| From: | Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK> |
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| Subject: | Re: Effects of Bioware on magic... |
| Date: | Sat, 5 Jul 1997 16:33:39 +0100 |
|My name is David and this is my second post. I figured that it would be
|more fun to be known as my street name here so refer to me as Gabriel.
|Anyways, to my questoin:
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|I don't own the source book(s) that refer to bioware and its effects on
|essence and magic. The character generaters I have for SR both show
|that bioware has no effect on magic. I was just recently told that
|bioware does indeed affect magic the same way that cyberware does. It
|however does not affect essence.
That is a house rule. If you read Shadowtech, is specifically states that
Bioware DOES affect essence.
My questions then are this: First,
|does bioware affect a character's magic rating?
Only as the side effect of losing essence, but yes.
Second if it does
|affect magic then why does it not affect essence?
It does affect essence.
Finally, if there is
|a difference between someones essence and magic, then why do they
|correspond almost exactly to each other (essence loss reduces magic,
|initiation increases essence and magic both)?
Essence is fixed. You can lose it, but there is no way to raise it.
Magic can be increased by initiating. (Grimoire 2nd edition).
|As I said before I'm new to this mailing list and to the SR game
|itself. So any knowledge is helpful!
If Bull can pull himself together, I'm sure the Bull-bot will be by
shortly..... Maybe.....
|Gabriel
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