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I've tried to join an Ars Magica game once, but rules are just too incomprehencible for me, with all their fake latin and grognards. I prefer Mage the Awakening.

vagrant wrote:Yes, even with ditching extended tests, SR5 still managed to make Matrix shit take longer than 4th.

I'd actually love to make a comparison runs with someone, to see how the rules differ.

Since we go into cyberpunk's decay in general, I believe it has something to do with Huxley's dystopia vs. Orwell's dystopia and reality. Cyberpunk is Orwellian - the Big Brother is watching, the culture is built around slavery (to the corps), the truth is hidden in the Area 51s, and people are kept...

Also SR4 was released with Technomancers in the rules and a Technomancer archetype, and a few months later the website was updated to say "oh guys, it's better if your players don't know the technomancers". So when Emergence came out, the big reveal that "there are people who can con...

So, I've got into roleplaying and cyberpunk community only recently, but one thing I've noticed is that a lot of people hate technomancers (Shadowrun specifically) and techno-mysticism (in general). Why? I'm pretty sure Gibbson had something like it in most of his books - Wintermute's reality merge ...

Btw, what's with the Missions rules banning certain pieces of the normal rules? Like Code of Honor. Why would they do something like this?

The SR5 folks should do D&DN, and the D&DN team ought to do SR5 Oh god! I know both 5th editions these days are terrabad, but I'm almost thinking that the SR5 team would do a better job with D&D. In that they'd probably rip-off actual rules that somewhat worked, and just make them diffi...

IRL hacking mostly hinges on developers being retarded and leaving stupid weaknesses in the system. I would give you an example from my work, but I really shouldn't :) Oh, that's quite true. You wouldn't believe how hard I once had to argue to get someone to modify this if &#40;x < 1&#41; &...

My experience with SR5 is one session long, and it was fairly fun, due to GM skipping most of the hacking rules (including OS) and despite the team doing stupid-stupid things.

Well, I guess I'll go back to my futile search of SR4 online game.

This. Actual hacking is ... not exciting. It involves lots of trial and error, brute forcing, and things with cool-sounding names like "stack smashing" that really aren't all that cool to anyone who isn't a CS geek. (There's seriously no smashing involved.) IRL hacking mostly hinges on de...

Prak_Anima wrote:Grats, Longes

Now I just need to find an english speaking RPG group in Munchen

Good luck with the edits, Prak.

I've finally got a reply from a german embassy, saying that they'll give me the visa for my master degree studies. ^_^

Here's the sample SR5 matrix run for you, with spiders and stuff: http://forums.shadowruntabletop.com/index.php?topic=12278.0 If you could make an analysis of it - that would be rather entertaining :) You get to know, at best, what someone has labeled it as. If it is being used by anyone even vaguel...

Unrelated. Dear buddha, the editing on SR5 is horrendous! Noone tells you what the numbers in the Metatype column are, as written, Technomancers lose Resonance every time they lose fraction of Essence, rules for buying autosofts are missing...

Technomancers are basically in the same boat they are in in SR4. They are able to get absolutely ridiculous dice pools on specialist tasks, they are going to be actually incapable on some others, and that is somewhere between broketastically overpowered and unplayably terrible depending on how your...

To be honest, I haven't really looked at the Matrix chapter in detail. I saw the two page spread of "matrix jargon" and said, "Fuck you." Then I went back to reading Kant, because it's more straightforward. And less needlessly complex. And more clearly written. Yes, that's a phi...

If the goal of the priority system was to prevent people from specializing super hard at things like "rigging" and "decking" to the exclusion of other things, then the priority system is a dismal failure. More of a failure than doing absolutely nothing, since it stops zero peopl...

@Starmaker - close, but no cigar. The main Sidereals book introduces a god responsible for all the celestial exaltations, like, a single real dude who you can talk to and stuff, what with all the other gods being too busy playing beer pong. He's an in-universe Exalted fanboy, complete with the squee...