The Gaming Den

Stahlseele wrote:"rolling buckets of D6"

unnamednpc wrote:
- keep the dicepool vs fixed TN.
- keep the feel of playing Shadowrun intact
(what does that even mean?)

Explicit design goal

Also, apologies for the wall of text, I rambled this motherbucket together on my phone during a commute.

Okay, let me preface this with a couple of qualifiers. This is probably going to be pretty rambly. You're not gonna walk out of this post with a set of ideas for some streamlined rules. More likely, you'll hate my ass for wasting your time. I'm mostly looking for a little discussion and input on how...

Technically, you can't buy any shot ammo at all, can you? The only tangible information there is is "treat shot like flechette", and since flechette is a listed item, technically hunting squirrels in your backyard costs ten bucks a pop. That is, if you take the RAW literally, which you sho...

Gah double post

Not to sound like a total hardass, but is it really within the intent of the rules to cram a cyber arm gyromount into a cyber hand ? Incidentally, I think this scrounging for recoil compensation at any cost only highlights one of Shadowruns many mechanical problems - per-bullet recoil (and -damage, ...

You may remember the name from the Shadowrun situation posts. David Hill was one of the writers for War - specifically, he was the genius responsible for the fantastic Concentration Camp Ghost Hunt campaign idea. Really, do a board search, google it, it's a real thing that really happened. Well, Dav...

A gunbunny can do his two shot trick twice per IP though, so then the magic folks will feel sad in the pants when you expect them to invest two complex actions to reliably drop a fool.
Someone will always feel underpowered. It's a game you can't win.

Yeah, basically, the thread-title says it all. I get that there are generous helpings of stupid in there, and that their splat- and whatnot books are not really improving the situation, but for a guy who likes the general idea of 3rd/3.5 style fantasy RPGing (d20 based monstercide, a wonky but if yo...

Self-inflating mini blimp drone. Autonomous zeppellin sniper support. Roaring applause.

Meanwhile, at CGL-Headquarters...
the great Shadowrun-Scorched-Earth-Milkathon continues.

Arsenal has rules on fitting pretty much every piece of ludicrous shit imaginable on your gun, including a flying propulsion system.

Hellhounds are dual natured, so they constantly perceiveastrally, and can interact with the astral world (i.e. maim your astral ass).
That gives them exactly the same innate ability to fly as any astrally perceiving magician. Which is none. Obviously.

Says so here (en allemand)
and here (straight from the horses mouth).

So, is there any insight to be drawn from the fact that it's basically the end of february, and CGL has just struck a deal with Ulisses Spiele to publish Battletech in Germany?