QUOTE (Axl @ Feb 18 2010, 02:08 PM)
Considering the disparity in karma cost between increasing Magic and developing a new metamagic, this optional rule would allow adepts to become powerful a lot more quickly.
This has to be conjectual theory. Consider the cyber/bio counterpart to the adept. He can still use his karma to improve abilities, and also his nuyen for tech based powers. After the adept's initial creation and Magic of 6, it'll now cost him 35 karma PLUS initiation to gain any additional powers-- he's hit the glass ceiling.
Mean while the mage can learn new spells at 5 karma a piece, or by the time the adept has that much karma, the street sam has about 100k nuyen earned for cyber/bio (but he's spent that 35 karma on his skills to boot).
The adept in game has never matched the one in litature; and for any character that wants to play in the 75+ karma world, he's a very underpowered SR4 archetype.