/srg/ - Shadowrun General

How does the cyberarm gyromount work? Does it reduce recoil by 3, 6 or 18?

>>43608759
It gives 3 RC when active. Blame CGL's poor wording.

Reposting from last thread:

Question for GMs. For the sake of Banishing, how many services do you typically have for your enemy spirits?

Also, anyone have ways to make Banishing not suck?

>>43609087
1: Given to spirits summoned for spontaneous combat encounters.

2: Given to spirits on site at low priority locations.

4: Given to spirits on site at high priority locations.

Force rating: Given to random free spirits.

/srg/ I need your characters. I'm going to run a filler mission for my party and I'm going to assign them each a new character. Standard runner: priority, sum-to-ten, karma anything goes. Our party likes more flavor less crunch.

The missions idea is to run LAN tournament for Shadowrun Online, where they get to play assigned shadowrunner for a mission. Party is street level teen gangers, so I figured I would let them have a taste of real shadowrunning.

>>43608635
>Technomancer, wat do?

Indoctrination or vivisection

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>>43609614
Any specific power level or archetypes? Do they need to be tied to a specific area or group.

I imagine that the game's default characters are the obvious: Goblinized muscle, elf face, etc.

Anyways, here's one: Troll adept from a bad town, walking the line between being a good Catholic and working for the Mafia. Priority build, nothing fancy.

>>43609614
To clarify, by 'power level' I meant 'die pool size'; even at standard you can find a wild swing based on the chargen method and amount of minmaxing. >>43610004 is at about 15 dice for their main abilities.

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>>43610004
15 dice is good for the main ability. Area or group doesn't matter I'll fit them to the run anyways.

Thanks man.

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>>43610004
Original party composition isn't generic. We got jack-of-all-trades, rigger without control rig, brawling technomancer, edged sammy without ware, voice adept. Our only generic pc is human decker, full on nerd.

What relationships do your characters have that you really like? Families, SOs, friends, contacts... Tell me about 'em.

>>43611256
My last character had a boyfriend, a friendly ex, and one still living parent she called every now and then on a special burner.

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>>43611256
Neil the ork barbarian; a delusioned cosplayer. Thinks he's Neil and acts like it. Fun times.

>>43611256
My character has a friend. Their relationship is (or was) straight out of a sitcom. Sadly a favor put his personal life at risk, and my character has been out of town for months, I think I'll have to drop that Loyalty by 1 soon.

So Ive been thinking about CFD and the matrix;
Now I may have missed it but it seems like when you are jacked into the matrix, more and more of your mind is somewhat external to your body; especially if you make it to the Foundation (I also realism that astral projecting may be similar, but that's not my field).
Now from my understanding CFD is a virus similar in function to HMHVV but as time progresses more and more of your personality and mind are taken over.

So my question is: If your mind is divorced from your body via the Foundation or Astral Projection and you get infected with CFD what occurs; would your body be able to walk around despite being link-locked; could it be used to delay the infection until the new personality possibly calms down or to just delay the inevitable

Dear /srg/
Why is alchemy so shit in 5th
have a good day
anon

>>43612455
Dear anon
Because CGL
Have a nice night

Can someone clarify how modular limbs work in 5E?

>>43612832
Fluffwise amazingly. Crunchwise badly.

>>43612886
I meant more like how the essence costs and whatnot work.

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>>43612054
If your mind was in the Foundation (or any other part of the Matrix) I would say that wouldn't particularly matter to the virus; it still has access to your wetware, which it will reprogram as necessary following the directions of the nanites burrowing into your brain. It takes a while before it has any level of control, so unless you're hooked up to some life support system while your mind is out in the Host of Blackjack and Hookers until the virus takes over and unplugs you (at which point your mind shatters, leaving at best an e-ghost and most likely with it dead and gone) it's not likely it could happen. Still, if your particular CFD personality was crafty enough, it could hide out in your brain until it was fully assembled, then take control while you are jacked in.

Then your e-ghost finds the PCs and offers them every cent left in it's bank account if they can track down the 'person' who stole their body and get revenge.

For the astral, it's a bit more tricky, because they haven't fully explained the rules of how CFD reacts with Essence, and if losing your soul/life-force/whatever your astral projection will kill your body outright if there's another mind in there.

>>43608635
>Technomancer, wat do?
Have you tried not being a Technomancer?

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Bump. Is the general just dead tonight?

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>>43616969
Everyone's playing Fallout 4
Except me

so lonely

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>>43617029
Funny enough, I just STOPPED playing Fallout 4.

I can only procrastinate on exam prep for so long.

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Guys, help me out.
I want to build a heavy-weapons guy who relies on Vindicator and its supressive Fire to deal Damage (Vindicator does 1.5x Base Damage on supressive Fire with an optional german rule).

I'm probably going for an Orc, but i have no idea what to do next, since i don't want to end up with a one-trick-pony.
Should i go Adept or Cyber? Probably need to take a backup Weapon, and some sort of second specialisation, but what? Help me out here, /tg/.

>>43617359
Augmented Adept

>>43608635
So, weather control is a known thing in Shadowrun.

What are some good ways to use this for a run?
What are some tactics or policies would a corp have to protect against this.

>>43617383
Drive up to the Sioux border. Make it stop raining on their side of the border, while keeping the rain (and the plant growth) for yourself. Play racist country music from your gas-guzzling truck as you wave both hands in the air, one with an American flag and the other with a middle finger.

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>>43617453
Goddamnit, you got me.

>>43617029

Don't worry anon. I neither have a next gen system, not a computer strong enough to play Fallout 4, even if I wanted to

>>43616969
Midterms too.

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>>43617636
We can play Shadowrun, though. All you need is your imagination!

>>43617375
Then what? I'd still need some sort of second field of specialisation for a bulky, strong Guy.

>>43617674

>that image

Oh god I can't stop laughing

>>43617704
>Bulky, strong guy
Carry around a shotgun and also punch people
and be the russian heavy weapons guy

>>43617704
Intimidation is a valuable social skill, omae.

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>>43617966
>shotgun

I was thinking about something not related to combat, but punching people looks like a good backup in combat, since i already gave him bone lacing.

Russian sounds also good, but wouldn't that one shy away from using evul murikkan capitalist weaponry like vindicator?

Maybe i should make him Austrian-American with a heavy accent?
Still, any input for a non-combat occupation is appreciated.

>>43617995
Not with Charisma 2, i fear :/

>>43618022
Omae, please, tf2.

Anyways, for non-combat, you might want to tailor your non-combat roles to fill in gaps your squad has empty.

OR, you could do it by flavor. Maybe he likes to brew beer. Or maybe he has a passion for weapon design and manufacture.

>>43618058
I'm sure your GM will give you a Vindicator Minigun positive modifier.

>>43618058
Social modificators are a thing. Be big, carry a gun, break a guy's finger BEFORE you start to ask questions.

>>43618022
>evul murikkan capitalist weaponry
It's not evul, it's unreliable and tends to break when you hit things with it.

>>43618022
>Russian sounds also good, but wouldn't that one shy away from using evul murikkan capitalist weaponry like vindicator?

Refluff it as a Combloc equivalent, like a Glagolev–Shipunov–Gryazev GshG-7.62mm or something.

>>43618274
Arsenal has a RPK (which looks more like a PKP)

>>43618302
But that's not a gatling, omae. The GShG is.

My next campaign is set in LA, and I've been reading about the PCC. It looks like if you have a national SIN, you own at least one share of PCC stock, so do the characters get paid dividends every so often?

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>>43618084
>>43618091
>>43618266
>>43618274
>>43618302


Okay Guys, take a look at this.
Its still WIP and i have a shitton of Skillpoints left (14), as well as 8 Karma.

I think he will be an Ex-Russian Army Guy living in Seatle, working for the Vory.
Of course he is a Vodka-Addict and loves combat, the typical "russian soul" should be doable via "bipolar".

Regarding Knowledge Skills, I'm thinking about russian literature, Army, Gang Warfare and Gambling.
Any other ideas?

I'll stick with the Vindicator though, building something around its unique rate of fire was the original idea for the character.

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>>43618509
Forgot the Char
Kurwa!

>>43618509
>Ex-Russian Army
>working for the Vory

Would they even accept him? I thought that working for the government made you a bitch in their eyes.

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Hey Yekka, "Jack of all trades" is broken again.
It applies the reduction during chargen, and fucks up the amount of Karma counted for positive qualities.

Weapon accesories on restricted gear also don't work, they are counted as restricted items themselves, preventing the char from being created.

Electronic firing doesn't seem to add recoil compensation to some Weapons

>>43618885

Russia has mandatory drafting, not accepting ex-military would make the Vory pretty much unable to accept any Russians

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>>43618528
You should have a Russian K6 helmet. No real reason, I just think they look cool.

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New Version!

Feel free to rate/comment/criticise

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While we're at it, mind taking a look at a MysAd Face? 4e
http://pastebin.com/BkNvkyia

Black Magic, specializes in intimidation/interrogation and making people's lives unpleasant. A decent shot with revolvers; I decided to go for "trick ammo" with the biggest cylinder available and ammo skip. Spell loadout is similarly focused on making things vastly uncomfortable, though sustained Illusion spells could put a target down nonlethally.

Yeah, the guy's an Amerind who turned away from Shamanism.

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>>43618998
I dunno, Pilot Ground always seems like a natural fit for combat specs because they have high REA but I always thought, if I was gonna make a sammy, he'd have Gunnery or be shooting out the window.

Why not take 1 in Close Combat or Blades if you're actually taking them as sidearms?

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which version of Shadowrun is best for beginners?
probably something rules light or straight forward since my friends never bother reading too much.

>>43619611
>Shadowrun
>rules light
Pick one

Apart from that, use the starter kit and run Food Fight to introduce them to the concepts of the game. Premade characters and all that.

>>43619434
Looking pretty good anon, after a quick look I think it's fairly solid.

One question though, why did you put your Strength up to 4, as opposed to some other, potentially more useful attribute. I'd put it into Body, or Edge.

>>43619636
Man, that must've been a holdover from when I was starting with a more punchy build. It's also partly vanity - I don't like the idea of him being a weenie. Good point, though.

how do you convert chummer files to pdfs?

>>43619611
That plane was shot down by a Russian missile. I guess the moral of the story is "Don't fly over a war zone".

>>43619813
Print it through a PDF converter, like Adobe or whatever.

>>43611256
My characters parents sold him to Aztlan pit fights at a yoing age, eventually after growing up in fight rings he realized he would never pay back his "debt" and so he got a ticket on a smuggler ship and headed off to Seattle. On the ship he found an orphan girl whose parents had sent alone hoping she would find a better life, he adopted her and is hoping to run a bakery, but his only real skills are vilent in nature so he was forced into shadowrunning.

>>43613493
Pay .1-.3 essence for the connector to be added to your body, then pay the cost of the cyberlimb in essence when you attach it on. When you remove the arm/foot/whatever, it creates an essence sink that you can fill in with a replacement part. If the new part costs more essence than the previous one, you lose the difference.

>>43619611
What you want is something an editor had a look at. So, anything pre-fifth.

>>43611256
My first character was a decker/rigger (it was 4th edition so he could get away with it). He was born and raised in Texas, and his entire family, including himself, are all elves. He has two older brothers, a middle brother who is Awakened and is a talented gunslinger adept with a cowboy motif, although he's not very bright, and an eldest brother who actively suppresses his Texan accent in favor of a neutral, "generic" American accent. The middle brother is a Shadowrunner who fights the good fight against megacorps and organized crime, while the eldest brother is a corporate spy working for Saeder-Krupp. They don't get along at all, but they both seem to love their youngest bro unconditionally. Middle bro wants the youngest to join him in the shadows, being the brain to his brawn, while the eldest brother wants his youngest bro to get a real job, make some real money, and most importantly, stay out of danger.

>>43619507
Wasn't enough Karma left :/

>>43619611
Fifth and Food fight is a good start.
Most of the hate comes from 4th Edition Munchkins who are assblasted because they can't start at max skill anymore.

Stick to the Core book for a while, everything else adds to much bloat.

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Any suggestions for my Ork rifle adept?

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>>43620032
OP here
Any other useful adept powers i might have missed?

>>43620032
>Foldingstock + Shockpad

Nope, needs a rigid stock


You could also ditch the "improved accuracy: Automatics", for now, since your Dice Pools are way to low to even hit Acc 8 remotely, not speaking of your 9.
I'd get one level of freefall with it, being able to jump an additional 3 Meters down somewhere without hurting yourself is always usefull.

>>43620032
>>43620186
I'm not sure if you can add a shock pad to a folding stock, but Run & Gun says that the two don't stack if you have both.

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Quick idea for 5e houserule:
Firearms use Physical Limit in place of Accuracy.
Accuracy is now a slight bonus to Limit.
Accuracy stats reduced to one-third or one-half currently listed values.

Y/N? It just cheeses me off how useless Physical Limit is in this one case.

>>43620259

Eh, then you will have holdouts with accuracy like sniper rifles. Reduce accuracy of 4 by 3 (rounded up) and it's +2. Take an accuracy of 9 (my current SVD), divided by 3, and you get +3. 1/2 doesn't help much either.

>>43620259
I still maintain that your Limit should be your Skill, and gear should just increase the limit.

>>43620259
I don't know how that'd work out mechanically, but wouldn't that make strength and body be super important when you're firing a light pistol or holdout or whatever?

How do Securetech PPP pieces from Run & Gun work? I guess that being unusable with full-body armor means any full-body armor, not just the item from the core book, but the Vitals Kit also cannot be used with Armor Vest and Armor Jacket, which is oddly specific. What can it be used with?

Also, do those pieces have their own capacity, or do they take armor capacity when you put them on?

>>43620259
Why the fuck would you even introduce your physical limit to Shooting?
Just because you are a fat fuck or a skinny dude doesn't make you better or worse at shooting single shots on a target. And for recoil, strenght is already factured in.

>>43620259
Nah.

Even a wimpy person can, with a bit of training with the gun, line up a single shot and shoot straight.

Strong Mc.Huge will only have an advantage when it comes to keeping the gun on target with fast follow-up shots/burst fire (and FA), not for a single shot.

>>43620340
No hard rules on the former, just use common sense.
Since the Vitals Kit is useless in combination with Armor Vest and Jacket, the same should probably apply for every heavy chest protection.

Regarding the latter, they don't take up any capacity, they are extra pieces of Armor, like Forearmguards or a Helmet.

>>43620365
Oh, that makes sense. I just realized that armor jacket is not the piece of armored business clothes.

>>43620340
You see R&G? It has two broad categories "Armored Clothing" and "Specialty Armor"?

The easiest ruling is that it only can be combined with items from the "Armored Clothing" category.

>>43620186
Wouldn't improved accuracy help with the dice pools?

>>43620317
Well, it was just the quick and easy fix. I wouldn't mind rolling out a new table of adjusted Accuracy stats. Hell, I could just do it by weapon class.

>>43620332
>>43620343
>>43620347
STR is a dumpstat as it is, pardon me for wanting to improve on it.

>>43620393
No, it improves your Limit, not your dice pool.

>>43620415

Every archetype has their own dump stats. But, strength isn't one of them, else they'll have dice pool penalties after the first shot

>>43620393
Nope, Accuracy only affects the number of 5&6 you can count, not how many you'll throw.
Since you already need more than 21 Dice to reliably run into 7 Accuracy, 9 is realy a waste of PP.
You can always get that one later if you have higher Dicepools after a few runs.

>>43620415
Strenght already covers Recoil and Close Combat.
Try moving Gymnastics from AGI+Skill to [AGi+STR]/2+Skill

>>43620446
Meh... Depends on what type of gun you use exactly, but it's not that hard to get a decent RC from gun mods alone.

Hey guys, is it just me, or are voodoo and the Jewish tradition (cabbal?) The weakest of the traditions?

>>43620628
>he doesn't know about Possession

>>43620647

I know about possession. But it's kinda like... you will only ever really get 1/2 the force of the spirit when possessing things

>>43620654

Follow up: it also makes summoning anything past force 8 seem redundant because you'll venerable be able to augment your stats higher than 4 anyways.

>>43620672
You can always use a higher level spirit to blast any dual-natured critter/projecting mage from the Astral. (And other non-physical tasks.)

Yeah, they can't materialize on their own, but that doesn't mean the spirit is useless.

>>43620909

I get that, and sure, they're equivalent to others. For simplicity, I'll be talking about Voodoo, because I recently made one.

They're a tradition that focuses on charisma, leading them to be a summoner focus, or at least be able to be a summon focus more than others.

But, while any other charisma base can spam spirits as necessary, with voodoo you cant. You have yourself, and even then you're left with vulnerable because you don't gain immunity when a spirit is possessing you

>>43620948

They're equivalent to others in Astral combat*

>>43620948
Don't inanimate vessels alleviate that somewhat?

>>43620948

Golems and Zombies are your friends there.

Shove some spirits in corpses and prepared golems and you're golden.

>>43620963

They need to be prepared, and preparing inanimate vessels is an advanced school of magic (meaning you have to initiate), and even then, the actual preparation is artificing (or alchemical, I can't remember which. Just that it's in the Enchanting skill group).

>>43620968

Putting them in a dead body requires Necromancy, and golems... possession specifically states they can only move things designed to move. A shaped rock that looks like a person or Animal is just that: a rock. No moving parts.

>>43620979

No they don't *need* to be prepared, it gives the Spirit a huge bonus on the possession attempt.

If you want the spirit to inhabit a vessel (i.e. make the possesion permanent), then you absolutely need a prepared vessel. But in a pinch, any dead body or articulated doll will do.

>>43621017

My DM said they required Prep. Give me a bit to ask him about it, maybe it was a misunderstanding

>>43620995

Well, yes. A good golem has joints. It's not just a statue. More like a heavy, scary marionette.

>>43620672

Higher force spirits have a better chance of possessing their target. Especially useful if that target is, say, your opponent bor your opponents full body armor. Or a random suit of empty heavy mil spec you are using as a golem think outside the box, anon.

>>43621030
He is mixing up "Inhabitation" with "Possession".

Check Street Grimoire pg. 197. If the vessel is prepared, the spirit gets a +6 dice bonus on its possession attempt. But it can try to possess anything.

Alright just got a message from my GM. Apparently what it was, was he houseruled it that, manditory, it has to be a prepared vessel for a spirit to possess it. He said he felt it was way too cheap, as a force 4+ spirit could easily possess just about anyone out there not geared for fighting spirit possession. The exception would be my character who will always be a "prepared vessel" for my spirits.

How boned am i?

>>43621141
Not terribly boned, you can still grab spirit buffs for yourself after you learn Channeling.

>>43621210

Do I learn channeling first, or do I try to work on getting inanimate object preparation? And I'm still screwed with only being able to have one spirit active on the physical plane at a time (and uses my body, which is then, as a result, vulnerable to being shot, since I don't have immunity

>>43621141
Possessing yourself once you have channeling is still a pretty potent ability. I assume you are still a full caster as well and not an specter Mage, so it isn't like you'll be useless your first couple missions until you can initiate or anything.

>>43621239

Full mage. Street level. DM forced us to use Life Buy... wasn't too big a deal, I snagged 6 in Sorcery and Conjuration, but only 1 in enchanting, which sucks since it means I need to soak a large amount or karma into enchanting if I want to prepare my own vessels.

Do I need to pick one type of environment when using gear with Custom Protection, or can it work like armor mods, where you pick whatever you want?

It seems to be limited to one type the way it's worded, but EVA suits in the same book have this feature for 4 different environment factors at once.

>>43620415
>STR is a dumpstat as it is, pardon me for wanting to improve on it.
STR already has a balancing point, not being able to wear more extra armor than a helmet without encumberance can be pretty significant.

>>43621436
>Boohoohoo I can't get 2-4 extra dice on my monstrous soak pool

Go dig a hole and jump in it.

>>43621450
Were you trying to make a point here, or just shitposting?

>>43621450

>10 strength
>+20 extra armor via stacking

You know, speaking of armor, do Snake Mesh Socks add to the encumbrance penalty?

>>43621470

I think he was trying to say that loss of, in theory, 2-4 dice pool on someone with possibly 30+ soak, for not being encumbered isn't a real drawback

>>43621521
If your game is all about soak and you still have STR1, you're probably the most fragile one in the team.

>>43621501
Since its only situational Armor against called shots or snakes:
No, it shouldn't.

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Stat him /srg/

>>43621580
That's what I thought at first, too, but that extra armor really hurts some of the martial arts from the same book. And, besides:

>They aren’t the most comfortable socks in the world

>>43621586

Str 3
Agi 4 (6)
Bod 3
Ref 5 (8)
Log 3
INT 4
Will 3
Cha 3

Looks like augmented cybe legs for 9 agi

I have no idea who the fuck that is, tho, so I'm just pulling shit out of my ass.

>>43621586
Tumblrwatch?

>>43621606

It's from Blizzard's new IP Overwatch.

That's Lucio, he's a support character who uses stolen experimental Sonic Technology and his skills as a DJ to buff and heal his allies. The "gun" is that tech, it can also shoot sonic blasts.

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>>43621622

Like you wouldn't have this guy as your rigger.

>>43621634

I still don't know who he is, but now I know where he's from. Still, I keep my stats for him as is, based solely on appearance

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How do you notice if a window or door is alarm wired? Perception test?

>>43621751
Most likely. I think Hardware+Intuition or Locksmith+Intuition test should also work if you are looking for something specific, since that's how you discover sneaking targets in lieu of Perception in the core book.

>>43621751
>>43621811
Actually, never mind, it's Perception:

>A wire is one of the most basic types of security scanners. Breaking the beam or wire is often tied to some sort of alarm system to notify security personnel, but can also trigger other kinds of automated security systems (see below). In some rare cases, the wire may have a more lethal purpose and is intended to harm the target. Stringing monowire across a potential intrusion point is a common choice for this purpose. If a character fails a Perception Test (p. 135) they will run into the wire and trigger its effect. This could be activating the alarm system, or taking damage. For wires intended to harm, use the damage listed in the Fencing Table (above).

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/srg/, I think I need help.

My group's current Savage Worlds game has reached a conclusive point, so we're taking a little break, and I volunteered to run Shadowrun 4e. However, I've never GM'd anything before ever, so I'm kinda panicking.

Is there anything I NEED to make sure I have with me? I think the plan so far is just a one-session thing and I'm gonna be doing Food Fight, so I figure pre-gens would work better than running each player through character creation, but I often hear about how horrible the Shadowrun pre-gens are. Should I make up some new ones? And if so, should I give any character to them, or let the players make up fluff?

>>43621822
Ok, thanks bruh.
I was looking at the alarm text and only said how to deactivate them.

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>>43621824
The 4e Starter Kit should have some pregen characters included. It's the sample characters in the corebook you want to stay away from.

Rolling up pregens yourself would be a great exercise in learning the system yourself, so I'd suggest that, since it's important for you as a GM to become familiar with all the potential your players should and will have, and also guiding them towards it. This includes both mechanics and story; consider giving your players a few options in either vein to help them understand what's expected of them. If your Savage Worlds group was mostly high-fantasy murderhobos, you might have a bad time adjusting to SR's intended atmosphere.

/srg/ is here if you need anything.

>>43621824
Stick with the pre-gens.
They are only out of the viewpoint of an optimiser.

They "work" and thats really all they are intended for.

>>43621908
The corebook samplers aren't even baseline functional.

Anyone have the matrix/decking quickquides handy? My street level magic and sammy runners are finally going against a corp

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>>43621938
I've got a few things you could use, I think.

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>>43621938
Decking implies 5e.

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>>43622026
>Decking implies 5e.
Fuck me I keep forgettingn

Thanks anons!

So, do I get a bonus 6 karma if I make a loli with Neoteny, or does it only count for the balance of metagenic qualities?

>>43622595
If you're choosing it as part of the Changeling quality, then it counts only towards the balance of metagenetic qualities.

>>43622625
Yeah, but you can also pick any of the negative qualities without paying for SURGE, so I was wondering.

>>43622658
If you pick it without SURGE then it acts like a regular quality. That would also require GM approval, of course.

>>43622056
>the 5e matrix is so much simpler they said
>play 5e if you want to play a hacker they said

>>43622735
Simpler, and also not trivial!

>>43622763
>implying 5e did anything about stay at home hackers
The stay at home decker was a problem from the get go which 4e did more to fix than 5th ever did by actually making it so decking wasn't a so retardedly expensive investment that you couldn't do other shit.

Being able to cross-specialize is a good thing but for some reason, it becomes a problem when it's about hackers, whose entry cost should be by far the lowest and the dependency on having the shiniest, most expensive Apple ideck doesn't even fit neuromancer despite the obsession the 2-3e devs had for early "has never seen a computer" Gibson.

>>43622763
2/3e matrix or bust faggot

>>43622794
Problem is 4e addressed remote decking by obliterating the archetype itself. No attribute dependencies, low Karma investment, and far fewer returns for deep Karma investment compared to other archetypes. It's still kind of an issue for 5e because it's even more nuyen-dependent than 4e, just has a nominally higher barrier of entry.

>>43622794
>the dependency on having the shiniest, most expensive Apple ideck doesn't even fit neuromancer despite the obsession the 2-3e devs had for early "has never seen a computer" Gibson.

You do realise that the developers now have nothing to do with guys who developed 2/3e, right? 15 years and at least 1 studio removed means very different sensibilities.

>>43622863
If you want to be wholly dependent on agents and your tools and have no way out when things go to shit, sure.

I honestly don't see the problem, 4e script kiddies can't do shit against a proper hacker.

>>43622794
>which 4e did more to fix than 5th ever did

Ignoring the problem isn't solving it.

>>43622940
The decker tax was already a thing in the older editions. The main difference is that your broke ass street kid was somehow sporting gear worth close to a million nuyen.

>>43622957
You do know you could get low level decks for fairly cheap.

>>43622948
Proper hacker has what advantages, exactly?

>>43622949
>decker needs to be there because most facilities are too secure to get wireless
>has the skillset to work as infiltrator or rigger anyway which means he's got field use beyond stay-at-home nerd
>doesn't carry a laptop that's worth more than the personal worth of half of Redmond as a vital tool

>>43622794
The stay at home decker doesn't exist in 5e. Hosts are simply to hard to beat wirelessly.

>>43622993
The stay at home hacker didn't exist in 4th either and the idea that 5th did anything about fixing it is literally a fantasy by people who didn't read the chapter on wireless in 4th or were too hopelessly groggy to play a system that actually fixed a lot of 3e's worst design decisions.

>>43623080
>The stay at home hacker didn't exist in 4th either
So? The system fixed 4e's fuckups. Attribute-less hacking, for one.

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I have a smartgun extended clip (100 drum) weapon (Ares Alpha). Do I get to eject the drum via smartgun free action or do I have to spend a complex action?

>>43623320
I don't see why it wouldn't be a free action. Can someone quote the books' wording?

>>43618509
>Regarding Knowledge Skills, I'm thinking about russian literature, Army, Gang Warfare and Gambling.
>Any other ideas?
Language (Vory Fenya)

>>43623415
That should be a lingo specialization, not a separate skill.

Speaking of which, can you, and do you need to pick specializations for your natural languages?

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>>43623406
Not really sure, maybe a free action for ejecting and complex for injecting?

>>43620032

Any other suggestions boyos?

>>43623550
Yeah, I don't see why not. Is that 4e? Looks like the same rules as 5e.

>>43623494
I'd say so in case of fenya. I'm Russian and can't understand a word of this cant language, having looked it up on Wikipedia.

>>43623550
>free to eject, complex to insert

This

>>43623494
>>43623681
Well isn't that the point? The entire idea behind cants is you can't understand them unless you're part of the group that speaks them.

Besides being that one metatype of human with four arms, is there any way to get more arms? You can't just get additional cyberarms, right?

>>43624237
I think multiple arms is a metagenic quality, so you can get that. You'd need to use SURGE rules if it's a positive quality, though.

Question, specifically for 4e, but I don't think edition matters.

Say I have a character with all attributes at 3. I take a customized cyberarm where my character's dominant arm is, customized for agility at rating 5.

As it's only one arm, my agility will still average to 3. Would I then be using agility 3 for shooting, or would I use agility 5, as the dominant arm has a rating of 5?

I find it all a bit confusing.

>>43624296
Thanks, omae

>>43624495
5 agility when shooting with a gun thats purely using that arm.

4 when two handing, since thats the average between the two arms.

>>43623874
Yeah, guess I overthought the question.

>>43623859
>>43623661
4e, yeah. Thanks, I'll test it

>>43621905
Okay, cool, thank you.

If I make up some pre-gens, should I use BP, or Karma? And how much of either, to balance it with Food Fight (or is the default okay?)

>>43624699
I suggest Karma since it's the gameplay standard and uses the in-game progression system, so that will help you familiarize yourself with the scaling of the game. Read Runner's Companion for Karmagen rules, and use a "street level" Karmagen of 500 Karma or so. Use only corebook features for your pregen characters.

I'm a bit confused on how cyber limbs work in 5th, they start at 3 agility and strength and you have to pay to customize it up to your racial maximum, and then you can enhance then above it?

>>43624865
Yes, anything past your racial maximum also costs capacity

>>43624865
That's pretty much it. Enhancements go up to +3, customization up to whatever your racial max is.

>>43624765
Okay, a lot of people do seem to prefer karmagen in general from what I read.

Thank you.

>>43624888
So if you were say, a human, you could have a cyberlimb with 12 in its stats?

>>43625035
No, cyberlimbs go up only to your augmented maximum.
So your cyberlimb would start with STR 3, then you customize it up to 6, and enhance it for an additional +3 for a total of STR 9 in your cyberlimb.

>>43625035
Racial max for human is 6, 6+3 is 9

>>43625073
Olay I read that wrong, I thought you meant that customization went up to your cybernetic max, and you go beyond that with enhancement

>>43625108
The augmentation limit for any given stat is its racial maximum +4. However, you can't use a limb customized beyond your racial maximum and your limb can't exceed +3 in enhancements, so you'd have to get the last point elsewhere.

>>43625139
You sure? Every edition I've seen has the max at racial max +3

>>43624886
Ahh, so customization doesn't cost capacity, but enchantments do. What about availability? It's just the cyberlimb + 1 per point of attribute or just the cyberlimb +1 by itself?

>>43625230
Pretty sure it's +4, at least in 5e. ...And there we go, found it:

>First, when purchasing augmentations such as cyberware and bioware, each attribute rating (Mental and Physical) can only receive an augmentation bonus of up to +4. If the attribute being raised has not reached its natural maximum limit, the attribute can be raised naturally with Karma; but at no point can augmentations exceed the +4 bonus cap.

>>43625242
It's +1 per point.

>>43625278
Oh, 5E is weird and dumb. They limit you to one attack per turn, and now +4? That's just funky

>>43625325
You know that there is a multiple attacks free action right?

>>43625344
Then why is there an optional rule in Run and Gun that allows you to make more than one attack action per round? That obviously means by default you can't.

>>43625278
>First, when purchasing augmentations such as cyberware and bioware, each attribute rating (Mental and Physical) can only receive an augmentation bonus of up to +4. If the attribute being raised has not reached its natural maximum limit, the attribute can be raised naturally with Karma; but at no point can augmentations exceed the +4 bonus cap.

So, let's say I have 1 Str and 1 Agi. Does that mean I can't even use a cyberlimb customized to 6 Str / 6 Agi? Or does that limb get to ignore that rule, and can be freely increased to 9 Str and 9 Agi?

>>43625404
Multiple attacks rule is in the 5e core, too.

>>43625404
>>43625325
You can't make two attacks against one single target.

>>43625462
Yeah, that is pants on head retarded

>>43625474
Whatever you say, bro.

>>43625474
Why?

>>43625491
Okay, so, apparently I don't have the dexterity or reflexes to shoot the same dude twice, yet somehow if there's two targets my reflexes get jacked and I can pull the trigger faster?

>>43625512
What are you even talking about?

>>43625512
You can't do it with one SA weapon.

>>43625139
Can take the recliner quality to squeeze a few more points out. But you lose some condition boxes

>>43625565
>the recliner quality
I know you meant Redliner, but that gave me a hearty chuckle.

>>43625512
You can even shoot at three targets with burst fire.

>>43625544
Yes you can, it's called Semi-Auto Burst complex action.

>>43625565
>recliner

>>43625577
Haha thanks, autocorrect is not my friend

>>43625544
Not to sound like an ass, but you haven't been great at communicating what exactly you've meant. I was originally referring to the fact that you can't do two shots in semi-automatic anymore (Unlike every other edition), and then apparently it went from using one weapon to two?

>>43625582
And if that's the case, why did they even mention it in Run and Gun as an optional rule? Or was that just because they made firing two shots its own action instead of the original "You can just fire a shot twice, each one being a simple action." That seems like an unnecessary addition.

>>43625512
>Okay, so, apparently I don't have the dexterity or reflexes to shoot the same dude twice
Extra squeezes on the trigger are abrstracted as defence penalties. Burst gives -3, Full Auto gives -9, etc.

>>43625630
No, because bursting and going full auto is holding down the trigger. I'm talking semi-automatic hammering my finger on the trigger.

>>43625656
What is Semi-Auto Burst.

>>43625673
But why oh why is that its own action when the other editions just had the simple "You aren't limited to one attack per turn." It seems like an unnecessary rule and an unnecessary addition, when it makes nil difference from the original and is just another special thing to memorize?

>>43625673
No such thing as a halfway-burst.

>>43625706
It's a balancing concern. It's not too hard to understand, allowing someone to attack the same guy twice makes ranged weapons way too good.

>>43625706
>The idea of keeping the attacks to one Simple Action per Action Phase was based on keeping the action spread out across all the players and keeping combat moving. If a gamemaster wants to increase the number of shots a character can take on their turn, and thus the number of rolls and amount of table time they get to use, this rule option can be used to ignore the “One Attack action per Action Phase” attached to most ranged attack tests. This optional rule eliminates the limitations on the Simple Actions that can be taken. It’s highly recommended that if this option is taken, Cumulative Recoil should be given extra attention, as the modifiers will add up fast and act as a balance to nonstop shooting. This rule has no effect on melee combat, as melee attacks require Complex Actions.

>>43625753
Well, considering melee weapons are really more of a specialist weapon than your run of the mill handgun, that would make sense. There's a reason why 9 times out of 10 people would pick up a handgun for a fight as opposed to a Katana. It's just how it is (And as someone who loves their Shadowrun Katanas, I'm more than fine with leaving it as a specialist weapon.)

>>43625817
Fine and dandy for real life, but in a game there's no reason to make similar options outright worse than one another appeasing someone's autism doesn't count. The problem already exists with Holdouts and Assault Cannons being useless, I'd rather not add more and more weapons to that list.

>>43625873
Holdouts are great for when you want to conceal a weapon.

Assault Cannons are... Well, they're heavy 12-20mm cannons, no idea how they're bad (Except maybe that you can't carry the things around in public without having C-SWAT on you)

>>43625909
>Holdouts are great for when you want to conceal a weapon.
Small pistols do their job better than they do.

>Assault Cannons are... Well, they're heavy 12-20mm cannons, no idea how they're bad
Assault Rifles get very close to their base damage, but they have FA to make up for it, the ability to use specialized ammo, and some of them are even Restricted, not Forbidden. Taking an Assault Cannon is a fluff choice, sadly.

>>43625965
So a 5.56mm Rifle nears the damage of a 20mm Cannon? Oh shit Shadowrun what are you doing. Assault cannons should blow people away, send bits of them everywhere. I'm only really familiar with assault cannons from the old edition where they had damage codes like 18D (Target number 18 to soak, Deadly damage (Which was more or less an instant kill))

And why do small pistols do the job better?

>>43626019
>Assault cannons should blow people away, send bits of them everywhere.
To be honest they do have very high damage, but shooting an assault cannon with 18P with 12 dice against 9 dice(5REA+3INT) vs shooting an assault rifle with 13P with 12 against 0 dice (5REA+3INT-9 from FA), you can quickly see why one would out-do the other.

What book is the telescoping spear in again?

>>43626077
Doesn't full auto give recoil penalties anymore?
And I suppose an assault cannon would be great if you're shooting at some big beefy troll, I suppose. Or a guy with Military armour.

>>43626096
Hard Targets.

>>43626102
>Doesn't full auto give recoil penalties anymore?
Yes it does. Of course you want to stack some Recoil Comp before you go around shooting full-retard-like into a crowd, but the benefits usually outweigh the costs so it's very worth it.

>>43625965
I can still see a good reason for some of the holdouts. The Tiffanis and the Elan are fashionable, the Streetline is stealth (although an Ares Light Fire is too, I think).

I tend to be a bit on the infiltrator side, though, so I tend to have a list that's almost every legal handgun in the game just in case I have a disguise for one that fits better.

>>43626128
Thanks chummer

>>43626128
Well, Assault Cannons do still seem somewhat useful for taking down large targets from long ranges (What they are intended for, afterall.) They seem like they are very much a specialist weapon, so, I guess that's the choice you make? It's in the same tier as grenade launchers, MGs, and Melee

Since Chrome Flesh says that cyber genitalia might well be considered a cyberlimb, does it mean you get another condition box if you install it?

>>43626212
Melee is somewhat better nowadays. The damage code change helps, you don't split your speed across passes anymore, skimmers and skates can have you easily slide into melee range, etc. You don't feel as bad for playing melee as you used to.

>>43626232
Would this mean that adding a shit load of cyberdongs would actually be a decent idea?

>>43626302
>shoot the guy with the five dongs first

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Hoi chummers,

Gonna try out running a solo game for a friend of mine. First time both of us are trying a solo run. Any tips or things I should try?

>>43627592
Provide NPC teammates for support, heck you could give him free Contacts to make up for the lack of a regular team

Newbie GM question on Hosts:

For a public building, say a night club or a hotel, are stuff like cameras and financial data on the same host as the ones public guests connect to in order to access the building's AR and stuff, or is there a separate host for that?

http://shadowrun.tumblr.com/post/133142791191/shadowrun-tabletop-update

Rigger 5.0 is in proofing, chummers. It's almost here.

Hello sixth edition

Out of curiosity, how did renraku lose control of their archology? As far as I know the UCAS government controls it now, but how did that happen? Did they buy it or confiscate it? What ever happened to all the r&d tech they were working on in there, let alone all of deus's crazy experiments and inventions?

>Want to run a Shadowrun 3rd edition
>Finally work up the courage to go to post on gamefinder
>There's no gamefinder thread
Why /srg/, why must /tg/ destroy my confidence like this. I just wanted to see if anyone was down for some oldskool chromed Shadowrun. That's all I wanted in life.

>>43628732
The answer's in your questions, anon: The Deus fiasco.

>>43618891
Restricted Gear I know about, I'm looking at it at the moment. Electronic Firing should be fine. Jack shouldn't be doing anything odd with karma costs, what happens?

>>43629785

JoA applies the reduction at Chargen ATM, retroactively giving you Karma back when you select it.

On top of that, it somehow counts as more than two Karmas worth of positive qualities.
I had it active and was at 22 positive Karma with qualities and when i wanted to make the Char Playready, chummer said i had more than 25 positive Karma qualties.

>>43629975
Hrm. It's not doing that for me in dev or live; what version are you on?

Anyone know if Internal mod slots are restricted to one like the others, or can you have multiples?

>>43629211
Read the whole question man. Did they get it by buying it, or by seizing it? I doubt renraku would be willing to let go of a multi-billion dollar property like that without a fight.

>>43630185
Renraku already lost it to an entity that threatened the world as a whole. They could not hold their own souvereign territory, which was grounds for an intervention of a larger military force. Renraku may have poured billions into the arcology, but they do not need, or want, the negative publicity of clinging to the arcology of robot doom and reminding everyone it was their mess. The UCAS taking control of it solves that dilemma nicely and allows them to foster a better relationship with the country and get extraterritorial zones in more profitable areas.

>>43630402
So what is the ucas doing with all the tech, r&d, and crazy data they left inside?

>>43630113
0.5.176

No restriction on internal mods except common sense

>>43630887
That is entirely up to your GM, mate.

>>43630887
Infusing resonance into people using cybermancy, or something else like that.

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Hey, /srg/, Thought Experiment: What news clips would you use to open the Shadowrun TV show?

I've been turning over a script, and I'm having trouble thinking of the snippets you'd need to introduce the average viewer to the world, the compressed info you'd fit into the first 100 seconds via cuts of reporters talking about events to give them the basic primer.

I figure you'd start with the Shiawase and Seretech divisions, compressed into a blurb about how corporations can now be their own countries with their own armies and laws; then something on UGE, then the Awakening (complete with a flash of Big D saying, "Magic has come back to the world"), a couple shots of mages, the signing of the Treaty of Denver (with reference to the Great Ghost Dance), cyberlimbs (through that violinist), goblinization, and then...

I don't know what's next. They can't put too much in there, and there is stuff that would be better left to be unpacked through exposition in later episodes (like SURGE and the general global situation), but I can't help but feel that it leaves out too many years.

What other stories are important enough, and can be compressed enough, to make it into the opening scene of the Shadowrun show?

>>43630946
Hrm. Give the nightly build a crack. https://github.com/chummer5a/chummer5a/releases/tag/Nightly-v1.0.540

>>43632222
Just for the cyberpunk vibe, include scenes from riots, clips from war correspondents in exotic war locations (Corporate war, maybe?), various televised terrorist acts, some Unsolved Mystery type things about corporate espionage, etc.

>>43632272
Good point. Sprinkle in a bit of Bogata and Berlin to get the heart racing.

I didn't say in >>43632222, but the last clip would obviously be the longest, from Sixth World Dateline about shadowrunners. "Who are these men and women who go out and commit such acts? Murder, corporate espionage, extractions, even bodyguard duties... Nothing is beyond these highly skilled mercenaries of the streets, who will work for anyone from a AAA corporation to your neighbour, so long as they have the money..."

EXT. SEATTLE IN THE RAIN. ARCOLOGY VISIBLE IN THE BACKGROUND

>>43632222
>>43632399
I'd watch it.

>>43632399
To elaborate on the corporate espionage thing, perhaps some amateur footage of corporates doing back deals? Reports of a corp releasing a designer plague in to the public?

Maybe some stuff on the rise of violent crime. Security cam footage of gang shootouts, robberies, etc.

Also, a cool thing would be to show the world getting progressively worse. You start from some happy stuff in the early 2000s and things start going down hill. It starts with "Cyberlimbs help amputees walk!" and "______ develops bio-interface chipping!" and maybe a bit of "Cold war over, the world can rest easy!" From there you show the decline of society, ending with a near constant stream of murder, riot, espionage, corruption, etc, reports.

>>43632457
I don't want to overplay it too much on the happiness, though; it would include stuff like the violinist and her arm, and then a bit later you'd see someone with a cyberlimb ripping apart an opponent, but keeping it a bit subtle. The normalization of amazing technology into the mediocrity and filth of humanity would be implied, rather than stated clearly. We've only got a couple minutes, after all.

>>43632222
You could have a snippet about vampires and HMHVV. Roaming packs of ghouls, amateur footage of someone getting essence drained in an alley, etc. Throw in a Chicago reference while you're at it, too.

>>43632499
Maybe don't overplay the happiness, but I do think the descent of humanity would be a good thing to show. Maybe start it with slightly positive stuff, then go to more neutral and questioning things (Rumours of Cyberpsychosis, Possible unrest, whatever), then straight up hell on earth maybe?

Eh, I'm just shooting ideas out here.

>>43632628
Cyberpsychosis is a good idea.

>>43632597
I thought about HMHVV, but that's more corner-case enough (people understand the concept of vampires, for example) that I don't know if it deserves front-loading. There would definitely be an episode where the main characters fight ghouls and learn that some of them are OK, but the issue of HMHVV can be safely put off until then, I think.

I like the Chicago idea, though. Instead, why not Boston, as that quarantine is still going on? The Sears Tower going down would make a great image for talking about the reaction to goblinization, but the bug spirits are again something that deserve room to breathe.

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This is my favourite table. Nothing is better than fantasy racism.

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Ms. Myth looks like a fat Amanda Bynes with horns

>>43633402
>>43633402
Pretty obvious ref of the Angelina Jolie Mr & Mrs Smith, though
Those eyebrows

>>43621751
i want that jacket

>>43634187
Damn, you're right. Still doesn't stop the face from looking like fat Amanda Bynes with Angelina Jolie's horrifying eyebrows.

So I've been invited to an upcoming game and while I still need to find out the general composition of the rest of the group I have a general idea for a back story I'd like to get opinions on.

Simply put, the character would be some kind of ex megacorp prince or princess that was working their way up Knight Errant but has some kind of secret vice and a Rival who does something to expose them forcing them to fake their death to avoid damaging their families reputation.

As far as some crunch, I'm at least looking to either be a human or an Elf and possibly go Adept of some sort.

Although I'm curious what sort of vice or secret my character could have on top of a rival they will be gunning for as well?

>>43634870
>ex megacorp
Eh...
>prince or princess
No
>fake their death to avoid damaging their families reputation
Teleporting katanas/10
>Elf Adept
You have cancer, it's fedorastasized.

Honestly, though, a corp SINner coming down from a life of luxury is fine. Probably want to knock it a few rungs down the ladder, is all, because people in high places have no friends beneath them.

>>43635089

that's fine, I'm not trying to min max any advantages from back ground or anything. Originally the idea was going to involve the rival somehow infecting the PC with HMVV but since I can't play a ghoul I have to switch it up.

>>43635143
Not him, but it's not that you're trying to min-max is that's your character concept is boring and needy.

>>43635156

While I admit on the whole it's trite but why needy? Ultimately it's just a character who has a bone to pick with someone because who took advantage of the fact they did something (and probably continue) to do something stupid that ruined their otherwise perfect life.

>>43634870
Maybe they didn't fake their death, but just ran away in a panic, and everything collapsed without them. Went to a crime boss they had been tracking undercover or whatever in KE, and got their SIN erased. Generally the same end result, but feels less trite.

In terms of secrets, he may have been sleeping with someone he shouldn't have, got caught planting evidence in an attempt to get a much sought after promotion, shot an innocent on accident, or they fucked up an investigation and sent the wrong person to jail. Vices come in all sizes, but for something bad enough to make you have to disappear, it gets trickier. That's like being an bunraku parlor regular, or beating up hobos to get your kicks. Selling stuff from the evidence locker to fund your jazz habit. Heck, maybe you sold the evidence that would have locked away a triad leader for a hit.

I'd also think about how being an adept affected their life up to this point, it's easy to forget being awakened is rare, and runners just some across them more because most work in the shadows, or in security.

>>43635202
Needy in a
>the game world revolves around me
way

>>43635356

Alright, thanks and for the record i'm not entirely hung up on the idea of being an adept or anything as I don't know what the rest of the team is going to look like so I'm using a vague background that i can fill in as needed to cover whatever weakspots the team might have.

>>43635361
Okay, whatever. I was just fishing for ideas but I suppose it can't be helped if that's how it's perceived. Maybe I should have said I wanted to be a run of the mill ganger looking to get to the top of the criminal underworld by running the shadows while stroking my pink mohawk like everyone else.

>>43635403
Wow, salty much
Go play on Reddit if you want to see buttbothered

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What's everyone's opinions on Harlequin?

Mary Sue or Mariest Sue?

>>43635583
He needs to leave

>>43635583
I really just want to forget that he's a thing. I can tolerate the concept of immortal elves, but I don't like it when they try to make them more 'human', like they do with Harlequin and Frosty.
Just make them elf-shaped dragons imho.

>>43635583
Depends entirely on how the GM handles him, desu. A lot of /srg/ is salty he has infinite powerlevels, but that's hardly unique in the setting. The rest is salty he wanted to take on Ehran himself, but when we played it, our team was happy to take a step back and let those two idiots fight it out. I can see not being allowed to "fight the boss" annoying more pink mohawk groups, though, but the adventure itself pits a dragon as a boss for the party to compensate. You get to kill...a fucking dragon...without (!) repercussions. But I figure the GMs who ran that module in a manner that pissed off their players probably didn't involve Ehran's tortured little pet at all.

My main problem with him is thusly fairly recent. It simply is the full retard mode CGL puts him and his antagonists into. Clutch of dragons was extremely shitty for what amounts to a total rehash of the prior Harlequin campaign and, from a character PoV, makes no sense from both Harlequin and Ghostwalker's perspectives. Frankly, if Harley had gone senile and was really dumb enough to threaten Ghostwalker in his own lair, he should be dead, and not, paraphrasing, but pretty sure it's close to literal here: "The dragon let him leave. He knew he'd regret it later and didn't know why he just let him walk, but Ghostwalker did nothing". Full retard authour.

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Hey chummers, I posted here a week ago regarding negotiating team rates: http://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/43559860/#43563773

So me and my friend the mage raided a penthouse, accumulating lots of phat lewtz, including a set of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_guardian_lions worth 25k. We basically agreed OOCly to sell all stuff and divide all money 50\50. But he said he wants to keep this item (he's also keeping a 250k incense-burner mage foci which we came for in the first place. He needs it to advance his own mission so no problem at all).

I included these dogs into his half, calculated my 50% taking them into account. Then he got angry and accused me of being greedy. I told him that if I ignore these 25k I basically get 46%, not 50 (overall profit from the run is 330k - yeah, I know, it's suspiciously large).

Am I seeing this as too computer game-based loot dividing? I told him I don't care about the extra money as long as he can later at some point give me 10k I might need for an implant or something without discussing it. Hell, I'd even give him way more, I just need explanation so that I can understand what class of loot is this so that he needs it. I guess him being a mage he might need these non-magic items (basically gray trash loot from my MMO player PoV as I explained to him) for placing them on an altar of his Shinto spirits to gain some favor? Don't really understand how magic might work in this regard.

Well, anyway, he's really angry now and asked why should he report to me about what he wants to keep or not now. And I'm confused yet again. If I'd gone for my original 25%+3k offer I'd get 86k whereas he'd het 244k.

Maybe I should've gone for 25% and then looked at how the GM might handle this from further runs viewpoint. I'm getting really curious as to what such position would bring. I don't really want to be That Guy who cares too much about imaginary money.

>>43635583
Shitty character.
Not a Mary Sue for the sole reason that almost nobody in-universe can stand the fucker.

>>43635947
You're being entirely reasonable from what I can tell, and he's being a stupid little cunt.

>>43635947
Resources are resources, he's a dipshit and shouldn't demand more to "compensate" for what he's chosen to invest.

Is having an immortal elf as an antagonist/CEO a good/logical idea?

How about having him trying to get revenge on a dragon?

>>43636269
Don't base it off Clutch of Dragons. It is shit.

>>43636281
As far as I'm aware I wasn't, but for the sake of knowing, how is it shit?

>>43636293
It's basically edgy fanfic. If your scenario has nothing to do with it, go for it.

One thing I'm still confused about when it comes to cyberlimbs: can a human with 1 Str use a 9 Str cyberarm (+3 customization, +3 enhancement), and will he get any penalties? Like, will he only be able to get his strength to 5 unless he increases natural strength with karma, or something like that?

And also, do the enhancements that you install using capacity increase that limb's stat for the purpose of limits?

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Does anyone here have a link to 3e materials/chargen?

>>43637177
>can a human with 1 Str use a 9 Str cyberarm (+3 customization, +3 enhancement)?
Yes.

>and will he get any penalties?
No.

>And also, do the enhancements that you install using capacity increase that limb's stat for the purpose of limits?
No. Limits are calculated using your base (or completely augmented) stats, and the cyberlimb's stats are apart from those.

>>43637230
I see thanks. I suspected there would be some drawback to having really low Strength.

>>43637244
It's not that major.
There are a ton of ways to increase your limits, or bypass them.

>>43637244
There are some drawbacks to being wimpier than a thirteen years old girl: you can barely carry anything, your physical limit is low and you'll get dumped on your ass each time you get hit and it limits what armor you can wear. And God help them if you ever need to drag a wounded teammate to safety.

They could be made a bit more prominent, yes, but they definitely are there.

>>43637193
Have you checked the pastebin labelled 'Books' in the OP?

Had a player leave the game

So how do you handle the fact they weren't on missions should he just be a standard character?(Im using karmagen 800 karma)

Should i give them the same karma and nuyen as the team has(post chargen)? Or just go with like half that?

>>43637307
Oh fuck, thanks

>>43637317
I don't understand. Are you asking what to do with the character whose player left? If you are, remember that NPCs don't have to follow the PC character creation and improvement rules, so you can give them whatever stats you like.

>>43637340
I meant for a new player im bringing in

I neglected to mention the new player part im retarded

>>43635403
instead of prince who got exposed and had to fake his death so his senpai isn't burdoned and he's so noble try

spoiled brat does one to many lines of novacoke and and pisses off the wrong dude so his family hires someone to frag him to cover their asses and he's left for dead with his sin being erased by his family or the dude he pissed off or both.

if you go with a japcorp you could say the being an elf played into that.

>>43637347
don't be the gm that gives the new guy less xp. the other characters wouldn't want to run with a rookie so let him make a character that is on their level

>>43637317
>>43637347
Definitely give them a step up from basic chargen.

I hope you have a running tally of the karma/nuyen you handed out so far. In that case, you can hand out karma as appropriate and a reduced level of nuyen, taking into account that the new character will not have had to spend anything on lifestyle, ammo, etc. the the regular characters have had to do.

If not, look over everyone's character sheets, see how big their die pools are, and give the character karma/nuyen above the 800 to get them to that point. Sit down with the player and build the character together so you can be flexible about the exact amount; it's not an exact science adding someone of the same power level, but you want to have them get into about the same ballpark and it's easier to go too low, and give the new guy a boost later, than it is to go high and have to take something away or jump up the rest of the party.

How does one go about finding a Shadowrun game? I've never tried it before.

I did a quick search around my area, and it looks like playing it IRL is out of the question.

>>43638743
Roll20
/tg/ LFG thread
Craigslist
Reddit
Facebook
?

>>43638743
Me and my buddies all play on Roll 20. Sometimes it is like herding cats to get them to be on at the same time but it is always lots of fun when we pull it off.

>>43637800
39k nuyen and 23 karma. (I may have overpayed them the first mission)

They havn't spent much karma yet

>>43639493
shadowruntabletop
dumpshock
F-List

>>43640333
F-List's Shadowrun room is absolutely abhorrent and completely shite.

give me a dozen names for a bbs/forums/e-pubs like shadowsea and jackpoint and their focus

I got a couple so far
El Malo: a hacker node hosted on a Aztecnology server by a very scared very black mailed spyder. Viruses, Atzlan shadow news, and the latest videos of underground cyborg fights are shared here. 100 - 150 users at any given time.

Friendds oof Humannity - All the info you'd ever need to waste bugs. Bounty hunters, critter getters, survivalist, and doomsday preppers (there's always another one coming down the pipe) share knowledge and stories. Run by Don in Chicago. 30 to 100 users at any time

gaijin - need an in with the japan corps? well its not happening outsider but gaijin's posters are the next best thing. Japanese undesirables post here and complain about racism in japan and hook each other up with jobs and gear. Hosted in Okinawa by Major Malfunction. 50 to 60 users at any time

1cal - anachist, calfree loyalist, and angry atzlaners make up this group. Plotting the return of a coast long California this conspiracy has used blackmail, arson, and good old fashioned assassination to further their goals. Good for a job and people who will hide you after a job (as long as it doesn't hurt their agenda). 10 to 20 users at anytime.

>>43641464
Shadowchan: shitposting

>>43641575
Schan - an imageboard that has several boards several of which have to do with shadowrunning in specific areas. There is also anime, tridya gaems, and porn boards. Mostly for shitposting and being hateful the /r/-raiding, /nrk/- anarchy, /b/ random boards are known for having contest that involve the destruction of private property and murder and mayhem. Hosted on a boat somewhere in the pacific by some pirate name loot. probably. between 1000 and 10000 users at any given time.

>>43641877
Don't forget /pol/ and /k/
Shadow/k/ would be a hellish landscape.

>>43641877
One quirk is that you can only find proper discussion of the subject you're interested in on boards not dedicated to it. Topical discussions are typically drowned in drekposting.

>>43641897
>so much katana posting
>he uses a gun when magic weapons exist
>going caseless 2071 ishyoddt
>muh troll bow

around elves watch yourselves
the red menace
gaijin go home... oh wait injins took it!
>implying witches/ai possessed are human
>keep knife ears away thank gaia for Alamos 20K

>>43642212
>2076
>not being an adept with an enchanted monosword
>not having laser rifles

go home you .10 essence fuck

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>>43642281
>playing 5th edition

>>43642331
REMOVE KEEB remove keeb
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dunklazhn alive numbr one #1 in ireland ….fuck the tir,..FUCKk ashol tirs no good i spit in the mouth eye of ur flag and contry. big d aliv and real strong dragon kill all the tir breeders with rap magic now we the irish rule .ape of the zoo presidant mara fukc the great satan and lay egg this egg hatch and ireland wa;s born. stupid baby form the eggn give bak our clay we will crush u lik a skull of pig. ioreland greattst countrey

>>43641464
metumblr: originally an anti-Humanis BBS, it has since gained popularity with all kinds of activists. Nowadays, you can find all sort of stuff there: from discussions of social issues around the world to attempts of classifying metahumanity based on seemingly random factors. Ork and elf posers feel at home here. Rumor also has it that ogre metavariant is not a real subspecies of orks, but one of the metumblr's initiatives taken a little too far. Being easy to use and featuring fancy ARO functionality, it is liked by all sorts of people - from casual matrix users to shadowrunners who like to stay in touch with contemporary counterculture.

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>>43642341

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>>43642341
>keeb
i just got it

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So, I guess you shadowrunners would be best to answer this.

I bought Shadowrun Returns a while ago and have enjoyed it much. Only problem is that it feels awfully railroady, when I exit from map I'm transported straight into next plot area and I don't have chance to explore the city.

Is this design persistent in subsequent titles Dragonfall, Hong Kong and Boston Lockdown too? I really would like to experience the feel of actually living in Cyberpunk city.

>>43642660
DF and HK are much better about it.

BL is Chronicles, which is explicitly mission-based.

>>43642660
Returns is super railroady, which is why the devs promised more freedom in Dragonfall. It's still not quite a sandbox but it at least gives you a hub level to interact with and you can do jobs in whatever order you see fit.

>>43642660
The other two games have an intro setup that leads to your base. They have some railroading in that some story events will cause certain runs to appear in your logs but you can take them in mostly any order, and each time you do have a point where you kick off the endgame plot around the middle which would correspond to offing the ripper in DMS.

>>43642450
Not even trying to be subtle, omae

>>43642723
All three games are super railroady. Whatever you do, you'll get your money and move on to the next stage.

>>43642768
That's not what railroading means.

>>43642789
Yes it is. You're dead-bolted on your course straight for Vauclair's lair or the Walled City, whatever you do. Whether you discreetly, hacking, with magic; with charisma or just plain old shooting everything in sight; you still end up in the same place, and none if it ever matters a single iota. The eventual result is the same: here's is your money, on to next stage!

Except perhaps for taking one of those annoying hackers with you if you aren't one, they can make you some extra nuyen. Woo-hoo!

>>43642855
Shouldn't you be playing Fallout 4 or something

>>43642855
Railroading isn't having a starting point and an endgoal, larpfag.

>>43642895
Ironically, LARPs are much more railroady by virtue of being run by circlejerking overlords who have to administrate larger groups.

>>43642855
I never understood why "take the money and run for it" wasn't a valid option in Dragonfall. Instead of paying that weird hacker chick to do a datasearch for you, you could just spend the money getting the hell out of Dodge.

>>43642744
but not bad. for what I need.

bloodshot - dedicated to the filming, selling, and trading of illegal activities. From snuff films to every illegal sex act you can think of its all there in .trd, .btl, even .mp4! Run by a trusted member of the btl maker community Celebration Bus hosted in DeeCee.

>>43642944
>let's just ignore the entire point of the game
This is why we have tabletops, guys

>>43642977
Portsmouth - Magic dudes like to talk about shit besides magic. This bbs is for that. Magic theory is the name of the game here with an emphasis on summoning but literature of all cultures is uploaded and shared here. No permanent host. 20 to 40 user

>>43643650
>shared
Did you mean magical shitflinging about how being a Hermetic mage is strictly inferior to being a Chaos mage??

>>43643927
yeah you know scholarly discourse between colleagues!

>>43643927
>Sure you know magic, but do you GET magic? Stay mad, hermeticfag.

>>43643998
>chaos mage believes that he gets magic when he can't pass algebra 1 at his local community college.
>stick to drekposting on Schan scribekiddie

>>43644055
>meanwhile psionics keep to their containment board

>>43644897
>guys
>redpill me on spirits