From:	Brion Wauters <stu502@****.COCO.CC.AZ.US>
Subject:	Re: Info wanted...
Date:	Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:51:48 -0800

I'm not going to bother quoting the quote of a quote, so please bear with me.

If memory serves, Dante was around for quite awhile, ditto for Nightmare (I'm
assuming Nightmare was a villian, that's the way his posts always read). So
we've had a few "reaccuring" baddies.

As for "super-runners", I'm not sure. I've been off-list for a year, so I
don't really know anything about the newer characters. But with the older
guys, it seemed to me that it was fairly spread out. We had folks who where
death on wheels (Daisho for example), we had characters like Irish and Caine,
who where experienced street vetrans and could do alot of fairly impressive
stuff, but got their hoops kicked a number of times, and we had some fairly
basic "starting-character" types.

When someone brings in a character, they'll proably try to make him fairly
strong. He's running with the big-guns now, and even if he isn't that
impressive himself, he's liable to get caught up in things aimed at the
nastier runners. Then he'll have to try to survive. A little forebearance
proabably couldn't hurt, regarding "power-level". And be carefull that you
don't jump to conclusions about how strong a new character is. Just because
a newbie's background sounds like that of an established character, doesn't
mean that their in the same league. Take Irish and Lynch for example. Their
backgrounds sound an awful lot alike, but if you take everything into account
(abilities, skills, cyber/bio, gear, contacts, buddies, etc) they're
proabably operating on two fairly different levels.

As for the "red-shirt" syndrome, its always going to be there. You just have
to try to keep it under control. Sure some sec-guards are going to be jokes,
you have that in real life. But alot will be as good as the runners, and
some will be better (see Brian A's. first "anti-Maxim" run for an example of
how Sec-guards can hoose runners good). It just takes practice to write up a
realistic and entertaining story.

Oh, and Avenger, I see Shadowrunning as just trying to survive using the
abilities you got. I'll leave the corporate-style stuff to the folks who
hire the characters.

My two cents.

Brion