Message no. 1

From:	"J. Earl Williams" <IH46@****.BITNET>
Subject:	Some questions... (otherwise Tom gets it:)
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 92 12:04:25 MST

Mr. Dowd, I know that you have probably gotten a few (hundred/thousand)
letters about Shadowrun II, so I'll be brief. Thanks in advance for the
answers. I appreciate you taking time out to answer ANOTHER SRII
question.

1) On the knockback, page 91, SR2 says that the threshold is 1/2 of the
amount of damage done. On the example, though, it says that a person
who "has taken a Moderate wound must generate more than 2 successes".
Is the "(1 for light, 2 for moderate, and 3 for serious)" the number of
successes needed, or do you half those numbers and round? I want to
make sure I'm not reading this wrong. (oops!)

2) What rules, if any, exist for Deadly +1, etc? Same as first ed,
(whatever that is interpreted as), or different? How do you stage up &
down, and do you peel armor, and do you peel it permanently, or
temporarily, and am I putting you on the floor because you've been
harassed so much over this part?

3)(unrelated). Have you guys thought about a type of adept partially
immune to magic? I worked up some stats, but I was wondering if y'all
had come up with something similar to the Null in Jack Chalker's
_Quintara Marathon_.

Finally, what all is planned for SR? I remember talking to you on the
phone about the German Sourcebook, the LA Sourcebook, The Neo-anarchists
guide to real life (?). What is happening with these, and what else is
happening? (ps. You told me that you would only do a Neo-Anarchist's
guide to North America 2, if you got stuff on cities like New Orleans...
white wolf is (has?) published a 5 parter on New Orleans. Just so you
know.)