| From: | Menard Steve <menars@***.UMONTREAL.CA> |
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| Subject: | Re: NPC's Earning Karma... |
| Date: | Fri, 21 Apr 1995 16:49:16 -0400 |
> > > We always found FASA's mages ludicrously under-utilising the magic.
> > > They were always made nastier by our GM.
>
> This reminded me of a question...
> How are NPC magicians supposed to earn karma and advance in the magics? I
> mean, Shadowrunners (including most PC's) gather karma through the
> experience they gain from shadowrunning. What do NPC's do? Sit around
> studying and then try casting spells and summoning every now and then in
> an attempt to learn something? If that was the case, then shadowrunning
> mages should just do that, instead. Same results, less threat, right? Or
> do non-shadowrunner mages advance more slowly?
> I'm quite open to opinions. Maybe I'm just being really ignorant of
> something, but at least I know that this isn't in the FAQ.
> Thanx, chummers.
>
How do you adavnce in your areas of knowledge? Through study, right?
So does everybody else. I have yet to see a game system that includes
learning when not "adventuring". So you have to use logic. In SR, magic
is like a science and an art. It advances when people try things, etc.
And furthermore I do not think shadowrunning is a very good environment
for laerning anything, much less magic. That karma spend should also,
IMHO, be reflected study/training.
As a last sidenote, I rad somewhere in the NAGM that shadowrunner
mages are almost always so BY CHOICE! The number of corps who wants mages
and the limited number of mages ...
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