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From: Sven De Herdt Sven.DeHerdt@***********.be
Subject: Rigger anecdote - Armor?
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 18:26:29 +0100
You wrote:

>I'm really bored at the moment so I thought that I'd
>share a few little anecdotes with you all from my
>experiences of playing a Shadowrun campaign
>that ran from early 1994 to mid 1997.
>Some of them are good, some bad and some ugly.

>2) When Rigger 2 was released I choose to play
>a rigger character and thankfully due to the events
>in 1) I was able to. I spent a week designing the
>most incredible custom van that ended up costing
>900,000Y only to have the GM blow it up in nine
>seconds of game time by one goon with an AK-97.
>The name of the adventure "A Killing Glare" summed
>up my feelings towards the GM. Needless to say
>I've never played a rigger since.

Didn't have much armor, your vehicle?
If I understood the rules correctly, any vehicle with
some respectable amount of armor cannot even be
hurt with a AK-97.
Am I missing something or did you just forgot the armor?

Sven ;-)

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