From:	Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject:	Re: Old Age Runners
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 12:38:15 +0100

MgkellyMP5 said on 23:36/ 6 May 98...

> << Ah, SR1 and autosuccesses and variable staging. Hey, I bet the kiddies
> haven't ever heard of 3L1 or 5D4 damage codes, eh? Now THAT complicated
> combat.
> >>
>
> and it was a pain in the ass too! '-2 to Power Level/ +1 Wound Level and it
> makes the damage code of a Browning Max-Power with Firepower ammo....'

??? Firepower(tm) ammo only added +2 to the Power, turning 4M2 (which
sucked) to 6M2. You must be thinking of flechette, which IIRC was -1
Power, +1 Staging *checks SR1* yep.

> personally, i was very relieved when they started using 2 as the Staging
> number for everything in SR2.

It disappointed me when I looked at the damage rules in SRII... I _liked_
the variable staging, it gave weapons slightly more ways in which to be
different, and my experience is that it didn't make combat slower than in
second edition. With either you have to divide the successes by something
and then stage up or down accordingly, it's just that the number varies
instead of being a fixed 2.

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