From:	Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE>
Subject:	Re: Hardening and Sensors questions..
Date:	Wed, 28 Jun 1995 11:32:31 +0200

Not Jani, buth Gurth using his account :)

> I'm just starting with Shadowrun and I have a few questions on these two
> things. What exactly does Hardening do? And why is the Sensors attribute
> so important? I think I understand all the other things in the Matrix, but
> there wasn't anything in the SR2 sourcebook that seemed to say what
> practical application either have. Hardening is supposed to reduce the
> amount of damage done by programs, but how? And Sensors says "This
> attribute lets the persona detect things in the Matrix" but gives nothing
> else...

Hardening is really simple: if you take 6 boxes of damage, and you've got
Hardening 2, you only take 4 boxes: so, simply substract the Hardening
from the damage done to your decker.

Sensors, well, yeah, I don't know too much about that either... and as
will probably be known here, I actually have strong feelings against
the entire rules for decking... It's just that I haven't found a way
to write replacements that still fit in with the SR2 rules :(

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