[HoE] FW: FW: A few questions on Brainburners for the HOECG

["James Cook" <jcook@net-serv.com>]

Greetings Wasters,

I thought I'd pass along a couple of e-mails that I received from Shane
regarding some questions about Brainburners. The double-quoted lines are
mine, single quotes are Shane's reply.

Thanks,
James Cook

> << Shane,
>
>  I'm currently working on an update for the HOE character generator, and I
>  had a few questions about Brainburners. I sent the following questions to
>  Steve Long, who preferred that I bounce them to you due to some
> differences
>  between his manuscript and the printed version of the book. If you could
>  provide some guidance on these two questions, I'd appreciate it.
>
>  Thanks,
>  James Cook
>
>  >
>  > << 2) On page 37, Starting Powers. The paragraph mentions that
> a syker can
>  >  start out with any of the powers in the main book. Does this
> mean that a
>  >  syker CANNOT start out with a power that was introduced in
>  > Brainburners? If
>  >  so, there's really no reason to put the new powers in the
> generator, save
>  >  for allowing VotWW characters to take them.>>
>
> This is a bit of an error. What was intended was that a syker could start
> with any power in the main book OR any power within his speciality. New
> powers in BB that are NOT in his speciality must be learned after play
> begins. As a house rule, I'd also let a player learn powers outside the
> speciality with the "Additional Powers" or Veteran Edge as well.
>
>
>  > << 3) On page 38, there are three new Hindrances, all related to
>  > the Oath of
>  >  Unity. While the book doesn't explicitly say this, I'm
> assuming that all
>  >  Banshee sykers MUST take one (and only one) of these three
> Hindrances. My
>  >  reasoning is that unless a Banshee syker made it back some other
>  > way than on
>  >  the Unity, she falls into one of three mutually exclusive categories:
>  >
>  >  1) Took the Oath and has kept it = Oath of Unity Hindrance
>  >  2) Did not take the Oath = Apostate Hindrance
>  >  3) Took the Oath and broke it = Oathbreaker Hindrance>>
>
>
> Yes, unless the character did somehow come back before the Unity
> (there were
> always a few shuttles). So while most Banshee sykers *should* have one of
> these Hindrances, she wouldn't necessarily *have* to.
>
> Shane
>