| From: | bradferguson%dlu.dnet@***.VANDERBILT.EDU |
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| Subject: | deadly + |
| Date: | Sun, 4 Apr 93 13:48:31 -0500 |
systems (SR I & II). I see what they were trying to do by toning down the fire-
power of the weaponry, but they did away with something important. It is ridic-
ulous to throw away the extra successes. Obviously in the age of new armour and
awakened creatures, firepower is going to less effective than before, BUT...
There are some instances that just don't fit into this. For example, suppose
some hapless character becomes the object of ire of a person who happens to have
and AVM handy. Granted, with the right armour and a little luck (karma, nudge
nudge - wink, wink) this character might survive, especially if he is one of the
hairier metahuman species, but tossing away the extra successes is just out.
That armour is not going to survive it unscathed; that is the whole point of ar-
mour: to let it soak up the punishment that was meant for you.
So, if they want to eliminate stages past deadly to make the incredible volumes
of firepower that characters can generate less dominant, same way they did the
combat spells (sort of), no problem, but keeping in the destruction of armour
points by the past-deadly successes would be a good balancing agent.
"The surest way to posess a thing is to devestate it."
-- Niccolo Machiavelli
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