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Message no. 1
From: bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject: Re: Prime Runners (was Karma Pool, Rerolling Failures.)
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 13:05:34 -0500 (EST)
>> The most detailed FASA version is in 'prime runners' which is where
>> they introduce normal and magical threat ratings, which they have
>> used occasionally in adventures since.
>which type of supplement is 'prime runners' ?
>is it an adventure, source book, ... ?
>i can't find it anywhere!

Prime Runners is a sourcebook.
It details some of the toughest, nastiest, strangest NPC's your players may
have the fortune/misfortune of running into.
It also does a nice job of detailing Threat Ratings.



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Message no. 2
From: "Ferri Pagano" <Ferri_Pagano_at_STRM__Amsterdam1@******.com>
Subject: Re[2]: Prime Runners (was Karma Pool, Rerolling Failures.)
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 96 10:13:28 EST
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>> The most detailed FASA version is in 'prime runners' which is where
>> they introduce normal and magical threat ratings, which they have
>> used occasionally in adventures since.
>which type of supplement is 'prime runners' ?
>is it an adventure, source book, ... ?
>i can't find it anywhere!

Prime Runners is a sourcebook.
It details some of the toughest, nastiest, strangest NPC's your players may
have the fortune/misfortune of running into.
It also does a nice job of detailing Threat Ratings.



Card Carrying Member

The
**HOLLYWOOD**
"Never Empty Six-Gun"
School of Game Mastering

"Put on a good show and fate will smile upon you. Be boring, and you're dead!"
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sheesh, did fasa pay you to say this?
Prime runner has to be the worst of all sr books, full of fasa-created npc's
which are really REALLY crap.
weird they may be, but tough???????????????????????????????????? nasty??????
Just a bunch of bozo's and pushovers with an attitude.
and yes you can change them so they are tougher, but it's so much work that you
wonder why you bought the book in the first place....

enough ranting.
Ferri
Message no. 3
From: Loki <loki@*******.com>
Subject: Re: Prime Runners (was Karma Pool, Rerolling Failures.)
Date: Sat, 31 Aug 1996 11:27:08 -0700
Ferri Pagano wrote:
<snip>
> Prime runner has to be the worst of all sr books, full of fasa-created npc's
> which are really REALLY crap.
> weird they may be, but tough???????????????????????????????????? nasty??????
> Just a bunch of bozo's and pushovers with an attitude.
> and yes you can change them so they are tougher, but it's so much work that you
> wonder why you bought the book in the first place....
>
> enough ranting.
> Ferri
>
>

I usually find it isn't the pre-done stats that make the NPC tough or
wimpy but rather the GM that's handling him. I've got Prime Runners in
my library and have used one or two NPC's from it on occasion. I treat
it as I would any of the sourcebooks...as a source for my own ideas.
Whether I take an NPC from it verbatim, or with a little tweaking here
or there, or after a complete over-haul...the book is there as fuel for
my creativity not as a bible to be used in black white.


@>-,--'--- Loki

CLARKE'S THIRD LAW:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


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