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Fic/RPG Worldbuilding (Looking for Input)
 
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Cyberpsychosis, as commonly expressed anyway, was never anything but a crappy game balance mechanic anyway - having issues because of the trauma of injuries that require prosthetics, sure, power tripping assholes who get off on having machine superpowers, okay, but the soccer mom who gets caught in a running 'frame battle on the freeway and has three cyberlimbs and full synthskin, all of which respond somewhere around as well as the original? Not going to go bugnuts crazy just because. Not likely to laugh it off and be back to her cubicle the next day, either, but with reasonably mature cybernetics technology the major issues will be "Oh god what if my kids had been in the car?" and paying the increase in insurance premiums, not "Billy's hugs don't feel the same anymore.... KILL HIM! KILL THEM ALL!" Someone who goes for voluntary augmentation shouldn't even have that much problem, bar pre-existing mental issues that might be exacerbated.

So basically... (and especially if you're going to include non-human races anyway) kick it to the curb, I say, and limit cybernetics with availability, cost, and story/plot concerns, not some fake sanity points counter.

ETA: You should also have cybernetic component options specifically made to increase magical aptitude, by using special materials or runic arrays or whatever jive you decide it runs on. And don't forget the steam power! Moving water is highly magically active, and what else IS steam, in the end? (see last minute of this video)

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