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From: dghost@****.com dghost@****.com
Subject: Viper Errata
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 02:09:03 -0600
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999 14:52:50 +1000 "Robert Watkins"
<robert.watkins@******.com> writes:
>D'Ghost writes:
>> (Anybody else find it odd that only Marc here has seen this "Errata"?
>> [Note to Marc: Are you sure you didn't see/hear a houserule?])

>Ghost, you should remember the errata... it really was an errata in the
SR
>_1_ days. AFAIK, it didn't make it through to the SR2 errata, however.

Actually, I didn't get a copy of SR1 until a couple years after SR2 was
out... (i got SR1 for free then shortly afterwards bought SR2 and a habit
was born... ;)

>For the record, I will back Marc up in saying that the Viper was meant
to be
>a light pistol in SR1, according to Tom Dowd, and that the damage code
was
>stuffed up, in SR1. However, I stand by my earlier comments saying that
if
>they haven't fixed it in the two editions since, it's probably because
the
>game designers (which no longer include Tom Dowd) have decided it works
>better as a heavy pistol.

Okay. It was looking bad when Marc was the only one who had seen this
bit of errata. Still I think the version in SR2/3 is correct.

--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
"You, you're like a spoonful of whoopass." --Grace
"A magician is always 'touching' himself" --Page 123, Grimoire (2nd
Edition)

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