| From: | "Like, dude, where's the firefight?" <MURRAYMD@******.BITNET> |
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| Subject: | Spetsdods, Spetznatz, and reading requirements |
| Date: | Mon, 7 Dec 92 00:27:03 CET |
>> Rev... waiting for the unarmed combat skill of "The 97 Steps"... ;)
>First, I whole-heartedly agree that everyone should read the books (all
>7 of them)...
Well, you know guys, I would love to read the books if I ONLY KNEW
WHAT THE HELL YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT!!! Granted, my school's internet node
was down for about a day and I imagine I've missed some messages, but when
this thread first started there was no mention of the name of the books
then either. So my questions to you are: What *are* the names of the
books? What is the title of the series? Who wrote them? What is the time
in which the stories took place? What are the stories about? Can a quick
overview be given? This is worse than when that thread about the Lensmen
started on GMAST-L. I still don't even know what a Lensman is either!
>Second: Actually Rev, I was thinking about it at the same time I was
>working up the Spetsdods... To be faithful to the books, it would have
>to be pretty wild though... Here's my thoughts on it... Require a certain
>minimum Reaction (unmodified by cyber/bioware) around 5, and a certain
>level in some form of unarmed combat (like maybe 6 or 8). Treat Sumito
>(the 97 Steps) as a Special Skill (bought at level+2 costs) that ADDS to
>the unarmed skill. Treat it as a concentration, then you could specialize
>in certain "steps" (most of which are described at least in passing in
>the series)... Yes, this gives Sumito a big advantage, but in the books
>nothing else compared to a master of Sumito...
What is a Spetsdods? I know what a Spetznatz is, but not a
Spetsdod. No discription was given when somebody posted stats about them a
couple odd days back. They looked kinda like finger mounted weapons, but I
couldn't tell for sure.
>Next idea, the Shrouds (don't remember the material they were made out of)...
>I'd give them an armor rating around 4 ballistic and 3 impact. Only
>available to practitioners of Sumito (only to the Shroud (organization) in
>the books). Could be used with the new armor layering rules in NAGRL
>since they were gained one layer at a time to denote how far you had
>progressed in the training...
>Next, Fugue (treat as a new language skill)... The ability to defeat lie
>detection methods (verbal and mechanical/electronic). It's basically
>the skill of avoiding the truth without lieing by shading things or
>omitting key things. The only (non-magical) way to defeat this is in an
>Opposed Success Test by the questioner using his/her fugue skill...
>Politicians seem to already have this skill ;)
>Comments, ideas, etc welcome...
>Rev (or anyone else), did I miss anything else major in the series that
>could be ported to Shadowrun?
>Well, l8r...
I'll talk to you later also. :)
> Twilight
>The Crystal Wind is the Storm, and the Storm is Data, and the Data is Life.
> -- The Player's Litany
Does it ever get cold in the Matrix with all of those Data Storms?
If the Data is Life, does that ever mean it rains cats and dogs in the
Matrix? :)
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