From:	Mike Loseke <mike@******.VERINET.COM>
Subject:	Re: Physical Adpets, what do you play?
Date:	Tue, 8 Jul 1997 23:08:51 -0600

Quoth Jaymz:
>
> OK,
>
> I have managed to upset my wife by convincing her to play a Phys Ad in my
> game.
>
> What sort of characters do you play when playing a PA?

Think of a concept and apply the physad rules to that concept. It will
change during creation (see Heisenberg's principle) but this is usually
a good thing.

I've played a ganger as a physad and designed a couple B/E types. The
ganger was alot of fun to play as nobody expected his abilities and
deadliness as he didn't look the part.

> They never will be anywhere near as powerful as a sammy, right?

Now if *this* isn't a touchy point... :) I believe that the ShadowFAQ
has somethin to say about this.

> What are the advantages of playing one in SRII?

The character is on the side of the balance of power in the game. SR
tends to favor magic quite a bit and being a PhysAd gets you in with
the in crowd, so to speak.

The list is long (for both sides of this argument) and our friendly
list owner is probably warming up his smiting rod as he reads this so
I won't go into these yet again.

The best advice I could give is to design a character that would be
capable of doing the things that are more fun and more rewarding than
just shooting at people. Let the sams do that. That doesn't take as much
skill and intelligence as stealthing around doing super-sneaky things.
I'll stop now.

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