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Gabriel

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Re:Adepts
« Reply #15 on: March 05, 2007, 05:29:14 AM »

I've never understood why anyone would WANT a physad who can cast spells. If you want that, get a mage. If you want a guy who can punch through a wall or jump off a skyraker, get an adept.

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Re:Adepts
« Reply #16 on: March 05, 2007, 06:38:03 AM »

Here's a reason. Unpredictability.

As soon as you hop off that skyraker and punch through the concrete below into the sewers, people think that they have your ticket. They send whatever at you, focusing on anti-adept. So they work at a range, so you can't punch out their lights.

So when you start slinging mojo, they don't know which way to go, and suddenly they're afraid of just what else you can do that no one knows about.

Then you tell them you're a dragon in human form. . .
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Re:Adepts
« Reply #17 on: March 05, 2007, 01:52:47 PM »

Well, splitting all of the points between sorcery and adept powers will leave you being crappy at both of them. If you get technical, you could be loaded with cybernetics and get REALLY unpredictable. You'd still be crappy, though.

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Re:Adepts
« Reply #18 on: March 05, 2007, 02:41:03 PM »

My reason for wanting to try it was the the rest of the runner group was so twinked out that I didn't get to do anything. Ever. Even in spell-casting situations, the morons would run into combat and start hacking at stuff.

So I made a mage who went really, REALLY fast. A mage going that fast is very dangerous, because they go in the middle of combat, rather than the end, and suddenly, combat ends in the middle of all the brainless street sams hacking at things.

As we became more powerful, everyone else twinked out thier characters even further, but instead of making my character faster, I made him more powerful, so they were going faster, but I was able to completely stop combat. It makes for a powerful combination (at least for 3rd edtion- I don't think you have enough points to do anything like it in 4th edition)

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Re:Adepts
« Reply #19 on: March 05, 2007, 02:59:03 PM »

Stunballs all around!

Kid_Vid, looks like your thoughts on the subject are similar to mine.
The greatest weakness of the magicians is the low initiative, so if we could just fix that, without resorting to sustaining foci or quickened spells...
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Re:Adepts
« Reply #20 on: March 05, 2007, 07:39:31 PM »

I just like to be different...I played a burned out mage who didn't even cast a spell.  I think I had a fireball or something at like Force 2 but I never used it.  But it made for a great way to light cigarettes for the ladies...
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« Reply #21 on: March 05, 2007, 11:41:04 PM »

With a fireball at force 2? I hope there were a lot of them, and they were chain smokers... ;D

Actually, I liked playing a adept-mage. I mean, he was underpowered, but he was so fast that it didn't really matter. "Oh, you shrugged off my Force 3 stunbolt? Well, it's my intiative again, and you're all out of combat pool. Let's see how you do with this one. ZAP!"

Also, it was good for me to learn the magic system- in fact, I was the only one who did. Ruski, while something of a technical genius, didn't integrate magic well into the game.

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Re:Adepts
« Reply #22 on: March 06, 2007, 06:50:07 AM »

Well, whatever makes you all happy. It just seemed like trying to be two things at once just wouldn't make any sense in the real world.

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Re:Adepts
« Reply #23 on: March 06, 2007, 08:42:20 AM »

acturly its quite commen for ppl to professionals to pruse 2 or more fields of intrest
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Re:Adepts
« Reply #24 on: March 06, 2007, 10:41:03 AM »

Jack of all trades, master of none.

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Re:Adepts
« Reply #25 on: March 06, 2007, 03:49:41 PM »

And I've learned in Shadowrun its best to master one and work on a second when you retire!
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Re:Adepts
« Reply #26 on: March 07, 2007, 04:52:35 AM »

Damn straight.

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