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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (aaron b chappell)
Subject: Schizophrenic Shamans and other things
Date: Sun Oct 14 16:05:00 2001
Hey All,
I was thinking would it be possible to have a schizophrenic shaman that
has different totems for each personality ? Like for instance a wolf/dove
totem in the same person..... Also I thought that maybe it would be neat
to have a column on the shadowrun website called 'What didn't make it'
this would be things that didn't make it into the different source/rule
books for different reasons like space/time etc etc


Gwylly
"Know anything that can change there minds about killing us?"
"Sure we kill them first."
"Works for me."

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Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Jason Lantrip)
Subject: Schizophrenic Shamans and other things
Date: Mon Oct 15 21:20:01 2001
On Sun, 14 Oct 2001, aaron b chappell wrote:

> Hey All,
> I was thinking would it be possible to have a schizophrenic shaman that
> has different totems for each personality ? Like for instance a wolf/dove

You're actually thinking of Multpile Personality Disorder. A schizophrenic
shaman would be prone to auditory/visual/tactile hallucinations (which
could be interesting in an of itself...hmmm...), or catatonic (which
wouldn't be very much use to a group of runners) or paranoid (which would
be very useful to a group of runners, unless they made him mad...).

You'd have to have a dominant personality, and a few
subpersonalities. Depending on how in-depth you want to get, you might
want to have different charisma and willpower scores for each "character",
with the dominant personality having a higher willpower than the
others. Just remember, your character has MPD for a reason, so you can't
really play him like a "normal" character...and you'd have to work out a
system for the GM to tell you when you're "switching" (in times of high
stress, which could be inconvenient... ;)

--Jason
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Damion Milliken)
Subject: Schizophrenic Shamans and other things
Date: Thu Oct 18 04:55:01 2001
aaron b chappell writes:

> I was thinking would it be possible to have a schizophrenic shaman that
> has different totems for each personality ? Like for instance a wolf/dove
> totem in the same person...

I think that it would be an acceptable character, but you're probably
thinking (as has been pointed out) of multiple personality disorder, rather
than schizophrenia. Physical attributes would remain unchanged, but I could
see reasonable argument for having different mental attributes. Skills and
other abilities (like magic, etc) would be subject to change, too, if you
want to get extreme. It might make for a fun, "confused" shaman who was
being tugged at by more than one totem at the same time ;-).

> Also I thought that maybe it would be neat to have a column on the
> shadowrun website called 'What didn't make it' this would be things that
> didn't make it into the different source/rule books for different reasons
> like space/time etc etc

Various SR authors sometimes post "bits that missed out" either to their web
pages, or on here, but to the best of my knowledge, there is no collation of
such things (perhaps because quite often such material contradicts what was
published, and is thus less useful).

--
Damion Milliken University of Wollongong
Unofficial Shadowrun Guru E-mail: dam01@***.edu.au
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