| From: | Gurth gurth@******.nl |
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| Subject: | Priorities in the SR2/SR3 |
| Date: | Sun, 26 Sep 1999 11:42:14 +0200 |
the street was...
> While reading through my just-purchased SR3, I noticed that Dwarves and
> Trolls get an unfair advantage in their priorities. In the SRII, all
> metahumans' modifications were +3 when added up. I felt that this
> reflected the cost of being a Metahuman, as opposed to a human. However,
> when you add up the dwarves, for example,
> (+1(Body)+2(Strength)+1(Willpower)) you get +4. Same with Trolls. The -1
> for dwarves came from -1 Quickness, and the -1 for Trolls came from -1
> Willpower. Why did FASA do this? The dwarven one sure made sense. Or is
> this a misprint (the book says Corrected 5th Edition (6th printint)) that
> is fixed in an errata?
These changes were intentional. Mike Mulvihill felt that trolls got
penalized way too much for having a -1 Willpower (making them mana-spell
bait) and dwarfs' Quickness reduction was also too much. I agree with the
former, but not really the latter.
Also, according to Mike, the fact that all metahumans in SR1/II ended up
with +3 attributes was coincidence... sorry, but I just don't buy that. If
it were just the +3 attributes, that'd be sort of believable, but they
also all got better vision, and the two races that had running multiplier
reductions also got another bonus (extra dice vs. disease, and extra
Reach). To me, that sounds very much like somebody thought long and hard
about how to give everyone the same...
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