| From: | Steadfast laughingman@*******.de |
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| Subject: | Big Bag O' Questions |
| Date: | Wed, 07 Jul 1999 03:21:08 +0200 |
> 1) Unless I'm mistaken, the physical damage done to a decker from black IC
> is done through an energy feedback through the decker's connection.
> Wouldn't it be simple to create a sort of fuse or circut breaker on the
> line to prevent damage from black IC?
Actually as many have already posted, black ICE targets the Assist on the
Deck. As the Assist is used by your Decker to deal with the Matrix as it
"translates" the Matrix mathematical algorithms into sensation like a warm
breeze or an ice cold storm it is used by black ICE to actually
overstimulate the parts of the brain that are responsible for your
vitality. It can cause nearly anything other than external harm (so no
burns, shotwounds or stuff) from blood vessel bursts due to hyped blood
pressure to lethal heart disfunctioning.
But there is a way to minimize that, it is called "cold decking". With that
you take into acount that you are a tad bit slower and you are not using
your deck to its fullest, but the lethality of black ICE is greatly
decreased. Can't tell you right now how the actuall game terms are as I
have given my VR2 to a friend (damn, and I thought I would not need it in a
while) and "hot" and "cold" decks are not an option in the SR3rd.
basic
rulebook. Sorry there.
> 2) Datasofts can be utilized with either a datasoft link or a display
> link. Does this mean that the two pieces of cyberware are functionally
> interchangeable? Sure, one lets you "know" info while the other makes you
> read it, but is that it?
Actually, a knowsoft link lets you know what is on a given chip just like
you would have learned something in school. A display link lets you read
text only data on a small window in your eye, wether it is from active
memory storage or from chip is in that case not important, important is
that you only have text without pictures or graphics. I personally do not
know why the BBB (Big Bosses of Bshadoran) have actively denied
picturetransfer but I think there is a higher plan. Its either this, or I
have overread something.
This is all SR3rd. stuff if you mean the Shadowtech Datasoft, I'll guess it
is the knowsoftlink now. But that is just an estimation.
> 3) About how big is a standard medkit? Could it be installed in a
> cyberarm?
A standard Medkit weighs about 3 kg with the medkit refill weighting zero,
or better written a not important measure of weight. But then "somebody"
may not have considered the ingenuality of the SR players. So I would rule
that the Computerunit can most easily be fit into a cyberarm, but the
supllies would be mostly to bulky to be stored in the average
cybercompartment. But if you insist, I would allow it in my Campaign, with
the roll wether or not the medkit is depleted set for the Cybered version
to 1,2,3 (then it is depleted).
But then, who would like to have the precious little space for cybersquirt
transfered into a small medkitunit with computer if could have a Biotech
skillsoft 5 and some medikal supllies (aka the refill)?
> 4) What is the barrier rating of 1 inch of orichalum?
Probably a lot as many persons would hang around that stuff, trying to grab
it and getting fillthy rich. Damn, what is the barrier rating for an Orc, a
Troll and an Elf sticking to that Orichalkum? So I would would first rule
for shooting or trying to break through the Barrier a blind modifier (+8
for shooting, +4 for melee/unarmed) Then, AFTER they hit I would activate
my brain. Scarry thought by the way.
> 5) What do people like better, point-based character generation (ala SR
> Comp and SR3) or priority-based character generation (ala SR2)?
I personally like the points based system more, gives me a feeling of a wee
bit more flexability and freedom during chargen.
> 6) Is there a group somewhere in the Mankato, MN area?
>
> I'll ask more when I think of them. Oh yeah, one more:
>
> 7) How much wood could a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
Is that thread not the "nevereveranddonotdaretoaskyoufool!" ? Seemed to me
like it, so I do not make any remarks to it.
Phuh, that was close, "...stronger the dark side she is, more tempting,
quicker..."
---> Steadfast
The one, the only.
That is, if you do not count the others.
