| From: | shadowrn@*********.com (shadowrn@*********.com) |
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| Subject: | Adept Powers Duration |
| Date: | Sun Sep 30 13:55:04 2001 |
>I read a few SR-novels lately, and I've come over the concept of Adept
>Powers beeing called on when needed, not beeing always present (Wolf and
>Raven by Michael Stackpole). Our group has been playing it the second way
>until now, but I checked in the SR3rd, and I couldn't find any reference
>tothe powers beeing permanent or only called upon. Did I miss anything?
>What does MitS say?
Not much, considering most adept powers are assumed to be permanent duration,
exceptions are generally noted in the power descriptions.
The assumption (at least my assumption when I revised or wrote up the adept
powers) is that most of powers (like Improved Attribute or Improved Ability)
are permanent and require no concentration or effort on the part of the
adept, they're a natural part of the adept's being.
Mike Stackpole's Wolfgang Kies tends to "bend" the rules a little because he
came into being before there even *were* adepts in Shadowrun (acutally Mike
wrote the first Wolf & Raven story in '88 before Shadowrun was even
published). Paul Hume mentioned that Wolf was one of the reasons that
physical adepts were included in the first edition Grimoire.
I'd say that Wolf is an adept who follows the Totem Way (maybe even a
magician adept, if you take into account the healing spell he casts in one
story). His conversations with the Old One and "conjuring" the Wolf's gifts
are just special effects (or maybe geasa of a sort). His shapeshifting
ability is probably a unique power of his, maybe a Knack (see the Knack power
at http://members.aol.com/talonmail/mitsmisc.html).
Hope that helps,
Steve Kenson
Talon Studio
http://members.aol.com/talonmail
