| From: | Michael _ your_raven@*******.com |
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| Subject: | Cyber-Mages (was: A perfectly acceptable...) |
| Date: | Thu, 11 Feb 1999 22:05:08 PST |
but back in the old days a mage who cybered away 5 points of Essence had
geasa problems. Namely, he picked up two...and if the GM is smart enough
to she/he can make sure the player doesn't get away with some light
penalty. Until the new magic book comes out I am still using most of the
old grimoire and players all know that some things may get changed mid
campaign. Secondly, if this mage is wiring himself up he is probably
blowing fairly large chunks of Essence at one time, especially for
things like Wired Reflexes. In SR2 it gave very specific rules for when
a certain degree of Essence loss in a surgery counted as what kind of
wound, and the bigger stuff was almost always a Deadly wounder. This
means another chance to hit the mage for magic loss since everytime a
mage takes a Deadly wound you role 2D6 and if its below the Magic
Attribute, he loses a point.
My question is...Physads are limited to their levels in powers based on
their Magic Attribute. No Increased Quickness 5 if you only have Magic
4. Now, in the old system, physads could initiate and raise their Magic.
Under the new rules Physads can purchase additionaly "Power Points",
which leads me to believe that in the new magic book physads are going
to lose the ability to initiate. So, do purchased power points raise the
Magic Atrribute? The two things start out equal and if the physad loses
Magic he loses Power Points, so are they always equal?
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