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Korwin wrote:

kzt wrote: People mostly miss in gunfights, unlike in SR. They miss at long range, they miss at 5 meters and they miss at arms length.

But missing all the time, is also not fun...

It is when they are shooting at YOU.

Given that Shadowrun is more consistently grim and deadly with its ways, but in a world of cybernetics, why is dodging bullets stupid? Cumbersome sure, given the steps, but I do think PC's, Pro rat 6 guys, and Prime Runners should be able to dodge bullets. Because it's a grim and deadly setting and...

So instead of the stupid carrot and stick approach that SR5 did and fucked up royally, why not just say that all your equipment talks on the matrix, and it's fucked up, an invasion of privacy, and it's so ubiquitous that there isn't a whole fuck of a lot you can do about it? Say my character has a ...

hyzmarca wrote: You know, in the name of weaknesses being more interesting than powers, I'd suggest that instead of having each race associated with one tech, they instead have one tech that they don't or can't do.

And have limited ability to defend against / detect?

Physical line of sight, or physical contact? Not that you have to see the lock, but you have to see the door with the lock. Which means throwing a black bag over your head does in fact block you from popping the lock to your cell open unless you can touch the door. Also, don't use the fancy electron...

Let's just say that economics was not a strong point of the guys who built the setting way back when. "Sell the sizzle, not the steak" was the FASA motto. So pretty much anything you think through and can offer logical reasons for is something that you have spent 10 times as much effort on...

silva wrote:Runequest is a religion and community-progression game, where you "level up" by behaving like a pre-modern man would, upholding the values and beliefs of your religion and community.

While killing dozens of enemies and taking their stuff...

I'd argue there isn't THAT much stupid in Glorantha that you can't rip out most all of it. I personally hate ducks and bad puns used as city names, but a lot of what people seem to think is insane I kind of like.

For magic, consider what might be a comparable skill: Teaching people to land jets on aircraft carriers at night. While it is possible, in theory, to teach almost anyone to do this in fact this isn't a commonly learned skill. For one thing, it requires that you first learn to fly a jet fighter, whic...

that of course is a state of affairs that just supports my original point, that ownership of blackwater does not qualify as having " military power that can stand up to the government." If you want something like that you'd need Major General Dunlap's "Violence Applications Internati...

A more modern take on the Soverign AAA megacorp is the citizen corporation who is treated as an individual citizen in the eyes of the government. So you don't have Ono Sendai as it's own country, but you do have the Honorable Senator Ono Sendai from the great state of Wherever. Or you treat them li...

In March 2006, Cofer Black, vice chairman of Blackwater USA, allegedly suggested at an international conference in Amman, Jordan, that the company was ready to move towards providing security professionals up to brigade size (3,000–5,000) for humanitarian efforts and low-intensity conflicts. Citati...

The company formally knows as Blackwater could maybe field a battalion(-), if all the guys they had on contract at any given time were in one place. But it wasn't organized that way. They ran small units (typically 4-16 guys) running security for the US State Department employees and various other U...

There is no reason for a corp to be a government. Governing is messy. Who really wants to be responsible for pothole filling and burying dead junkies? You just need to be able to influence governments so they are incentivized to do your bidding. Let's say you are huge financial corp and want to avoi...

The idea that comes to mind is ignoring ammo until it's narratively important, than have the person in question roll their weapon as a skill vs some sort of target number. So people with more skill have this happen less often. Skill also changes how fast you can reload. I've seen people who are absu...

Unless the trained trauma surgeon also had a preped OR, a CT and his surgical team in the van you'd likely be better off with an experienced paramedic. Knowing how to cut people open to fix the things that are killing them works a lot better with the tools to cut them open, the tools (and someone to...

The problem here is that we're looking at a game with harsh tiers that pushes people off the RNG altogether fairly often. And for that, variable TNs against dicepools really do work extremely badly. Look at, for example, the vehicle rules in 1st edition Shadowrun. It's... bad. That kind of sounds l...

The Couatl -knows- it's potentially sending you to your death, and it does so by lying, because it knows if it levelled with you, you'd probably say no. "I won't kill you but I don't have to save you" may sound pretty in Nolan's Batman but it's still murder by omission *. If the thing was...

Be a mage who summons spirits with conceal on top of improved invis. Use touch spells.

FrankTrollman wrote: If you cut out the mechs, there are still medium-big creatures to fight.

-Username17

Cool!

The "giant mech" bit I hate, so if you build it so that you can drop the parts you hate from your game that would be cool.

Players will normally have their characters drop EVERYTHING else and go hunt down people who betray them. Whether it's another character, the Johnson, it doesn't matter. It's all revenge, all the time. So once you do that you have made that what the campaign is going to be all about.

But you get paid every day for the people you have in your jail. Um, and that is whether they are really there or not...

One of the reasons why i started to specialize in Combat Monster Trolls, because the others usually build more for style than efficience and i could thus usually simply shrug off anything they throw at me <.< It works better if you have LS or KE do your dirty work for you.... :) But we very rarely ...

RQ3 didn't have experience points. To have a chance to increase POW, all you needed was to cast a spell such as Befuddle on an opponent who had at least/better(?) than 5% chance to resist your spell. It's been a while ... I did like the concept of Runes as actual physical things you could integrate...