Street Scum campaign rules advice?, It looks like Magickrun Options

[garner_adam]

Any one here been using the Street Scum rules on p. 354? I've been playing with them for a bit and at first it seemed like a great way to start small and grow big. (Increased karma and cash rewards in this game) But there's a few things that have been strange. Characters with magic priorities seem to be leagues ahead of their counterparts in this rule set. Particularly the adept compared to the street samurai.

The table wants to play a game where characters start weak and grow big but everyone has acknowledged that you can skip half the process by playing an adept. Any one deal with this? Any elegant solutions? I could just disallow them for this game but that wouldn't be fun. I also could very carefully watch adept and mage character creation but that sort of stifles creative character building. Any tips on these street-level games would be nice.

Thanks