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From: Mark Steedman <RSMS@******.EEE.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Cybertechnology Sourcebook review (of sorts) & body wei
Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 09:06:08 GMT
> From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>

> >Trimmed like mad!
>
> Hey, what do you expect from a review? :)
>
The length of your message was fine, i was just warning folks what i
had done to keep the reply vaugely sane in length.

> >Thats that oh so Munchkin 'move by wire system level 4!!', as Gurth
> >comments further on the drawbacks make it useless to PC's
>
> Not quite useless (will you let me have MBW-4, Steve? Please! :) but it has
> some _hefty_ drawbacks... It starts with the Essence and nuyen costs
> already: 6.45 and 3M I think :)
>
Try rolling 2 sixes on natural body every 2 months??? (on a GM made
non karmable roll) if not you get
an affliction that eventually proves terminal, ok a PC might last a
year but, [the lower levels are useable though, despite some serious
drawbacks]

> How about the following body weight rules (partly stolen from T2K I think):
>
looked ok.

> I'd found out they dropped those very soon after I bought my SR2 book. I
> thought they'd forgotten them, but when they didn't appear on any errata
> sheets I thought "Hey, it might be intentional." Anyway I just looked at
SR1
> and used a pencil to write them in my Black Book :)
>
I have not read first ed :(, the best i did was 15mins at the 1st ed
Grimoire to see what was in it.

> I still think much of the fiction is a one-time read, like Hatchetman's
> story (though that gives good background on why people get cyberware in the
> first place -- and they stole SK's idea of a spur in the elbow! :)
>
yes, the real grip with VR thats 1/2 a story. At least those two
stories are not that long.

> >Two more people to identify, one British, and one American Mage.
>
> Haven't found out who they are, nor what this "Cabal" is they're talking
> about...
>
anyone else got any ideas?

> --
> Gurth@******.nl - Gurth@***.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html


Mark

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