Re: [HoE] Cyborg/Junker Question

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

><<  But if you can do that, why can't you do that with a bullet or car 
>(i.e.,
>   build a Car requiring 9 Frame size, but miniaturize it down to a
>   motorcycle-sized Size 7)>>
>
>The main reason for not being able to mini the bullets is that their size
>directly impacts the damage.  As for vehicles, I'd handle it by counting 
>the

Wouldn't the size of a cyber-arm directly impact its Strength?  It's hard to 
imagine a skinny little Frame-2 wire-thin arm doing STR 4d12+4...  :)

I'm also not sure that the size of bullets would directly impact the damage, 
although (again) I don't have the Junker book right here.  There are ways to 
modify a small bullet to do disporportionately more damage *heh*.  In fact, 
some of them are mentioned in the Wasted West book.

That's why I wasn't sure where the Junker sourcebook was going with that 
size-to-impact arguement.

>total slots that can possibly be shrunk, doing miniaturize from that total, 
>then
>counting in the unminiaturized number of slots for controls and passenger 
>space.
>

That would be my approach as well, although the Junker SB words it more as 
an absolute ban (i.e., you can't miniaturize a car at all) rather than 
simply preventing you from miniaturizing the non-passenger/control aspects 
of a car.

Again, this might seem like "common sense" or "use your imagination" but I 
often find that when a sourcebook's or rulebook's statements contradict 
"common sense," there's usually a reason the authors intended.  In this 
case, the author's reasoning escapes me in certain cases...

>--
From Whom It May Concern,
>Richard Ranallo, The Man They Couldn't Hang


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