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Too arbitrary. Mechanical consequence is best. Otherwise, it's down to the GM and in my experience, most GMs are shit at or cowards about coming down on stupid shit. At least if you give them this, they've got something to lean on or we've now just confirmed they're a shithead and shouldn't be host...

All that will ever acccompish is making even less people want to use cybernetics. Have to agree. 5e is already Magicrun as fuck, simply because only mundanes get weakened. I calculated an example, where if you take some hard runs twice a month you can upgrade your Move-By-Wire system from 1 to 2, g...

One very min/max Troll concept in SR4 moved slowly, but with how he was set up, he seemed to erode barriers and be able to simply walk through walls because of his unarmed damage against barriers. Ah, yes. Bear-Who-Walks-Through-Walls. A Bear shapeshifter adept putting everything into barrier break...

I'm using SR5. Don't know about 4th. I'm going to take your word for it that it applies cross-edition. It does. Huh... Why didn't they just do it as a second coming style, then? That sounds really wonky otherwise. At least specializing where you have a good shot at beating Magician 1-2 levels above...

infected slut princess wrote:good fun for all.

except the males
and the slaves
and the male slaves

@Longes The fuck . . i had actually thought "The Complete Trog!" was a joke title made up by people and not an actual thing that should not exist . . Oh Stahlseele, you sweet, sweet summer child. Longes mentioned it in the SR5 Review thread. My personal highlight is that Bull(the CGL goon...

Submersion is Awakening. What? Submersion is literally the TM equivalent of Initiation. SUBMERSION Submersion strengthens the link between the techno- mancer and the Matrix Resonance. Similar to an Awakened character’s initiation, submersion is a very personalized and ego-wrenching experience, a pr...

IIRC Coleman, Hardy and another one in the staff are Mormons. And Mormons have a rule that forces them to prefer dealing with Mormons against non-Mormons. And which also prevents them from speaking against a fellow follower. Which is why they supported Coleman even though he embezzled about a mil.

Would a Matrix Chaff Grenade be valuable? Basically a grenade that for a short time creates a localized Noise Background. Fluff it as dozens of light tags making a cloud of micro-Jammers. Advantages: Precise. You can throw the grenade and the field will be where you hit. Not shootable. While you can...

I did
Most of it was just changing a few items/adding new ones.
But it wasn't much more work than e.g. putting Tachikomas in

virgil wrote:even if it wasn't made by the game company.

Seeing CGL it's likely because it isn't by them that it works

From what I recall there are a few reasons to be a SIN-less awakened A) While the number of awakened has miraculously both risen and stayed at 1% of the population, this includes all awakened. That means it includes the MAG 6 Adepts/MysAds/Mages. But it also includes MAG 1 Adepts, Aspected Mages and...

Yeah, this argument is still retarded. It's as if treating all of the components that comprise a creature as individuals produces absurd results! As if the only non-retarded option is to take the creature as something other than the sum of its parts and to completely ignore the fact that it's techn...

So what exactly are the stats of the RAS Taser? In the book it's described as Equipment Spotlight: RAS Tasers An interesting side effect of the mere existence of the RAS Override signal creates the ability to incapacitate people at a distance with fair reliability. The RAS Taser is simply a Sim Modu...

Longes wrote:There is no "Awakened" quality, so you can't actually do this short of becoming a vampire.

But there are the Magician, Adept, Mystic Adept and Aspected Magician Qualities

Something that I only just now realized after someone mentioned it to me: In 5e you can start mundane and become awakened during the game, without having Latent Awakening. Because there doesn't seem to be a rule forbidding you from taking the relevant quality in game. Your GM still has to approve it...

But the world didn't start with the first world, right? The earth is older than ~30k years, right?

So something that I thought was insufficiently explained was the mana cycle in Shadowrun. I know that the current world (at the time of SR1) was the fifth world, that on 2012 the sixth world would begin (with magic), that the fourth world was the world of Earthdawn (a few missing things notwithstand...

Guts wrote:Add to that an opaque resolution mechanic (dice pools)

I don't exactly see how they are opaque?

• Your average/expected amount of hits is (Dice Pool)/3
• Your Dice Pool Size limits how many hits you can have.
• More Dice == Lower chance for glitches

Just a quick question for better understanding:
The Internal Sim-Module and Internal SimRig, both transmit wireless, right? just using encrypted data, not braintalk?

In that case, can you jam them? What are their Signal stats? Does their connection depend on your Commlinks Signal?

FrankTrollman wrote:that will increase the lifespan of anyone with enough money by more years than the Shadowrun future history has progressed since first edition.

Oh BTW, they changed that as well.
From ESS 0 AVAIL 12R COST 400000n¥
to ESS 1 AVAIL 15 COST 2000000n¥

Double Post

I'm pretty sure this is more fitting for the EotM thread than the general SR4 thread

The only metatypes with green skin are Hobgoblins (Ork Metavariant, have a greenish tint to their skin and black eyes) and that one elf Metavariant with green patches on their skin that can photosynthesize. If you are a normal Ork or Troll you have normal human skin colours (from almost white to 23:...

Quick question for those better versed in the old school SRs of yore: Has there been a difference between born trogs and goblinized trogs? Because 4e said Many first and second generation orks and trolls—especially those who goblinized—died young, while Bull says that Goblinized trogs have human lif...