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From: Gurth gurth@******.nl
Subject: A perfectly acceptable reason to test the new list...
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 11:38:38 +0100
According to David Fallon, at 11:24 on 8 Feb 99, the word on
the street was...

> 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.

So? I have a feeling there are _very_ few SR players who truly never
thought to themselves "Well, if I get this then I can add that in for less
Essence..." By your reasoning, any time a street sam gets cybereyes with
low-light, thermographic, and flare compensation (IOW the standard
package), it's munchkin because the player is paying attention to the
Essence loss...

Furthermore, it's easy enough to explain all this _in_ character as well:
the doc tells the character: "I can either remove your eyes and saw away
part of your skull to accomodate all the options you want in your eye,
then replace your own eyes, or I can remove the natural eyes and pop in
cybereyes that have all those featurs built in and give you perfect vision
at the same time."

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