From:	Steadfast laughingman@*******.de
Subject:	[OT] Emotional Conditions
Date:	Thu, 25 Feb 1999 03:35:30 +0100

And so it came to happen that Mongoose wrote:
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> That's jetwash. A physical adept or troll is similarly dangerous, but
> runs no mentioned risk of psychosis. Of course, there is no enforced risk
> of psychosis for cyber-users either, so the whole "psycho samurai" concept
> is outside of cannon, IMO.
> Again, you could get just as much cyber, as deltaware, and loose less
> essence, while being as deadly. The impact on the persons mental state is
> from the essence loss, if anything- not from the cyber they use.

Sigh. again another one has discovered one of the flaws of the gamesystem.
FASA supports essence loss as negative on socialskills as shown as a
possible malus for cybered dudes (somewere on page 93 SR3rd.). Note that
they did not write cyberessence loss, so a sucked out victim of a vampire
should also have those mali. But that they did not write in there
explicitly. And take a look on it, the conclusion that a Sam with heavy
cyber is more an irratant than someone without is not that far IMO. But the
system is based soleley on essence loss of the cybered dude not on something
different, maybe something like a 'power-level' of the cyberware should be
figured in. The whole concept of bad habbits or odd behavior has nothing to
do with how many cyberware you have intus, aka how inhuman you truly are,
but how much essence you have paid for it. So a Delta ware Sam with full
body replacement, encephalon II and Booster II is actually more human per
rules than the Sam who got it all in normal grade but only has Smartlink II,
Booster II, Datajack, handrazors and the full eyepackage. That does sound
like jetwash IMO.


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