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Message no. 1
From: Arcady arcady@***.net
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 99 16:58:12 +700
How often do people use these new races as PCs or NPCs?

And for that matter, do you require them to be of the correct ethnicity?
Or just have it in their ancestry?
Or no requirement at all?

I was telling my players that the character should have the ancestry somewhere
in their family past. So a person who's family were Irish immigrants in the
potato famine could still end up with the Irish metahuman variant.

I notice several of them are Japanese and I've considered a ruling allowing
these to branch out to people of Korean and Chinese ethnic backgrounds on the
grounds of the frequent historical contact. Though the same argument could be
made for the european ones. It was mostly because there where no Chinese or
Korean ones presented in there. (Though one player did make a good point that
places like Seattle probably have a lot of Japanese Metahumans from people who
managed to escape after Japan went nuts on their metahumans...)
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Message no. 2
From: Scott Wheelock iscottw@*****.nb.ca
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 22:00:18 -0300
"And now, a Channel 6 editorial reply to Arcady."
] How often do people use these new races as PCs or NPCs?

Well, not being able to play, my experience is limited. I've got a
koborokoru character in a story I'm doing, though.

] And for that matter, do you require them to be of the correct ethnicity?
] Or just have it in their ancestry?
] Or no requirement at all?

I'd say go by the correct ethnicity. That might help further explain
their rarity, if only someone with so much Greek in their blood could
become a Cyclops.

] I was telling my players that the character should have the ancestry
somewhere
] in their family past. So a person who's family were Irish immigrants in the
] potato famine could still end up with the Irish metahuman variant.

If it works for you, go with it :)

] I notice several of them are Japanese and I've considered a ruling allowing
] these to branch out to people of Korean and Chinese ethnic
backgrounds on the
] grounds of the frequent historical contact.

Maybe adjust their looks a little...Chinese oni have different shaped
horns, or Korean koborokoru have slimmer builds, or whatever's
appropriate. Or wait until the Asia sourcebook comes out (ha ha).

-Murder of One
Message no. 3
From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 12:59:40 +0200
According to Arcady, at 16:58 on 17 Jun 99, the word on
the street was...

> How often do people use these new races as PCs or NPCs?

So far, I haven't. The only race from the Companion (either edition) that
I've allowed so far are shapeshifters, and in part that's only because a
player sneaked one into the game. If I do allow them, I think I'll
increase the priority by one, or maybe even two, from that of the "base"
race to discourage players from taking them...

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Message no. 4
From: Mockingbird mockingbird@*********.com
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 09:15:52 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: Arcady <arcady@***.net>
To: <shadowrn@*********.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 4:58 AM
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races


> How often do people use these new races as PCs or NPCs?
>
> And for that matter, do you require them to be of the correct ethnicity?
> Or just have it in their ancestry?
> Or no requirement at all?
>
Two of the three players in my last adventure were Night Ones, one from
Germany, the other from London. But then, I tend to find weird PC's (And I
am their Leader :) )

Mockingbird
Message no. 5
From: Anders Swenson anders@**********.com
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:18:14 -0700
...

> > How often do people use these new races as PCs or NPCs?
> >
> > And for that matter, do you require them to be of the correct ethnicity?
> > Or just have it in their ancestry?
> > Or no requirement at all?
> >
> Two of the three players in my last adventure were Night Ones, one from
> Germany, the other from London. But then, I tend to find weird PC's (And
I
> am their Leader :) )
>
> Mockingbird

Of course, Dark Elves are the minimaxer's race of choice. I even ran one (a
physad mage associate professor of Amazonian stuff at Univ of Seattle) (She
got her 'running skills on digs working as a guard)
--Anders
Message no. 6
From: Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 20:40:24 -0500
> Of course, Dark Elves are the minimaxer's race of choice.

Strangely enough, the min-maxer in my group won't touch them. Your guess is
as good as mine as to why.

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Message no. 7
From: Robert Watkins robert.watkins@******.com
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 11:43:10 +1000
Anders Swenson writes:
> Of course, Dark Elves are the minimaxer's race of choice. I even
> ran one (a
> physad mage associate professor of Amazonian stuff at Univ of
> Seattle) (She
> got her 'running skills on digs working as a guard)

But don't you have trouble playing the Indiana Jones stereotype without a
5-o'clock shadow?

--
.sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
Message no. 8
From: Anders Swenson anders@**********.com
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 07:22:00 -0700
----- Original Message -----
From: Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.com>
To: <shadowrn@*********.org>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 6:43 PM
Subject: RE: Rarity of new Companion Races


> Anders Swenson writes:
> > Of course, Dark Elves are the minimaxer's race of choice. I even
> > ran one (a
> > physad mage associate professor of Amazonian stuff at Univ of
> > Seattle) (She
> > got her 'running skills on digs working as a guard)
>
> But don't you have trouble playing the Indiana Jones stereotype without a
> 5-o'clock shadow?
>
> --
> .sig deleted to conserve electrons. robert.watkins@******.com
>
No, the nice man from LoneStar comes by every afternoon to follow her home.
Now that she's in Berlin, he has been replaced by a vampire. --Anders
Message no. 9
From: Gideon, Pawn of Chaos gha5538@****.tamu.edu
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 09:38:49 -0500
At 20:43 -0500 on 06/20/99, Robert Watkins wrote:
> But don't you have trouble playing the Indiana Jones stereotype without a
> 5-o'clock shadow?

But night ones have a perpetual 5 o'clock shadow.
Message no. 10
From: Patrick Goodman remo@***.net
Subject: Rarity of new Companion Races
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 1999 22:12:18 -0500
> > How often do people use these new races as PCs or NPCs?
>
> So far, I haven't. The only race from the Companion (either edition) that
> I've allowed so far are shapeshifters, and in part that's only because a
> player sneaked one into the game. If I do allow them, I think I'll
> increase the priority by one, or maybe even two, from that of the "base"
> race to discourage players from taking them...

This would be consistent with the new point system in SR3 Companion, which
assesses an additional cost for meta-variants.

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