"MCGINNESS, Stephen" wrote:
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> I only realised during the gameplay that augmentation is an
> extremely risky business. When you try to augment then there
> is rarely an occaision when _nothing_ happens - you either
> gain or lose. Is this intentional. I'd have thought that there
> would be more occaisions when there was no effect.
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You are not the only person uncomfortable with this. Various people
have suggested variant rules: check the archives.
As the rules stand, the size of augmentation you can reasonably
expect is rather small; so much so that augmentation is a rather
desperate action.