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Message no. 1
From: NightLife habenir@*****.uc.edu
Subject: SR3 Companion Spotted in OZ, but here in Cincy
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1999 23:17:14 -0500
At 07:34 PM 3/31/99 -0600, you wrote:
>>>well, when I went into my "local store" the other day and asked when
it
>>>was going to be available, tehy proceeded to look through a little book
>>>for ordering. ((From what I gather) since the companion is the same number
>>>as the old one, I think it is listed as an old product. Hence, no due
>date,
>>>no information. Depending on the information-level of your hobby store,
>>>they could just be out of the loop.
>>
>>To my knowledge it has a different stock number to the
>>old companion, after all it has entirely different cover art.
>>(and damn fine it is, even if it is a rehash.)
>
>Nope. Looking at them both; both of them are stock number 7905. Is the
>cover a rehash? I'm not familiar with it myself, though I like it a lot.
>

Yep it's got the female physical adept with a magic bow of all things. The
ghouls are a good addition but instead of fixing the variants where needed
they just charged 5 bp's more.
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Message no. 2
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: SR3 Companion Spotted in OZ, but here in Cincy
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 12:27:07 +0200
According to NightLife, at 23:17 on 31 Mar 99, the word on
the street was...

> >Nope. Looking at them both; both of them are stock number 7905. Is the
> >cover a rehash? I'm not familiar with it myself, though I like it a lot.
>
> Yep it's got the female physical adept with a magic bow of all things. The
> ghouls are a good addition but instead of fixing the variants where needed
> they just charged 5 bp's more.

The art for Running Short, you mean? So that finally got used for
something else than High Tech & Low Life after all...

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Message no. 3
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: SR3 Companion Spotted in OZ, but here in Cincy
Date: Thu, 1 Apr 1999 17:34:55 EST
In a message dated 4/1/1999 5:28:09 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
gurth@******.nl writes:

> > Yep it's got the female physical adept with a magic bow of all things. The
> > ghouls are a good addition but instead of fixing the variants where
needed
> > they just charged 5 bp's more.
>
> The art for Running Short, you mean? So that finally got used for
> something else than High Tech & Low Life after all...

I just wanted to point something out. We bugged Mike M. about the "Magical
Arrow" thing on the cover of the SR3Companion. His return was "it's not a
magical arrow, it's the manifesting of the Adept's Enhanced Aim ability". We
still razzed him of course... ;-P

-K (what's enhanced aim??? Improved Ability- sure...but Enhanced Aim??? Did
I miss one?)
Message no. 4
From: Lehlan Decker DeckerL@******.com
Subject: SR3 Companion Spotted in OZ, but here in Cincy
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 08:39:26 -0500
>-K (what's enhanced aim??? Improved Ability- sure...but
>Enhanced Aim??? Did
>I miss one?)

Could be the metamagical power centering, used to decrease
the target number for the projectile skill. :)
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Message no. 5
From: Mongoose m0ng005e@*********.com
Subject: SR3 Companion Spotted in OZ, but here in Cincy
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 14:11:20 -0600
:I just wanted to point something out. We bugged Mike M. about the
"Magical
:Arrow" thing on the cover of the SR3Companion. His return was "it's not
a
:magical arrow, it's the manifesting of the Adept's Enhanced Aim ability".
We
:still razzed him of course... ;-P
:
:-K (what's enhanced aim??? Improved Ability- sure...but Enhanced Aim???
Did
:I miss one?)




Might that bow also be a combat spell focus? I mean, is the some
reason that person MUST be "just" an adept, and that arrow can't be a
manabolt, or similar offensive spell? That's the first thing I thought
when I realized it "couldn't" be an adept power being used.

Mongoose
Message no. 6
From: Ereskanti@***.com Ereskanti@***.com
Subject: SR3 Companion Spotted in OZ, but here in Cincy
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:01:45 EDT
In a message dated 4/3/1999 12:37:02 AM US Eastern Standard Time,
m0ng005e@*********.com writes:

> :I just wanted to point something out. We bugged Mike M. about the
> "Magical
> :Arrow" thing on the cover of the SR3Companion. His return was "it's not
> a
> :magical arrow, it's the manifesting of the Adept's Enhanced Aim ability".
> We
> :still razzed him of course... ;-P
> :
> :-K (what's enhanced aim??? Improved Ability- sure...but Enhanced Aim???
> Did
> :I miss one?)
> Might that bow also be a combat spell focus? I mean, is the some
> reason that person MUST be "just" an adept, and that arrow can't be a
> manabolt, or similar offensive spell? That's the first thing I thought
> when I realized it "couldn't" be an adept power being used.

I thought of that too, especially in consideration that if you look really
carefully at the actual Arrow, it doesn't seem to be *quite* solid, like it
could be a materialization/manifestation of some magical effect more than an
actual power.

Question on this topic (sort of)...if you had a Combat Spell Foci that was a
"bow" (as in the idea of the cover of the SR3Comp), would you get
"Archery"
as a "Complimentary Skill" towards the targetting of the spell itself in it's
success test.

The reason I ask, is that Steve K. said it *might* be *feasible* to use a
"Build/Repair Skill" as complimentary towards say a "Fix" spell, if
the skill
seemed appropriate. Of course, all deeming as appropriate for the game group
itself.

-K (and folks, don't EVEN think that Steve K. was agreeing 100%, he just said
he could see a feasibility in that instance)

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