| From: | Bruce gyro@********.co.za |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Psionics 2 (with a little bit of life imitating game thrownin.) |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:21:53 +0200 |
From: Stuart M. Willis <hbiki@****.geocities.com>
To: shadowrn@*********.org <shadowrn@*********.org>
Date: 17 February 1999 01:51
Subject: Re: Psionics 2 (with a little bit of life imitating game
thrownin.)
<snip non-committing stuff>
>
>[High amusing about Shadowrun being 'based in fact' when you have
Elves,
>Dwarves, Orks, and Trolls (western fantasy figures, roughly parallel
to the
>French, Welsh, and others I'm not sure of? The Vikings?) running
around to
>a Mayan calender and some of them using Indian Totem Magick!...
anyways]
>
>Magic in Shadowrun works alot differently to how many practioners of
magick
>in real life believe their magick to work AFAIK. Steven Kenson
pointed out
>this in his interview in TSS. End of Story.
>
<snip facts and bad language>
I really enjoyed the bit about the Western mytholgical figures in a
Mayan calendar slingng totem magic :)
What issue of TSS has the Kenson interview?
SR magic should be expanded to allow for other tradtions IMHO. You are
quite right to say that its unlikely that peoples all over the world
would either fall into Hermetic or Shamanic magic. We got a taste of
what we hope is in MitS with the Voudoun rules from Awakenings, but
what I would like to see are rules for designing other traditions or
an expansion on same.
Has anyone worked out rules for Chinese magc, hinted at in the
Underworld book? I find that rather intruiging.
Thanks -- BRUCE <gyro@********.co.za>
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