| From: | David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Magic Loss for Bioware |
| Date: | Mon, 11 Jan 1999 11:05:41 -0700 |
/
/ Now that I've got your attention tho...can a mage
/ add bioware without loosing magic points. I was
/ trying to find something about it in my
/ sourcebooks last night, but was not able to. Is
/ that because there is nothing wrote about it?
The rules for this are located in Shadowtech at the beginning of the
Bioware section.
Per those rules mages must spend Body Index points *and* Essence (equal
to the Body Index) for bioware.
Most of us think this bites. The common house rule is that mages do
*not* lose essence from bioware. However, they lose magic points as if
they had lost Essence equal to the Body Index. The way everyone does
the math varies.
In my game a mage with .2 points of cyberware and 1.2 points of bioware
would lose 2 points of magic (.2 + 1.2, round up).
Other GMs count the losses seperately and using the above numbers a
mage would lose 3 points of magic ((.2 round up to 1) + (1.2 rounded up
to 2), for a total of 3).
AFAIK FASAMike wants to change the bioware rules as they apply to this.
When and if someone submits a fix that he likes is anyone's guess.
-David B.
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