From:	Justin Pinnow <vanyel@*******.NET>
Subject:	Re: the uac dilemma (minor insect spirit spoilers!)
Date:	Fri, 25 Jul 1997 14:45:07 -0400

> From: Jonathan Hurley <jhurley1@************.EDU>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: the uac dilemma (minor insect spirit spoilers!)
> Date: Friday, July 25, 1997 2:43 PM

> On Thursday, July 24, 1997 10:51, John E Pederson[SMTP:lobo1@****.COM]
> wrote:

> > On Thu, 24 Jul 1997 09:17:07 +0100 "Simon T. Sailer"
> > <Simon.Sailer@****.AC.AT> writes:

> > >Well, if you rolled 4 sixes with 9 dice.... *grin* can you do it
> > >again?
> > >On an average roll, you will get 1 or two successes, and the spirit
> > >takes deadly damage.

> > Yes, and on an average roll, the sammie wouldn't have hit the broad
side
> > of a very large barn with that full auto burst (the sammie's TN would
> > have been at least 13, 12 or 11 with a laser sight or smartlink,
> > respectively).

> Oh, I dunno. Example: Snapshot (a PC) honks off a nine-round burst at a
> target. He's using an Ares Alpha combat gun(Two points recoil comp) with
a
> shock pad (another point.) He's got a strength of 7 (another 2 points
(FoF
> p83) for a grand reduction of 5, bringing his target number (at close
> range, with his smartgun link) to 6. Not bad at all, all things
considered.

Well, gee. Don't forget that it can be dark in those underground hives,
incurring vision modifiers. Is the sammie walking or running? How about
the bugs, are they moving too? All these things need to be kept in mind
when assigning TNs. That's why gun battles take awhile...lots of lead that
doesn't hit anything. This also makes spell casting more deadly (many of
these mods don't apply to spellcasting, except for DMs).

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> Quicksilver rides again

Justin :)