| From: | "Dr. Bolthy von Schotz" <bolthy@**.com> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Quickened spells and Horrors. |
| Date: | Sun, 12 May 1996 04:32:01 -0500 (CDT) |
>
>
> On Sat, 11 May 1996, Robert Watkins wrote:
>
> > >|You're talking about Harlequin's Back right, where the PC's are sent an a
> > >|quest to some meta-planes where their equipnent is changed for each period?
> > >|What was he carrying in the first world you visited, a siege engine?
> > >
> > >That only happened in the metaplanes themselves. The first place they went
> > >was the "divide" where the horrors were about to start crossing
the bridge.
> > >The characters still have their weapons there......
> >
> > Yeah, but his quote is still valid... the characters only had the weapons
> > that they _usually_ have with them, and it is these same weapons that
> > transform when you move to the metaplanes.
> >
> > (Personally, I'd have to be worried about a group that _usually_ carries
> > around a Panther Assault Cannon (or an LMG or a sniper rifle... *sigh*
> > some people are munchkins))
> >
> HEY! I take offence at that! The way I figure it, a troll considering
> his size, would have as little trouble with an assualt canon, as a human
> would have with a rifle/shotgun. No-one complains about a human carrying
> a shotgun on a run, but if a troll carries an assualt canon he's a
> munchkin! ( where does that come from by the way? ) I don't think enough
> people take size into consideration in this game, e.g. how does a troll
> fit those enormouse fingers into the tiny little trigger guard on his
> gun? Personally I solve it by cutting the trigger guard off my guns,
> alternately I guess you could have the gun customised. I also have a probelem
> with the quick-draw rules; the book states that something can only be
> quick-drawn if something is in a holster, and is pistol-sized. I argue that
> a large, heavy pistol on a dwarf would be no larger than a shotgun on a
> troll, so why couldn't a troll fit a shotgun in a shoulder holster (he is,
> like, 3 metres tall) and quick-draw it?? The answer, cause the rules don't
> take size into account!
>
Yeah, concealability rules are kinda wierd in Shadowrun... We had a
problem in our group with a street sammie carrying an AK-98 EVERYWHERE.
He claimed he kept it under his long coat. We let it slide for a while,
but got tired of him claiming that he had it in increasingly absurd
situations ("We've been walking through high security neighborhood, and
you have an assault rifle under your long coat?") Lone Star recently
relieved him of his assault cannon, though... I could have probably made
his life more difficult, but I didn't... don't know why...
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