From:	Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@***.NEU.EDU>
Subject:	More Diceless Shadowrun
Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 1993 14:12:59 EDT

I think I've got an easier-to-deal-with "diceless" system for Shadowrun,
which is pretty much the one I came up with for Storyteller games, with a
few tweaks. I put diceless in quotes as it's not really, totally diceless,
but it can remove a *lot* of the dice rolling.

Compare rating vs. target number (T#s should not be revealed if at all
possible); Include any pool dice in the rating. If the rating is less than
the T#, you fail. At this point you can opt to roll some dice, and resolve
the test normally. (If the GM decides to have no dice rolling at all, you
spend 1 point of Karma for 1 success, no more). If the rating is higher
than the T#, you succeed; each point that the rating exceeds the T# counts
as one extra success. You can spend Karma normally to increase success at
this point.

Example:

Sam the Samurai is in a gunfight with Kid Kwik the Physical Adept. Sam's
Firearms is 7, concentrated in SMG for 8, and he allocates 4 dice from
his combat pool for the attack, for a total rating of 12. Sam's T# to hit
Kid Kwik is 4 (Sam can guess, but he doesn't know exactly what it is),
but he has plenty of dice allocated and hits Kid Kwik (12 is greater than
4). Sam also scores 8 extra successes in his attack.

Kid Kwik applies his armor jacket (5/3) against Sam's heavy pistol (9M).
He has a Body of 5 and allocates 5 dice from his combat pool to resist
damage. 9 minus 5 is 4, so his resistance test T# is 4; his 10 dice is
greater than the T# by 6, canceling 6 of Sam's successes. Not enough as
Sam's attack is staged up to a serious wound.

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