| From: | Timothy P Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Sr Companion |
| Date: | Tue, 3 Dec 1996 08:45:52 -0800 |
>
> > 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?
>
> That's what I got thinking about yesterday as well (amazing, the things
> you do to avoid thinking about the wind you're pedalling against on your
> bike... :) Cyberware could degrade over time due to general wear, like a
> car that doesn't get maintained properly will start breaking down more
> often, but if the ware is kept in good working order, it should last a
> lifetime, if not longer. Same thing for body armor -- a ceramic plate that
> stops a rifle round is a ceramic plate that stops a rifle round, whether
> it was manufactured in 1996 or in 2056. (Except, of course, if the rifle
> rounds get more powerful in the mean time.)
>
> --
> Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
As for the armor, do you use the Armor Degradation Rules (I don't remember if
they appear in any *official* stuff...)?
It seems reasonable to expect the armor that repeatedly stops rifle rounds to
suffer some "wear" does it not?
Otherwise you have the case of your PC wearing that dingy old long-coat that he
bought back in the summer of '51 that's still perfectly fine despite being on
the receiving end of millions of pounds (or kilos for you metric people) of
lead. The case of the "Immortal Armor".
Understandably this is not SOTA directly, but a good parallel.
Basically, you could apply the general wear-n-tear to just about everything to
force the PC's to soak some nuyen in maintanance
~Tim
