From:	Chris Maxfield cmaxfiel@****.org.au
Subject:	physads and Karma in SR3
Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 1999 15:50:51 +1000

At 16:53 12/08/99 -0400, runnerpaul@*****.com wrote:
>Buying a Power Point does not let you learn a Metamagical technique.
>While all but three of the Metamagic techniques are unusable by
>Adepts, one in particular, Centering, deserves special notice. With
>Adept Initiates, Centering isn't a single Metamagical technique, it's
>several dozen.

Maybe not that many. See below.

>The first time an adept Initiates a grade and learns Centering, she
>learns it for Athletics and Stealth. As a Metamagical technique on
>subsequent Initiations, the adept can go back and learn Centering for
>other skills, at a rate of one new skill per grade. These skills can
>be from any of the following cateogories: Build/Repair, Melee Combat,
>Ranged Combat, Knowledge, Language, Social, Technical, and Vehicle.

Although MITS says at one point that the adept may learn to apply Centering
to a new "skill" as a new technique, in multiple places it says that the
adept learns to apply Centering to a new "skill area" as the new technique.
From re-reading the section I believe skill area is the correct
nterpretation. Therefore, the adept only(?) has to initiate and learn
Centering nine times to cover all standard active, language and knowledge
skills.



Chris