| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Bioware, Betaware, and a 3rd edition game of mostly newbies |
| Date: | Thu, 1 Jul 1999 12:13:10 +0200 |
the street was...
> ! of the experts and the novel-player have presented me with characters
> that make use of items that until Man and Machine is published have no rules
> under 3rd edition but exist in second edition items.
[snip]
> My gut feeling is to tell them both to stick to only items in the currently
> published 3rd edition books.
That's what I would do, too (if I didn't have all the books, that is :) If
you don't own the book, and the player doesn't either (or doesn't want to
loan it to you so you can read it), ban anything they claim that's from
that book. Allowing only stuff that's from books you have access to is a
smart move because it will avoid all kinds of problems.
> Is the second edition stuff as unbalancing as it looks to me as a newbie?
No. I must say that one of the things I don't understand is why many
people refuse to use stuff from what they term as "second edition
sourcebooks" -- just use common sense and you can use almost anything from
first and second edition with SR3 rules, especially things like cyberware
and weapons, which didn't get changed at all between SRII and SR3...
> The player is complaining that he will no longer have all his starting cash
> if/when Man and Machine is published. My current response is that at that
> time he can get what he can or submit a new character, but that I don't want
> him using it all at this point.
Like I said above, if your group doesn't own the book (yet), don't allow
anything from it; anything else you as GM don't want in the game, you
should disallow too.
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