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Message no. 1
From: seb@***.ripco.com (Sebastian Wiers)
Subject: Re: Mages/Adepts and Bioware/ ed/evo
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 13:09:33 -0600 (CST)
Regarding ED abilities laying genetically dormant and popping up in
some sort of awakening (Astral hardening/ re cyberware "tolerence" was
mentioned)- IT CAN"T HAPPEN.
ED adept abilities are not inherited- maybe the potential to be an
adept is, but you can LEARN to be a certain sort of adept, changaining acess
to whole new areas of talent.
On the other hand, this is a better picture of how evolution happens
than that other person painted- very often, old, semininglyt useless code
sudenny is pressed into new use as a survival caracteristic, and all those
with it are positively selected for. OF course, I'd hate to see the world
where cyber-tolerence actualy affects your chances of reproducing....
--
--Seb
Message no. 2
From: "A. Blair Blackwell" <ab130f92@*******.adelphi.edu>
Subject: Re: Mages/Adepts and Bioware/ ed/evo
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 14:41:30 -0500
At 13:09 3/26/96 -0600, you wrote:
>
>
>
> Regarding ED abilities laying genetically dormant and popping up in
>some sort of awakening (Astral hardening/ re cyberware "tolerence" was
>mentioned)- IT CAN"T HAPPEN.
> ED adept abilities are not inherited- maybe the potential to be an
>adept is, but you can LEARN to be a certain sort of adept, changaining acess
>to whole new areas of talent.
> On the other hand, this is a better picture of how evolution happens
>than that other person painted- very often, old, semininglyt useless code
>sudenny is pressed into new use as a survival caracteristic, and all those
>with it are positively selected for. OF course, I'd hate to see the world
>where cyber-tolerence actualy affects your chances of reproducing....
>--
>--Seb
>

Agreed, but I'm still waiting to add that Odsidiman Phys Ad to the Spirte
(Windling) Phys Ad I've already got as a NPC/Game Balancer.

BLAIR
Message no. 3
From: Jonas Gabrielson <m94jga@*******.tdb.uu.se>
Subject: Re: Mages/Adepts and Bioware/ ed/evo
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 12:46:23 +0100 (MET)
On Tue, 26 Mar 1996, Sebastian Wiers wrote:

> Regarding ED abilities laying genetically dormant and popping up in
> some sort of awakening (Astral hardening/ re cyberware "tolerence" was
> mentioned)- IT CAN"T HAPPEN.
> ED adept abilities are not inherited- maybe the potential to be an
> adept is, but you can LEARN to be a certain sort of adept, changaining acess
> to whole new areas of talent.

Hey, it was just a crazy idea! If you don't want it, so see if I
care :) And I wouldn't use that phrase "it can't happen" if I were you -
after all, it's a world of magic and wonders...
I have never actually played ED (although I own a copy and three
sourcebooks - the things we do for digging up secrets, huh?), mainly
because it seems a bit too much AD&D for my taste ("Let's go bash tome
monsters so we get oodles of Legend Points!"), so I wouldn't know. But
couldn't it be conceivable that Adepts who get Adept children will teach
them *their* discipline (or whatever it's called), getting families with a
strong predominance of one discipline, which over the years trnaslate into
a (very) recessive trait (remember, an age of magic is almost 7,000
years)? Oh, well, I give up.

> On the other hand, this is a better picture of how evolution happens
> than that other person painted- very often, old, semininglyt useless code
> sudenny is pressed into new use as a survival caracteristic, and all those
> with it are positively selected for. OF course, I'd hate to see the world
> where cyber-tolerence actualy affects your chances of reproducing....

"Choose me as your mate! I can cram 100 kg of chrome into my body!
Of course, you'd have to be on top..."

-Jonas Gabrielson, poor mating material
Message no. 4
From: xanth@****.uky.edu (Terry Amburgey)
Subject: Re: Mages/Adepts and Bioware/ ed/evo
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 1996 09:40:39 -0500 (EST)
Jonas wrote:
[snip]And I wouldn't use that phrase "it can't happen" if I were you -
>after all, it's a world of magic and wonders...
[snip]

Yup. Some thought that bioware couldn't cost both essence and magic rating...
:) Terry
Terry L. Amburgey Office: 606-257-7726
Associate Professor Home: 606-224-0636
College of Business & Economics Fax: 606-257-3577
University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY 40506

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