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If going for a change to the setting, isn't the fundamental key issue the feed requirements? Reducing it to, say, once per week would give much more leeway to set vampires population at an appropriate level (at least if they avoid getting hurt and using their powers too often). I do not feel that wo...

Never actually read what makes each clan unique, now I know. The nosferatu and gangrel seem like they can be rolled into one concept. Like "They used to live in the woods but in modern day they live in sewers" I figure you could just make vampire clans based off of the 5 MTG colors and ca...

Common Use Matrix Programs, Hacking Matrix Programs and Agents are software who follow "Programs rules", limiting rating by System and whose number counts for Response degradation. System, Firewall and Pilot are software who do not get their rating limited by System and do not degrade Resp...

Subscriptions: Its easy to imagine Tron when thinking matrix however you can be subscribed to many nodes at once. And the idea is that your persona manifests in each node. Thats how you can be engaged in cybercombat in multiple nodes at once like multiple windows. How does this work. How does it lo...

According to the German-French SOX sourcebooks, the SOX zone has Toxic Domains and Mana Warps and Mana Voids and Mana Ebbs depending on the place and the time. The Cattenom power plant is a permanent Mana Void -12. Mana Void between -7 and -9 may pop up anywhere at random and are moving as fast as 1...

Well, technically, you may need to shield yourself from as much as three different things, depending on whether you intend to transport a sealed uranium container, visit a damaged nuclear plant or survive a nuclear explosion. Getting close to radioactive materials causes exposition . Your body may r...

Anthropocentric Order is another word for Humanoid Civilization. The farther you move from densely populated and highly organized cities of medium-sized bipeds, the more on the side of Chaos you are. Racial tension between elves and dwarfs (or humans/orcs), especially within the same city, is gener...

Almost all big Shadowrun plotlines were about Magic, or, occasionally, magical matrix entities (AIs, Resonance). What's up with that? Even in Shadowrun mundanes are worthless? Because writers often get lazy. Mystery is an easy way to make a story compelling. Especially in a TTRPG, where other metho...

That might explain why the summoning did not work.

Which means you could totally have a music adept that conjures up the spirits of Elvis or Sid Vicious to help him jam through the Battle of the Bands. We once tried to summon the Great Form Spirit of John Morrison, and all we got instead was the spirit of Iggy Pop (un)dressed as a naked Indian. Tha...

No ie or dragon ever interacted with chicago at all right? Not even talking about it? At least i don't remember reading any of their names in this context anywhere. The closest was, i think, somebody using the term invae... My understanding was that Dunkelzahn convinced Damien Knight to use Ares Ma...

Governments get really popular when they are fighting a defensive war, and really unpopular when they impose draconian measures to fight epidemics. No government, no matter how evil and Orwellian and dystopic, is ever going to voluntarily perform a coverup of an event that would make them look good...

Nath, even as formulated that isn't a problem. Imagine for the moment we were talking about Shadowrun. Every character has their own contacts, and any particular character has a modest preference for taking jobs from their own contacts (in that doing so improves the loyalty of one of their contacts...

Nath, imagine for a moment that we're talking about D&D, rather than an L5R reboot. The party consists of a thieves guild rogue, a Leopard Tribe barbarian, a Cuthbertian paladin, and a Grey Academy Wizard--all people with loyalties to institutes. Is it your belief that the campaign could never ...

Nath, I really don't get what you're trying to say. In a world where people have large families and inherited power and wealth, obviously people will send disproportionate favoritism to people they are related to. But they will also show favoritism to people they like for other reasons. So what? Se...

I don't follow. You get power and connections by birth through your clan. By being a Samurai of the Carp Clan you automatically have a bunch of cousins and uncles and shit who are members of the Carp Clan. But doing shit for the Carp Clan won't get you any more cousins. It might make your cousins l...

I don't follow your logic. Obviously characters are going to have powers and connections through their clan. That is a thing that is going to happen. If a character helps his clan, he gets more powers and more connections. If he serves his liege, he gets... cookies and a hug? So I wonder how big of...

It's really not that complicated. Imagine for the moment that you have an Imperial Exams system like you were China. The Governor is a member of the Carp Clan, and he's governor because he did very well in his exams. The grain logistics magistrate is a member of the Wolf Clan, and he's a magistrate...

The key though, is still that when you put this all together, individual Daimyos have people from multiple clans working for them. And provinces aren't generally mono-clan. So it's not considered weird or even a thing you have to explain at all for there to be dudes from multiple clans working in t...

3rd edition saw a trend toward branching out - not just away from Seattle, although it continued to pop out new sourcebooks for far-away places, but for different concepts of what you could play in the game besides just a Shadowrunner. The tone was somewhere between ultrarealistic and silly for stu...

Shadowrun 1st edition - There six natural attributes: Body, Quickness, Strength, Charisma, Intelligence and willpower. - You roll a number of D6 equals to a skill or an attribute, you succeed if the number of dice with a result higher or equal to a Target Number (6 explodes if TN > 6) is higher or ...

Fictional stories rarely are good display of multiple social issues. The author focus on the elements that are relevant to the story. There are novelists who write 500+ pages that manage to simultaneously address racism, sexism, unemployment, parent-children relationship, the shared burden of Histor...

So you've got the Major's rant about how if everyone on her team was wired up that they'd become predictable and they could get wiped out. And that's a cool rant, and it is excused Togusa being kind of a dead weight in that movie. But that's just it... he was actually pretty much dead weight in tha...

A big thing that Cyberpunk has tried to work with was the idea of conformity as a cost. And also of individuality as a cost. And yes, I know that it doesn't make sense when you say both things at the same time and it hasn't worked out well game mechanically when people try to bring that to games. N...

Monsanto already owns Blackwater, so you don't need to bang your head on the wall trying to justify things that already exist in this day and age. This one is starting to get old... Virtually all the websites that reported this information either quoted or straight copy-pasted one page from pravda....