>Well... that's fine, I suppose, in a fictional world where electrical
>engineering never developed as a profession and people still think
>electricity is a magical fluid that affects that luminiferous
>æther in various unintuitive ways. Which, given that
>Shadowrun is set in the Sixth World, I suppose it could be over
>there. That doesn't excuse Cyberpunk 2020, though. :)

Point, Ben. :)

In minor defense of Cyberpunk 2020, it was to me the only tabletop RPG that really nailed the lethality of firearms. Character death wasn't so much a case of overly nasty GM as simple mechanics.

Brian