 Bug in cybercombat rules, Hack. pool canīt be used in resistance t |
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 Jan 28 2005, 01:16 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 24-January 05 Member No.: 7,012  |
Have anyone noticed that in cybercombat, hacking pool dice can only be used in the attack test ? If you read the page 226 in SR3 carefully, you will see that it is explicit: attack tests are augmented by hacking pool dice. When you go to the icon attribute resistance test, there is no such comment. Behold the Trace IC construct!
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Jan 28 2005, 01:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Living with the straw sheep. Member No.: 2,850 |
That's not a bug.
That's a feature. :cyber: [Edit] I mean, perhaps it's an "intentional oversight", left out so that deckers have even more incentive to avoid cybercombat. Or some such drek. Doesn't make much sense though, does it? [/Edit] |
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Jan 28 2005, 04:48 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Members Posts: 11,410 Joined: 1-October 03 From: Pittsburgh Member No.: 5,670 |
SR3 page 207's description of the hacking pool includes defense tests in the list of things hacking pool can be used on.
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Jan 28 2005, 07:32 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 24-January 05 Member No.: 7,012 |
I think the brief "defense tests" note refers to defensive combat maneuvers, not to the attributes resistance tests. Do you think you can add hacking pool dices to Bod resistance tests? It has to be the same thing for evasion attribute resistance tests against trace IC.
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Jan 28 2005, 09:51 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 403 Joined: 27-August 02 From: Scotland Member No.: 3,175 |
We allow it for almost all tests, including the Bod and Evasion rolls you mentioned, and also other attribute tests like Position-Attack etc. You could also add it to plain old Attack tests if you wanted, although there's often no need.
Not sure if this is strictly by the rules or not, sounds like it's not, but I'll look it up! |
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Jan 29 2005, 08:19 AM
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UMS O.G. Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 444 Joined: 18-May 04 Member No.: 6,335 |
There is no bug and yes you can use hacking pool in all tests unless it says otherwise. The section on pools states explicitly that it works on attack, defense, manuevers and even attribute tests and programming.
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Jan 29 2005, 12:19 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 25 Joined: 24-January 05 Member No.: 7,012 |
Thank you everybody. I think this discussion is close. I checked out and hacking pool really can be used on attribute tests.
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