| From: | mbroadwa@*******.glenayre.com (Mike Broadwater) |
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| Subject: | Re: just a thought |
| Date: | Tue, 26 Mar 1996 07:10:02 -0600 |
>> On Mon, 25 Mar 1996, Mark L. Neidengard wrote:
>> > It's an agro (and rather munchkin) inventino from Cybertechnology that is
>> > an improvement over Wired Reflexes. Every level of it is +2 to Reaction,
>> It's only munchkin if the bad guys can't have it and the good guys do.
>> You're overusing the word again.
>
>Really? I would say it's munchkin if it gives anyone a disparate advantage
>without commensurate penalty in terms of game balance (or rationality, either
>one). If you look at the pattern established for Wired Reflexes, Wired 4
>should probably cost 8 Essence. Move By Wire 4 is 6.45, and gives all the
>same benefits PLUS four points of Quickness and four additional dice to
>athletic tests. That is not game-balanced in my book....
>
>Make its Essence cost greater and I might not protest so loudly. Cutting back
>the Quickness bonus would also not be amiss (maybe to half a point per half
>a level of Move by Wire).
You obviously forgot that major drawback of having to make a body test every
couple of months or suffer extreme consequences. And you can only use
natural body dice. Thats a _major_ drawback. "Roll well or die"
