[K5pbem] Give "Nats" something to do?

[Steve Kramer]

I've asked this question before, and I think I know the answer, but I just 
wanted to toss it out there:  is there any reason to play a "nat" - an 
unmodified human - in K5?

As most of you know, I created Doc Muldowney as my character in the 
original, FTF K5.  He was a combat medic, sort of a no-bullshit, Clint 
Eastwood type...and he was absolutely unmodded, un-"special" in any way. 
No cyberware, no esper powers, no nothing.  He essentially acted as the 
"Batman" of the group.

One of the things I wanted to do with Doc was use him in some way to 
explore the themes of what it meant to be human in the K5 world.  It was 
possible that as a "real guy" that he had something that no one else did. 
I don't think that came across, however.

Can anyone think of a game effect that being a nat would have?  A special 
power, trait, or some disad that he wouldn't have?

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