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Message no. 1
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: Metahumanity, the complete list
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 12:19:13 -0700
Look!!! It's the official Tome submission of the Racial Stats!

ALL META-HUMAN RACES
Table of Attributes

Human Elf Dwarf Ork Troll Minotaur Ogre Gnome
----- --- ----- --- ----- ------- ---- -----
BODY 6 6 7 (+1) 9 (+3) 11 (+5) 10 (+4) 9 (+3) 6
QUICK 6 7 (+1) 5 (-1) 6 5 (-1) 6 6 5 (-1)
STR 6 6 8 (+2) 8 (+2) 10 (+4) 9 (+3) 10 (+4) 5 (-1)
CHAR 6 8 (+2) 6 5 (-1) 4 (-2) 4 (-2) 5 (-1) 6
INT 6 6 6 5 (-1) 4 (-2) 5 (-1) 4 (-2) 9 (+3)
WILL 6 6 7 (+1) 6 5 (-1) 5 (-1) 5 (-1) 8 (+2)
ESSENCE 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
MAGIC 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6
REAC 6 6 6 5 4 5 5 7
Eyes -- LL TH LL TH TH LL LL
Spec 1 -- -- *1 -- *2 *2 -- *5
Spec 2 -- -- -- -- *3 *4 -- --

*1 == Dwarves receive a +2 die bonus to resisting diseases
*2 == Trolls and Minotaurs have a +1 Reach for Armed/Unarmed Comabt
*3 == Trolls have dermal armor, gaining one Body die
*4 == Minotaurs have a pair of horns that will do (Str)M physical damage.
This attack does not benefit from the +1 reach, though.
*5 == Gnomes have a natural 1 die Task Pool due to their inquisitive
nature and an uncanny knack for looking at things in an unlogical
and imaginative manner. This task pool can be used for any technical
skills that default to intelligence, and is in addition to any dice
gained from Cyber or Bioware.

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker

P.S. I'm the first to post!!! I'm the first to post!!!
Message no. 2
From: "Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: Re: Metahumanity, the complete list
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 1993 14:27:39 -0500
On Wed, 21 Jul 1993, Jason Carter, Nightstalker wrote:

> P.S. I'm the first to post!!! I'm the first to post!!!

No you're not *grin*

Check the logs.

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Random Thought:

I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a
very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom
everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or
at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade,
and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach
much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense
of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor
popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.
-- Carl Sagan, The Burden Of Skepticism, The Skeptical Inquirer,
Vol. 12, Fall 87
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