From:	Caric <caric@********.COM>
Subject:	Re: how to
Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 1997 08:05:12 -0700

Raven wrote:
| > > > How to convert damage codes from 1st edition to second???
| > >
| > > Add the numbers together, so 4M2 becomes 6M and so on. Grenades are
| >
| > Cool, is this the listed formula, or does it just work out that way?
| > I've never seen a formula for the conversion, but this sounds dead
| > on right.
|
| I read it somewhere, don't know where, but I think its in the BBB
| somwhere.

Well <opening his brand new second edition soft cover that he got at
Hexicon for 9 bucks to replace his thrashed hardback> on page 283 of the
BBB it says "...add the first edition staging value to the power rating to
determine the second edition power rating. Note that this method is not
wholly acurate and gamemasters should be prepared to adjust the values when
needed."

So Raven we dead on, but I thought that last little bit was important.

-Caric

"If a man talks in the forest, and there isn't a woman around to hear him,
is he still wrong?"