From:	The Gregory Family <wvyc@**.NET.AU>
Subject:	Variable Staging (Was "Old Age Runners")
Date:	Thu, 7 May 1998 06:54:10 -0400

At 12:38 7/05/98 +0100, Gurth wrote:
>> 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.

[snip]

>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.

I liked the old rules better as well, for a bundle of reasons. Matter of
fact, we still use the three-part variable staging rules in our campaign.
Anyone else out there been faithful to the ole first ed. rules? =)

Cheers.
Tauri.