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Looks solid at first glance. A few notes: * I don't think you need to pump reaction in SR4: if you're jumped in it is replaced with Response (so is Agility). * Intuition isn't as important in SR4 since hacking attempts are resisted with Firewall, System and Analyze. Of course, it's nice for percepti...

Actually, on the topic of defence, how does a jumped-in rigger defend, anyway? Page 205 of SR5, attacks against vehicles: drivers use reaction+intuition and drones use pilot + handling (the autosoft, not the vehicle attribute, confusing). This isn't a vehicle test or a vehicle skill test (different...

Agreed, I was reminded just how headache inducing the rules are while digging for specifics on this. Unfortunately, the example directly contradicts everything I read in the rules: it discusses targeting the RCC with both cybercombat and marks. I think rules text trumps example text, but I'd just pr...

Hey SS, I don't think targeting the control rig as a device would work. It doesn't have to specifically wirelessly enabled since it doesn't have a wireless bonus. I also don't think you could target a riggers RCC as a device since it becomes a persona while the rigger is using it to connect to the m...

I was thinking of just taking current social issues that Black Americans suffer but just applying that to White American characters in a dystopian future and calling it cyberpunk. I like this idea: I've always interpreted cyberpunk to be about extrapolating from current social and technological tre...

The old testament is rich in blaster clerics. Referring to a blaster-cleric as a Jericho build or an Elijah taps into images of fireballs and shockwaves.

Also, never played Cyberpunk 2020, I've heard it's tech is less advanced (cell-phones in your head are big deal), but supports Walking Gundam men . How doable is that in Cyberpunk 2020, is it a end-game path only, and does its "essence/Aug-slot equivalent" system it probably has better th...

Concealment, movement and confusion. High force concealment means most observers can't make perception rolls and even modest efforts at stealth (invisibility spell or a potted plant prop) render you invisible. Confusion saps other dice pools to render you more durable in combat. Movement makes you s...

The concensus seems to be that effect based tags are the right call for a monster typing system. Not that, like Gmail, a monster can have all the tags or none of them. A very coarse stab at assembling those tags based on my limited recollection of D&D type effects: [mind control person] - charm ...

In SR5E, if I want to hekatonkhire my way to victory, should I make a conjurigger or just stick to mundane rigging with a big stack of cash? Mundane with a big pile of cash is definitely the more straightforward build. The priority you wrote is the same priority I had in mind when I was putting up ...

what's stopping me from buying a van ... and just sitting inside the back of the van outside any building the run is on, running everything from the back This does work really well and it will be hard to mess with your character. Watch for WiFi inhibiting paint and Faraday cages, which your GM migh...

Longes brings up an excellent point: if your GM hasn't banned mystic adepts then he should. If you want to take terrible advantage of him then play a mystic adept with maxed magic. Sink your adept points into increased reflexes and your mage points into reasonable spells (invisibility, mask, control...

I like josh's apocalypse. A variation of it might not require the plague. If every city was hyperspecialized in production of one thing and the portal network went out for some reason, you're left with a bunch of cities that can't survive on their own. Social order breaks down and people revert to b...

I don't know if you're going to get a lot of 5E help here: the edition isn't so popular on the board for an assortment of reasons. One particularly significant one is that 5E is a step backward from 4E in most respects. That said, I'm a sucker for a new edition and I've played some 5E out of the cor...

Thus, you Summon your Esper, run around doing things while it spends a couple rounds dispensing its one-shot pwnage abilities, then you summon another Esper. All Espers share a common chassis, probably appropriate for a cohort, and then each one has a handful of abilities, maybe more as you go up i...

I really like the idea, but I think we're missing some opportunities if we only talk about scene schticks being preparation based. It's also in genre for the tide of a fight to be turned by the setting unexpectedly changing in the middle. For example, there's a bit in the transporter where the hero ...

No problem. I haven't seen rules actually specify that specific behavior of mob mind. Happy to withhold guesses going forward.

At my table I'd rule that mob mind can only control the victims as long as they stay within the same area, but that the area can be moved within LOS as long as the caster sustains the spell. I might have ruled even less restrictively if you hadn't helpfully mentioned the precedent: neither mob mind ...

For one campaign I instituted a table rule that anything a player said would be strictly interpreted as in-character speech unless they explicitly disclaimed it. It was the most immersive game I've ever run. However, I was running the game for some experienced players whom I knew very well; I don't ...

Stahlsteele, those the rules for _sorcery_ specifically. Conjuring and enchanting handle other parts of the magic system. So your inredulity may be a little misplaced. That said, I recall a spell that worked a little like astral gateway (astral window?) in the SR4 magic book, so they're toeing the l...

How bad would it be to instead just cut XP requirements to get to 2nd (or 3rd) level? Level 1 is basically the tutorial, so it probably should have super limited options, ... Like, after about one or two encounters' worth of XP, you get to 2nd, and maybe the same idea from 2->3. This is actually ho...

I think you're not comparing apples to apples here. As a bard, you shouldn't necessarily be doing that much damage (though a daily can still splash some around). Their big advantage is that they can throw out stupid amounts of temp HP in addition to their *word heals. It's also pretty easy to be hea...

I wasn't aware there was a new card game until I saw a demo at Gen Con. I know nothing other than the game had six designers, four of whom are no-names and one is tied to D&D 4E. That's a red flag. I played the demo of this at PAX East two years ago. The game's OK and the mashup of cooperative ...

That is correct. The total attack modifier is exactly the same for confirmation, and does not need to be reconfigured. It's the easiest roll in D&D since you don't need to do any new math. All you have to do is roll higher then the target number that you needed before. Which is what happened in...

But you don't know that. You know that you rolled a 19, plus 7 for your normal bonus is 26, plus 2 for charge is 28, plus 1 for the bard is 29. Oh, and 2 more because you're raging is 31. Did that hit? Roll to confirm? Oh, okay. So thats 16, plus 7 is 23... (etc). Does a 28 still hit? In my experie...