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From: Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com
Subject: a concept problem
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 1999 04:00:15 EST
As you may or may not know out there in Shadowrun Land, SR's magic system and
I really don't get along at all. I tend to lean more towards human Deckers
and Riggers and Technowienie types in general.

However, I decided to try and make someone completely different. Now, not
being the type who feels comfortable with the magic system, clearly that meant
Pysad. Their magical, and you don't have to frag with the spells that give me
so much headache. Then I happened to run across an episode of "Kung Fu: The
legend continues".

Net result: One Troll adept. And NO Idea of what to do for his background.

Heck. At the moment I don't even know how tall the bugger should be or how
much he should weigh.(He's got a bod 8 Str7 which is about avg. for a troll)

The powers part was easy enough (attribute boost 1 for Quick, bod, Str. Body
control 1, Missile parry, Combat sense 2 and impr reflexes 1)

The skills were a little tougher, but thinking back to the source material did
give me some clues.

What I need are some good ideas that I can incorporate into this guys
background / Personality.

That and one other concern. Shao-Lin are pacifistic by nature, right? I
figured this guy is young and doesn't always keep cool about the pacifism
stuff. However, his master totally thumped the prohibition against killing
into his thick skull. No way, no how. Maybe if its was an accident, but then
he's still gonna suffer a major guilt trip.

The other concern would then be: How would this affect his ability to work in
the shadows? Is wetwork really that common? How can I have him misinterpret
the Shao-lin code to even have him run the shadows in the first place?

(and maybe this will get people away from that $*($#( slivergun debate)

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