From:	Mark Steedman <RSMS@******.EEE.RGU.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: Geasa and physical adepts?
Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 1995 11:26:06 GMT

"Gary L. Kelley"
>
> OK can you explain some thing. The way I understand it you *spend* your
> magical points to get the extra powers, so is that all you can get or at
you 'spend' points as in allocate them, they are not 'used up' you
still have them but you can only but so many powers.

> some later time can you *spend* them again and get more.
ah yes that wonderfully ambiguous comment at the end of Phsads in the
main book. Two ways to look at it.
1) you don't have to allocate all your points as soon as you get
them, you can save them to allocate later. [this is the correct
interpretation, FASA made it clear in the Grimoire]

2) the nice one, you can later gain more magic points, and then spend
them to get more powers. This is not what this comment meant, but if
you but the Grimoire there is a way of doing this.

> Or maybe use karma.
you cannot directly raise magic with karma, however it can be done
indirectly

> and no I don`t have the grim yet so it would be helpful if yuo wouldn`t
> refer me to that. :)
don't have a lot of choice, basically Physads look a bit weak at base
because they require Initation (which is in the grimoire) to advance
thier physical adept abilities, however they can still put up thier
skills anyway.

> The way I see it the phyad would be a pretty weak character if you
> couldn`t advance him in any way.
Unfortunately you will have to buy the Grimoire to solve that,
however with initation they become potentially the most powerful
characters as they acn do everythig a samurai can do with cyber and
bioware and have the phsad powers as well. [abusing this though takes
serious karma and newyen, unless you like munchkins]

>
> Kevin R. Kelley
>
Mark