The Gaming Den

All editions have wonky rules but all are at least playable out of the box. I don't think I've ever heard someone saying that the SR1 rules were superior to any other editions. SR3 is mostly a fixed SR2. It is more complex than the following editions, but if you're able to keep in mind all the rules...

If you read French the graphic novel "La Brigade Chimérique" might be an excellent inspiration.

It explains why and how the European superheroes disappeared just before WW2 and it has many good ideas of paranormal phenonmenons that would fit right into such a campaign.

Hong-Kong has no VAT, the GST was shot down and I don't think there's any other sales tax.
There aren't many other taxes either, actually.

Robotrek was pretty fun. The items combining and the combos were great. They did lead to too easy combat once you found the right ones but that reduced the necessary grind so I didn't mind. The story was great in that it started as a light story with a humorous tone, and you didn't expect it to go v...

Anyone know of any good places, online or brick-n-mortar, that could make custom miniatures, preferably someplace that won't be too expensive? If there's a FabLab or a similar group of enthusiast near you and you have the 3d model, you can try to print them with a 3d printer. The level of details m...

A state with no tax incomes (including business taxes and tariffs) would have few options: - Finding other sources of incomes such as selling property, getting donations, having profitable businesses and re-injecting the benefits in the State (which is some form of taxes). The first one wouldn't wor...

I understand your problems with CGL and with SR5. I agree that changing a core system which works is a dangerous move. But I don't think it's necessarily a bad one and I don't think you can blame someone just for doing it. You can blame him for the way he does it. So far, the Limit system doesn't se...

Cyberpunk has gone the way 50s sci-fi stories about how we would all live or go on holidays on the moon have gone. Cyberpunk met two things: reality and new cultures. Some of the things "predicted" in Cyberpunk became reality: an omnipresent global computer network, the rise of the multina...

I'm not as bitter and disgruntled as many of you about Shadowrun. I've been disappointed by what CGL has been releasing since Vice but from what I've seen so far about SR5 it doesn't look terribad and there are even some nice things. I wasn't expecting much so, so far, I'm pleasantly suprised by wha...

I don't see your point. Someone who refuses your premises will always dislike what you'll do. It's the same with hardcore physicist who refuse to accept that space has friction and will refuse to play a Space Opera game where spaceships work as if there was friction. Some people are able to suspend ...

You can hate cypherpunks all you want, but blaming the expectation of realism on them is absurd. Many people - and not only cypherpunks - want their Matrix to be realistic, or draw comparison with existing computer systems and networks. Or at least, they want an explanation to why things work. Encry...

That's not a problem if they also have similar modifiers for Awakened. Awakened characters, and especially mages (as opposed to adepts) have always been portrayed as strange people who think differently from Mundanes. The effect might be different of the effect of ware, but it being Awakened should ...

The opening post talks about two different and mostly unrelated issue. The first is the dehumanizing aspect of cyberware. Most games have been using this as a game-balance element more than anything else. In CP2020 you become a cyberpsycho if you have too many implants, in Shadowrun you die (and in ...

Garden first, with our low skill we'll need plenty of underwater coconuts to survive.

Gun fight: if she shoot us as we try to engage her in hand to hand, we're toast. Besides, we have a chance of being able to shoot her even before she can get her fat hands on that blaster

Loot!

THROUGH THE FRONT DOOR!

Since I have no idea what an antigrav dray is, I'd like to take a look at it.

We have a better vehicle, we have no reason to take risks: main road.

If they wanted to kill us, we'd be dead already. And since there are shady-looking gunmen everywhere and it only takes two of them to overpower Dirk, we're better off letting the gunmen lead us into the house.

Why can't we just come here just as he says? Let's hope he doesn't shoot us down if we draw our gun, and draw our own gun.

That guy probably killed the guy inside. Since we didn't run after him first, we probably won't catch him now. So let's enter the room to let the guy inside give us his last words.

One of the biggest advantage of variable TN with fixed dice pools is that you can roll first and count result after. Even if it doesn't look like it, it seems, in my experience, to make things go faster and smoother. And if someone realize that a modifier has been forgotten, there's no need to roll ...

Yes, but the cloak can only last one hour. I doubt we'll need it for one hour in that hospital.

We see that we have to be careful because we hear voices? As vision seems to rely on sound, I vote for not using the useless cloak.