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Message no. 1
From: Wolfchild <nathan.olsen@*******.MSUS.EDU>
Subject: [SR2] More Stuff
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 13:30:17 -0600
Time again for my random questions. Yippie!!

Question #1.
Do multiple foci add their bonuses together if used in conjunction on the
same task? For example X magician has a combat spell focus (rating 2) and
a Powerball spell focus (rating 1). Does he have 3 extra magic pool dice
when he casts a powerball? Just 1 from the specific spell focus? Just 2
from the spell type focus because you only get the bonus from one source?
Assuming they all add together, what's to stop an independently wealthy
magician witn an Intelligence of 6 from bonding 6 power foci (rating 6)
and having an extra 36 dice in their magic pool to throw around? Besides
nuyen and karma cost, that is.

Question #2.
I remember hearing somewhere about cyberarms reducing the essence cost of
body-cyberware (ie. wired reflexes, skillwires, etc) by 10% per extra
limb. Was this a house rule or could I find this somewhere in one of the
books?

Question #3.
Ok this is more of a request, but if someone has a BBB2 handy I could use
a copy of the metahuman allergy table in the character generation section.
That table was in with the mess of pages that decided to wander off away
from my book a while back.



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Message no. 2
From: John Pederson <pedersje@******.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SR2] More Stuff
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:18:37 -0500
Wolfchild wrote:
>
> Time again for my random questions. Yippie!!
>
> Question #1.
> Do multiple foci add their bonuses together if used in conjunction on the
> same task?

Yes.

> For example X magician has a combat spell focus (rating 2) and
> a Powerball spell focus (rating 1). Does he have 3 extra magic pool dice
> when he casts a powerball? Just 1 from the specific spell focus? Just 2
> from the spell type focus because you only get the bonus from one source?

Mojo-boy 'X' has 3 extra magic pool dice (1 from the specific spell
focus and 2 from the spell category focus) when he casts 'Powerball'.

> Assuming they all add together, what's to stop an independently wealthy
> magician witn an Intelligence of 6 from bonding 6 power foci (rating 6)
> and having an extra 36 dice in their magic pool to throw around? Besides
> nuyen and karma cost, that is.

Focus Addiction, Awakenings, pages 30 (in-character stuff), 103 (rules).
You could also institute a house rule that states that the highest focus
of a given type contributes bonuses to prevent the stacking of multiple
foci of the same type. You could even just declare that the focus which
would contribute the greatest bonus to the test makes its contribution
and all less powerful ones are essentially nullified (which would make
stacked power/weapon foci the end-all-be-all of magical magicking).

> Question #2.
> I remember hearing somewhere about cyberarms reducing the essence cost of
> body-cyberware (ie. wired reflexes, skillwires, etc) by 10% per extra
> limb. Was this a house rule or could I find this somewhere in one of the
> books?

This would have been in Cybertech. I don't own this one, but the gist of
the rule was that the more of the character's body was replaced with
cyber (limbs, torso, head), the less essence cost certain types of
bodyware had (you don't need blood filters in that cyberarm, do you?).

> Question #3.
> Ok this is more of a request, but if someone has a BBB2 handy I could use
> a copy of the metahuman allergy table in the character generation section.
> That table was in with the mess of pages that decided to wander off away
> from my book a while back.

Allergy Attributes Skills Force Nuyen
Uncommon +1 +1 +1 +200
(iron, silver, etc.)
Common +2 +2 +2 +400
(sunlight, plastic, pollutants)

Severity
Nuisance -- -- -- --
Mild +1 +2 +1 +100
Moderate +2 +3 +2 +200
Severe +3 +4 +3 +300

Notes: A metahuman character (elf, dwarf, troll, ork) may take one
allergy and receive bonuses from one column for either the commonality
or the severity of the allergy, but not both.

--
John Pederson, otherwise known as Lyle Canthros, shapeshifter-mage
"Is there anybody seeking?
Does anybody see?
Or are they deaf and dumb like me?"
-- Burlap to Cashmere, "Anybody Out There"
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Message no. 3
From: "D. Ghost" <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Re: [SR2] More Stuff
Date: Thu, 3 Dec 1998 17:40:31 -0600
On Thu, 3 Dec 1998 15:18:37 -0500 John Pederson
<pedersje@******.ROSE-HULMAN.EDU> writes:
>Wolfchild wrote:
<SNIP>
>> Question #2.
>> I remember hearing somewhere about cyberarms reducing the essence cost
of
>> body-cyberware (ie. wired reflexes, skillwires, etc) by 10% per extra
>> limb. Was this a house rule or could I find this somewhere in one of
the
>> books?

>This would have been in Cybertech. I don't own this one, but the gist of
>the rule was that the more of the character's body was replaced with
>cyber (limbs, torso, head), the less essence cost certain types of
>bodyware had (you don't need blood filters in that cyberarm, do you?).
<SNIP>

Actually, all of the above pieces of cyberware listed above are NOT
reduced by having cyberlimbs ... only a few things qualified for the
reduction ... Muscle Replacement/Augmentation, Bone Lacing etc... One I
didn't expect was that a Tactical Computer costs 25% less essence if
implanted in a cyberlimb ...

--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
"Coffee without caffeine is like sex without the spanking." -- Cupid
"A magician is always 'touching' himself" --Page 123, Grimoire

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Message no. 4
From: Brian Moore <airionis@*****.COM>
Subject: Re: [SR2] More Stuff
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 1998 07:22:30 +0800
---Wolfchild <nathan.olsen@*******.MSUS.EDU> wrote:
> ...
> Question #1.
> Do multiple foci add their bonuses together if used in conjunction
on the
> same task?

The rules don't say one way or the other. Logically it seems that you
can
use all your focuses (if appropriate) for any given task. However we
have
a house rule to limit people to 1 focus per task. It prevents the power
level of the game from getting seriously out of hand (as opposed to just
slightly out of hand). Unfortunately this encourages mages to just
get a
single large Power Focus and never bother with any other spellcasting
focus.

You can always try using Focus Addiction from Awakenings, but it has
some
serious flaws. Basically, if a mage activates more Force points in foci
that he has Magic Rating, he may get a Focus Geas for spellcasting.
This
has no effect on conjurers or enchanters (who don't cast spells), and
doesn't make sense for spellcasters using non-spellcasting foci (weapon
or spirit foci).

A mage is limited by Int on the number of foci he can have active.
I'd be
happy if he was also limited to Magic Rating on the total force of
active
foci.

BTW, We also have a house rule that limits mages by Charisma on the
total force of elementals that can be conjured. Our mages have a lot
of money, and this prevents us from having lots of high force
elementals on hand all the time (multiple elven mages with high
Charisma).
==

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