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From: Paul Gettle RunnerPaul@*****.com
Subject: Diseases and Toxins
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 22:08:44 -0500
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At 07:09 PM 2/23/99 -0500, Iridios wrote:
>David Buehrer wrote:
>> What follows are some new rules for Diseases and Toxins.
>>
>> A disease or toxin has the following ratings: Attack(Time Period),
>> Body, Power, and Damage Level(Stun or Physical). Diseases and
toxins
>> also have damage tracks.
<<Snip>>
>I like these rules, but have one basic question. How would the
>presence of bioware such as pathogenic defense and toxin extractor
>affect these rules.

And since we're asking questions (and I don't remember getting the
original to this one yet, maybe it'll show up next week) here's mine:

How does dosage affect toxins? FASA never seemed to have considered
dosage very well, which makes the rules for such weapons as the Ares
Cascade rather unworkable.

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