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Message no. 1
From: "David M Girardot (Girardot, David)" <GIRARDOT@********.BITNET>
Subject: Karma ... my awards
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 22:43:26 edt
Currently we plan to play every other week for about 7 hours. My adventures
are geared to be difficult and my players are very thankful for their karma
pools. I award karma more than once per adventure, with the "major" award
coming at least once a night. Also if players do something noteworthy, they
get a point or two. A typical nightly award is around 4 karma per player
with another 2-6 karma possible for especially good roleplaying. Yes, I
emphasize roleplaying where I can. :)

Granted, the awards are slightly high ... but we will be lucky if we get in 8
sessions a year, and players like getting karma when they can.

Characters growing overpowerful has never been a problem ... we generally
become bored with the game, even with these large karma awards, before this
sort of thing can set in. 'Course, I am a little nervous about that decker
who has an effective nine dice to roll with his firearms skill
(specialization plus bioware, and a smartlink too). He's pretty much a
deadshot. :) I think the street sam is jealous ... course that street sam
has smartlink, spurs, wired 3, and Damage Comp 6 ... so he's no pushover. :)

--David
Message no. 2
From: "Richard Pieri/Stainless Steel Rat"
Subject: Re: Karma ... my awards
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 92 23:02:16 EDT
>>>>> "GD" ==== Girardot, David <David> writes:

GD> Characters growing overpowerful has never been a problem ... we
GD> generally become bored with the game, even with these large karma
GD> awards, before this sort of thing can set in. 'Course, I am a
GD> little nervous about that decker who has an effective nine dice to
GD> roll with his firearms skill (specialization plus bioware, and a
GD> smartlink too). He's pretty much a deadshot. :) I think the
GD> street sam is jealous ... course that street sam has smartlink,
GD> spurs, wired 3, and Damage Comp 6 ... so he's no pushover. :)

That shouldn't be a really big problem, tho. Deckers/Hackers tend to
make very effective snipers, but they don't have the all-around combat
ability that a real Samurai does. Converesely, it doesn't take much
for a Sammi to do double duty in the Matrix (specialized Computer 2/
Software 4/Matrix 6), but he won't survive head-on tangles with Red
level ][C.

--Rat
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--A Flock of Seaguls, I Ran

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