Back to the main page

Mailing List Logs for ShadowRN

Message no. 1
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Geasa and physical magicians (was Re: This is bordering on the
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1999 19:30:17 +0100
According to Davidson, Chris, at 7:48 on 11 Jan 99, the word on
the street was...

> What do you mean live with all the geasa. I'm not
> familiar with that.

Per the Grimoire, for every 2 points of Magic rating you lose, you must
take a geas -- some sort of limit on your magic skills, that says you have
to do things like gesture wildly, speak out loud, be drunk, or any other
such limit you want to impose on yourself (choosing it at the time you
take the geas). If you don't follow the geas, you get a penalty to your
magical skill tests.

For example, if I choose Fasting as my geas, I get a penalty if I attempt
magic within 24 hours (IIRC) of having eaten. OTOH if I've gone without
food for 24 hours, I can use magic without penalties.

This relates to physical magicians because they are virtually _required_
take geasa, at least if they want to have a decent number of physad
powers, and almost certainly if they want to have cyberware (like you
proposed).

--
Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
Kleiduivenmelker
-> NERPS Project Leader * ShadowRN GridSec * Unofficial Shadowrun Guru <-
->The Plastic Warriors Page: http://shadowrun.html.com/plasticwarriors/<-
-> The New Character Mortuary: http://www.electricferret.com/mortuary/ <-

GC3.1: GAT/! d-(dpu) s:- !a>? C+(++)@ U P L E? W(++) N o? K- w+ O V? PS+
PE Y PGP- t(+) 5++ X++ R+++>$ tv+(++) b++@ DI? D+ G(++) e h! !r(---) y?
Incubated into the First Church of the Sqooshy Ball, 21-05-1998

Further Reading

If you enjoyed reading about Geasa and physical magicians (was Re: This is bordering on the, you may also be interested in:

Disclaimer

These messages were posted a long time ago on a mailing list far, far away. The copyright to their contents probably lies with the original authors of the individual messages, but since they were published in an electronic forum that anyone could subscribe to, and the logs were available to subscribers and most likely non-subscribers as well, it's felt that re-publishing them here is a kind of public service.