| From: | dbuehrer@****.org (David Buehrer) |
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| Subject: | Re: Fat-bac |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Sep 1996 07:28:06 -0600 (MDT) |
|
|OK question time again.
|How are you all handling Fat Bacteria?
|Our teams are using the rules in Corp. Sec. Sourcebook as is, no problems.
|However, they have also come up with some interesting ideas.
|We have a physad with astral perception that wants to carry a rod full of
|fat-bac.
|Once an astral victim is subdued, say in a fat-bac containment net - he uses
|it to beat the wizard senseless - kind of like a no karma astral weapon/mage
|blade.
|I have been allowing this to do damage as a club.
|As far as I can tell, the two astral forms cannot avoid each other, and so
|are forced to collide, I reason that this would at least do some stun damage.
The following arguement may be based on a *house rule* that
an astral being cannot pass through a living (on the
physical) entity. (I've been playing SR for so long that I
loose track. I have Got to sit down and re-read the rules
again <sigh>.)
Then by this arguement any person with astral perception
(PhysAd, Mage, Shaman) and skill with unarmed combat would
be able to hurt an astral victim. Because they are alive
they have an astral presence that keeps an astrally
projecting mage from passing through them (or any other
living creature). Their hands and feet could collide with
said mage. This would also allow any critter with astral
perception to attack said mage. This just starts to open
up a huge can of worms.
My take on it would be that the fat-bac just pushes the
astral mage out of the way, or maybe bounces him, but
doesn't cause any damage. Because, the fat-bac isn't
magicaly active in the same way as a weapon focus, doesn't
carry the energy of a spell, and doesn't have any Willpower
to direct against the mage.
However, if you want to say that it can cause damage,
because knownst only to you is that it is in fact sentient
and linked to horrors, then I say bravo and congradulations
for being a truely inspired GM.
-David
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