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From: "Sascha Pabst" <Sascha.Pabst@**********.Uni-Oldenburg.DE>
Subject: Re: Called shots
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 18:11:19 +0200
At 0:59 Uhr 17.05.96, Brett Barksdale wrote:
>As we continue our series on New Shadowrun Gamemasters and
>the Situations that Plague Them (TM)... :-)
Oh, you don't need to be a NEW GM to have these problems :-)

>How the heck do people deal with called shots out there?
[snip]
>But
>the thought of doing a "called shot" on someone's unarmored
>head just to get around their body armor pretty much
>unbalances the entire concept of personal armor in this
>game, doesn't it?

>How do y'all deal with it?
Abstractly. When someone 'calls a shot' the damage level raises
(DamLvl++ :-). So it's up to the victim to generate two more
successes to come out of it unharmed.

Sascha

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