From:	Lady Jestyr <jestyr@*******.DIALIX.COM.AU>
Subject:	Re: We Don't Need No Stinkin' Munchies!!! [Was Sr3 Combat spells]
Date:	Thu, 17 Jul 1997 08:54:23 +1000

> Panther Cannon? I'd have a field day with that. I call that severe
> powergamer, btw.

Oh, be reasonable. It's a FASA published item - that means the
production team must have envisaged a situation where it would be
appropriate. Sure, carrying everywhere you GO is powergaming (and
begging for a jail term) but the item in and of itself isn't munchy -
it's how and when you use it.

> I've never said that players should have 2's for stats and skills. Simply
> that they shouldn't have to have 6's.

They shouldn't HAVE to have 6's, but you sledge anyone who's GOT 6's. By
your way of thinking, apparently a 6 in anything is a sign of
munchkin-ness.

Okay, how about my sorceror adept/rigger. After being played for QUITE A
WHILE, she had (I think) Cha 5, Qui 6, Int 6... everything else was 4 or
below. Does that make her a munchkin, cause she had two stats at 6? (Oh
yeah, and that was WITH bioware, too...)

And I ask you - the cyberware and bioware exist to make an average
character absolutely beefy. Does this mean FASA are all munchkins and
powergamers, since they created the stuff?

I think your vision of SR is significantly different from mine. That's
fine, I respect your right to hold your own interpretations and play the
way you like. Please extend us the same courtesy.



Lady Jestyr

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