| From: | Guy Swartwood <gswartwo@*********.WICHITAKS.ATTGIS.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: Shadow community Size |
| Date: | Thu, 28 Sep 1995 12:39:00 PDT |
<>
<>Let's see, Seattle has a population of about 3,000,000 people. 1% is
<>magically active, makes 30,000. Of these, 10% (not 1%) are full magicians,
<>makes 3,000. Erm, yes, it seems the shadow community is a lot smaller than
<>we (or at least I) tend to think...
<>The trouble here is that in this case any PC would know just about anybody
<>else in "the biz," if not by name then at least by face...
<>
<This just says there are a relatively few full mages in the shadows, I
believe
<the shadow community would still be quite large when you add in all the
sams,
<deckers, fixers, riggers, ect.
<
You have a point about the statement above, but I always envisioned that the
actual shadow community is small. Yes, there are a lot of wannabe sams and
such, but I believe that the community is small due to a variant Darwin
Survival theory. In my opinion, the community is made up of the
shadowrunners who are above the wannabes, who are smarter (and better
equiped) and who survive their first few runs. So I believe that you will
not know a large part of the small community.
Guy Swartwood Corporate Decker by day, shadowrunner by night.
