From:	Brian Spaugh SLIP <bspaugh@***********.NET>
Subject:	Everyone(almost) who plays Shadowrun is a Munchkin!
Date:	Fri, 8 Sep 1995 20:19:14 EDT

Unless you play a character with no combat spells, or no
cyberware, depending on whether you're a mage-type or a street
sam-type, you're playing a Munchkin character. I mean who
plays a street-sam with no cyberware? Noone. If everyone played
what all the snobs on here would call 'realistic' Shadowrun
(what a laugh) the only people with cyberware would be those
who had already received a seriously traumatic injury. Elective
deadly surgery? I think not. Replacing burned out or blind eyes
with electonic ones that can see is 'realistic'. Plucking out
perfectly good ones during character creation for the 'total
package eyes' is ludicrous. And that's just one example. As far
as magic goes, Phys Ads are walking Munchkins. 'Nuff said. And
any mage out here with a force 6+ fireball/powerball/hellblast/
sleep/mind probe/etc. is just as much a Munchkin as the next guy.
Obviously there are going to be absurd exagerations of these
cases, and these are worthy of condemnation, but let's lay off
all of those players who are just trying to create a character
with 'survivability', a hot commodity in SR. After all, we're
all Munchkins underneath!

Brian Spaugh bspaugh@***********.net Angela Spaugh
"Honest to my own convictions, within the defined parameters of my mission."