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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Viktyr Gehrig" data-source="post: 2099357" data-attributes="member: 9249">I'm not talking about the incompatibility of magic and cyberware; I think d20 could handle that at least as well as Shadowrun 3e does. I'm talking about how to control the balance of how magic and cyberware work, individually. I imagine we could easily set up spell Force as a kind of augmentable spontaneous caster; however, how do we simulate Drain without making Mages either unstoppable magical artillery batteries or one-hit wonders with a case of the vapors? How do we reflect the ability of better-trained, more powerful Mages to resist Drain? How do we model Initiation, and how do we differentiate it from simply improving whatever governs your Sorcery skill? (I'd imagine this would be a function of class level-- but how?)  For cyberware, how would we model the awesome power of Move-by-Wire 4 without making it game-shattering? Reaction speed and reflexes are the determining factor of power for combat characters in Shadowrun. How do we reflect that in a d20 version? (Or would you call this a bug of the Shadowrun system and have other factors reign supreme?)[preemptive edit]I just posted a whole screed about Shadowrun economics and why a 'runner would keep going after scraping enough cred to outfit themselves as a person of mass destruction... and then I realized that I wasn't ranting about a system problem at all. Now, I'm going to have to figure out the answer to that no matter what system they use.</blockquote>

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