From:	Wildfire Wildfire@*************.com
Subject:	physads and Karma in SR3
Date:	Thu, 12 Aug 1999 08:21:08 -0400

hoockadelic wrote:

> Hi there, I just noticed something in
> the SR3 rules for adept powers, it says
> that for 20 Good Karma points an adept can
> get 1 point worth of new powers. That
> seems quite unbalancing to me regarding
> initiation. Physad characters will not
> need to undergo initiation over let's say
> grade 3, they'll just spend 20 Karma
> points !
> What do you think about that ?

Actually, I don't think that's a new rule, I have used that one before
and I've only played SR2. Perhaps we made it up, but I think it was in
the rules somewhere. I personally liked the idea, as after a few
initiation levels, you get to the point that there is not many other
things you can do, unlike mages, who have lots of metaplanes, etc.
Besides, it is an expensive tradeoff, and Initiate levels do more for
the personality of the character. Guess it would really depend on how
fast the character accumulates karma.

Wildfire