| From: | TopCat <topcat@******.net> |
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| Subject: | Re: Quickened spells and Horrors. |
| Date: | Mon, 13 May 1996 20:40:33 -0500 |
It's just you. They're your words. Unless some nasty person sends email in
your name from time to time...
><Again> The mage in questin was not mine. My char in that group had
>more karma and more cash than the mage. He has nearly two million in
>cyber/bioware (but has an ess of 4.0) The cash that the mage got usually
>went to helping out my char (and the others), because it was nt worth it
>to go out and buy stuff like foci... (which he had to end up making
>himself)... And no, the GM in question does not prefer mages... he is a
>cyber and decker man...))
The GM may like to play cybered people more, but from what I'd seen you type
he lets mages run rampant through the camapign. Now, he may let everyone
run rampant through the campaign, so it might actually be balanced. But I
haven't seen any posts along those lines from you.
>> I roleplayed TopCat for quite a while...stopped because it wasn't fun to be
>> that powerful when the rest of the characters weren't.
>((How did you get that way? Were you handed extra stuff, or did you
>transfer the char from another campaign? (The latter of which is
>perfectly acceptable, so long as the char fits into the new one)))
I picked up a copy of SRII and within an hour I knew how to powergame it.
TopCat was powergamed at creation. From there I started writing and doing
little side runs with the GM, because I wasn't happy powergaming. I used
the karma to build up skills that reflected what I had written and what I
had done, as well as to even out my previous min/maxing. After about 6
months of this, I was still ahead of the rest of the team power-wise, and I
had more peripheral skills than them as well. That's when he got retired.
>> Panther's real obvious. But once you're known to use a mega-powerful
>> manabolt, people will remember it. ("Isn't that the guy who melted Lenny
>> last week?" "Yep, better get the cybermonster over here")
>((If you are recognizable like that, you have screwed up somewhere and
>are dogmeat...))
Spell signatures.
>> Never have just thought I could walk around the street with artillery.
>> Never have done it. It'd be stupid. Almost as stupid as to think that
>> people wouldn't recognize the man who actually broke through to the 10th
>> grade of initiation and can throw magic the likes of which ole Howling
>> Coyote'd have to smile at.
>((Aint being secretive and careful grand?))
There's always those who're sneakier and more perceptive. Unless you get to
get away with it.
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