From: [f--h--e] at [kpc.com] Reply-To: [f--h--e] at [kpc.com] Errors-To: [flashlife request] at [kpc.com] Subject: Flashlife V3 #5 To: [f--h--e] at [kpc.com] From: Carl Rigney (moderator) <[flashlife request] at [kpc.com]> Flashlife Tue, 5 May, 1992 Volume 3 : Issue 5 Today's topics: Administrivia (Moderator) SRun Deck Questions (Jason Yohn) Names List Offer (pargwe) There's a new kid in town (m484443r) SR combat system (Joonas) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 5 May 92 11:11:11 PST From: [flashlife request] at [kpc.com] (Moderator) Subject: Administrivia The list continues to grow in membership but hardly anyone ever submits anything. Possibly this is because everyone's using rec.games.frp for all their Shadowrun discussions, in which case that's fine. But if the list doesn't get enough activity to justify the overhead of maintaining it then I suspect I'll institute minac to trim the list back to the size I originally intended it to be, a list for Shadowrun GM's to trade ideas on. -- Carl Rigney [flashlife request] at [kpc.com] -------------------------- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 92 19:47:48 CST From: Jason Yohn <[j--y] at [cpu.com]> Subject: SRun Deck Questions Hello, Got some questions. Some complete answers would be greatly appreciated. 1. If a Hermetic mage builds a hermetic circle (For Example: a Rating 5 circle for conjuring Fire Elementals) and pays the cost for the supplies (5 * 1000 = 5000 nuyen), does he have to pay or do anything else to uses it a second( at a later date), third, etc, time or can he just activate it and use it? [You can reuse the circle but you have to buy new summoning materials for each summoning. --CDR] 2. How is the availability rating determine for decks? If a Fuchi Cyber-7 is built with Response Level-2, how does this effect its availability rating? How about other options (Hardening)? If a user builds a deck completly different from any of the standard decks, and wants to sell it, how would the availability rating be determined? 3. If a decker wants to build a deck to sell for profit, does he have to build the MPCP or is this something that the customer will supply for himself? (As per pg. 32 of the Virtual Realities) So this would imply to build a Fuchi Cyber-7 for sell would take: Base Time 1272 days - 800 days (for the MPCP) = 472 days Cook Time 71 days - 30 days (for the MPCP) = 41 days Cost 101100 nuyen - 50000 nuyen (for the MPCP) = 51100 nuyen So a decker building a deck for himself would have to spend 1272 days Base Time to build it. But if he were building it to sell as a street deck, it would only take 472 days because the MPCP would not be included. And it would sell for a base price of 1,112,100 nuyen. 4. I need addtional explanations on computer skills. A. How are the concentrations under Computer, Computer B/R, and Computer Theory used? B. Which are used to Build a deck? C. Which are used to Write persona programs? D. Which are used to Write "flygram" programs? E. Are the Computer or Computer B/R skills ever used to build a program? F. Can someone list each of the concentrations and/or specializations under the three above skills, AND EXAMPLES OF HOW EACH IS USED. 5. What is happening in Tibet? Is it still magically sealed off from the rest of the world? Thank You Jason (no net handle yet) My e-mail address is: [j--y] at [cpu.com] -------------------------- Date: Mon, 23 March 1992 12:20:00 From: [p--rg--e] at [morekypr.netcom.com] Subject: Names List Offer Back in the Fall of '89, I began collecting names for use in stories and games. After 3 years of hard and and often painful work, I have collected approximately 8,500 names for everyone to share and enjoy. Some of the names are real tongue-twisters. Some are plain. Some are interesting. Many are unforgetable. Here is an example of the first 6 lines of the B's..... B'jan Babette Babs Babthorp Bachylar Bade Bader Baduhildi Baehloew Baelraeth Baeron Baggins Bagotby Bagtruhe Bahrair Bailey Bain Bairdo Bairghith Bakar Baker Bakster Balain Balbi The Names List is a _HUGE_ file. It takes nearly 70K to store it. It arrives in 7 parts, and will be labeled as to the order they go in. If you would like a copy, then write me at [P--RG--E] at [MOREKYPR.BITNET.] Please enclose alternative addresses (if possible). I will try to send the entire Names List within a week. If you don't recieve the Names List, then write me back. If you have any questions, --==**FLAMES**==--, or comments, feel free to write me. -- Earl Pargen [P--RG--E] at [MOREKYPR.BITNET] -------------------------- Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 14:44:46 EDT From: [m 484443 r] at [edinboro.edu] Subject: There's a new kid in town [I removed the insipid >>>> <<<< style of quoting; just give us the words, flashie. --CDR] I justculled of the Shadowland net an interesting bit of info. This gets interesting, chummers! Everybody knows that the Country of Aztlan is south of here, right? Well, I'll bet nobody cares what's south of that, huh? There is a rising star in the world called Incan (pronounced IN'-KHAN). It occupies what was once Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and part of Brazil. This country is ruled by a man known only as The Inca. He came into power in Peru in the year 2033 following a very bloody coup. He is sweeping the country with reforms which, if successful, will revert the country back to Ancient Incan times. What I found on the public Datanet is even more interesting. There is a very ancient myth concerning the return of the Inca. When the conquistadores and Francisco Pizarro crossed the Isthmus of Panama in the early 1500's they realized that they were runing out of money, so they tried to cut back across, but they had sailed a little too far south, so they would have been cutting across Ecuador. As they travelled east, they also bent south (those crazy Spaniards) so that they entered Peru. Now you all know about how greedy the Spaniards were when it came to gold, right? Then I don't need to explain that. Well, in 1533 they killed the Inca, because he wouldn't convert to Christianity (Funny story, but too long to put here. EMAIL me 4 it.) by the conquistadores and his head severed was from his body. The Spaniards took his head and buried it in Lima, the Capital of modern day Incan. The body was buried in Macchu Pichu, some ways to the East. The legend of the Inca is that the body, though dead, still was growing. When the body grew to reach the head, the Inca would be reborn, he would rule again, the `indios' would have their lives back, and there would be major trouble for the rest of the world. Scary stuff, huh chummer? -------------------------- Date: Mon, 4 May 92 19:07:23 EET DST From: [j--on--s] at [jytko.jyu.fi] (Joonas) Subject: SR combat system What do you think about Shadowruns combat system? Me and my players think it is little too easy, you have to wield machinegun if you want to do any damage to anybody who has even little armour. We use weapons power level for staging: if yo shoot someone with hvy pistol (4M2) you would have to get FOUR succeses instead of two in the original rules..Yes, they are more deadly, but that's ok due all the healing magic and first aid. An other question is about the SR heling spells, I think it's not 'right' that players can get up and walk after just one spell even if they were just minutes before bleeding to death..What do you think?? [Its no surprise that you think its too easy if you use the power for staging; you make it nearly impossible to stage up. I require 2 successes to stage up any weapon, and their listed staging to stage down. This makes the high-staging weapons much deadlier. --CDR] -- Joonas Lyytinen [j--on--s] at [sh5.jyu.fi] -------------------------- End of Flashlife **************************