From:	NeoJudas neojudas@******************.com
Subject:	While we're on the topic of munchkins...
Date:	Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:05:59 -0500

From: "Jean-François Major" <maje123@*******.com>
Subject: Re: While we're on the topic of munchkins...


> >Here are the rules:
> >No special house rules.
> >Stuff from SR3 based books only.
> >Infinite cash.
> >Any availability items.
> >Any grade cyber/bioware.
> >Any race/metavariant/etc. allowed for PCs.
> >As much karma as you want.
> >No items with rating higher than 6.
>
> Well, is we really can actually use "As much karma as we want", I'll have
to
> go with Paul Collins: make a night one physad (dropping 6 points in both
> Quickness and Intelligence) with Improved Reflexes level3 and spend the
rest
> of your karma on "Improved Quickness", initiate him to impossible levels
to
> have A LOT of Magic Points, and add this...

<SNIP TO....>

> Bioware (Cultured): Synaptic Accelerator 2, Muscle Toner 4, Cerebral
Booster
> 2, Enhanced Articulation.

<....RIGHT HERE>

> [I know all this cyberware/bioware would drop the Magic points to make
> Improved Reflexes unusable, but remember that with the "as much karma as
we
> want", that's not a problem anymore: initiation sweet initiation]

Ah, but Initiation can NOT get rid of the loss of functional magic here, so
you are shafted. Also, please remember that there are only two initiative
dice boosters that work together in 3rd Edition. Synaptic Accelerator and
Boosted Reflexes (one bio, one cyber). Adept Improved Reflexes is not
compatible with any other others, and vice-versa.

> So, that gives you an imcredibly boring and personality-less weird Night
One
> Physical Adept with a whooping 28 + 8D6 of Initiative, for a total of 8
> possible Initiative Passes in one turn (and that is prior to the infinite
> karma spent in Improved Quickness).

And just to be nitpicky, it doesn't necessarily *have* to be
personality-less. That is up to the player ... not the numbers.