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Message no. 1
From: Steve Collins <einan@*********.NET>
Subject: Contacts was Re: SR3 Character Sheets
Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 23:06:15 -0400
>Steve Eley wrote:
>>Looking at your sheet right now, I'd say there's no need for room for more
>than
>>6-8 contacts,
>
>Hmm. I guess I'm the only one who buys around 15+ contacts at startup.
>
Nope. I havn't seen your character Sheet so I can't say much about that,
but I have a problem with the standard character sheet in Sr3 in regards
to the ammount of space given for contacts. I have 12 contacts and 2
enemies at character creation, where the heck am I going to fit anything
more than their names (ok I guess I can have a seperate write up for each
which I intend to do as soon as I get the time), god forbid I should
accumulate more during play. I tend to spend between 20% and 25% of my
starting cash on contacts and lifestyles with at least 5% going for
contacts (unless I take resourses at D or E then there's not enough to
bother with as I could get at most 1 extra contact).

On a related note we use a house rule here for purchasing contacts that
tends to make you have more of them. Each contact has 2 ratings instead
of just one. The first is how well you know them the other is how much
they can/will do for you. We have 5 levels of power, to take a level 4
contact you need the friends in high places edge and level 5 contacts
require a 4 point edge called friends in very high places. The higher you
go in either category the more expensive with cost ranging from 2000 for
a street level contact to 320,000 for a worldwide power (Great Dragon,
IE, Nadia Daviar, Fastjack, etc.) friend for life. If anyone is intrested
in seeing them I'll post them or you can go to
http://www.mindspring.com/~mefron/SR3 and see most of the house rules we
use.

Steve
Message no. 2
From: bryan.covington@****.COM
Subject: Re: Contacts was Re: SR3 Character Sheets
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:05:39 -0400
> >Steve Eley wrote:
> >>Looking at your sheet right now, I'd say there's no need for room
> for more
> >than
> >>6-8 contacts,
> >
> >Hmm. I guess I'm the only one who buys around 15+ contacts at
> startup.
> >
> Nope. I havn't seen your character Sheet so I can't say much about
> that,
> but I have a problem with the standard character sheet in Sr3 in
> regards
> to the ammount of space given for contacts. I have 12 contacts and 2
> enemies at character creation, where the heck am I going to fit
> anything
> more than their names (ok I guess I can have a seperate write up for
> each
> which I intend to do as soon as I get the time), god forbid I should
> accumulate more during play. I tend to spend between 20% and 25% of my
> starting cash on contacts and lifestyles with at least 5% going for
> contacts (unless I take resourses at D or E then there's not enough to
> bother with as I could get at most 1 extra contact).
>
We used to regularly have "All in book" written in the
contacts section. Lots of VERY well connected mages (extra money they
took cause they wanted the 50 spell points).
Message no. 3
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Contacts was Re: SR3 Character Sheets
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 09:21:16 -0500
> We used to regularly have "All in book" written in the
>contacts section. Lots of VERY well connected mages (extra money they
>took cause they wanted the 50 spell points).

Out of idle curiosity...how could they take that if they were mages? By
definition, their Magic priority was A, precluding them taking Resources of
A.

---
(>) Texas 2-Step
El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 4
From: Steve Eley <sfeley@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Contacts was Re: SR3 Character Sheets
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:50:08 -0400
bryan.covington@****.COM wrote:
>
> We used to regularly have "All in book" written in the
> contacts section. Lots of VERY well connected mages (extra money they
> took cause they wanted the 50 spell points).

Sounds very chummy...

"Rats! Low on cash. I'll have to call my friend Fixer."

"I go up to my good buddy Bartender and ask if he's seen Ork Rights
Activist lately."

"Pssst, hey, Yakuza Boss? Can you lend me a couple nuyen? I'm gonna buy
Corporate Secretary a drink, see if I can put the moves on her while her
boyfriend Lone Star Cop isn't looking."

(et cetera ad ambiguum)


Have Fun,
- Steve Eley
sfeley@***.net
Message no. 5
From: bryan.covington@****.COM
Subject: Re: Contacts was Re: SR3 Character Sheets
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:49:12 -0400
Pardon 400k. Still buys an assload of contacts. Since they
couldn't buy focuses and fetish stuff (Pre grimmy). They just had
nothing else to buy.

_____________________________________________
Bryan Covington Web Developer
704.593.7126 Capital Markets Web Group


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Patrick Goodman [SMTP:remo@***.NET]
> Sent: Monday, August 31, 1998 10:21 AM
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Contacts was Re: SR3 Character Sheets
> Importance: Low
>
> > We used to regularly have "All in book" written in
> the
> >contacts section. Lots of VERY well connected mages (extra money they
> >took cause they wanted the 50 spell points).
>
> Out of idle curiosity...how could they take that if they were mages?
> By
> definition, their Magic priority was A, precluding them taking
> Resources of
> A.
>
> ---
> (>) Texas 2-Step
> El Paso: Never surrender. Never forget. Never forgive.
Message no. 6
From: David Foster <fixer@*******.TLH.FL.US>
Subject: Re: Contacts was Re: SR3 Character Sheets
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 12:11:38 -0400
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Steve Eley wrote:

->bryan.covington@****.COM wrote:
->>
->> We used to regularly have "All in book" written in the
->> contacts section. Lots of VERY well connected mages (extra money they
->> took cause they wanted the 50 spell points).
->
->Sounds very chummy...
->
->"Rats! Low on cash. I'll have to call my friend Fixer."

Yeah? Whatcha want? You want money? Don' we all chummer. What
I want is a little gig going on down in Pullayup, interested? ]:-)

Fixer --------------} The easy I do before breakfast,
the difficult I do all day long,
the impossible only during the week,
and miracles performed on an as-needed basis....

Now tell me, what was your problem?

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