| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Cybertechnology Sourcebook review (of sorts) & body weights |
| Date: | Mon, 14 Aug 1995 23:23:14 +0200 |
Hey, what do you expect from a review? :)
>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 :)
>> body weight, etc. (With this latter thing, I must say I find FASA
>> does
>> something stupid again: your rough weight is <base mass> x Body, so a human
>> with a Body of 1 would weigh 24 kg... Why not say "base human weight 40 kg,
>> + 10kg x Body or something like that?)
>well it was better than FASA's last effort :), but as you say far
>better is so easy.
How about the following body weight rules (partly stolen from T2K I think):
(Meta)human Body Weight = Base Weight + Body + Strength - Quickness
Base weights and multipliers for the various races are:
Dwarf: 47
Elf: 65
Human: 64
Ork: 88
Troll: 218
That makes a dwarf with Body 4, Strength 7, and Quickness 3 weigh 47 + 4 + 7
- 3 = 55 kg.
>> re-introduced the first-ed surgery costs (which I noticed had been dropped
>> from SR2, so I kept using those from SR1), which is _in_addition_ to costs
>> for healing :)
>oh thats why i coul;d never find them!, i has heard of those, and was
>glad to see them in as i knew some of the numbers from memory.
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 :)
>> Then a transscript of a few phonecalls (???) on the
>> subject, which might be interesting reading, but because I haven't read it
>> yet I can't be sure.
>They are interesting, and not like VR.
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! :)
>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...
>Try the 'Atztechnology building bridges' on page 75 column 2, no
>prizes as to my guess on which bridge this refers to.
>There is also the first mention of Hougans, i remember seeing FASA
>publish........ [they are in several net.books and a white Wolf
>article for SR].
Houngans are actually in the NAGM I think, so FASA's just making us want to
buy that book to find out what they actually are (remark of a paranoid yours
truly: "Yes, FASA, I'll buy it when it comes out! I promise!" :)
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