From:	Strago strago@***.com
Subject:	Burnout or Realism? was Re: Decker Mage
Date:	Wed, 31 May 2000 22:31:55 -0400

Alfredo B Alves wrote:

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> Ahem. Sustaining Foci/Quickened:
> Force 6 Enhance Aim, Force X Increase Reflexes, Force 6 Armor.
> End result? More problems than cyberware have caused ...
>
> There are many ways to "break the game". Versatility is not automaticly
> one of them. Overspecialization is death. Particularly for a
> Shadowrunner. Versatility should be reward (or perhaps be its own
> reward), not punished.
>

Yeah. Of course, in my game at home, it's sometimes a problem. I remember one
time we had a STARTING physad with a Katana skill of something sick like 12.
Since his attributes were so high, he had a Combat Pool of 8. So he'd be
rolling 20 DICE when attacking!!! AND HE'D DIKOTED HIS KATANA!!! So what did
the GM do? Kept everything at a distance. The poor guy who was bragging about
that before the game was relegated to cutting things such as an air duct or a
metal door.
So I learned from that. This was back in SR2 days, when skills were so low. I
made a guy with Skills Priority A, and with 3s and 4s in all of them, so I
had 12 or 13 skills (I don't remember). But most of the players didn't like
that too much, they kinda teased me because the skills were so low. I showed
them though, after 40 Karma, I could do all sorts of things well, and in the
shadows, my character would probably be called for many different jobs, maybe
he'd qualify for 6 or 7 jobs when 10 available, while their characters would
have one job in 10.


> <SNIP>
> My favorite character has her skills spread around. She's decent at many
> things from shooting and pummeling to Conjuring and ...err... Sorcering.
> :) Most of her skills are around the 3 to 4 range with a few 5's. She's a
> magician's way adept and she's hardly overpowered. She is nearly the
> universal backup character. She needs a few more skills and more spells
> before she can really claim that title though. (Btw, I mean backup as in
> spare, not as in the calvary.)
>

Most of my characters have become this way. It's more fun and it's easier to
do the runs when your character can do many things.

>
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