| From: | Peter David Boddy <pdboddy@****.CARLETON.CA> |
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| Subject: | Re: [SR3] Karma and Attributes |
| Date: | Wed, 16 Jul 1997 01:41:05 EDT |
> >I would disagree with this. 6 represents the Maximum Average, ( if
> >that makes sense). 1.5 times racial max is the buffest ever....max
> >is a REASONABLE buffest. anything above Racial Max is bloody rare,
> >and Racial Max is rare, but NOT buffest. I'd say about 25% of the
> >people going to top universities have the equivilant of INT 6. And
> >they aren't necessarily the most intelligent ever....just on the
> >highest end of reasonable.
>
> Actually 1.5 times racial max is an *optional* maximum. See pgs. 42-43, 46,
> and 190 in SRII for the exact canonical wording. Disagree if you like but
> the words are there for the seeing. I, personally, don't allow players to
> naturally exceed racial max in the campaigns that I GM as an anti-powergamer
> measure.
The way I see it, 6 is the maximum for a normal human (with the various
differences max for the metas). Anything above that is either
cyberware/bioware, or a freak of nature (I mean this in a nice way, =) ).
BTW, what would Einstein's (sp?) intelligence be? For physics, I'd call
him a god, for tying his shoes, well, he was a little on the slow side,
from what I have heard said about him...
Pete
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Peter David Boddy
Carleton University
Email address: pdboddy@****.carleton.ca
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