| From: | Max Rible <cheshire@*****.COM> |
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| Subject: | Re: SOTA (was Re: Sr Companion) |
| Date: | Mon, 2 Dec 1996 18:00:49 -0800 |
>At 11:14 AM 12/2/96 -0800, Max Rible wrote:
>>The SOTA rules are, IMO, nonsense. Consider: if the SOTA advances on
>>Wired Reflexes, why should your character get *slower*? Normal, unwired
>>people are still moving at the same speed. Just because someone came out
>>with a better version doesn't mean you should slow down. Similarly,
>>why should advances in magic theory make your libraries less useful and
>>reduce your ability to invent spells? Why should your body armor be less
>>able to defend against attacks that didn't get affected by the SOTA?
>Well, think of it in reverse... If the wired reflexes advance, but the
>older doesn't get any slower, then what you have happening is everybody
>getting faster and faster... After a couple of years, sammy's are moving at
>14d6 Initiative... That's truly absurd...
Not really. If the State of the Art advanced, wired reflexes got faster.
Normal people still move at the same speed. A set of vintage 2050 Wired
Reflexes, fresh out of the box, installed into an ordinary person should
give the same bonuses to reaction in 2057 that they did in 2050. Nothing
has changed about that piece of cyberware. If other people are moving
faster than that vintage cyberware, it should be because they have faster
reaction stats. Otherwise you're assuming that because of improvements in
the technology of wired reflexes, normal people without cyberware are slower--
and the rules don't state that all human beings everywhere need to pay karma
or have their reaction stat drop.
>Besides, it's just an optional rule, not something you *Have* to use...
So are all the other rules in any game you play... but as no one had yet
called the list's attention to the absurdity of the rule, I figured I might
as well pipe up...
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