From:	Paul Jonathan Adam <Paul@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: Program Carriers (Was Spirits and the matrix)
Date:	Tue, 11 Apr 1995 21:11:57 GMT

I always liked program carriers...but then try writing software on the
fly, for which the rules are *nasty*. And no, you can't carry them in
headware, the interface isn't fast enough <technomumble for "The GM
says No!>. In printed runs (the only time we rolled dice in the Matrix)
a starting decker with a sharp player won't have much trouble unless they
do something stupid, and a decker who had been played a while could do
it eyes-shut. Go in naked and all of a sudden the player's alert and thinking
and getting *worried* about being in a Red-5 node. They're still around in
our game, but then we don't have enough players for dedicated deckers anyway.



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him. You have offered a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or
for worse, you have acted decisively.
In fact, the next move is up to him.

Paul J. Adam paul@********.demon.co.uk