From:	Mockingbird mockingbird@*********.com
Subject:	Initiate Grades (Was Re: Centering vs Penalties)
Date:	Tue, 24 Aug 1999 10:57:34 -0500

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From: Arcady <arcady@***.net>
To: <shadowrn@*********.org>
Sent: Sunday, August 22, 1999 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Initiate Grades (Was Re: Centering vs Penalties)


> >The impression that I get from MitS is that higher grade initiate
levels
> >are much more common and appropriate than in SR2. Admittedly, the
staged
> >

<snip>

> 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.
>

Or another way to look at it is like a college faculty. Alot of
Associate Professors (adepts and aspected mages), some Full Professors
(full mages), and several Doctorates (initiates), with one or two
multi-Doctorates (high level initiates). The better the college (corp)
the more Doctorates on staff and the less Associate Proffessors.

YMMV,
Mockingbird