The Gaming Den

Can Shadowrun work with tactical movement? If so, how much space should a square on the mat represent? It's possible, but I'm not sure that being ultra precise about distances ever added much compared to the basic spatial effect of just having minis in approximately the right locations. Depending o...

Yeah, pretty much. Things you can do with broadband today are all available with low-density signal. The crappy "low-density" signal of the 2070s is still generally "1080p and probably no buffering", unless you're in the remotest of locations on the flimsiest of technology, when ...

Test Pattern: This should probably be a Sustained duration effect, like an Illusion spell. In fact, I'd use exactly the rules for illusion spells with this one. You could use it to talk to someone while projecting, but that's foolish because you can also just message their Commlink without taking F...

Oh my, you're right, that's an inconsistency I've walked myself into. My players never used VR much. I suppose I must take back the part about the eyes. Let me start again then: You get basic Matrix Perception against everything within your Signal range. What this means is that you can detect the pr...

I always thought that the Orks were supposed to be Jamaican.

If you're trying to be precise down to the inch , I'd say that LOS is drawn from your actual eyes, or other visual sensors hooked up to a signal broadcast system, toward the target. Your commlink uses the visual data to assess whatever it needs to assess and target the correct point. Normally though...

I'm referring specifically to faraday cages and jammers, since those are what protect the major installations that runners are going to want to infiltrate. Just to put some implied lore into one place, and noting that this is also partly just kinda made up by me on the spot: I think that we might as...

Ah, right. That's, in a sense, the "middle" scenario compared to what I was talking about. [*]Handshake: Fine, this is where Connections are established [*]Move out to Matrix: Connection stays, supported beyond the normal establishment range by the "Connection protocol" or whatev...

Gonna have to say "No" on that one.

Part of the problem with distance hacking is that they can quickly cut the hard line and hide behind a Faraday Cage if there is an intrusion.

Yeah, you can even, by RAW, have the wireless capabilities burnt out of your cyberware to make it not hackable anymore. And then you wire it all into a wireless disabled datajack and simply connect a one time use only as safe and secure as possible wifi enabled comlink into it for your regular upgr...

And another question, can you transmit stuff "securely" through cyberware? Since Cyberarms have DNI, can you send computer data to them, which is then sent in brain text to the brain? If not, why can't you send data through tactile nerves using a direct connection if you can through induc...

Huh. Well, no simsense boosters I guess. Anyway I think it's not good on your body for your muscles to be held exactly tense like that all the time. Maybe you could get a cyberware that's a dedicated system to make you not fall over when the RAS Override kicks in, but otherwise you just fall over an...

In VR your body goes limp enough to fall over if you're standing. It's like you're knocked out. You still have LOS for the purposes of activating programs. Even though you can't see via visual light, it's the clear path from you to the target device that's letting your commlink perform the high dens...

Sure, but what if I'm in server A and want to server C, which isn't connected to it, can I create a connection? Is there always a Path through the servers to any other public server? There are no automatic paths. In fact, given how easy it is to close distance between servers, any paths would be ex...

I meant more by going from Server to Server to end up in one location but in hindsight it seems pretty illogical that you can make the connection from one server to the other. Unless you are a TM of course, those guys can just Matrix Project and fly to the specified device If ServerA has a Connecti...

Some of these are expanding upon the setting that's implied by the rest of EotM, and I've never read the official hacking rules ever, but here goes. Are Burner Commlinks still possible? I know that commlinks are used in hacking due to being able to use brainpower, but what can a commlink do that isn...

Stahlseele wrote:Then explain how Technomancers can emulate the Smartlink using an Echo.

In EotM they can't since that Echo wasn't brought forward.

If I had do, I'd say "resonance magic".

I would say that you need to buy the Smartlink for both your gun and yourself, and that it's a "hardware" purchase in both cases. Regardless of if you're displaying it through Cybereyes, External Imagelink, Direct AR Injection (ew), or whatever way you try to go. Total bullshitting justifi...

Well, I'm not Frank, but I choose to believe that Redundant Biofeedback Filtration adds its rating only on things that already took Biofeedback into account. Redundant Biofeedback Filters don't apply on, for example, Taxman either, even though it can target Bio devices. Matrix Perception: This is to...

Contagious RAS Override and Sensory Deprivation use Firewall, but they don't use your Biofeedback Filter rating (which has a base value of your Firewall, but if you're not an idiot you also run a max rating Redundant Biofeedback Filtration program as well, and the max rating there is your System, fo...

Well, let's review: Contagious RAS Override [*]B / S / CA (S) [*]Logic + Cybercombat vs Firewall + Willpower + SigDef [*]Willpower (NetHits) to take physical action, and even then the action is at -6. [*]CA and a Logic+Computer (NetHits) test to end this condition (note that failed tests don't accum...

I just take class skills as a "suggested starting point", and then give out bonus skill points at the end of every game session in addition to the level up points. Then cut down on a little of the magic item bonus crazy, and call it good. Oh, and no "trained only" skills or Trapf...

Cut all the passive benefits. All of them. Anything that's genuinely cool enough to be a passive benefit can just be a power in that discipline. Also, perhaps be careful on that dice total you're aiming for because 16 sounds kinda high. My gaming table has a lot of dice and all, but it certainly doe...

Played the first hour, seems super good so far. "Won" several encounters without swinging a weapon at all. Recruited an orphan.

Any other folks giving this one a try?

Given how gold is "rare enough", has historical inertia behind it, and how many monsters are also super strong enough to be able to carry around huge hunks of it if they need to, it would do. Monsters probably have more than one additional rare thing that they also trade in because it gets...