From:	Tom Pendergrast <pendergr@***.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Quickened spells and Horrors.
Date:	Sat, 11 May 1996 19:04:16 -0700 (PDT)

> >(Personally, I'd have to be worried about a group that _usually_ carries
> >around a Panther Assault Cannon (or an LMG or a sniper rifle... *sigh*
> >some people are munchkins))
>
> It's munchkin to have a PAC or an LMG, but a high force manabolt and 10
> grades of initiation isn't? Sounds like a serious case of mageness going
> around the list...

((Hokay... hold on... first off, this mage earned every bit of Karma that
he spent on his initiation. Second, whatever cash he may have had,
(which wasn't much), couln't be spent on new guns and 'ware, like a
sammie can. Third, the entire thing was roleplayed, and took over two
years of real-time (eight of game time). Can anyone honestly say that
they actually roleplay these cyber monsters? And yeah, it is a little
strange to carry around a cannon... does anyone stop to think how
fraggin' obvious these things are? I mean a cannon is worth at least to
carloads of LS and a chopper or two... a mage doesn't get shot on sight
for knowing how to cast a manabolt-9. And something else eveyone seems
to be forgetting: there is a time and a place for everything in SRII.
You don't just walk down the street with your LMG slung over your
shoulder. Think of just a little realism folks... you truly are a
munchkin if you think you can get away with you PAC like that... and why
ISN'T a grade 10 initiate munchkinous? Because the whole thing was a
slow, gradual build, moderated by the GM, and COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED...

sorry if my tone got just a bit warm there... just returning
words in kind...


---Tom---