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Message no. 1
From: "Jason Carter, Nightstalker" <CARTER@***.EDU>
Subject: RE: Metahuman Prioities
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 23:45:52 CET
Quiktek,
Although I appreciate you bringing up such an interesting idea, you initial
thoughts made my mind go into overdrive. Look out! MUNCHKIN ALERT!! MUNCHKIN
ALERT!!! was my intial response.
But on a more balanced and thoughful approach, making A & B mean something
is not a bad idea, just stay away from most of the Paranormal creatures. With
the exceptions of maybe Sasquasch and Ghouls, I can't think of any races a
person would want to play that don't give them access to extreme powers that
would allow them to overshadow and mere metahuman. Heck even those two are dual
nature beings which means you'll have a ton of problems to deal with from such
a simple ability.
Think some more Quiktek, maybe something in a non-unbalancing scale will come
to you.

See Ya in Shadows,
Jason J Carter
The Nightstalker
Message no. 2
From: Chris Siebenmann <cks@********.UTCS.TORONTO.EDU>
Subject: Re: Metahuman Prioities
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 93 18:05:10 -0500
Personally, I dislike how Shadowrun makes many or most paranormal
creatures (especially the basic rules ones) dual natured. Not to
mention that what this implies is badly explored, if it's explored at
all.

I also suspect that social reasons will sharply limit the use of
nonhumans (in the broad sense) in Shadowrunning groups; how hard *is*
a Sasquatch/fill in any exotic type to track down in Seattle, after
all? Not to mention why something like that is shadowrunning at all.

- cks

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