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From: TopCat <topcat@******.net>
Subject: Re: Quickened spells and Horrors.
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 18:59:25 -0500
>Are you saying that the people who role play dealing with corps, role play
>their characters, build up a history, work on building a good rep with their
>character, and work at getting high grade cyber are less "worthy"? Do you
>think no one can role play anything but a mage? Are you that arrogant? I
>mean, a get haughty, but I never presume that someone's character was
>_given_ all his stuff. I role played my sam for 5 years of real time and 7
>of game, and thats why he got to be where he was. Now, are you saying that
>that takes less than what you put into it? I'd like to hear you say it.
>Either admit that a sam can be role played up to a power level, as any
>character can, or be hypocritical and say that only you and your mage can
>be. Which is it? There's as much role playing to saying "I went and bought
>a..." as there is to "I spend x amount of karma and wrote a thesis, here is
>my role, gimme my new initiate grade." But a good roleplayer will work at
>it more than that.

Amen, Brother Broadwater! Preach on! ;)

Think he'll figure it out after this one?

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"I was thinking of the immortal words
of Socrates, who said: I drank what?"
-- Real Genius
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TopCat at the bottom...

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