| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Info wanted |
| Date: | Sat, 2 May 1998 14:43:51 +0100 |
> No. Your body index is like your body index. It's a gauge of how
> much bioware you can put into your body, and it doesn't increase or
> decrease- it just is. If you have a body of 5, you can put 5 points
> worth of bioware into your body. Bio and cyber mods do NOT count when
> determining your body index.
The Body Index is the sum of the Body Costs of all pieces of bioware you
have installed. I'll grant you that Shadowtech does start off explaining
it in a bit of a strange way, by saying the Body Index is the maximum
total Body Cost, but if you read on a bit it becomes clear the BI is equal
to the total cost of all bioware items.
> And note: When a magically active character uses bioware, the B.I.
> rating is the same as it's cost in essence.
> For example, if a mage used a piece of bioware that had a BI rating
> of 1, he would subtract also one point of essence.
A common house rule is to say that bioware doesn't cost Essence to a
magician, but lowers Magic as if it did -- IOW the Magic Attribute is
equal to Essence minus Body Index, rounded down.
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