From:	Andre' Selmer <031SEA@******.WITS.AC.ZA>
Subject:	Re: With all this new stuff.
Date:	Thu, 21 Sep 1995 12:42:45 +0200

}>As a GM I can't bring myself to say to my fellow players, "You can't use
}>such and such equipment from such and such book." How can I make some
}>realistic adventures when my Characters are so close to demi-gods!
}
}By using availability figures. Let them roll for the pieces of equipment
}they want to buy, no matter if it has an Avail of 2/5 minutes, let them
}roll. The way I play availability is that the _characters_ make an Etiquette
}test to see if the item is there, not the fixer, so it depends much more on
}the char than on the person they're talking to.
}So when they start running out of APDS, they will try to get new and likely
}fail against the TN of 14. Oops, wait for 14 days before you can try again...

Our GM plays a low hardware, high magic senario. With the result
that us as players deliberately limit the amount of hardware we
collect so that we can at a later stage get what we really need. ie
the gm (subconsciously) assigns us a quota, we stay below that
(instinctively) so that what we really need we can get.

Andre'

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