From: | Jonas Gabrielson <m94jga@*******.TDB.UU.SE> |
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Subject: | F***ing Encephalon! |
Date: | Fri, 21 Apr 1995 13:13:22 +0200 |
ENCEPHALON. The decker in my group pooled his fortune, and bought one.
Suddenly, he became the crack shot of the group.
The major drawback is of course the Task Pool that you get with
the chip. Three extra dice to use on every skill test you could ever
think of is quite a bonus. However, as a balance, the adds in
Intelligence for Tech skills and the like are rather pathetic - anyone
who wants those adds already has the real skill, and doesn't have to use
Intelligence in their place.
To counter this, I first told the player in question that the
task pool could only reduce time - the successes made with these dice did
not count as improving the achievment, but only making it go faster. I
figured this was pretty logical, given the Encephalon's multi-tasking.
Unfortunately, this didn't work - the player complained that it
said in the description that the Task Pool could be used on any tests.
Have any of you a better solution. I'd be glad to get some input.