From:	"Jeremy \"Bolthy\" Zimmerman" <jeremy@***********.COM>
Subject:	Re: Talismongering
Date:	Mon, 4 May 1998 16:54:10 -0700

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> From: Erik Jameson <erikj@****.COM>
> To: SHADOWRN@********.ITRIBE.NET
> Subject: Re: Talismongering
> Date: Monday, May 04, 1998 4:48 PM
>
> At 06:43 PM 5/4/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >Does anyone use the Enchanting skill and talismonger things on a regular
> >basis for their characters? Was just wondering how many people use it.
A
> >PC in my campaign just got an enchanting at 6 and I've been having to
> >refamiliarize myself with the rules.
>
> About the only real use for Enchanting in the games I've played in has
been
> the magicians baking up a focus for themselves so they could pay less
karma
> to bond the bastards. No one even bothered to use Enchanting to make
> enough fetishes or foci or anything to sell.
>

Actually, I remember one of my group doing that with a weapon focus. I
don't remember exactly how he went about it, but it was a long, drawn out
affair where he gathered together all the parts, just totally working the
system to get as many benefits as possible, and then paid an absurdly low
karma cost for a rating 10 weapon focus.... None of our mages ever
bothered to use fetishes... except for one case where a mage had an
alternate version of his manabolt that used expendable fetishes and was
exclusive... i think he had a spell-specific focus for that too.

Yeah, we've had our fair share of munchkin stunts. =)