From:	David Buehrer <dbuehrer@******.CARL.ORG>
Subject:	Re: Insect vampires?
Date:	Thu, 18 Dec 1997 10:43:19 -0700

William Gallas wrote:
/
/ >Hmm..I'd rule that its again their nature as well. But that is just
/ >my interpretation. Vampires tend to be magical anyway, and on becoming
/ >vampires are more then physically powerful enough.
/ >I still haven't figured out what I'd do if a PA became a Vampire.
/ >That would be ugly. But as NPC's go, you can fudge almost any normal
/ >rules for the sake of entertainment.
/ >Later.
/
/ I think he's still a physad. The reason is that in a module (Total Eclipse
/ I think...), there's a vampire mage. If he succeeded in maintaining his
/ magical abilities, there's no reason a physad won't. The only question is :
/ Will he have a magic of 6 or equal to his essence ? I would tell he has a
/ magic attribute equal to his essence but that's my opinion...

My feeling is to go with the spirit of the rules. Magic loss due to
essence loss is, IMHO, in response to implanting ware and other
permanent effects. Temporary essence loss should not affect the
character's Magic rating. Again, IMHO :) So if a character's
essence drops due to the fact that he's a hungry vampire (or was
attacked by a critter with temporary essence drain) then his Magic
shouldn't be affected. Likewise if a vampire sucks a town dry and
boosts his essence to the moon that shouldn't increase his Magic
rating.

-David
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