Re: [BNW] The Hacker

["Steve Crow" <crow_steve@hotmail.com>]

><< Can it truly be called a 'Power Package' if it's just a skill bonus that
>can
>  be achieved by a normal?  Yes, a +10 is unnaturally high but ANY other
>  character - Delta or reg - could get the same bonus with XP.  It would 
>only
>  take 55.  And, what does that mean?  For 55 XP, players can buy a second
>  Power Package.  Granted, it's arguing semantics, but I've already had it
>  pointed out by two of my players.  (They wanted the Tough and Flyer
>  packages, though, not the Hacker). >>
>
>     You forgot the tricks.   Yes the power seems light but don't forget on 
>2
>(or 3) successess they can make their hack untraceable, which in the day 
>and
>age of computers is very powerful.

Well, I must admit I have to kinda wonder about that.  Can't a regular 
Computer Geek/Hacker do that?  I mean, folks in the modern day today do it, 
and (one hopes!) nobody in "our" world is a Hacker-Delta.

It just seems hard to believe that the two Hacker tricks are exclusively the 
domain of a Hacker-Delta.

>     Yes maybe it is not a good player package (I run shadowrun and I do 
>use
>deckers but only if they can do something else too) but it is nice haveing 
>an
>idea of what such a person could do.   After all look at what hackers are
>doing now and then think what Delta hackers could do.
>
>Wu Lung Martial Artist/Blaster


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