Nice...
Meta, adding working magic (publicly) to Fenspace would be great for balancing out the setting, and giving some of the 'quieter' characters something to do. Taking the Shadowrunning story, Jet as the Street Sam/Adept, Ford as a bit of a Face with some Rigger, Cathy as the Hacker and Cortana as the AI... all you need is a mage and you'd have the perfect balanced Shadowrun party. Which is exactly where the idea for the original short bit came from...
Stories like that tend to be better, because it forces each character to play to their strengths, rather than having characters like Jet dominating the entire story and being everywhere.(Note Kentucky Cat, which suffers from it). Adding magic adds more possibilities for groups of characters to come together and find things they can't do, and need others for.
The level of upheaval UGE caused in SR though... the whole world's going to blame the sudden appearance of freak children on the people in space who've been turning themselves in to freaks for the better part of a decade. Reminds me of the old 'interesting times' curse.
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Meta, adding working magic (publicly) to Fenspace would be great for balancing out the setting, and giving some of the 'quieter' characters something to do. Taking the Shadowrunning story, Jet as the Street Sam/Adept, Ford as a bit of a Face with some Rigger, Cathy as the Hacker and Cortana as the AI... all you need is a mage and you'd have the perfect balanced Shadowrun party. Which is exactly where the idea for the original short bit came from...
Stories like that tend to be better, because it forces each character to play to their strengths, rather than having characters like Jet dominating the entire story and being everywhere.(Note Kentucky Cat, which suffers from it). Adding magic adds more possibilities for groups of characters to come together and find things they can't do, and need others for.
The level of upheaval UGE caused in SR though... the whole world's going to blame the sudden appearance of freak children on the people in space who've been turning themselves in to freaks for the better part of a decade. Reminds me of the old 'interesting times' curse.
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