From:	shadowrn@*********.com (Gurth)
Subject:	PC's vs us (or normal people)
Date:	Mon Mar 11 13:40:03 2002

According to Ice Heart, on Mon, 11 Mar 2002 the word on the street was...

> Look at
> yourself carefully and ask what you'd be capable of if you had magical
> training, special forces background, or a million dollars to spend at a
> place that can rebuild you to pretty near any metric you want. You would
> stack up pretty well as a PC then. Take away the money, the training,
> and such, and suddenly your PC is back to average joe.

Sure, if I could have dermal sheathing, muscle replacements, cybereyes, and
all that stuff, not to mention a couple of years experience of B&E and
getting shot at, I could be a street sam, too. Point is that right now, I'm
more a Body 2, Strength 1 kind of guy with much more theoretical knowledge
than practical experience in just about any field you care to name. And
that is my argument: IMHO most listmembers are not suitable as
shadowrunners without a lot of training and/or mods. But adding all that
removes the point of this discussion, while adding it and then removing it
again just leaves us back at the beginning...

> Again, this is a matter more of life experience than some intangible PC
> requirement list. If tomorrow, your country were invaded and you had to
> run for the hills

Hills? What are those? None of them around here :)

> and spend 10 years as a guerilla warrior, surviving off
> the land, and fighting every day...your "build point" total would go
> through the roof.

Yep. But that doesn't change the fact that, when writing up stats for me as
I am now, I'd never get to 123 BPs, nor give me the skills necessary to be
a shadowrunner.

> I used to do something along the lines of what I oulined above for White
> Wolf games. I would pull out character sheets for Mortals, and set
> everyone down to make a copy of themself (in high school) as a character.

My group did that as well a few years ago, for a rather short-lived Mage
campaign. But quite a bit of the character generation system had to go out
the window in order to makwe it work.

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