From:	Elindor Quinn rjakins@****.murdoch.edu.au
Subject:	Bio-ware, cyber-ware and mages
Date:	Fri, 2 Jul 1999 10:57:57 +0800

Rand Ratinac indicated Re: Bio-ware, cyber-ware and mages

> Actually, Gurth, you should have read my reply better. :) Mark didn't POST
> the question, he was responding to someone else and in his post he
> mentioned this yere mage I talked about.
>
> Anyway, it doesn't matter. The point is, until M&M comes out, bioware DOES
> cost essence (and thus magic) for magically active characters. According
> to FASA. That's likely to change in some way or another, but until
> then...watch it...

Looking at the Blue Banded Mage (5 bands) on p 84 of RA:S,
essence loss due to cyberware is 1.32 essence. Leaving 4.68
essence left, tallying with the character sheet. That's cyberware
only - the magician also has synaptic 1 and trauma damper, which
as everyone knows are both automatically cultured bioware (and I
didn't include in my original cyberware calculations). These two
combine for a BI of 0.7, which should give the magician an essence
of 3.98

Trust me, I have the four books it covers right next to me.

Elindor Quinn
So what? I mean, it was officially ruled an accident...