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Bodak
post Apr 25 2006, 11:35 PM
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I'm trying to plan for runners encountering a guard dog and killing it in melee without gunfire but seem to be missing something somehow.

QUOTE (Critters p5)
Whether critters are trained to attack or are simply defending their young or their territory, critters that attack a runner team use the standard combat rules presented on pp. 100-129 of SR3, except as noted here.
The Combat Pool is calculated the same as for a character: Quickness + Intelligence + Willpower, divided by 2 (round down).
Critters can use a number of Combat Pool dice equal to their Reaction for attacks.

QUOTE (Critters p19)
Dog, large: B:3 Q:4(x5) S:3 [...] R:4 Attacks:6M

I checked SR3 p122 and just as I expected, the attacker's or defender's success test is to roll Skill+Combat pool against TN4, count the successes. What's the guard dog's Skill rating? Equal to strength? Intelligence? Essence? Or does it have no Skill, only a Combat pool (and it can't even use its whole Q+I+W/2 if that's higher than its Reaction score)?

Once the dog and the runner have rolled their melee test I guess the dog's net successes stage 6M up or the runner's net successes stage it down. I am only stuck on what the dog rolls against TN4.
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- Bodak   Critter combat   Apr 25 2006, 11:35 PM
- - Kagetenshi   Equal to Reaction. Staging occurs as normal for me...   Apr 25 2006, 11:36 PM
- - Kanada Ten   Yeah, Reaction, as Kage noted (it sort of implies ...   Apr 25 2006, 11:42 PM
- - Bodak   Oh good I was hoping I didn't have to give it...   Apr 26 2006, 12:31 AM
- - Kanada Ten   Yep. It's described in the "Statistics Ke...   Apr 26 2006, 12:45 AM
- - Snow_Fox   Unlike D&D, SR isnot really designed for fight...   Apr 26 2006, 02:20 AM
- - Kagetenshi   Sez you! ~J   Apr 26 2006, 02:29 AM
- - James McMurray   QUOTE (Snow_Fox) other people with guns, not neo-o...   Apr 26 2006, 03:33 AM
- - Kanada Ten   Not to go completely off-topic, but remember that ...   Apr 26 2006, 04:02 AM
- - James McMurray   Invisibility and silence aren't quite as usefu...   Apr 26 2006, 05:41 AM
- - Kanada Ten   Um, I mean using them as subjects, not targets - i...   Apr 26 2006, 06:22 AM

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