| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Anyboedy use Obsidimen? |
| Date: | Wed, 17 Mar 1999 12:04:05 +0100 |
the street was...
> With the (very) recent arrival of the SRC, I'm sure the topic of
> metavarients will raise its mutant head once more. Heading that of, does
> anybody use Obsidiman characters (despite Mike Mulvihill's explicit claim
> that they will never appear in SR)?
I don't use them, but I can offer my thoughts about how I'd incorporate
them into my campaign if I would ever want to...
> I've seen them discussed before, and would like to ask 2 questions:
> 1) Do you require that they have minimum assigned Str and Body scores
> (I'm thinking 3 or even 4)
Good idea, and assign those _before_ whatever racial modifiers you give
them. BTW, a reasonable way to convert from ED's attributes to SR's is to
take the ED step and subtract 1 (or was it add 1? subtract, I think).
Obsidimen in ED must have a Strength of 15, before modifiers, which is
step 6. This would equate roughly to a Strength of 5 in SR, IMHO.
> 2) Do you rule that they can not wear armor?
Not sure... I never really like game rules that flat-out say that
character type X cannot do something while character type Y can. I would
probably allow them to wear armor, but make the player understand that the
character feels very uncomfortable in it.
> Both of these would be appropriate to their description in ED, where
> Obsidiman players must assign very high values to Strength and Toughness
Only to Strength, to be precise. They get that +4 Toughness that almost
guarantees a pretty damage-resistant character, but they _can_ only put 3
points into Toughness if they want to.
> (before their racial adjustments) and Obsidian Characters can not wear
> armor, unless it is "living armor". Living armor does not exist in SR),
> except in the form of bioware (Orthoskin)and cyberware (Bone Lacing,
> Dermal Armor, and Dermal Sheathes). I'd expect Obsidiman already have the
> equivalent of at least one of those, and could not use most bioware in any
> case.
Agreed. Although they're not really stone I do imagine it would be
difficult to operate on them. Cultured bioware _may_ be available, but I'd
probably double the cost or something similar to reflect its rarity.
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