From:	Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject:	Distinctive Style Flaw
Date:	Fri, 19 Feb 1999 08:32:29 -0600

From: Manx
Sent: Thursday, February 18, 1999 11:50 PM

>I was just wondering what examples of the 'Distinctive Style'
>flaw you have all come across in your previous game sessions.

Not all of us, but certainly some of us have. I haven't encountered it in a
Shadowrun game, but I did have a player many a year ago in my old TOP
SECRET/SI game who played the team's second-story man/safecracker who had
this same basic flaw. He'd get past all the security, he'd get into the
impossible-to-break-into safe, he'd get the goods...and instead of walking
away and letting them find out the hard way days later that he'd been there,
he left a Tarot card (always the same one, the Magician) somewhere where it
could be spotted easily.

He died violently some time later. He might have been a Magician, but he
clearly wasn't an escape artist.

>Personally I think that if played correctly it can be quite dangerous
>for a runner and certainly not worth the one build point that one
>gains from it.

Oh, absolutely.

>Thankfully that is no longer a problem in SR3.

Actually, I think it's fixing to be a problem in SR3 again here shortly.

--
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El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.