From:	GMPax@***.com GMPax@***.com
Subject:	Spellcasting...so how do I do this?
Date:	Fri, 12 Mar 1999 12:33:45 EST

In a message dated 3/12/99 11:19:01 AM Eastern Standard Time,
dbuehrer@******.carl.org writes:

> Honestly, it doesn't matter what you have, it depends on what you do
> with it. I've seen PCs loaded for bear do the dumbest things and go
> down hard. I've also seen underarmed PCs display tactical brilliance
> and take down foes that I didn't thing they had a chance against (I'm
> never gonna forget the game where the dragon had to run away).

Darn right.

Had the heavy combat-sammie in a run, early in the campaign doing the
Harlequin adventures (the GM had been a playtester for them, IIRC; he's the
one whose character HAS Excaliber, per the last clause in the Big D's will, or
so he says. In a trunk in his basement! :-).

The run against those elves, the wetwork? There I am, doing the ex-military-
man tactical awareness thing. I open a door ... AND STAND THERE, in the open
doorway, while the guy inside gives me a BIG hit from his H&K 227. I took a D
wound AFTER resistance, AND using my one Karma Pool.

Thank god for Trauma Dampers, I was able to stay on my feet and drop two
bursts of EX esplosive slugs from my Enfield AS-7 shotgun. And then promptly
cry "MEDIC!" ... <G>

Point is, the whole wound was because I was _stupid_ with a capital DUMB. Not
just bad luck on the damage rolls.

Sean
GM Pax