Message no. 1

From:	Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@****.INFORMATIK.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject:	Re: Geasa and physical adepts? (Speed)
Date:	Thu, 21 Sep 1995 18:52:27 +0200

> > The speed samurai was a joke-archetype, plain and simple. It got started by
> > Martin and me saying to each other "How high _can_ you get the initiative
of
> > a starting character anyway? Let's start with a million and see how high we
> > can go..." Then added in the "speed is everything" attitude and
hey presto,
> > a char who might be interesting to play for once but definitely not
> > forever :)
Well, I know one player (not from my group, luckily) who plays this character.
From what I hear, he keeps driving all other players mad, because he has parts
of this "speed" attitude even in RL and surely knows to play it (popping up to
your right and left nearly simultanously, babbling all the time etc.).

> I could go on like this for ages, the SR system is the most versatile
> and the most flexible (especially) when it comes to character generation.
> The amazing background makes it possible to create almost any character,
> so I really dont see why someone should play that speed-sam over and over
> and over again.
If you _really_ want to get rid of "speed"-characters, take the rules from
Cybertech pp57-58 (yeah, finally I got it! :-.) about "Cyberware and social
interaction". Consider raised speed (reaction and initiative dies) as
obvious and especially annoying. See the character's (and player's :-) face
get longer and longer while his/her contacts leave him/her alone... :-)
Should cure anybody...

Sascha
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