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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Jason Lantrip)
Subject: spetsdods
Date: Tue Apr 30 14:10:01 2002
>>and I was wondering how you would convert one to SR?

My group (most of us are big fans of the Matador series) rebuilt them when
the Cannon Companion came out, turning it into a cross between a "bracer"
style hold-out weapon and a narcoject pistol. (Along with selectable
clips.)

I'll have to dig around the garage and see if I can find them (a
soon-to-be-born baby has deprived me of a gaming room inside the
house...can't think of a better reason to lose my gaming room, either!).

Of course, I'm sure there are more than a few other people on the list with
rules ready to hand who'll get to it before I will... :)
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: spetsdods
Date: Wed May 1 00:30:01 2002
The biggest problem with spetsdods is that -- by the fiction -- it's fired
simply by sharply pointing your finger. In SR, no weapon in existence has a
rate-of-fire of 'one per initiative tick', which is effectively what it would
be -- a free action.

Other than that small problem, I know of at least three different versions,
all of which basically had them using (IIRC) light pistol ranges. 1L (Stun)
for the 'stinger' round, theoretically something heavier if you actually
wanted to do damage, though definitely a flechette weapon. Chem rounds, well
-- shocktox comes in 3 different strengths, usually something like 6M, 6S,
and 6D. All the other 'replicating viral' stuff that they use, such as the
FTS virus and Spasm, may or may not fit into SR.



The Wyrm Ouroboros
'Half Russian mathemetician,
half Silicon Valley code freak.'

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