From:	Bahamut Mighty Dragon Lord bahamut@**.com
Subject:	Initiate Grades (Was Re: Centering vs Penalties)
Date:	Mon, 23 Aug 1999 21:10:15 -0400

> 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.
>
>
<SNIP>
We just make groups much harder to find and or creat. Since with out a group you need 15
Karma and a trial of sorts.