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I fucking love the idea that the group should just all collectively decide what the skills should do. Lemme see if I can incorporate this idea into John's perfect RP system. Here we go: John's Perfect Roleplaying System Rule #1: Have a good time. If you're not having a good time, you're not followin...

Stop equating "the Water Cultists" with "the two specific bodyguards that are, according to the GM, so tough that you can only hope to escape with your lives". The former had been introduced previously, but as you yourself have admitted, not the latter.

Yup, a cult was already established in the previous session, as per the example cited (notice though, it wasnt specified exactly how large the cult was, nor exactly how well equipped were they - these were voids filled by the GM) You're almost to the point of realizing what everyone has been saying...

There's a very specific amount of planning you're supposed to do in advance. You're supposed to write down Fronts and factions and shit, so that there is some kind of notional structure and content to your game, and to ward off any accusations that the enemies you introduce on a successful spot chec...

I assume he means an independent dimension of how good you are at a task. So if there's a single roll that accounts for everything, that's one axis. If there's one roll for "how likely am I to succeed?" and a second for "given that I've succeeded, how well did I do?", that's two....

What's really great with some of the conservative newspaper comics like Prickly City is that they're not just lazily regurgitating right-wing talking points, they're doing so like a month or two late. Now, to be fair, with some issues like Benghazi they repeat the same nonsensical claims for literal...

I'm kind of bummed out that Cyberzombie isn't going to keep arguing from incredulity. "Nobody in my games or the fiction I read actually used these options! How could anyone else think they're possibly a legitimate part of Shadowrun?"

A rigger takes his squad of a dozen grenade-launching flying robots and annihilates the entire SWAT team in a single initiative pass. Repeatedly. Done.

The point, silva, is that you said no one mentioned how good the source books are. Except someone did mention how good the source books are, you illiterate boob. And then you claimed other people aren't reading the thread! Holy shit.

Maybe its designers and initial implementers, but the biggest Bitcoin boosters don't know shit about math. Any time they try to tell you that it's not fiat, it's "backed by math", or something? That's people who know nothing about math but like invoking it as a talisman of scientificity an...

Even if it was only worse in degree, that would still be terrible because trapfinding in D&D is a miserable joyless exercise.

Oh god, the tags.

Wait so they still have that whole thing where armor suddenly switches from immune to damage 1:1 to resisting damage 1:3 and thus becomes massively, massively worse as soon as you get a single +1 to DV?

They did. Their example of the reflection rules features a guy taking literally 156 dice of damage. ETA: Checking the description for that, apparently there's some hideous accounting for what happens when multiple explosions go off simultaneously. I don't even know what happens if three explosions g...

Frank, be fair! Since Frag grenades have +5 AP, and positive numbers are a bad thing in this case, you actually only need to roll 49 dice to resist a hand grenade. And I only had to go three hundred pages away from the Hand Grenade entry to find out what the AP number means!

Since when do modern gamers eschew Diablo? Or are you saying that Diablo 3 itself isn't "like Diablo" and what they're eschewing are the true spiritual successors?

Sorry, can you explain the difference between target number and threshold? Did your toxic-resisting dicepools used to add 1:1 to your ability to resist toxins and they changed it to adding 1:3?

Wow, the example rewards cap out at 21,000Y per runner for going up against extraordinarily powerful opposition that overwhelms the runners. How lucrative. ETA: Also great that the run rewards table has an asterisk that doesn't point to anywhere. It's incredible how unusably ill-put-together this bo...

As far as I can tell, in SR5 there's only one gun drone worth using. The MCT-Nissan Roto-Drone flies, has enough Body for two weapon mounts (or one heavy weapon mount), and costs 5,000 nuyen. The weapon mounts themselves cost another 5,000, and then you just have to pick your weapon. The Ares Alpha ...

For fun I tried to see how expensive it is to kit out a big drone army. It turns out that the unit price on a roto-drone equipped with two weapons slots, each of which has an assault rifle and that rifle's underbarrel grenade launcher, is only 15,000 nuyen. If you want to mount them with semiautomat...

They seem very low, especially since the Targeting autosoft is weapon-specific and the Maneuvering autosoft is drone-specific. It seems like what you would actually want are a bunch of, say, rating 4 briefcases that each give Clearsight, Maneuvering, Evasion, and Targeting to a squad of same-model s...

Is it possible for a hacker to go "Wait, hacking one drone at a time is bullshit" and try to hack the rigger's briefcase directly? Assuming away the Hall of Mirrors problem of actually finding which icon represents the rigger's briefcase, I suppose. (And the Hackastack problem of still onl...

You're creating a competitive party tabletop game centered around argument and debate. Write a rule to determine what does and does not constitute "evidence".

I told you. The alleged evidence might be in another topic entirely, but it's somewhere, and it's all part of The Defense™.

The Zak S Defense™ isn't constrained to a single post. It's a synergistic multiply-linked entity spread across posts and threads, and within the entire gestalt of The Defense there will be quotes, facts, and evidence.