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Message no. 1
From: Patrick Goodman <remo@***.NET>
Subject: Reflex triggers ( was Re: [SR3] Speed vs. Skill -Reply)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 10:31:34 -0500
>>I'm kind of amazed it took as long
>>as CYBERTECHNOLOGY to actually get something like this into the rules....
>
> We just had as part of Wired syatems.

We must have read things differently, then. I remember thinking, back in
1990 when I first got SR1, "There's no way to turn these things off...."
Made things a little interesting...the character they talk about in
CYBERTECHNOLOGY, that Findler-Man had to dose with MAO to get him to calm
down? That was one of my characters. My gaming group always had a
tranquilizer gun handy; Toaster was always twitchy to start with, and when
he got his wires....

>When Cybertechnology came out
>we had to make it a freebie for existing characters.

I still allow existing characters to retrofit. Since I was charging to
start with, it wasn't much of a freebie for those who already had it (though
I did give them the .1 Essence difference back; my gizmo cost .3 to the .2
in CT).

>-MC23, who doesn't like giving away something for nothing-

It's not my favorite thing, either.

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Message no. 2
From: MC23 <mc23@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: Reflex triggers ( was Re: [SR3] Speed vs. Skill -Reply)
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 13:52:59 -0400
Once upon a time, Patrick Goodman wrote;

>>>I'm kind of amazed it took as long
>>>as CYBERTECHNOLOGY to actually get something like this into the rules....
>>
>> We just had as part of Wired syatems.
>
>We must have read things differently, then. I remember thinking, back in
>1990 when I first got SR1, "There's no way to turn these things off...."
>Made things a little interesting...the character they talk about in
>CYBERTECHNOLOGY, that Findler-Man had to dose with MAO to get him to calm
>down? That was one of my characters. My gaming group always had a
>tranquilizer gun handy; Toaster was always twitchy to start with, and when
>he got his wires....

We just got fed up with wasting surprise attacks on sammies who
always had high reactions. We added it as a houserule.

>>When Cybertechnology came out
>>we had to make it a freebie for existing characters.
>
>I still allow existing characters to retrofit. Since I was charging to
>start with, it wasn't much of a freebie for those who already had it (though
>I did give them the .1 Essence difference back; my gizmo cost .3 to the .2
>in CT).

Retrofitting would kill a few charcters and devastate a few burned
out magicians I like to play. That's why we made it a true freebie for
existing characters.

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