| From: | Tim Cooper <tpcooper@***.CSUPOMONA.EDU> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Edges & Flaws : SR compaion character gen genearlly |
| Date: | Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:36:37 -0800 |
[snip]
> Then I misinterpreted it :) You're probably right about players not having
> enough money if they spend most of it during chargen, but I find
> having several thousand lying around just too much... I might look into
> this and make up another house rule, probbaly one as simple as multiplying
> by 100 instead of by 1000 :)
I don't know, everytime we do a set of new characters, that 3d6*1,000
nuyen just about lasts them long enough to get to the meet for the first
run. Between buying an actual weapon (sometimes you can't just find the
yen after buying a drek load of chrome, drones, and or foci), a CAR or
bike (it's amazing how many times runners in my group forget about HOW
their going to get places), more phones, and other personal gear (hell,
one guy blew all his on a cool trid-entertainment center with HUGE
speakers). They always seem to get to the first run in desperate need of
money - either because they have none left, or because what they want
cost's way more than they have.
>
> > or buying 1M yen of dikote, letting it multiply by 10 and then
> > selling it, even at the *0.3 selling factor and other items, street
> > indexes you save on anything under street index 3! Not that most
> > people are going to abuse the intent of the system this way, and most
> > GM's will rule they flood the market in '....' and drop the street
> > index.
>
> Not when I GM, I can tell you that :) Although none of my players has ever
> thought of selling the stuff they took when creating the characters...
Mine neither...BTW how do you just buy 1M yen of dikote? It doesn't come
in little boxes that you open and sprinkle on the object. It's an
expensive process, not a product per se. That's abit like buying lots of
the material used to chrome metal parts, then expecting to be able to sell
it to the people who actually do the chroming process. Why would any
establishment capable of that type of work buy raw materials from some
unknown individual?
>
> --
> Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html
~Tim
