From: | shadowrn@*********.com (Scott W) |
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Subject: | So you STILL want to be a Decker. |
Date: | Sat Mar 17 12:15:01 2001 |
> This is one of the many things that irritated me about the Matrix
rules. They give rules for absolutely everything except character
creation. What to do if you character wants to start the game with a
home built deck?
Yep, that's the crux of it. You can buy programs but not a custom
deck (I'm amazed they didn't pick this up even after three editions).
I'm just going to use the Custom Cyberdeck purchasing rules and pay
more if I have to. Thanks for your suggestion, though.
Lunatec - I'm definitely looking for a custom deck rather than a
shelf one, and I also want to familiarize myself with the rules
starting from the ground up. And I intend this decker to be spottily
competent in a firefight... but I'm not going the Decker/Sammie
route. But thanks for your answer :)
Sven, Meatnog, Elindor, Gurth - Thanks very much for your
recommendations on utilities. Extremely helpful stuff... this decker
may be able to survive a red host yet...
I do, however, have other questions. Simple ones. When building
the deck I've run into a couple funny things... is there any reason
not to take Hardening 8 if my MPCP's 8? None of the stock decks have
it that high, but there doesn't seem to be a limit apart from the
MPCP. Same goes for I/O speed.. why not just max it out to 800? And
as for active and storage memory... I'm not sure what to go with
there... does 1,500Mp and 2,000Mp respectively sound all right?
Should I do up my utilities before I decide this so I can figure out
how much I want to carry?
-Boondocker
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