| From: | "D. Ghost" <dghost@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: [SR3] SOTA Edge (Was: Summoning elementals) |
| Date: | Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:38:46 -0500 |
writes:
>>Speaking of the SOTA edge ... I've never been comfortable with it, so
>>what does everyone think of this:
>>SOTA lvl 1 (Cost: 1) Allows up to availabilty 10 gear and cultured
bioware.
>>SOTA lvl 2 (Cost: 3) Allows up to availabilty 20 gear and beta grade
>>cyberware.
>>SOTA lvl 3 (Cost: 6) Allows any availabilty gear and delta grade
cyberware.
>>These must be bought PER peice of gear.
>I think it's ridiculously expensive per 'piece' of gear, really.
Otherwise,
>it's going to be nigh-impossible to build a guy with more than one item
of
>beta-grade gear, for instance.
Is this a BAD thing?
>Also, I understand your rationale for making cultured bioware easier to
get
>than beta grade stuff, but I don't entirely agree. To look at it from a
>game mechanics POV for a moment, rather than a game-world one, there's
>HEAPS more cyberware than bioware out there, and bioware's also horribly
>expensive to put in. I'm not quite sure what my point is here... hmm,
let's
>just say that to me, it doesn't 'feel' right...
yeah ...well, with alphaware becoming more common in SR3, that first
level wasn't doing much :)
What about:
SOTA lvl 1 (Cost 2) Allows up to availability 15 gear, and Cultured
Bioware, and Beta Cyber
SOTA lvl 2 (Cost 4 or 5) Allows any availability gear, and Delta Cyber.
>And, as for the gear availability - I know you're going to hate this,
Pix,
>but I really don't think limits are needed at all. (At least in good
>groups; groups full of munchkins and powergamers generally do need more
>control.) Our group's rule of thumb is: Buy what you want, and have a
damn
>good reason for it.
>
>Otherwise, with stuff like 'availability 6 or less only' in place, many
>characters are pretty screwed... especially the ones you don't think of.
>The one I bumped into last game session was the effect on my rigger
>character - under that rule, she couldn't have any decent weapons at all
on
>her vehicles or drones.
I dunno. I see the SOTA edge as something to maintain balance between
characters. But yeah ... I don't usually enforce gear availability
unless I really can't see how the char got the gear ... (uh... The MBW
and Tactical Comp were gifts from my grandmother for graduating high
school?)
--
D. Ghost
(aka Pixel, Tantrum, RuPixel)
"Coffee without caffeine is like sex without the spanking." -- Cupid
re-cur-sion (ri-kur'-zhen) noun. 1. See recursion.
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