| From: | Arcady arcady@***.net |
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| Subject: | Initiate Grades (Was Re: Centering vs Penalties) |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Aug 1999 11:29:05 +700 |
>are much more common and appropriate than in SR2. Admittedly, the staged
>
>In SR2, I emphasized the difficulty and rareness of initiates because
>they gained so many new powers. Even though for 9 Good Karma, a magician
>could become a full blown Grade 0 initiate, the karma didn't reflect the
>jump in power. Luckily, SR3 has toned that down considerably and brought
>the power of initiation in line with the karma cost, but does this mean
>that a sizable portion of awakened people are initiates? I'm curious
>what other gamemasters and players think of that. My instinct would be
>that at least 25% of the awakened population would be initiates given
>the low cost of initiation.
I would look at it in the same way that you might look at the number of doctors
who have completed their internships and gone on to be full doctors.
If there are 30 thousand mages in Seattle (1% of the population, though at 3
million Seattle should be a small backwater hick town... and considering it's
land space it's more spacious than many of today's suburbs...) and a good fraction
of them are full mages... then there's likely a very large number of initiates.
I'd say anyone who's been doing magic for more than a few years is an initaite
or viewed as washed up by their collegues.
Of course most initiates don't go too high up in the grades. It gets progessively
harder and there's a lot of other stuff to learn as well.
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