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From:	scotthiller2002@*****.com (Scott Hiller)
Subject:	Threat Rating/Professional Rating Question
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2003 00:19:20 -0800 (PST)

Message no. 1 Some other elementary questions: How do you apply a
Threat Rating/Professional Rating in game play? What
are they used for? Can you please give me some
examples?

Thanks.

-Scott

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From:	Gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject:	Threat Rating/Professional Rating Question
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2003 11:00:43 +0100

Message no. 2 According to Scott Hiller, on Mon, 17 Feb 2003 the word on the street was...

> Some other elementary questions: How do you apply a
> Threat Rating/Professional Rating in game play? What
> are they used for? Can you please give me some
> examples?

The Professional Rating tells you when an NPC will withdraw from a fight:
with PR 1, they pull out at a Light wound, with PR 2 at a Moderate, PR 3 at
Serious, and with PR 4 they keep fighting until they're dead. You can do
more with the Professional Rating, BTW, because most people don't keep
fighting until they themselves are wounded/dead if they see their
colleagues get mown down by the opposition; so you could, for example, say
that NPCs will stop fighting when they've taken enough wounds (see above)
or if they see a number of allies get killed/KOed/run away equal to their
PR.

The Threat Rating is an SRII-era thing, and was replaced by a Karma Pool in
SR3; this is used just like the Karma Pool of PCs. (The Threat Rating was a
way to avoid having to keep track of dice pools for NPCs: instead of giving
NPCs a pool of dice that refresh every turn, they got the TR in extra dice
on _every_ test. A TR of more than 1 or 2 made NPCs virtually unbeatable as
a result.)

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From:	scotthiller2002@*****.com (Scott Hiller)
Subject:	Threat Rating/Professional Rating Question
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:06:32 -0800 (PST)

Message no. 3 According to Scott Hiller, on Mon, 17 Feb 2003 the
word on the street was
> Some other elementary questions: How do you apply
a Threat Rating/Professional Rating in game play?
What are they used for? Can you please give me some
examples?

According to Gurth, on Mon, 17 Feb 2003 the word on
the street was

> The Professional Rating tells you when an NPC will
withdraw from a fight: with PR 1, they pull out at a
Light wound, with PR 2 at a Moderate, PR 3 at Serious,
and with PR 4 they keep fighting until they're dead.
You can do more with the Professional Rating, BTW,
because most people don't keep fighting until they
themselves are wounded/dead if they see their
colleagues get mown down by the opposition; so you
could, for example, say that NPCs will stop fighting
when they've taken enough wounds (see above) or if
they see a number of allies get killed/KOed/run away
equal to their PR.

> The Threat Rating is an SRII-era thing, and was
replaced by a Karma Pool in SR3; this is used just
like the Karma Pool of PCs. (The Threat Rating was a
way to avoid having to keep track of dice pools for
NPCs: instead of giving NPCs a pool of dice that
refresh every turn, they got the TR in extra dice on
_every_ test. A TR of more than 1 or 2 made NPCs
virtually unbeatable as a result.)

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http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html

Scott Replied:
Thanks for clearing it up for me! :-)

So, for NPCs, we use the Karma Pool in place of the
old Threat Rating? Where can I look to find out who
these NPC Karma Pool dice are applied and how many can
be applied for an applicable Test?

Thanks again!

-Scott

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From:	davidb@****.imcprint.com (Graht)
Subject:	Threat Rating/Professional Rating Question
Date:	Mon, 17 Feb 2003 16:11:53 -0700

Message no. 4 At 03:06 PM 2/17/2003 -0800, Scott Hiller wrote:

>So, for NPCs, we use the Karma Pool in place of the
>old Threat Rating? Where can I look to find out who
>these NPC Karma Pool dice are applied and how many can
>be applied for an applicable Test?

The NPC Karma Pools use the same rules as the PCs :)

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From:	Gurth@******.nl (Gurth)
Subject:	Threat Rating/Professional Rating Question
Date:	Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:15:14 +0100

Message no. 5 According to Scott Hiller, on Tue, 18 Feb 2003 the word on the street was...

> So, for NPCs, we use the Karma Pool in place of the
> old Threat Rating?

Yes. You can usually just convert 1:1, as TR was never very high for
reasons mentioned in my initial post in this thread.

> Where can I look to find out who
> these NPC Karma Pool dice are applied and how many can
> be applied for an applicable Test?

How they're applied? Simple: just like for PCs. If you, as a GM, don't like
the way the dice rolled for a particular NPC, you could spend a point of
the NPC's Karma Pool to re-roll the non-successes, for example.

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