From:	Ojaste,James [NCR] James.Ojaste@**.GC.CA
Subject:	A perfectly acceptable reason to test the new list...
Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 1999 14:32:05 -0500

David Fallon wrote:
> >remember what. All in all, the minimal amount of cyber that Adnerson put
> >in was the few things he thought would give him a serious boost to his
> >survival potential while spending very little essence (less than a
> point).
> >Even if circumstances had not prompted him into getting the eyes when he
> >did, I believe Anderson had considered these limited cyber options before
> >the bad run.
> Erm.... That's pretty munchkin. Anytime the logic goes "It's only X
> essence", the character is looking at the rules, and not at their
> character
> background.
>
Huh? Next you'll say "anytime the player buys the gun with the
biggest damage code, it's munchkin"! The characters will have access
to similar info - sams can buy gun mags with penetration specs and
mages can see how much a given piece of cyber affects the aura.

Why not even have a standard rating system that mages can rate aural
damage on? We'll have the scale go from 0 to 6, and we'll call it
essence...

> >the same time. She is played well, with her social problems being used to
> >off-set teh advantages she has gotten through this trade off. However, if
> >she were being played in a campaign where the social disadvantages were
> >not so freuently emphasized, she owuld be munchy.
> That sort of fits, but I'd hope she was self-initiating... Even still,
> that's pushing it. :) Having a character's personality be "I am a
> munchkin"
> doesn't make it good roleplaying.
>
It doesn't make it bad roleplaying either.

> Even a small bit of cyberware is really pushing it. I recommend reading a
> book called 2XS by Nigel D. Findley, if you haven't already. I think it's
> out of print, but it's a _really_ good book to make some of the issues a
> character _should_ have with cyberware clearer. The main character is a
>
"A character". Not, "A magically-active character" I notice.
Therefore, according to your opinion, cyber is munchy and nobody
should be able to get it. (R.A.A.)

> private detective who does his best to survive on the street without
> cyberware, because he likes his body just the way it is, thank you. I
> don't
> think every character should be like this, but some of this should be in
> the
> back of every character's minds, especially mages.
>
Sure it should. It shouldn't be the *only* thing in their minds.
Don't forget that the grass is always greener... You can't know
how much good it'll do you until you try. Well, you've already
gone this far, what's a little more going to hurt?

There's a reason it's called "the path of the burnout".

James Ojaste