From: | Slipspeed <atreloar@*********.COM> |
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Subject: | Re: Karma Levels (Was: Physical sorcerers?(tangent)) |
Date: | Sat, 12 Sep 1998 01:14:28 +1000 |
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>Any character can blow things out of the water after 200 Karma, but I'm
>guessing you meant relative to the other 200 karma characters. In my
>opinion, the best campaigns are between 30-70 Karma.
I'd tend to disagree... 30-70 karma is a good starting base, where
characters can start to have a few of the skills they need. But I,
personally, hate having hundreds of low karma characters. Play the
character for a while and it's inevitable that they'll accumulate more than
that.
To my way of thinking, 200 karma is where characters start to move from the
high end of average characters into people with real weight in the shadows.
However, they CERTAINLY can't blow everything out of the water at that karma
level. Especially mages or physads (adepts under 3rd Ed? I forget). At
200 karma, most of mine are just getting past the basics in skills, spells,
attribute boosts, initiations etc.
But then, I tend to spend karma evenly, preferring the 'jack of all trades'
type rather than the specialist. A mage with 200 karma could be initiated 4
times alright, and have a manabolt 10, but none of my characters, mage,
physad or otherwise are like that. Point in casee, my oldest character,
Turbo - 600+ karma and his highest skill is an 8 in firearms. Most of his
karma has gone into many skills. Her has about every skill in the book,
plus some. He'd slot it quite well with most runners of 100 karma or more,
*because* he doesn't have firearms of god-knows-what, if you ignore the
assests he's accumulated. About the only area where he'd stand out would be
karma pool, but he doesn't have much of that either, not after a rather
nasty encounter with a dragon... :)
Anyway, in summary, I hate abandoning a character with 200 karma because
people are thinking that the character is getting too powerful. Running as
street trash is great for starting characters, but it's nice to see them
move into the movers and shakers section of the shadowrunners world.
After all, what runner that knows his business hasn't heard of Fastjack etc?
Wouldn't it be nice if in your particular version of the Shadowrun world one
of your characters had similar name recognition? (Well, maybe not THAT
much, but more than your fixer, at least.. :) )
Slipspeed
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