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Message no. 1
From: "Mark C. Farrington" <alareth@*****.DWEBS.NET>
Subject: Allergies (Was Re: Cover Art)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:26:09 -0400
>I'm still annoyed they took the "roll for allergy" charts out of SRII.
>I liked random allergies - I had a twink player taking severe
>allergies to silver and shit like that to get more points. To counter
>act that, I forced him to roll off the tables in SRI - when he got a
>moderate allergy, he refused to play that character, and threw his
>hands up in a mif because he couldn't twink out his attributes the
>way he wanted to. Now all of my players have to roll on that chart.
>The ones playing metahumans, that is.


I give the option of picking allergies to metahumans and human magic
users. I see giving it to the magic users as a logcial thing. They "get"
allergies by delving into the magical arts in a way they shouldn't have and
get magically messed up.

Alareth - Acolyte of the First Church of the Squooshy Ball
~~~~~ I always said I wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more
specific ~~~~~
Message no. 2
From: Matt Penn <steelclaw@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Allergies (Was Re: Cover Art)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:45:26 -0400
On Mon, 10 Aug 1998 16:26:09 -0400 "Mark C. Farrington"

> I give the option of picking allergies to metahumans and human
magic
>users. I see giving it to the magic users as a logcial thing. They
"get"
>allergies by delving into the magical arts in a way they shouldn't have
and
>get magically messed up.

<sigh> My face is red. I try to get over it, but I'm still a newbie at
heart, unfortunately. Is there somewhere in the books that says to give
metahumans and magic-users allergies of various and sundries or does it
just have something to do with the Edge and Flaw points in the SR
Companion?

-Matt, Homo Sapiens Robustus
"Still, how many SR newbies have the Tir Tairngire and Shadowbeat books,
eh?"

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Message no. 3
From: John E Pederson <pedersje@******.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: Allergies (Was Re: Cover Art)
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 17:03:08 -0500
Matt Penn wrote:
> <sigh> My face is red. I try to get over it, but I'm still a newbie at
> heart, unfortunately. Is there somewhere in the books that says to give
> metahumans and magic-users allergies of various and sundries or does it
> just have something to do with the Edge and Flaw points in the SR
> Companion?

It (or the original message on this thread) was a reference to the random
allergy tables that were used in first-ed character creation: you play a
metahuman, you roll on the table. In Second edition the random table was
replaced with the version you're probably most familiar with, in which a
metahuman character could take _an_ allergy for a bonus somewhere else (extra
cash, attribute points, skill point, force points, what have you).

> -Matt, Homo Sapiens Robustus
> "Still, how many SR newbies have the Tir Tairngire and Shadowbeat books,
> eh?"

Pffft. I don't have either one (and at the rate I'm moving, I never will:P )

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Message no. 4
From: Martin Steffens <chimerae@***.IE>
Subject: Re: Allergies (Was Re: Cover Art)
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1998 11:03:22 +0000
and thus did Mark C. Farrington speak on 10 Aug 98 at 16:26:

> I give the option of picking allergies to metahumans and human magic
> users. I see giving it to the magic users as a logcial thing. They "get"
> allergies by delving into the magical arts in a way they shouldn't have and
> get magically messed up.

I give allergy options to everybody who wants them, even before the
Companion. Heck I'm allergic to silver right here and now, and I'm
not a spike baby or anything. I never understood why it was only a
meta-human option considering the huge amounts of people now who have
allergies.


Karina & Martin Steffens
chimerae@***.ie

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