Wounds and Magic, When to check for it ... Options

[PiXeL01]

One thing that has confused me for years is when you should check for Magic Loss because of wounds.

Is it everytime you REACH Deadly Physical or when you TAKE a Deadly physical spot on?

I have been playing Shadorun for years but never could figure it out. Until now my group and I have used the Spot on Deadly physical is needed for a check, but then again, we have been wrong for all these years

[Grinder]

We houseruled that a magic active character has to check for magic loss everytime he reaches physical deadly damage. No matter if by 10 light wounds or one deadly wound.

[Velocity]

That's a good question. The actual passage (from Shadowrun, 3rd Edition, p. 129) is:

"When an Awakened character suffers a Deadly wound or is treated without the +2 modifier for an Awakened character (see First Aid Table), the character risks a loss of magic."

That doesn't really help, does it? :S It's never come up in our games (our shaman takes good care of himself), so I'm not really sure.

The FAQ is mum on the subject, so I think an e-mail is in order.

[tisoz]

A Deadly wound would be all in one shot.

Deadly Damage could be in one shot or by 10 Light wounds.

[Velocity]

What tisoz says sounds reasonable to me.