| From: | "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU> |
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| Subject: | RE: Rev's comments on my comments. |
| Date: | Sun, 4 Apr 93 23:26:31 CET |
>>The problem is what happens after rolling down the damage.
>>Say I hit the person with 8 successes with my Predator2. They roll 2
successes,
>>thereby giving me a net of 6 successes. That equivalates to a 9(d+1). Which,
>>in SR2, drops to a deadly. Let's say the guy has a 6 body, with an armored
>>longcoat. He now has to roll (9-4)=5s. Odds are he'll roll 2. That puts him
>>down to a serious. It doesn't matter if I had gotten a D++++, or a D. Under
>>vanilla SR2, he would have taken a S. With the variant rule, he would've had
>>to roll down a 9(d+1)D, needing a 6 (11-5). Odds are he only rolls one, and
>>down he falls. There IS a difference, a crucial one, when you are doing above
>>deadly damamge.
Wrong Rev,
I believe your saying the target rolled 2 successes with his combat pool and
two successes with body. Since the 2 combat pool successes where not enough to
make the attack miss him, roll his body dice and add that to the combat pool
successes. Since he got 2 successes that's 4 successes for Mr. target.
Now your rolled 8 successes and the target rolled 4 successes. That gives you
4 Net Success. That stages the damage up two levels from M to D. Your target
takes 10 boxes of damage and promptly drops to the ground.
Now I don't mean this as an insult, but go back and carefully reread the SRII
section on combat. What I'm saying is right in there.
See ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker
