From:	Damion Milliken <adm82@***.EDU.AU>
Subject:	Re: Knock Back: The Final Chapter
Date:	Fri, 14 Apr 1995 23:04:10 +1000

Stainless Steel Rat writes:

> Note that this does NOT count my flailing about due to systemic shock and
> cavitation from the wound, but those are completely different issues and
> have very little to do with the energy or velocity of the round in
> question.

OK, I'll believe that. But they would, wouldn't they, have effects on
actually knocking someone down/back? And this thread was originally (before
the big momentum debate came up) discussing the appropriateness of the SR
knockback rules. Well, all we have succeeded in doing so far is determining
that the momentum of a bullet is pretty much insufficient to cause the
effects such as indicated by the SR rule. How about other effects, such have
been mentioned in the momentum argument, but never expanded because everyone
was furiously debating the momentum side of things? The rule is wrong from a
_purely_ momentum approach, but I'm sure there is more to it than that.

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Damion Milliken Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: adm82@***.edu.au

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