| From: | Max Rible <slothman@*********.ORG> |
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| Subject: | Re: Mysticism |
| Date: | Wed, 9 Jul 1997 09:48:04 -0800 |
>1) Just how common is Magic? Are people used to its effects and
manifestations.
> The basic rule book should pay attention, not lip service to the
realities of
> "supernatural" occurences. I know that this has been adressed in (I
think)
> Awakenings but I WANT MORE!!!!!
I have a page at http://www.amurgsval.org/shadowrun/working_world.html
that speculates on a lot of this. Based on statistics, magicans are about
half as common as doctors, and Adepts about twice as common. (On that page,
I have a lot of speculation on jobs that various magicians and adepts hold.)
>2) The Naming of Names.
> Powerbolt? Wrecker? Control Actions? I understand that many pioneering
>magicians were hermetic corporates, but what about the pioneering GhostDance
>shamans. Surely these two rather diverse groups would have come up with
>different ways of utilizing their Magic not to mention what they would call
>these expressions.
Actually, I think it would be cool for it to be revealed that all the names
that we see in the books are the "street names" for the spells, and have
someone rattle off corporate and tribal names for them in a Shadowland
posting, ridiculing the pomposity of the spell names...
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