| From: | Kelson kelson13@*******.com |
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| Subject: | Mundanes |
| Date: | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 06:19:57 -0700 |
>One thought on this. How many people in 2060 are COMPLETELY uncybered? I
>can easily envision a large minority of the people having maybe a datajack,
>and perhaps some cybereyes, maybe some other (legal) cyberware.
>So, if this is true, then having a character with < 1 point of cyber would
>still qualify in my book as a mundane.
I don't see a large chunk of the population having cyberware. Why would Joe Average need
his eyes scraped out for mechanical ones? Don't most people have enough ways to spend
their money already than on something not-so-useful to their job/lifestyle? Heck, even if
Joe Average wanted to be able to see better in the dark, then the most comfortable choice
would be to buy a set of low light goggles. Having your eyes completely removed is more
drastic and wouldn't be as easy to swallow for most people. I can see a good chunk of the
population having datajacks (although, probably still less than 50%). It's much more
efficient to push data in the matrix than through a keyboard or via voice recognition
software. Heck, some jobs might require a datajack (and will gladly install one for you,
if necessary - perhaps requiring a contract or somesuch).
Shadowrunners are a different story, however, in that their profession tends to encourage
having some sort of edge over the oh-so-deadly competition. This edge is generally
cyberware/bioware/magic/lots of toys, etc.
I've had a couple of players play very lightly cybered or magicked characters, but I
haven't had any yet who were completely uncybered/magicked. It would be interesting to
see/try, though.
>Dave
Justin
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