From:	Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject:	Re: ED Races in SR; why it can't happen (long)
Date:	Fri, 8 May 1998 01:18:12 +0100

And verily, did Erik Jameson hastily scribble thusly...
|Let's look at it this way. If a barghest is derived from a certain breed
|of dog, then that breed of dog would go extinct and the only thing left
|would be barghests.

That's sloppy thinking I'm afraid.
Why wouldn't the dogs react to magic in the same way as the people?
Only a small percentage of the population gave birth to or goblinised into
metaraces, and the same could be said for the dogs.

Also, there is word that the magic dropped suddenly, NOT gradually.
If it was a gradual drop, it might have been the buffer zone needed for
their unborns to revert to the lower, non-magical race.

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing the 3 missing races appear,
It'd bring on a whole new night of rage if they suddenly appeared in force
at another magic threshold....

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