From:	Nurse Wratchet <Wratchet-RN@**.ARIZONA.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Geasa and physical adepts?
Date:	Mon, 18 Sep 1995 08:03:08 -0700

>Sigh.
>
>I should have know what will happen when one starts talking about physads....
>
>The whole point of my request was: if it is conceivable that a character
>loose some powers due to a deadly wound, how can he gain brand new powers
>simply by declaring it? I mean, suddenly Arti wakes up on the doctor's bed
>and starts to astral perceive. Role-playing, anyone? Even spending a
>drekload of karma to get a skill at level 5/6 required months of studies
>(ok, I've told the GM a guy told me everything about computers during our
>street basketball plays :), why getting a new power, THIS WAY, should be
>instantaneous?
>
I concur, Paolo. I have always had a hard time with this notion of sudden
insight into new ways to apply the phys ad powers. The Phys Ad Handybook,
which I think you have in yur archive, has an intresting system for phys ad
abilities. I modified the existing rules to include those in the handybook
(or a semblance of those in the book), the phys ad must study various
abilities via karma or Magic Rating purchase and can select form these they
have studied. They then use meditation to attune their auras to manifest
the abilites they selected. The result is that when a phys ad looses magic,
their auras go into a type of shock where they may loose (unatune) all the
abilites they have attuned (similar to damaging cyberware) and least 1 point
and a subsequant ability will become unattuned. The phys ad then must
reattune their auras with the new reduced magic rating.

My discourse is a bit confusing so here is an example: Wonder Boy the phys
ad Grade 1 has a 7 MR, he has studied Killing Hands, Reaction Increase,
Astral Percept, Skill increase Martial Arts and Skill Increase Stealth. He
has Astral Percept, Killing Hands S, and Reaction Increase 1, and Skill MA+1
(I think those are the right values, I do not have my book currently, but
the toatl should be 7) He takes a Deadly Wound and unfortunately looses 1
pnt of Magic. He fails his Magic roll to resist the shock to his aura and
all his attuned abilities are now unattuned. He now must spend time
Meditating to reattune all his abilities but only has 6 MR to work with and
can choose only from those abilites he has studied above.

This may seem like slamming the phys ad from two angles by making them pay
for their abilites with Karma so let me clarify. The phys ad can 'purchase'
new abilites two ways via Magic Rating and via Karma. Time is required for
both. I won't go into the details of whys and wherefores, but this has
worked for me.

Hope this helped, and didn't just add to the confusion.
My opions are (well you know how that goes) . . .

Shalam
Nurse Wratchet (was Brian)
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