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Message no. 1
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: Comments to my stuff.
Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1993 13:19:01 -0800
Hi everybody! Here are some answers to the comments on my TOME submissions.

Two Weapon Style

>>How about a disadvantage to this form, like increased cost? It need to
>>have a disadvantage, or it's simply munchkin. If you're going to add
>>color, you have to make sure you don't make it more or less powerful than
>>the world that you're playing in -- just different.

I tried to come up with a disadvantage for this style, but barring a mandatory
skill there are none that I can think of. Since the purpose of the rules were
to make rules for how fighting with two weapons works for anybody, I elected to
make the skill voluntary. I did, however, include the option for GM's who don't
like something for nothing to make the skill mandatory.

>>on the skill: penalty for use should drop for every 1 success, treat each
>>weapon seperately

Penalties drop one per two to:
a) Not make the skill too effective.
b) To emulate the centering rules, were everything is 1 per 2 successes.

>>Make two weapon style skill mandatory. And use the lower of the weapon
>>style skill and armed combat skills when resolving tests.

See above, and I perfer average of two skills but not higher than the weapon
skill.

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Complete Shadowrun spelllist

The five Tome spelllist will include all spells accepted to TOME, althought I
personally loathe some of the submitted spells. NAGEE spells will not be
included because they are NAGEE, SRI, and generally stupid. I will be nice
enough to alphabatize the spells.

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Gradual Initiation

>>make option rule which allowes to pick two powers per grade

I will not saction such an optional rule. If the GM wants to make the change,
that is his business.

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Health Adept and Venom Elemental Effect

>>More explaination is needed about what exactly vemon is. Isi it just
>>another type of damage caused by normal spells or aare they a series of
>>other spells or what? Explain more.

>>Fix -- Spelling, spelling, spelling.

Quit your bitching!

>>seems to be a 'cleric' from D&D. Some bonuses would be helpful

It's not a cleric, it's the missing elemental adept. It recieves no bonuses
because none of the other elemental adepts recieve bonuses.

>>contingent only on whether Quictek's Zombies are accepted.

They have been (right?).

See Ya in Shadows, "I can count the number of days I've worked
Jason J Carter since graduation on one hand." - ME!
The Nightstalker Carter@***.EDU

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