From:	Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM>
Subject:	Re: Artificing: Enchanting that special doohickey :)
Date:	Sun, 10 May 1998 17:07:08 -0500

>Once upon a time, Alfredo B Alves wrote;
>>Cripes! As much as I miss RoleMaster (great sys, but I can't get any
>>players) ... I was not attempting to import it into SR ... I keep being
>>told that any magical item you can make in another RPG can be made in
SR,
>>so I was hoping I could get you (You in the abstract list sense) to
prove
>>it with an example.
>>
>>I am planning on porting a few things from RM but it won't involve any
>>drastic bending of SR rules (If it does, most likely I won't do it)

On Sun, 10 May 1998 16:48:37 -0400 MC23 <mc23@**********.COM> writes:
> Sorry, I've been a bit cranky over a lot of silly posts recently.
On
>a practical side I should have pointed out that such a sword would set
off >every sprinkler system it came across. In other words, flaming
swords
>aren't very practical on shadowruns.

Good point...I had thought of that, but, I didn't really want a flaming
sword anyway... just an example :)

> An abstraction of such a sword could be made simply by stacking
>foci. Trying to get anything closer just adds more drawbacks then its
>worth. I wouldn't agree that anything can be directly ported over.
Magic
>items just don't work that way in Shadowrun.

Are you sure it won't work that way? After all isn't ED supposed to be
SR's 4th world? and doesn't ED have magical items like that? (I'm not
really sure ... I'm still trying to get my hands on that ED CD-Rom ...
though it may be in one of the ED SBs... dunno since I'm not familiar w/
ED)

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And I am the D.Ghost :) (I'll fill ya in once D.Ghost is copyrighted ;)

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