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Message no. 1
From: "Darrin M. Conant" <dconant@****.spectra.net>
Subject: decker/rigger munchkin
Date: Thu, 04 Apr 1996 10:46:17 -0500
At 07:42 PM 4/3/96 EST, David Herr wrote:
>I however know that a
>e-mail virus is impossible and therefore am sure that it just scann
>you incoming e-mail for attachments that contain virii, wouldn't want
>to get suide for false advertising now would we?

It used to be possible back in the days when people ran ANSI.SYS on an IBM
computer, but no one does anymore. Nowadays it takes a semi-autonomous
knowbot to do it right, any real decker knows that! :)

Paranoid animals of North America Question:
One of the archetypes at the end (the cybered sorcerer guy) has skillwires
3+ TWICE!!! Whoever did this, please hang your head in shame! Also, I can't
find a rule prohibiting it, but isn't it illegal to run a skill program at
level 6 on skillwires 3+?

We've seen big bad people who shoot guns, but what about a decker or rigger
munchkin?
If no one has a good munchkin character, I may have to submit one of my
older characters and try to remove the experience points. Besides, when has
anyone seen a REAL rigger written up? I'm talking Wajinda RPV's with rockets
and stuff!
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Message no. 2
From: Kenneth Horner <kwhorner@*******.edu>
Subject: Re: decker/rigger munchkin
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 1996 16:13:05 -0800 (PST)
On Thu, 4 Apr 1996, Darrin M. Conant wrote:

> At 07:42 PM 4/3/96 EST, David Herr wrote:
> >I however know that a
> >e-mail virus is impossible and therefore am sure that it just scann
> >you incoming e-mail for attachments that contain virii, wouldn't want
> >to get suide for false advertising now would we?
>
> It used to be possible back in the days when people ran ANSI.SYS on an IBM
> computer, but no one does anymore. Nowadays it takes a semi-autonomous
> knowbot to do it right, any real decker knows that! :)
>
> Paranoid animals of North America Question:
> One of the archetypes at the end (the cybered sorcerer guy) has skillwires
> 3+ TWICE!!! Whoever did this, please hang your head in shame! Also, I can't
> find a rule prohibiting it, but isn't it illegal to run a skill program at
> level 6 on skillwires 3+?
>
No, but you could use _four_ level three progams instead of just 2.

Nutcracker
<who gets all his knowlegde and skills thru chips>
Message no. 3
From: "Gurth" <gurth@******.nl>
Subject: Re: decker/rigger munchkin
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 10:13:24 +0100
Darrin M. Conant said on 4 Apr 96...

> Paranoid animals of North America Question:
> One of the archetypes at the end (the cybered sorcerer guy) has skillwires
> 3+ TWICE!!! Whoever did this, please hang your head in shame!

I believe Jani is gone from this list, else we could ask him (Jani, are
you still out there?).

Although it might also have been a typo of mine...

> Also, I can't
> find a rule prohibiting it, but isn't it illegal to run a skill program at
> level 6 on skillwires 3+?

Depends on how you interpret the rules -- all it says is that you can run
a maximum total rating of skill chips up to twice the rating of the
skillwires. You could read that as saying "None over the base level of the
wires, and you can use two of those chips" or say that you can use any
chip, as long as its rating isn't higher than twice the rating of the
wires.

> We've seen big bad people who shoot guns, but what about a decker or rigger
> munchkin?

I thought about a decker (for a few seconds) but couldn't think of a way
to muchkinise him/her that fast, so I sort of dropped it. It should be
possible, of course ;)

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