From:	Phil Smith phil_urbanhell@*******.com
Subject:	Magical SOTA?
Date:	Tue, 03 Oct 2000 21:11:08 GMT

>From: dartheggbert@****.com
> > >They say that the magic level is rising, but actually hardly
> > >anything has really changed since first edition (the game mechanics
> > >are different, but magic hasn't become more powerful IMO).
>
> > Well, since SR1 they've added watchers, new foci types, new
> > metamagic techniques, and more stuff for spirits.
>
>They have also increased the amount of Magical Threats ( Toxics, Wraiths,
>Insects, Blood Magic, and the new Year of the Comet Stuff), There are
>more classes of Magics ( Voudun, WuXun) More types of spirits (Spirits of
>the Elements, Ancestor Spirits, Loa), more types of magicians ( adepts,
>Aspected magicians, physical mages) And finally more metahumans and a
>wider spread of them( It started out that meta's were priority A now they
>are C or D) Drain between SR1 and SR2 was halved (SR1 was F SR2 was
>.5F)And finally they also state in MitS that the number of magic users
>has jumped from 1% to over 2%.
>
>I'd say magic has changed from SR1 and it's only been 10 years, imagine
>what will happen in the next 10.

Yeah, but none of the magic books (or very few) said "this is new; it wasn't
there before." As Gurth was saying before; they don't attribute a lot to
the magical SOTA. The way I read it is that the main rulebook outlines what
most magic users are doing. The other magic rulebooks tell us what the
wierd ones are up to.

Phil

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