From:	Wafflemeisters <evamarie@**********.NET>
Subject:	Re: MY Take (Binder's Look on Enchanting)
Date:	Sat, 16 May 1998 14:39:30 -0500

> Re: MY Take (Binder's Look on Enchanting) (Ereskanti , Fri 8:50)

> > HUH? Mundanes have about as much use for enchanters as fish for
> > bicycles. Most magical drek is just another sort of loot to them, and
> > not of much real use. "Sure, you SAY its magical, and so does fred the
> > mage- well, ok. I'll be over at the cyberclinic when you get my cut
> > from the fence."
> >
> Why certainly, and when you want a magician and their's none around to really
> help with the recovery, the "enchanted anchoring of healing" is the next
> thing. Perhaps a really nice "Augment Recovery" idea has been thought up
> (smirk).
>
> AND, magical paraphenalia brings about the highest take on fiscal returns. It
> makes both knowing who the enchanters are and having one around to recognize
> the stuff, both valuable and requirable in the SR Universe's mixed system...
>

I believe my above messgae acknowledges that fact. Fencing magical
loot is not a role unique to enchanters, though they may do it very
well. As for PRODUCING valuble goods, a decker with a room full of
chip-burners can do that rather well, as can a sim-star, or even a
motivated drug synthesist and dealer. All these goods, the mundane is
more suited to deal in.
Different worlds, that all.

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>
> Okay, I think I see a pattern here. This is part of that "game view"
thing.
> In MOST games, an Enchanter Adept is incredibly limiting, so they HAVE to do
> something else in order to compensate. Hell, when I first made Reflex/Binder,
> he was a Decker/Enchanter, and since he didn't have astral perception as per
> the rules, he wasn't effected when decking the same as a full magician.
>
> But, in any case, Mongoose has his opinions of Enchanter flexibility, and
> other people have theirs....
>
> -K

Perhaps you got me wrong- I was NOT comenting on an enchanter's
flexibilty, or even the value of thier contibution to a running team-
only on the value of his main products to mundanes, as your original
post claimed he made goods EVERYBODY wanted. SDorry if you got the
wrong inmpression- Ithink enchanters can be quite keen, personaly. It's
just, people without money don't care much about stock brokers; it
doesn't mean the broker ain't rich...
As for enhanted healing anchors, the enchantor might make the anchor,
but can't use spells, so I don't see it. Anchors made by an enchantor
might be very nice anchors for a spellcaster, though...
"Magical healing", as the -2 mod on the Doctring Table, may be
possible- just waht that requires / consists of is never said ; we
require the twice a day use of astral perception to "monitor" the
patient.
And yes, unless granted to all other magical adepts, I do not think
enchanters should get astral projection or perception. Thier "job" does
not ever require it- they can even use enchanting to analyze magical
goods. They may be "underpowered, but so are physical adepts, and I
don't often see people advocating THEY should have astral perception or
projection.
And, as you noted, enchanters DO tend to be wealthy.... :)

-X