Well, he still has to actively link to the "node" before he can draw upon it -- and he can only draw so much at a time. I've purposely left that quantity vague, for story purposes, but it's not incredibly huge.
What's really going to make him stand out in a Shadowrun world is the ease with which he casts a truly monstrous variety of "spells", some tech which is dangerously in advance of anything possessed by the megacorps, and the fact that he's a klieg light out on the astral plane.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
What's really going to make him stand out in a Shadowrun world is the ease with which he casts a truly monstrous variety of "spells", some tech which is dangerously in advance of anything possessed by the megacorps, and the fact that he's a klieg light out on the astral plane.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.