| From: | Ken Webb <hbphy009@****.CSUN.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Change -Reply /NOT A/ mild flame |
| Date: | Tue, 1 Nov 1994 12:37:45 +0800 |
<On the topic of docking karma for killing innocent people>
> Actually this goes completely against SR's idea of karma, which isn't Karma,
> but is simply your ability to improve. You get just as accurate shooting at
> civvies as you do sammies. Shooting innocents is a fact in a cyberpunk
> setting. Life ain't fun. Don't go imposing your morals on your players.
Actually, a good way to look at this is something like "negative
reinforcement." If a character has a "good" moral code that (s)he lives
by, then shooting an innocent can associate negative connotations to the
use of that skill and thus that character does not improve that skill for
that instant. A "good" moral code means killing innocents is against what
you stand for.
This, of course, is moot if the character is a cold blooded killer.
--Ken Webb
