| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Everyone(almost) who plays Shadowrun is a Munchkin! |
| Date: | Sun, 10 Sep 1995 11:41:25 +0200 |
>each eye. If cybereyes were affordable, common and known to be safe (like,
>millions installed and few problems) I'd seriously consider them just to
>avoid having to wear contacts or glasses.
Same thing here -- I'm near-sighted (I can't read a license plate at 20
meters...) but I'm too stubborn (or maybe stupid :) to wear glasses, let
alone contact lenses. Now if there weren't all these rumors about eye
surgery going bad, I might look into that. Same thing if cybereyes were
available and safe, I'd seriously start thinking about that. And then quite
probably including something like a low-light option (for which I have
nearly no use because I hardly ever go anywhere I might need it, but like I
said, I like gadgets :)
>Munchkinism, IMHO, is when the PC exists only as a way to be bigger/better/
>faster than everyone else. Most of my PCs could easily be called "munchkin"
>from an evaluation of their stats... yet they are downright vulnerable,
>because they have weaknesses, blind spots, consciences.
I (used to) have a player who could very easily be called a munchkin,
looking at his character's stats. Body 12, Strength 9, that sort of thing
(he's human, not ork or troll...). But the player plays/-ed the character
with definite weaknesses. "Elementals? I shoot my Colt!" even though the
player damn well knows he would do much more harm to them if he punched them
instead.
--
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