From:	bluewizard@*****.com (Steven A. Tinner)
Subject:	Re: [SR2] Who's Who of SRII?
Date:	Sat, 21 Sep 1996 02:31:30 -0500 (EST)

>BTW a quick question, are the only known spike babies elven? I might buy
>them not being ork or troll because these meta-types usually express
>when magic returns, but couldn't they possibly be dwarven since they're
>"born" as their meta-type the same as elves.

The way I always figured it, Dwarf spike babies have always existed.
They never really went away - just lost their racial abilities when the
magic faded.
We still have people with their rough physical description today.
Dwarfism was construed as a physical condition in the 20th century, when in
fact, it was just a natural expression of a metatype.

When the magic returned, those dwarves would regain their vision, extra
muscle mass, extensive hair growth, et al.

My main reason for doing so was to keep dwarves from getting screwed by
elves yet again! :-)


BTW for those of you who have the SR 1st edition game, whatever happened to
the Dwarf's Immunity to Age power? :-)

Seems like they gave it to the elves!

Seriously though, I wonder why FASA first of all included this in 1st ed.
and why they later changed it for 2nd?


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