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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com)
Subject: Magic/Otaku Chargen Revamp
Date: Thu May 17 20:10:01 2001
On Fri, 18 May 2001 10:48:45 +1200 (NZST) Keith Duthie
<psycho@*********.co.nz> writes:
<SNIP>
> With this system, adepts cost 75 karma, full magicians cost 100
> karma,
> elementalists cost 70 karma (or 75 for an earth elementalist), and
> magician adepts cost 105 karma.

Wow. That's cheap. At least according to the SR3Co, where 10 karma buys
off a 1 BP flaw, which implies that your costs are equivelant to a 7.5 BP
adept, a 10 BP Full Mage, 7 BP Elementalists (7.5 for Eath
Elementalists), and 10.5 BP Way of the Mage Adepts. Now, the logic may be
shaky, but that's the way it looks from here ...

So how much of my soul (Karma) do I have to sell to get gobs of money in
your system? ;)

--
D. Ghost
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- Troutman's 6th programming postulate.
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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Keith Duthie)
Subject: Magic/Otaku Chargen Revamp
Date: Fri May 18 08:40:01 2001
On Thu, 17 May 2001 dghost@****.com wrote:

> Wow. That's cheap. At least according to the SR3Co, where 10 karma buys
> off a 1 BP flaw, which implies that your costs are equivelant to a 7.5 BP
> adept, a 10 BP Full Mage, 7 BP Elementalists (7.5 for Eath
> Elementalists), and 10.5 BP Way of the Mage Adepts. Now, the logic may be
> shaky, but that's the way it looks from here ...

That's character creation. And I'm thinking of giving people 300-400 karma
to spend to build characters. I don't think I'd want to allow characters
to suddenly gain magical ability later on unless I GMed a group of
pre-pubescent characters, and probably not even then.

And build points have no meaning when they're not used. In a karma based
character creation system, for 100BP and a dollar you can probably get a
bad cup of coffee...

> So how much of my soul (Karma) do I have to sell to get gobs of money in
> your system? ;)

At character creation: 100 for 1M¥, 75 for 400k¥, 50 for 90k¥, 25 for
30k¥, and 5 for 5k¥. And come to think of it, possibly during play, too...

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