Preps Rulings
All-Hands
The additional
cards accessed do not include cards installed in HQ. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L,
1/3/97)
Arasaka Owns You
Playing Arasaka
Owns You during a run does not end the run. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/27/96)
If you are
flatlined by unpreventable damage, you cannot play Arasaka Owns You. (Sparky,
Netrunner-L, 10/18/96) Any prevention effect is also a condition for play.
(Sparky, Netrunner-L, 12/2/96)
Custodial Position
The additional
cards accessed do not include cards installed in R&D. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L,
1/3/97)
Demolition Run
If you also
have Armageddon installed, you may not
give a Doom counter AND trash the rezzed ice on the fort; you must do one
or the other (see notes on Armageddon).
(JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/4/97)
Disgruntled Ice Technician
Ice with no
subroutines on it (e.g., Hunting Pack as the only ice on a fort) can be
considered to have had all of its subroutines broken. (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
9/5/96)
You cannot
use Disgruntled Ice Technician to derez the ice after using Dropp to break
the subroutines on that ice. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 1/6/97)
Edited Shipping Manifests
If you want
to prevent the tag given by Edited Shipping Manifests, you cannot pay for
the tag prevention effect (e.g., Nasuko Cycle) using the bits from that
Edited Shipping Manifests. Since the Runner must process a card's effects
in order, he or she does not get the ten bits until after the tag is given.
(Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
If the run
is successful and the Corp has no bits, the Runner accesses cards as normal.
(Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/6/96)
Executive Wiretaps
The additional
cards accessed do not include cards installed in HQ. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L,
1/3/97)
Forged Activation Orders
ERRATA:
Forged Activation Orders has no effect on a piece of rezzed ice; the card
should say "Choose an unrezzed piece of ice." (Official Netrunner Rulings,
4/21/97)
Hunt Club BBS
All choices
about which and how many cards will be exposed are made before any of them
are exposed. (Netrunner FAQ v.1.0, 5/22/96)
Kilroy Was Here
You may trash
agendas even if an effect prevents you from scoring those agendas (e.g.,
Red Herrings). (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/25/96)
Lucidrine (tm) Booster Drug
You may use
the bits from Lucidrine Booster Drug to pay for trashing nodes and upgrades
accessed during that run. (Wendy Wallace, Netrunner-L, 5/28/96)
Preps and Operations
go to the trash after they're fully declared (i.e., after all decisions
are made) but before they're resolved; Lucidrine Booster Drug goes into
the trash before any cards trashed as a result of the run and before the
card you lose to the brain damage caused by Lucidrine Booster Drug. (Sparky,
Netrunner-L, 8/27/96)
You don't take
the brain damage until after the run is complete, so if you score enough
agenda to win (or meet another winning condition such as trashing Nevinyrral),
you never suffer the damage. (Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
misc.for-sale
ERRATA:
misc.for-sale will read "successfully trashed" instead of "trashed." You
cannot get bits from misc.for-sale if you use Joan of Arc to prevent programs
from being trashed. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/24/96)
On the Fast Track
If you trash
cards that you don't see (cf. Death from Above), and you play On the Fast
Track, you can ask the Corp if you trashed an Advertisement or Transactions
card this turn, but you may not look at the cards or the Archives to verify
this. If necessary, you can ask a third party to verify the Corp's answer.
(Tom Wylie via JD Wiker, 3/11/97)
Organ Donor
Preps and Operations
go to the trash after they're fully declared (i.e., after all decisions
are made) but before they're resolved; Organ Donor goes into the trash
before any cards are trashed from your hand. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 8/28/96)
Pirate Broadcast
You only get
one chance to run each fort; if something (e.g., Siren) misdirects you
away from a fort, you can't run it again. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 2/5/97)
Prearranged Drop
The bits are
gained as soon as the agenda is accessed, so the Runner can use these bits
to pay trash costs or pay costs for stealing agenda (e.g. Red Herrings).
(Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 5/18/98)
Promises, Promises
The Runner
scores the additional agenda point as soon as the agenda is accessed, but
the Runner cannot win the game until after all cards in the fort are accessed
and their effects dealt with (See Sparky's Run Chart). (Skipper Pickle,
Netrunner-L, 5/18/98)
Remote Detonator
In the case
of a misdirected run, the ice trashed is the ice on the fort that was accessed
(e.g., the Runner runs on Archives but accesses cards in HQ; the ice on
HQ is trashed). (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 3/5/97)
Rush Hour
The additional
cards accessed do not include cards installed in R&D. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L,
1/3/97)
Senatorial Field Trip
If the ice
is not rezzed, Senatorial Field Trip has no effect. (Sparky, Netrunner-L,
9/5/96)
Sneak Preview
If you use
Sneak Preview to install a program, then later trash that program, it will
not return to your hand. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/17/96) If the program
ends up on a Microtech Backup Drive, or leaves play for any other reason,
it won't return to your hand. (Tom Wylie, 8/26/97)
Social Engineering
The Corp has
the right to count the Runner's bits before the effect starts, but not
once the guessing game begins. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/25/96)
You must encounter
a piece of ice before you pass it. If the Runner chooses an unrezzed piece
of ice, the Corp has a chance to rez that ice. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 7/26/96)
Social Engineering
only allows you to pass that piece of ice one time during that run. (Skipper
Pickle, Netrunner-L, 11/4/97)
Subliminal Corruption
It's not legal
to trash something that's already in the Archives, so you can't give the
Corp bad publicity for advertisements that are already in the Archives.
(Official Netrunner Rulings, 4/21/97)
Synchronized Attack on HQ
Each card for
which the Corp pays 2 bits is no longer available to be discarded. Essentially,
effects that force the Corp's discards to be random (e.g., Cockroach) are
worthless when combined with Synchronized Attack. (Tom Wylie via Sparky,
Netrunner-L, 8/7/96)
Unofficial
ERRATA:
Sparky says, "To make the function of [Synchronized Attack on HQ] more
clear, we're CONSIDERING: 'For each card stored in HQ, Corp either pays[2]
or discards that card.' This better explains why the card interacts the
way it does with discard modifiers, like Cockroach counters." (Sparky,
Netrunner-L, 8/9/96)
Total Genetic Retrofit
If multiple
Total Genetic Retrofits are played, their effects are cumulative (i.e.,
if you play two Retrofits, you avoid your next two tags) (REVERSEs a previous
ruling). (Skipper Pickle, Netrunner-L, 9/30/98)
Valu-Pak Software Bundle
You get 5 actions
and 1 bit, not 5 actions and 1 bit per action. (Sparky, Netrunner-L, 6/18/96)
You must use
the actions you gain from Valu-Pak Software Bundle immediately or forfeit
them. (JD Wiker, Netrunner-L, 12/16/96)
The bit must
be spent "during" one of the actions gained from Valu-Pak Software Bundle--you
cannot use it on special effects that occur between those actions. (Skipper
Pickle, Netrunner-L, 10/4/98)