| From: | Charles R Joseph <arcaneacuity@****.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Addiction |
| Date: | Thu, 17 Jul 1997 17:22:46 -0400 |
>Shadowtech gives rules for drug use, but fails to mention how BTLs fit
>into the picture. The rules that are given, though, are obviously
>intended to discourage players fom having their characters addicted --
NOBODY
>using those rules will live longer than 10 weeks once addicted, because
one
>physical and one stun box are lost from the Condition Monitor each
>week...
Geez...that's awfully realistic. I can see drugs being a bit
more potent in 2058, but Christ...can't have much of a drug culture with
everyone dying all the time. I guess they have their reasons for wanting
to discourage junkie characters, same as with any other "bad" element.
One has to keep up appearances.
>(<plug>For a suggested improvement, get Paranoid Animals of North
>America from my web page.</plug>)
I will as soon as I have web access again...which will HOPEFULLY
be tomorrow.
>IMHO it would be a good idea to give BTLs addiction stats like
>chemical drugs.
I don't know about that. It seems to me that there should be
more mental and less physical side effects. However, since my character
uses both BTLs and chemical drugs, that would only fuck my character up
even more...which I don't particularly mind as long as he still has some
semblance of usefulness, real or imagined, to the rest of the group.
>> What's available?
>
>In official SR material, nothing much except stuff that's somehow
>useful (my age-old complaint about SR again :) But check the net for
>Wordman's SR drugs list, and you should have enough to start you off.
I'll do that too...when I get my access back. Two weeks without
access and counting...wahhhhhh!
>> What are the short term/long term effects of addiction? Do they
>>affect magic-use?
>
>Shadowtech explains it all on page 87, but basically you lose Essence
>and Condition Monitor boxes to an addiction. That should answer the
>question if they affect magic use, too...
I see...considering that my character would be dead already from
these rules (he's been an addict for about a year prior to game time), I
don't think I'll be using them.
Winter Wolfe Arcane
arcaneacuity@****.com
"When our hatred is violent, it sinks us even beneath those we hate."
