| From: | Sommers sommers@*****.edu |
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| Subject: | What next? (Was Re: SR Narrowing of focus) |
| Date: | Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:25:37 -0400 |
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>
> > As was pointed out by the player of Boom (yes, the fixer from Portfolio) -
> > "Gee I can go on shadowruns and get shot at and maybe die, or I can stay
> > in this cool bar, listen to good music, and have people come to me for
> > advice and earn a decent living as a middleman. Hmm...what to do."
> >
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>
>That's one thing I've never understood about shadowrunners. If you start
>with Priority A, you might as well retire. You've got a million dollars, for
>God's sakes. Screw this whole shadowrunning thing! I'm rich!
That's because you don't have a million dollars, you have a million dollars
in resources. Big difference.Let's say you don't spend a penny and keep it
all after character creation, how much do you have? One hundred thousand
nuyen. That's how much is liquid. The rest is a measure of how much
resources you've been able to run your grubby little shadowrunner hands on.
Let's say that you're a decker that starts out with a million. You didn't
take 500,000 and lay it on the counter to buy a hot deck. That million
represents the two years that you spent programming your own code and
cooking it onto chips. It's the job that you did 5 months ago that gave you
that rating 6 can opener instead of a payoff. Its the response increase
chip you took out of your old deck right after you left the corp you used
to work for, right before you threw the parts that could be traced in the
Matrix into the harbor.
Carry out the same kind of story for other archetypes and you get the idea.
In fact, the new Companion, in its character creation section, has one on
describing how you got all of those wonderful toys.
Sommers
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