From:	John E Pederson <lobo1@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: the uac dilemma (minor insect spirit spoilers!)
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 1997 11:51:26 EDT

On Wed, 23 Jul 1997 09:18:54 +0100 "Simon T. Sailer"
<Simon.Sailer@****.AC.AT> writes:

>Hmmm.... The +10 to reaction is only for calculating initiative... To
>determine the skill rating, you should only use twice the force as
>reaction... (IMHO, but makes sense, doesn't it?)


Actually, you're right, but my confusion stems from the section on Spirit
Initiative where it says that a spirit has a reaction equal to the base
reaction for that spirit PLUS ten while physically manifest. It doesn't
actually say that this only applies for initiative (something it does
state in the bug descriptions in the Grimmy and Bug City [stupid tables])


>How would he survive? If the attacking character has 1 success, the
>average 1,5 successes the Spirit is likely to score will stage the
>damage level to...... D. If the attacking character has more
>successes than 1, the spirit is toast...


I doubt the attacker would have much more than one success, in this case
anyway (no recoil comp, so +9 recoil mod, no combat pool, willpower only
- not too good for metal-boy, eh?) Even so, I just test-rolled some dice
(not having either a dice-rolling program or a probabilities table to
consult) and came up with four successes from 9 dice. He'd live. He
wouldn't be in real great shape, but he also heals a box of damage every
minute he's not in battle (ala an elemental:), right?

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