| From: | Paul Gettle <pgettle@********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Re: Chunk Launcher v. 2.0 |
| Date: | Wed, 13 May 1998 11:24:05 -0400 |
At 11:35 PM 5/12/98 -0700, Demosthenes 3 wrote:
>Against astral tragets, there is NO damage, however, (depending on
how
>you work it in your game :)) the target can be knocked back by the
>impact. Also, the displacement of the tissue, body fluids, and blood
>can serve to "outline" the astral target, allowing other attackers to
>better aim FAB weapons, or other containment devices at the target.
There's a little problem with that. The tissue and body fluids won't
displace when they impact with an astral target, because the astral
target is in no way shape or form present on the physical plane. The
flightpath of the chunk must obey the laws of physics and if there's
no physical object to intervene, then it will travel on a simple
balistic path between launcher and wherever it comes to rest.
In Corporate Security, it was suggested that beings on the astral have
'casual mass' vs living things on the physical, but this would set way
too dangerous of a precident, as it would allow Astral Projectors to
beat up on people on the Physical. (The poor Street Sam could fight
back, but he'd be punching blind, and there's nothing to stop an
Astral Projector to make use of the unique properties of the Astral
environment to avoid being hit at all)
This is one reason that I wish FASA had never published those damned
FAB netguns, because they horribly contridict existing rules, without
giving a detailed explanation of why, and describing how things should
work.
I am curious, could us list newbies have a summary of the conclusions
that last year's big FAB debate came to? (I understand that even the
DLoH was in on the debate?)
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