From:	bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject:	Re: Vampires or not vampires
Date:	Fri, 13 Sep 1996 22:22:47 -0500 (EST)

>>You were playing a shape-shifter mage!!!!!!! If I even thought about
>>mentioning playing a shape-shifter I would get monkey-stomped by my
>>entire group! I would love to do it though....play a shape-shifter that
>>is...not get monkey stomped :)
>>Although our current GM played a vampire PC once...he found that walking
>>through 11 bursts from assault rifles in a round just got too boring :)
>>
>>
>Oh my, my first post to this list.....oh, I'm so exited (sweat, sweat :) )
>
>I'm playing in our SR-Campaign a vampire-mage. I think you must keep in mind
>that even if a burst doesn't kill a vampire it still hurts a LOT (and after
>11 bursts he will be most likely dead meat. He has to roll so many single D6
>that the chance for a single 1 is quite fair. :) )
>I think many of you think that a vampire as a PC might be unbalancing, but
>with my roundabout 250 Karma he's at the lowest end of the ladder. The other
>PCs especially Redbeard (our dwarven mage) is with his 400 to 500 karma our
>state of the art mage.
>After my experience my vampire is not unbalancing. His job is to hunt down
>other vampires (he's quite good at that) and he has enough problems like the
>sun, most spirits don't like him, holy places etc. (Ok, you could say that's
>hard <grin>, but nobody in the group has any idea that he's a vampire and he
>likes to keep it that way.)
>BTW, in our campaign vampires do NOT regenerate stun damage.

If anyone here has ever heard of the old APAzine "Scrawls from the Sprawls"
there was an article posted in it by Tom Dowd (I think) just before SRII
came out.
He let those of us in the APA test out an experimental priority system that
worked kinda like the "More metahumans" rule in the current SRII book.
The original idea was that Priority A would allow you to play "special"
metahumans - ie. vampire, were, ghoul, etc, while B would = the "normal" metas.
I played a few campaigns with this rule, and personally felt that it wasn't
too bad of a system, as long as all the campaign's PC's were generated thusly.


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