| From: | Jonathan Hurley <jhurley1@************.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Re: Runner's Attitudes |
| Date: | Thu, 3 Jul 1997 14:46:44 -0400 |
> On 1 Jul 97 at 23:24, Paul J. Adam wrote:
>
> >
> > The mere fact that a target is a megacorporation doesn't change the
> > financial cost of a given run against it, and your fixation that every
> > run against any megacorp involves a cost of billions is the crux of the
> > problem here. If the cost is small, the benefit of pursuit is similarly
> > small.
>
> That's half the crux. I get the distinct impression that Bob
thinks all
> runners are pond scum, low-lives, street trash and rank amatuers. He
> seems to think that there are no professionals in the shadow business,
> that they are all lying, thieving criminals. That a very limit view of a
> very diverse group. Obviously *some* runners fit into that category, but
> there are plenty who don't.
Exactly. Read the first section of Fields of Fire. TopCat apparently
believes that *all* runners fit into the mold that Matador puts them in.
Even Hatchetman (who is apparently a runner, and should know better, agrees
with him.)
But not all runners are like that. My players aren't. They do not wander
over the wire and aimlessly search the compound. They have a plan. They use
their brains. Most importantly, they use stealth, magic, and technology to
defeat security systems. (Motto: Any system can be beaten. Some are just
harder than others. Remember, security *cannot* be impenetrable. Otherwise,
whatever it guards *cannot* be accessible.)
Now, I will admit that I don't run sessions where they have to penetrate a
corporate high-security facility very often. It isn't the kind of mission
the PC's enjoy, and they don't have the personnel to be effective. (No
full-time decker, for example.) But they can and have done it.
--
Quicksilver rides again
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Those who would give up a little freedom for security
deserve neither freedom nor security
-Benjamin Franklin
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
-Leonard Brandwein
Jonathan Hurley (mailto:jhurley1@************.edu)
