| From: | Jani Fikouras <feanor@**********.UNI-BREMEN.DE> |
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| Subject: | Re: Magic or Tech... |
| Date: | Mon, 3 Apr 1995 13:37:40 +0200 |
> the people who usually talk on this list. You all seem to _HATE_ street
> samurai and make life very rough on them while making things very easy on
> mages, phys ads, etc. Is it just me or is there an EXTREME magic bias here?
> Answer honestly...are you biased toward magic, tech, or do you
> (miraculously) play a balance?
Well to be honest I like mages, I like the creativity inherent in magic,
does this make me biased *shrug* I dunno. OTOH I certainly dont hate sammies
hell I even ocasionally play one (I avoid deckers - net rules are too shity
for me so I have decided to do my group a favour and spare them all the
techno-talk about the real life net :) - and riggers - I never could relate
to them). What would be cyberpunk withough cyber :) ? I think that sammies
are pretty cool and definitelly an integral part of the SR universe.
OTOH as Mike said, sammies tend to be rather static in their development.
Sammies (well the ones that want to stand half a chance) tend to concentrate
on speed and they would be crazy not to get all their cyber during char
generation. This tends to make them extremely efficient and powerfull
(if you wana kill someone forget magic just take out you firearm of choise
and give him a sucking chest wound) but it also gives them no alternatives.
I mean sure thei can raise their atributes and skills, buy some more
skillsofts and toys - but it really doesnt matter if you got a Firearms
skill of 9 or one of 10 - and a Savalete Guardian can kill just as easily
as an ultra customised version of a top secret prototype of the nastiest
weapon Ares ever made :)
On the whole sammies are not funn to talk about because they dont have that
many options....
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