all of the other light pistols but this is never stated anywhere. Of
> course in 3rd edition it could be handled by a simple dodge test except
> this would assume that every needle that hit the target penetrated the
> armor enough to inject the toxin and I'm not sure if I'm comfortable with
> this as it would let you take down big paranormals with lots of armor
> real easy this way.

True. If you want a house rule on the subject, Gurth's suggestion was
good. To hit you need more successes than the opponent has impact
armor plus any dodge successes. This would be with a narcoject or
squirt gun. With weapons like thrown knives etcetera, it could be
handled lke a normal attack, and if you stage the damage to nil and
then one more step, you're safe, else you got a nasty little scratch
and ZZZZzzzzzzz........ or you could rule you couldn't use narcoject
on such devices, only in a dart/squirt gun.

Regards,
--
Fade

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