From:	Mark Steedman <RSMS@******.EEE.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Shadowrun Lifestyles
Date:	Fri, 30 Jun 1995 08:57:22 GMT

> From: "John R. Wicker II" <jrwick00@***.UKY.EDU>

> On Thu, 29 Jun, Marc A. Renouf wrote:
>
> As far as a shadowrunner's lifestyle is concerned, what exactly is
> that? I have a character who wants nothing more from life than to have a
> quiet place to run through his kata and the occasional good meal.
shadowrunning is a job not neccessarily th lifestyle the character
would choose
> Why can't
> a shadowrunner work in a public library, or deliver pizza?
AGH!! - memories of the team that wants to start a drone pizza
delivery service, i keep on threatening to 'omega order' it, probably
got something to do with the pizza the drone delivered to Hope relief
camp, since when were IPE grenades and APDS machine pistols 'typical'
pizza toppings?? [ oh careful PC's that refuse to take the weapons
through the metal detectors ]

> Maybe we
> should look at the Intellegence score as an abstract quantity instead of a
> strict measure of a character's educational level or I.Q. or anything
> else... Maybe we should treat the whole thing as an abstract exercise in
> fun, and stop worrying about realism so damned much.
>
This could well be why FASA gave up on int as an attribute when they
got to ED and just had perception instead.

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Mark