/srg/ - Shadowrun General

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So I heard you guys like Street Samurai

>>53799753
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1wcuoxs4mU

>When your group has to sneak into a luxury home and it turns out inside there's no actual cameras or other security, it's all outside
>Figure this will be easy, get our infiltrator in, have him spike wine, then take some nude photos and steal a ring, standard stuff
>Infiltrator gets in
>I (the decker) notice that motion sensor lights are turning on and off a lot
>Turns out the lesbians living here have like 3 fucking lapdogs
>throws us through a fucking loop because this is a sneaking mission and these things are loud borkboxes
>Infiltrator manages to spike wine undetected, but he has to hurry once they both pass out so decides fuck it dogs can bork
>Infiltrator strips orc lesbo, gets a time stamp and some photos, all while three tiny lapdogs are yapping (represented by the GM blasting gabe the dog music remixes), questioning his life choices all the while

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>>53799753
>'CHEAP SEX TONIGHT. JUST VISIT OUR MATRIX BROTHEL AND HAVE CHEAP SEX TONIGHT'
>>>/soc/

Begs the question, though: is cybering with a skank more trashy than a fleshy meet, or is the stigma of trashy so profound even cybering with a skank equates to actual facetime and is thus just as trashy?

>>53799957
Cyberthot still a thot.

>>53799753
>that video about the woman who made that dress
>she talks about how a bunch of other "women in tech" are angry and shame her for promoting the objectification of women
>she doesn't even give a fuck
The dress itself is pretty neat, it can change colour based on Bluetooth commands, location, etc.

>>53799753
>Trash and whores edition

Don't you mean

>Glowing vagina edition?

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>>53799957
>tfw never live to see the rise of the mcdonald's of brothels

>>53800008
>Glowing vagina
Only 2.000 nuyen and a small, small piece of your soul! Buy two get one free! It's the deal of the year!
What models of cybergenitals do you guys think there are?

>>53800048
If I ever need to describe a pair of cybergenitals, I just pull up a random page on Bad Dragon and then describe whatever monstrosity I see there.
Yes, even for women.

>>53799944
I wish my idea of 'standard stuff' was jobs like that. For us, 'standard stuff' is getting hired to clear out some property for a new owner that has a ghoul squatter colony living in it, without using copious incendiary explosive devices to just burn them out wholesale. No, property damage MUST be kept to a minimum while body could MUST be at maximum; no survivors, just don't make holes too large to spackle over.

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>>53800026

>>53800128
body count*

Does something like this could happen in Shadowrun?

""Recently acquired in a Fort Zancudo yard sale, all our APCs come direct from active service. Equipped with a turret-mounted cannon and portholes for small arms fire, they're able to carry up to four heavily armed mercenaries pretty much anywhere across land or water. And if you squint it's quite good-looking, in a merciless-occupation-of-your-homeland kind of way.""

So a Military decides to hold a yard sale selling several Milspec APCs to a military retailer. Runners could buy it for nuyen and some processing fees.

>>53800184
Militaries in shadowrun don't usually do yard sales, but there's no one saying that a fixer can't have a friend that sells old mil-spec items of interest. Basically, you have to know people. Use your contacts!

>>53800184
Sure
Just give the runners some military Fake SIN (or enough money for greasing palms) and off you go

>>53800184
Yes, but expect shady guys in black suits to buy all that stuff in bulk for their megacorp, outfit them with proprietary tech from their own subsidiaries, then sell them to various national powers at substantial markup, while Joe Snuffy gets to get outbid at every turn because no runner has fatter pockets than a Johnson from a megacorp. That's if you don't keep the sale on the super downlow, of course.

>>53800222
I think that megacorps either produce their own vehicles (which means they don't bid) or buy them in large quantities with long term contracts for support and supply
And even then, why should the J get such a big contingent?

>>53800207

They sold it to a military resaler who then sells it to the following: private security companies, paramilitary forces, rebel militias, hot housewife, radical insurgents, unhinged lottery winners, over-zealous neighborhood watch groups, or just a military hobbyists with a worrying amount of disposable income.

>>53800128
This run is actually a consequence of another run we did, where we were hired to assassinate the head of the Seattle housing department.
Basically, what happened was this:
>We get hired to kill this guy
>Previously my character had seen him at a humanis bar on a run that involved a cat, some mafia loans, and one orc having a really bad day
>Doing a bit of digging he's a pretty huge scumbag, so we don't feel too bad
>We get contacted by a third party about the job
>Go to meet them in Big D memorial park
>Turns out it's fucking Brakhaven who our GM plays as the biggest chad douchebag possible
>He wants us to, after we kill our mark, get his commlink to him before anyone else gets it
>Extra money, sure
>Already make plans to copy over data from the commlink (I've got data liberator and curiosity killed the cat)
>As we leave we end up getting pulled over by an unmarked police car
>Turns out it's not an unmarked police car
>It's UCAS FBI
>They also want the commlink
>Long story short we end up killing our mark after stealing his commlink in the chaos of a halloweener attack on the space needle
>Copy a bunch of data from the commlink, give it to the FBI, give the commlink to Brakhaven
>Also release all the humanis/corruption/bad shit I found on the matrix, which has proof of extreme embezzlement on Brakhaven's part from government and Brakhaven Industry funds for illegal humanis policlub support
>Due to a fuckup on my part, Brakhaven finds me after all this and while I'm getting treated by a street doc he busts in with a few of his badass humanis buddies
>Starts ranting and raving about random shit
>Sends a message from my commlink to the rest of the team telling them to get over here, thankfully our pixie rigger got enough hits to notice it was fishy
>Street sam gets his NEET hacker friend to hack cameras and doors and such to prepare for the rescue attempt
>hacker does it, but only for a "favor"
cont.

>>53800293
>Brakhaven is busy ranting about trogs, pixies, and niggers while interrogating us for information we don't have
>UCAS FBI ends up smashing the door down and saving our asses before the rest of the team can attempt rescue
>Brakhaven gets SnS'd to oblivion
>As a show of good faith, the FBI doesn't send us to the slammer, since we've been useful
>They even paid for our medical expenses, how nice
>Now there's an election going to be held soon, and everyone wants everyone else out of the running
>We've got like 6 smaller job offers and one big one to do over the course of a week
>One of them to steal the ring of a woman running for governor and replace it with a fake
>Others include stealing an armband from a bodyguard of the commie governor, protect some guys from the seattle independence party as they put up fliers, get one of the people running a perfect cup of coffee just before the debate, another is delivering a message face to face just before the debate, etc
>Our hacker friend texts the street sam and calls in his favor
>Turns out the woman whose ring we're going to be stealing has an orc wife and the NEET 4chan hacker wants thicc orc pics
>with timestamp
And that's how our strictly 2D only weaboo infiltrator/streetsam was forced to drug to lesbians before stripping them and taking photos while a bunch of dogs barked at him.

>>53800281
To keep it out of others' hands, and it's gear they can 'upgrade' for cheap and sell off to groups they wouldn't normally associate with and not have the stuff tied directly to them that could jeopardize other arrangements. Megacorps don't think like normals, they're purely selfish and opportunistic, and as long as someone else has something then it means there's something they don't have, and that's an intolerable state of affairs.

Hell, they could go even shadier and slap some other mega's markings all over the stuff, fuck it all up deliberately, and sell it on the cheap to groups just to wreck the rep of the other mega and get their own product into circulation instead as a 'more reliable alternative'. That's worth the kind of bank to send with a Johnson or two.

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>>53800008
Guys stop, please. Bioluminescent vaginas/nipples are my fetish. As is glowing semen.

>>53800433
>tfw no toxic adept bf to give you a radioactive facial

>>53800433
get em to blink in morse

>>53800433
That spoiler can go places if you need to write a message in a dark area.

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>>53788673
>>53788692
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>>53788724
Thanks for the advice, it's 5th edition. Another question, what is main movie inspiration to get yourself into the mood before writing an adventure and GMing ?

I freeing up some time to watch some old Noir movies, original Miami Vice series and rewatch Blade Runner.

>>53800293
>>53800391
Kek. That's some hilarious state of affairs.

And fuck Halloweeners. Past group had a run-in with them outside an Applebee's they'd turned into a shitty hangout/clubhouse, and after some words and them requesting in earnest all the credsticks and weapons we have on our persons, ended up ghosting six of them in the parking lot and chasing the rest off.

Next thing we know we've got a To-Kill order with the entire Halloweener chapter of Greater Sea-Tac and a bounty on all our heads and all of a sudden shit's gone from 'go meet the contact at x location, hand him this package, take what he gives you, and bring back to Mr. Johnson without tampering with it' to 'welcome to Purge Night: Seattle 2075. starring all of you'.

Spent the next eight hours having to footrace Halloweeners and opportunity bounty hunters because they blew up our fucking ride with an RPG and we didn't dare pause to boost a big-enough ride for our fat-ass mongo troll, and we weren't irresponsible enough to pile into public transportation and cause a minor holocaust if we got jumped. Oh, and considering the long trail of bodies left in our wake because we can't fucking do subtle for shit apparently, we also got to play hide-and-seek with Knight Errant the whole damn way.

So yeah, fuck Halloweeners.

>>53800667
Heat and Oceans 11 are good, "heist" movies are usually good for shadowrun inspiration.

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>>53799753
>LED skirts

I didn't know this was a thing but I hope it picks up.

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>>53800705
That never leads down a good road, though.

>>53800676
>That's some hilarious state of affairs
I didn't even get into the run where we infiltrated a humanis bar to hack the commlink of the guy who was performing there to get information on how to manipulate him into helping us break into a mansion where he was a guard during his day job. We found out he was a cat lover and our mage/infiltrator instantly wanted to threaten the cat when the rest of us wanted to get him on our side by clearing his debt.
The infiltrator mage went to go steal the cat but found out the mafia was already stealing the cat while the rest of us went to go take out a loan at a mafia front while I hacked the systems and removed his debt from their records (along with a far more high profile debt, to mask the disappearance of the smaller debt).
I swear to god we argued for almost an hour over that fucking cat which the mage/infiltrator ended up stealing from the mafia guys who were stealing it from the guard guy before returning it to gain his trust because she just saved his cat by stealing it from the guys who stole it before she could steal it. Which got her a "thanks I guess? What the fuck is happening"
And then we cleared his debt too which actually got him to help us out.
This was all fucking legwork.

>>53800774
I'd have shot that cat on general principle if it was the cause of an hour-long argument over its importance. More power to you for being patient with that shit.

>>53800765

It's a slippery slope. You add an LED skirt here, a glowing tampon there, and BAM! One day everyone is dressed up as a Christmas tree, shooting lightning and singing opera. Is that what you want?

>>53800184

I don't see why not

Police Auctions are a thing

Military Surplus Auctions are a thing

as long as you don't care that people will know you have it I don't see the problem

>>53800048
I wonder if Ron Jeremy's name still has any cachet in the future, of if it was lost in the Crash of 27.

>>53800875
Y-Yes?

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>>53800184
>>53800286
Didn't get any bites last thread, so you removed the /v/ and tried again?

>>53800925
Ron Jeremy, the only unaugmented human competing in trog-porn.

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>>53800667

Pastebin has quite a number of suggested, Shadowrun related books, movies and music.

Me, personally, I like to prepare missions while listning to a playlist comprising of Trevor Something, They Might Be Giants and Aquabats. You may also want to grab and read through 2D storytime, if that's your jam. I'm not an overly visual kind of person, so I can't help with movies and stuff.

Also, reading every /srg/ from start to finish helps. Whenever I need an oddball NPC in my game, I steal an idea from other anons.

>>53800842
Frankly, it was more amusing than annoying.

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>>53800667
There's a movie list in the pastebin that's pretty good. Other than that, I like the TV series Leverage and Burn Notice. They're both on Netflix and have a hefty amount of content. Good place to steal run ideas.

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Hey folks, would you mind reminding me what the 'core' books for 5e are? I've got a street-level mage to build for a game and haven't touched 5 in a long while

What cyberware is considered essential for a decker? And in 5E they still need a deck, right? Or is decking from a commlink the right way now?

>>53803474
Everyone the GM allows
>>53803528
Unless you are AR Adept Decker you need Datajack for Hot SIm VR and to connect your brain to your deck
>decking from a commlink
motherfucker this is 5e not 4e you are talking about
read your fucking books

>>53803528
datajack
cyberears with antennae x3

And yes, you need a Deck or modded Commlink (though that one is bigger cheese than cheddar)

How good is "revenge" as a character plotline?
Like, if I want to play a spurned broad hunting down the ex that screwed her, would most GMs be able to run with that?

>>53803620
I was talking more in terms of Arsenal, Augmentation, Runner's Companion, etc etc my man.

>>53803528

...I think there was also that loophole where every datajack installed reduced your noise, so you may want to grab more than one.

There is also cerebral booster, but it might be out of your financial reach, since decks are, like, super expensive.

Decking with commlinks is possible, although it tends to end poorly for deckers involved.

>>53803528
If you're clever, you get a 'deck AND a commlink, so that if one gets bricked you're not completely worthless.

>>53803474

I think it was base, Run Faster, Run & Gun, and the dedicated splat for your character, so Street Grimoire for mages. Chrome Flesh is pretty cool too.

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>>53804060
Thanks pal!
Any advice for street-level mage-ing for a group of first timers? I'm more used to running sammy, but they need a mage and have never really played before

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>>53804321
Forbidden Arcana for mages, too. Just came out.

>>53804321
What type of awakened are you wanting to play and what rules are you doing for street level?

>>53804523
They used "Street Level" Priority generation and aren't real runners yet, according to the GM, just people trying to break into the game.

They don't have a Mage, so I figured a good old fashioned Hermetic or Shamanic caster would be best?

>>53804481
Sauce for these gifs?

>>53804611
Street Shamans are a lot of fun. Go Aspected Conjurer or Sorcerer with the Dedicated Conjurer/Spellslinger with lots of CHA and INT, and not so much LOG. Take a Totem too.

>>53804731
Dedicated Qualities from Forbidden Arcana*

>>53804731
Can't aspected guys only do one kind of magic? That seems less good for helping out the party if I've only got the one magic?

>>53800667
John Wick 1 & 2, while not cyberpunk, have the secret society of connections thing down, and are fucking fantastic.

>>53804804
Conjuring and Sorcery are versatile on their own, so being locked into one isn't that bad. Of course, you can go full Magician and split between Summoning and Spellcasting.

>>53804481
There are multiple books mages could use, but they're not core.

>>53804708
>>53804708
The last night trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdrSpqmmyfk

>>53805142
Cheers man. Looks good

>the Tir slummer face and the Ancients muscle infiltrator argue for half an hour in Sperethiel on the nature of street justice
>the weeb catgirl decker and the rigger that operates through a creepy kid-drone play trid-games and look through a mark's dating profile
>the mage pieces himself back together after getting nearly geeked by an opportunistic ork ganger

What does your party do in your in-game breaks?

>>53799819
I am going to use this forever.

>>53805142
Damn you Microsoft and getting 1 cool exclusive. I don't want to buy a new console for a single indie game.

>>53805440
I don't know what the scrubs on my team do on their spare time, nor do I much care, but my decker likes to play community relations by teaching trog street kids basic computer skills out of a slum apartment building basement he technically "owns" that he's rigged up some desktops in, for free. If any of them stick around for the entirety of the two-year curriculum, he gives his graduates a Sony Emperor commlink he's personally modded to accept a module as a sort of starter kit for aspiring deckers, which he hopes whets their appetites enough to go seek out employment gainful enough to keep them out of the usual street life and advance themselves, though he's jaded enough to know the majority will most likely sell them off for creds.

>>53800157
All brothels are also taco bell.

>>53806082
Well, duh, 'restaurant' is just a synonym for 'bordello'. Even has menus.

>>53800667
I've been drawing inspiration from robocop for the last few adventures, and my players have enjoyed it. (In the sense that they keep on laughing while saying things like "Goddamit <gm name>")

>>53800875
hell yes

>>53806004
>but my decker likes to play community relations by teaching trog street kids basic computer skills
that's pretty cool chummer
good work

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>>53805440
Our decker scriptkids on the matrix while hunting for exotic cookies (the baked kind not the data kind).

The street samurai day drinks.

The gun adept... Actually I have no clue what that guy does for fun aside from cannibalism.

The katana adept lezzes in Japanese when she isn't being a salty bitch.

The rigger functions as our Fixer and takes us to our jobs. He is retired and probably watches reruns of Matlock or something.

The mage is a freeloader a engages in recreational choking with the katana adept in her spare time.

What kind of runs would fit a group of:
>An EDGElord face
>A vory affilitated Sammy
>A druid mage and
>a decker
?
Because I honestly have no idea

Doesn't need to be concrete runs, just general types (Extermination, Distraction, Spywork, etc.)

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>>53799753

>>53806492
Anything really, what I do is make things that focus on their skills but also have things they can't do be important to success so they have to hire on another runner they don't know, adding some trust issues to the mix.

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>>53806528

>>53806537
>so they have to hire on another runner
see, this is probably me fucking up, but that decker? That's a NPC
And I don't really want to play two NPCs on the team.

So what kind of runs are doable for such a group?
A group of two sammies, an adept and a decker can't do all possible run types, just like two infiltrators, a face and a rigger can't. Their Fixer wouldn't give them runs of which he knows they are not suited for.

So I want to know: If you were the fixer, had this team and a lot of possible runs: What runs would you say that this team should be able to do?

>>53805440
The excentric gnome decker continues adding more elaborate layers to his plan to kidnap and replace Lofwyr. He bought a golden dragon custom ballistic mask, which I guess is progress.

The spacer ork street sam expands his collection of real-book literature, philosophy, and history. He can speed read and has photographic memory, and his academic skills are between 12-20. One day he hopes to return to space, maybe live on the moon.

The mage frolics naked with conjured spirits while yelling that no one understands him or his 'art'. Said art usually takes the form of kleptomaniac night time excursions where he steals anything shiny to fill his nest, surrounded by his chittering minions. Mentor spirit is magpie.

The face stays the hell away and spends his time perfecting his 'theme'. Think Johnny Spinrad, but grapple guns in each limb and the floor is lava.

>>53806689
Package escort comes to mind.

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>>53806548

>>53805440
My combat specialist elf gets drunk, does drugs and fucks anything with a dick and enough bravery to stick it in crazy.
My Minotaur combat specialist probably meditates, Cleans her weapons, and generally does boring stuff. She plays Arcadium Online but doesn't want anyone to know.

>>53806853
thanks. Any others that could fit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs4mtbTsaL4
Really relevant to this thread.

>>53806548
>>53807007
I'm a white nationalist, but she'd have to carry at least one of my children.

>>53805440
My sniper girl watches action trids. Coming up with the names is the best part.

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The dice pool and six sided die thing seems odd. Guess I'm just too used to d20.

>>53807295
25 Hours: Sequel to 24 Hours

>>53806492
really you kinda have all the bases covered, talkie shooter caster tech. Aside from a car race, I'm having difficulty imagining a run where there's a missing skillset.

>>53807235
Racemixing is love, racemixing is life.

Question for a new runner, what does the "capacity" for cyber ware mean? Does it work kinda like extra essence? Or does it mean physical space? How many upgrades can be jammed into an arm before you lose too much essence?

>>53807364
Ware installed into a cyberlimb's capacity does not cost Essence, just slot space.

Install Chummer and play around.

>>53807364
Capacity is how much room the cyberware part has for additional upgrades.

>>53807364
Capacity is how much stuff you can put into a cyberlimb or eyes, or ears, or how much of that capacity a thing takes up, depending on what you're looking at. (The tables are pretty good at not fucking this up.)

Now, in older editions (3e, possibly 2e), cyberlimbs and so on had a small amount of Essence worth of stuff you could stuff in there without taking up extra essence

But it was pretty small, and once you went over you were paying essence like usual.

>>53807320
>seems odd
chummer, before SR I also found it odd.
That goes away

>>53807341
Hmm, okay. Guess so. Thanks

>>53807364
capacity is a measure for how much stuff you can fit in there
Your cyberlimbs have a capacity. Cyberware has an essence and capacity cost. If you implant it in your normal body you lose essence, implant it in a cyberlimb and it takes capacity. Once the capacity is full you can't add anything.
Adding stuff to your meat body allows you to potentially get more at a higher essence cost.
Putting it in cyber limits you to the capacity, but the only essence you lose is for the limb.

Does it cost essence to get valuable metals carved into your skull?
It doesn't actually provide any mechanical difference from a normal skull, but you will look SICK when you become a skeleton.

>>53805440
The John Wick clone attempts to become a real player instead of a pawn in various ways.
the elf shaman attends conspiracy theory meetings with his lunatic contacts.
the decker is pretty new so he apparently sits quietly in a corner.

>>53807458
Well, bone lacing costs Essence, so maybe?

>>53807594
I just feel it's a waste to have the technology available to have sick bone filigree and not to get some when I get that ludicrous payday.

Though, if I was really, REALLY rich, I'd get orichalcum instead of gold.

>>53807620
>Lacing your bones with cum
thot

>>53807657
you wot mate?

>>53807620
If you're a mage, there's legit arguments (and augments) to take one point of essence or less worth of 'ware.

Just make it a yerz out mod or the like, and then take 'ware that you'd want to fill out the rest of that point.

>>53807458
I think the general idea is that if it doesn't give you an in-game advantage, it's completely free.

>>53807657
read this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orichalcum

>>53807675
That's a different conversation. Sure, a point of ware is good for a mage, but we're talking about explicitly non-beneficial ware.
I mean, what possible benefit would gold or orichalcum laced bones provide other than leaving a RADICAL skeleton?

>>53807710
theres a whole section on cosmetic cyber in cf and none of it is essence free

>>53807735
>what possible benefit would gold or orichalcum laced bones provide
with orichalcum laced bones I'd maybe have you avoid the ItnW

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>>53799994
The Chinese government's censorship of social media has spared them from most of the "identity politics" crap that's taken hold over here.

And that qt3.14 is by far the best person in China.
>her top is made of lcd screens that can turn transparent

>>53807732
Joke
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Head

>>53807791
itnW?

>>53807777
BTFO'd by sevens! I suppose that's the ruling then.

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>>53807320
My group just started, and they have mixed opinions. Two of them just use dice rollers to keep it simple, but the other two are hooked on throwing huge handfuls of dice.

Mechanically, I've heard its much more stable and less prone to goofs than d20, but I'm not a crazy stats guy.

>>53807850
What dice rollers do they use? The one I have doesn't do more than 20 dice so I don't use it.

>>53807735
Filling out that last bit of missing essence because you want to have a full point gone?

Probably some kind of Earthdawn call back I'm totally blanking on?

Really, given the cost of the most comparable bits of cosmetic 'ware I can think of for some big skull work it'd probably be between .1 and .2 essence. Or it could be more like a breast implant (normal kind) or basic cosmetic surgery and the range is instead .05 to .1 essence.

In any case, try and think of good social benefits and penalties flashing your new bling can bring.

>>53807927
You could get an obvious or partial cyberskull made out of a transparent material to show it off.

>>53807803
>i was only pretending to be retarted

>>53807927
>>53807958
so, what, you just have a GLORIOUS GOLD EMBROIDERED skeleton head?

>>53807815
Immunity to normal Weapons, a spirit power
against non-magical attacks the spirit gets hardened Armor equal to twice the Force
since the orichalcum is now a part of your Soul and by nature magical it may give you the ability to attack spirits in unarmed combat without the hardened Armor

but holy crap, can you imagine the cost of that?
Bone Lacing(Titanium) costs 30000nY
And Orichalcum is a SHITLOAD more valuable

>>53808018
I wonder how much of that is the surgical work and how much is raw materials.

And yeah, like I said, that's for the RICH rich mans.

>>53807958
Yeah, but then it's just a casemod, and even for a partial, you'd better hope that the GM doesn't say that it raises availability.

Even the partial (in all ways better than an obvious cyberskull except for being bulked) doesn't want an availability bump.

>>53807815
Immunity to Normal Weapons. It's a Spirit Power that gives them extra armour.
>>53807791
Thing is, orichalcum is 'just' a reagent. It's a powerful reagent to be sure, but it doesn't have the personal connection to your force of will that a weapon focus does.

>>53799753
>>53806548
>>53807007
>>53807796
/u/sexycyborg on reddit. Bunch of pictures with underboob or cleavage, god bless.

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>>53799957
> >>>/soc/
Went. /soc/ is a strange board....

>>53807796

Wait she's created new tech clothing and underware?

Sweet!

>>53808198
She's created lots of stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh_ugKacslKhsGGdXP0cRRA/videos

>>53807796
Well, Chinese already make most of out electronics, most of our clothes and most of our everyday plastics. Might as well accept they make waifus too.

>>53799753

LED eyelashes are a thing now.
https://i.imgur.com/nf9TCAa.gifv

>>53800667
>Another question, what is main movie inspiration to get yourself into the mood before writing an adventure and GMing ?
Cypher and Strange Days should help get the feel of society down pat.

>>53804321
>>53804611
>Any advice for street-level mage-ing for a group of first timers?

Don't use Street Level by itself. Just don't. Use the Street Scum rules in the GM section of the core book if you want to play at that level and can't trust the group to scale the power levels down.

>>53808282
Real question is, can they make contact lenses that will look inconspicuous plain / transparent at idle and give fain heart-shaped glow when turned on?

>>53804321
I'm like 90% sure she takes cyber-knot on regular basis. Occasionally two.

>>53808536
why do people always post this to people asking about street level characters? It's clear from context anon isn't the GM, they have no control over this.

>>53808726
Because maybe that player can convince the GM to change it
If the GM chose it out of ignorance, then telling Street Level's faults (favors awakened/emerged, shits on mundanes) might lead him to reconsider
If the GM chose it while knowing it, then the game is lost anyway. Try to make the best of it

>>53807620
>Though, if I was really, REALLY rich, I'd get orichalcum instead of gold.

While if you were smart, as well as rich enough to piss money away, you'd get awakened minerals.

>Corinthian Bronze (orichalcum and elichium): Also called Corinthian brass, this is a highly polished material with the same basic properties of orichalcum. Active foci created with Corinthian bronze would roll their Force (minimum 2 dice) to determine the Force of the spell refl ected back, inactive foci and the raw alloy would only roll 2 dice to determine the Force of the spell reflected.

>Abyssitine naturally reduces the ambient mana levels by 2. Spirits in physical contact with abyssitine have their Force temporarily reduced by 1 while in contact. Spells that include abyssitine directly as part of the area of effect also have their Force reduced by 1 through absorption by the mineral.

>Cerrukite is the mineral version of an astral barrier like awakened ivy. Beings in physical contact with cerrukite are prevented from astrally projecting or returning to the astral plane or their home plane after manifesting. They must first break contact with the cerrukite before dematerializing or attempting to astrally project.

Or you could try to get your hands on the combination of the Abyssitine and Cerrokite, which does everything they do, Psilosen.

>>53808634
Who wouldn't, anon?

>>53808564
you mean to do the hentai thing where when a girl it turned on or feels good a pink, heart shapes, or sometimes both, glow appears in her eyes?


Also

>talk about hentai
>captcha shows me a view of the highway overpass I lived next to in japan.

>>53808240
>https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCh_ugKacslKhsGGdXP0cRRA/videos

these 360 degree videos she makes where you can move the view around using the "D-pad" that appears in the upper left corner. (or with your finger if you have a touch screen setup) are really cool.

>>53806320
Hot

>>53809212
Why yea, I mean to do exactly the thing.
Though I wouldn't necessarily limit it to girls.

>>53808785
So do you have like actual character advice for me, or just "Tell your GM to do this other thing and make everyone else in the group rewrite their character sheets"?

>>53806082
i hope they impliment that ring the bell if you were pleased with your service schtick

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>>53807894
There's one in chummer. Does everything we've needed it to do so far.

>>53809881

That's not a dice roller.

Nice inspiration image though.

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>>53809881

post .gifs that feel shadowrunish to you

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>>53808564
?
>>53809881
I really need to get around to implementing the rest of the stuff for that.

>>53811073
this is the face of a pretty girl who doesn't understand the concept of rape about to commit it.

>>53811073
Does the guy hanging out the window with the long green mowhawk have a chain of dogtags hanging from his wrist and jacket?

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>>53806492
>>53806689
There's a lot more that I would want to know before I start throwing out run ideas. As it is, there's only the vague sense that they can handle physical, magical, and matrix threats, as well as social issues.

What does the face do other than talk? What kind of 'ware/combat style does the samurai have? What spells are in the druid's repertoire? Is the decker just a voice on the other end of a commlink handwaving through tech issues, or is he a physical presence with other skills?

If it's all one direction (Face is also a good gunner, the mage has lots of combat spells) then it lends itself to certain approaches.

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>>53807458
>>53807620
There's lots of cosmetic 'ware that costs Essence. The basic (softly applied) rule is stuff that you could do naturally (like liposuction instead of going to the gym) doesn't cost Essence, but things that could not be done without actually altering the body in an unnatural way (like breast implants, glowing hair and tattoos, etc) do cost, even if it's only a tiny amount.

And then they fucked it up to make trannies feel better

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>>53811073

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>>53799753
Posted this in another thread, but anyone down for Interface Zero 2.0 or is it done-for?

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>>53811695
It's on my to-do list; heard it has really good art, so I'll clip that if nothing else. Though I really fucking hate it when a game says it's hard SF and then has rules for psionics. It's literally just magic, guys.

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>>53811629
>>53811783
>>53811073
>>53811073
>>53809881
>>53807796
>>53806548
>>53799753


nice.

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>>53811695
>>53811783
>>53811629
>>53811514
>>53807850


Where would you mount the AR projectors and displays in this room?

Link some shadowrun podcasts please

>>53807673
I think he read it as
>oracle cum

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>>53805440
The Minotaur spends time with his large extended family; especially his Granda. She spoils him rotten with her homemade greek food, and since he's a bro, he brings some extra borekitas and pastelikos back for us.

The Elf Face-Shaman either scrounges for drams of oricalchum, or protests this or that social injustice like the fucking tool she is.

The _AI_ decker donates a significant portion of her income to charity, sells data she gets from our runs online (also for charity), and watches videos about Jesus and Christianity on HorizonTube. She tries to live a selfless life and hopes that by robinhooding against the megas and exposing injustice, she'll save her immortal soul. Everyone else in the group finds this very odd.

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>>53812160
>Link some shadowrun podcasts please

Didn't all of those get wiped out in a huge swath of cease and desist orders?

>>53805440
Our driver and phys-Ad and technomancer went and got some second hand furniture for the latter two's appartments.

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>>53805440

The face does smuggling runs on the side and continues deluding himself into thinking that magic does not exist.

The mage plays as many pranks on the face as possible.

The decker watches Japanese Star Wars trideo remakes and pines over the adept.

The changeling adept sleeps all day and then goes out at night to freerun.

The sniper sammy, being a consummate professional, does his best ordinary person impression.

New runner here, I've skimmed through most of the 5th edition core handbook. Where should I go next? There's a ton of supplements and I don' know how widely used they are, or if they're character specific, or what. Also, are the books any good?

>>53812704
Run Faster and Run and Gun. If you like magic, also pick up Street Grimoire. If you like decking and being a Street Sammy, you're SUPPOSED to get Unwired and Chrome Flesh respectively; I advise against this, because those books are fucking awful, poorly formatted garbage.

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>>53812843
>Unwired

You mean Data Trails. Unwired is for 4e.

>>53812843
Thanks. Also, I might be retarded, but in the chummer program it seems like you're locked to 13 points of karma in positive qualities, but I read it was 25 in the book. Is this an errata/changed rule or something?

>>53812869
Fuck, you're right.

>>53812704
Sorry anon. The book you're gonna not wanna get is Data Trails. Unwired is actually a good book, which you should get. Get your hands on the rest of 4e also, since it ain't that bad or that different from 5e.

>>53812891
I've heard nothing of an eratta like that, but I don't use Chummer, so take what I say with a grain of salt.

>>53799994
Best part?

The purpose of the ricer lights is to stop upskirt creepers

It prevents cooch filming and photography

>>53812915
>cooch filming and photography

And now i'm imagining crotch mounted cameras.

Are naming conventions markedly different in the Sixth World, compared to now?

>>53813271
Don't think so, but some metahumans may embrace things from fantasy specific to their race

>>53808792
>awakened minerals
Source?

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>>53812891
>Each player receives 13 Karma to customize characters (maximum of 26 Karma)

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>>53813271
>>53813271
>Are naming conventions markedly different in the Sixth World, compared to now?


Real names are normal.
Street names, professional names, shadorunnjng names, magic titles, and matrix names can get crazy

>>53799957
That chicks actually cool, look up sexycyborg.

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>>53813510
Yekka, CRB says 25.
All characters in Shadowrun start with 25 Karma
they will use to improve themselves. They’ll get plenty
of other resources as they move through the process.
page 64
right at the top

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>>53813577
>>53813510
Oh were you talking about street level? I really wasnt paying attention. My bad.

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>>53813577
Street Level and Street Scum limit you to 13 Karma. Only way he'd be capped to 13 is if he selected one of those as the gameplay option.

>creating a new game
>need to create my big baddies
>make one guy in chummer, don't feel assed to make anyone else anymore


is there a fast way to make a bunch of NPCs who are important?

>>53813771
Copy the ones in the books? Just change names (or give them names in the case of the nameless ones like Greater DemiGODs and the like).

Is there any way in Shadowrun 5e to see through walls without magic?

I'm trying to build a mundane sniper

>>53813809
>Sniper

Thermographic vision will of course let you perceive people and such through walls. There might be other options but I can't think of any off the top of my head.

>>53813771
Turn off character creation rules or just write down what they're good at and fudge all the dice pools.

>>53813809
Have someone infiltrate and place ultrasound sensors in advance.

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>>53812488
If so, there's still plenty out there fighting the man.

http://arcologypodcast.com/
http://milkrun.libsyn.com/
http://www.violentlifepodcast.com/
Now includes Tales From the Stuffer Shack!
http://www.relativedimension.com/
http://criticalglitch.com/

Plenty of 'em out there. Also check out Complex Action on YouTube.

>>53813826
No it won't. Thermographic only allows you to track unobstructed heat signatures. That means even a pane of glass can mask a thermographic signature.

>>53813944

Then what's that shit that can see the hot engines of cars and ships from a long ways off?

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>>53813860

Praise be!

Thank you anon.

>>53813955
Holy shit you are retarded.

Share with me your stories of aztechnology being rediculously evil please /srg/.

>>53813982
No just confused.

>>53813993
I would try to explain it to you, but it's a simple enough idea that if you can't figure it out yourself, I think you might actually be retarded. Here is a hint: thermographics means heat imaging. Go look up how IR cameras work.

>>53813985
Our group once got offer a run by an Azzie high-up to steal this parrot that was the last of its species.

We got it back to him, and the first thing he does is snap its neck. Ostensibly because sacrificing the last of a species makes for muchos blood magic, but I had a look at his eyes; he enjoyed killing that thing more than he had any right too.

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So I'm going to be GMing a game of SR fo some new-ish players. One has a relatively firm grasp of the rules and fluff, another has an OK understanding of just the rules, and the third person has no fucking clue what they are doing. Experienced player is going to be playing a Street Sam of some sort, possibly with some magic, middle player is going to be the face and wheelman, and the newbie is going as a rigger/hacker.

Since the group isn't too experienced with the fluff, they are playing as up-and-comming runners who are still pretty green. The face is a former salesman turned cabbie after his business failed (he ran a small electronics shop with his brother in a mall) who has tuned to running for cash because he's a greedy bastard and made the necessary contacts driving shady dudes around. The Sam is a former security guard of some sort, and the Hacker is literally a Matrix troll who got cut off by mommy and daddy and decided to put his skills to use in the shadows.

Now I've been able to tweak a few SRMs to use as some simple runs for them, but most o the modules are a little too high powered I think and don't take well to being trimmed down. Anyone got any advice or ideas for a group of newbie runners?

>>53813638
>Street Level and Street Scum limit you to 13 Karma
Just the former, unless you use both. Street Scum is essentially Sum-To-6, with no option of taking A.

how can i get the most out of sum to ten on a street samurai?

I've never used sum to ten before

>>53813993
What they're not trying to explain is that being able to see heat only matters through walls/objects the heat can transfer easily. ie; really thin wall, really hot or cold target next to the wall, etc.

>>53807418
3e cyberlimbs (at least core ones) don't have an essence volume, but rather allow you to install devices in them at reduced Essence cost (GM discretion notwithstanding), and some are specifically noted as being Essence-free. Cybereyes and Cyberears have .5 Essence volume in them, though.

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>>53800071
All right, this is actually useful.

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>>53813860
>based Milkrun
I will never get sick of Bubbles.

I remember seeing an drawing of a girl with silver hair, the side of her head shaved and multiple datajack-style implants in the shaved part in one of these threads a few months ago, anyone still have it?

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>>53815088
?

Daily reminder that we are trying to get a 4E play-by-post group together on discord. I'll upload rules on character creation in the next 30 minutes, so we can get started.
You can find it at https://discord.gg/FepvP8

>>53816002
That was it, thanks

>>53816058
>4e
>play-by-post
eww

>>53816247
>insert nobody in this thread actually plays the game meme
Nobody is forcing you

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>>53813476
Parageology, a 4e book. Guess who has it for 5e? Ze Germans. (although it's not new content, just new values, so translating the tables wouldn't be hard).

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>>53813809
Drones with image link, omae. There are many different kinds of small infiltration-type drones; buy several, kit them with sensors, seed them around the run site, and switch feeds as needed.

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>>53814298
Pump up your attributes and money. Fuck Magic, see what you can do to get decent amounts of skills and edge.

>>53805440
> the reverse-weeb japanese sammy-face goes around looking for old hardboiled or mafia movies and then watches what he can find. Usually just loops the Godfather

>the troll shaman chats up with spirits, pretends to be talking with his ancestors. No one knows if he is bullshitting us or not.

>the technomancer streams videogames and cheats a lot. It already busted our cover once.

>the ex-cop elf shaman chain-smokes and upholds party mom duty. Occasionally meets with her old cop boss for drinks

>>53813993
The reason you can see a car engine with thermographic vision is that a car engine gets very hot, and transfers that heat to the metal around the engine (eg, the hood), so the hood heats up and can be perceived via thermographic vision. You're not seeing the engine, you're seeing the heat from the engine which heated up the metal around the engine.
Same reason you can see someone in thermographic if they are wearing clothes, their body heat warms their clothes because that are in close contact.
If someone isn't touching a window, their body heat isn't warming the pane at all, so someone standing behind a window would not be visible in thermographic vision.

>>53814152
>and the newbie is going as a rigger/hacker.
ABORT
Do NOT have a new player make a rigger or hacker, and ABSOLUTELY DO NOT let a new player play a mix of both.
It will slow the game to a crawl unless you both have a very good understanding of the matrix rules, which a new player will not.

Also for modules: Food Fight
Or Love Love Anon's module, that's a good one.

>>53805440
>The weeb infiltrator watches anime and cleans his apartment constantly due to OCD
>The dwarf luchador gets into fights and plays with the riggers drones
>The pixie rigger tunes up her drones and takes horse tranquilizer to go to sleep
>The ex-salaryman human face goes home and gets shit on by his wife and kids before drinking himself to sleep
>The human decker makes posts on her blog and sifts through any juicy paydata she got on the last run, before sharing it with her datahaven and checking for new info

>>53805440
>the monowhip street sam kills homeless people
>the troll unarmed biosam works out, takes steroids, and reads philosophy
>the decker plays matrix games and eats Soyritos
>the shaman/face cares for her captive ghoul colony (often with the help of monosam)

I sometimes wish I was in a less edgy group.

>when after paying rent you need to get a loan from your street sam
>and then the group goes out to eat to plan and you need to get the infiltrator to spot you
We In Debt(I) now boys

>>53799753
who is this semem demon

>>53816856
Only the first one seems edgy there, anon.

>>53805440
>The Black Magic hitmage/rocker hangs out with her band, does street performances and guerilla concerts and gets high with her talismonger.
>Ork sam hangs out with his girlfriend, grows fresh produce in his building's community garden and plays VR games with the hacker.
>Infiltrator/sniper, not knowing who she is, is either investigating who she is or getting more and more into her growing interest in motorcycle racing.
>Hacker watches a ton of anime, gets fucked up on hentai BTLs, rides his bike way too fast and plays video games in-between staying up for nights on end to keep his favorite programs up to date.
>Face/getaway driver/general rando skill person is only with the team because they're the only ones who both know and don't care that she's a disgraced Johnson, hates all of them and pretends she's still rich.

daily reminder that if you cannot at least program a calculator and install Ubuntu in your main PC, you are not prepared for the Cyberpunk age to come.

>>53817355
I gave up on being ready for that shit when Pascal stopped being a program people used. I'm more prepared for a zombie apocalypse than I'd ever be the Sixth World.

>>53817437

kek, use GO don't be a faggot.

>>53817475
Dude, my phone still has actual buttons on it because I think pawing a glass screen is for barbarians, and I haven't coded anything since 1993. Give me complete social collapse over a cyberfuture any day.

>>53817067
One is feeding a group of feral cannibals with the body of dead hobos, and one is a roidmonkey who reads Nietzche.

>>53811409
to avoid complications I'll preface it: We play 4e
>What does the face do other than talk?
Well, just attribute wise he's AGI 5, CHA 5, EDG 6 with the others at 3
Dodge 2, Pistols 2, Palming(Legerdemain) 3, Athletics group at 2
Disguise 1, Escape Artist 1, Perception 1
Social skills at 4 except for instruction
Data Search 2
Ware is Cybereyes, sound link and TP3

>What kind of 'ware/combat style does the samurai have?
Flare Compensation
Smartlink
Synthetic Full Arm with Customized STR, AGI and BOD up to 6, 2 Armor, MDS sheath and a Gyromount
WR 2
Muscle Toner 2

Can fight with most weapons (average DP of 8 without Smartlink), though prefers a bow (10 dice natural)
Seems to prefer the direct approach.

>What spells are in the druid's repertoire?
Blast
Combat Sense
Heal
Increase Reflexes
Imp. Invis.
Orgy
Trid Phantasm

Moon Maiden mentor (+2 on Illusion spells, +2 on negotiation, -1 for combat spells)
Spellcasting(Illusion) 3, MAG 6 (so 8 dice for combat spells and 13 dice for Illusion)
Assensing 3 (total 8), Binding 3, Summoning 3, Counterspelling 1

>Is the decker just a voice on the other end of a commlink handwaving through tech issues, or is he a physical presence with other skills?
Present decker. Though with EotM rules, so I doubt that it would help to elaborate

>>53817939
oh, and just to make it clear
these are close to CharGen, so they have started pretty recently

>>53817939
goddamn those players are bad at chargen

>>53818186
Could you maybe be specific instead of ad hoc shittalking? That'd be more constructive, you know.

>>53818241
No.

>>53818186
funny that
I'm the GM
I made them
I'm not very good at this
but neither are their players

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>>53805440
>the normie elf sniper/infiltrator takes every contract she can for assassination jobs and works out, while moving from place to place in order to shake off KE

>the loli street sam reads medical books and has Pinocchio syndrome where she wants to be a real girl without the ware, and spends her money saving up for essence restoration treatment. (thankfully our face has a doctor friend that's made a bit of a breakthrough on that end after five years in-game time that makes it actually feasible in our game to achieve, though she'll be retired as a runner when that happens)

>the rigger works with underprivileged barrens kids and has done a fair share to making Redmond not quite as shit. Spends most of her time flat broke because of this charity work, but the team does at least pitch in to help her get new wheels and 'bots when shit breaks down

>the face snorts novacoke off the pecs of a troll singer and is a published songwriter herself, does runs for fun

>the mage has fulfilled her dreams and joined KE as an awakened detective and now has more of a support role, but helps where she can

>the secondary face and punch-fu adept spends hours talking with his mentor spirit—a mentor spirit that is unique in the sense of her almost always being around to guide and ward him against threats, and hangs out with his waifu in Seattle, or friends in nearby Spokane. He's planning on retiring one day soonish and starting up a small farm there, due to his mentor owning a decent amount of land, and him having enough contacts to get seeds and other necessities.

All in all, it's pretty comfy/10. Our downtime fluff is actually enjoyable to do, and sometimes we just take breaks from the running to keep track of our personal lives in-game.

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>>53806082
>fish taco bell

Playing a 9 CHA elf magician, with the Dark Goddess as a mentor spirit. Do you think a character motivation of "I want to fug my mentor spirit" works?

>>53820236
"I'm going to fuck my mentor spirit, even if it means having to fuck EVERY OTHER SPIRIT"
do it

>>53813809
There is sonar thingy in Chrome Flesh that gives full 3d view in limited radius.
For sniping you'd better use drones as observers.

>>53805853
Exclusivity is a lie, don't believe the corporate bopper lies you gonk.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/612400/The_Last_Night/

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>>53816058
>play-by-post

>>53820783
AWWWW SHEEIT

>>53817939
Replace orgy with mass agony or how is it called.

Casting agony spell on someone is merely an assualt. Casting orgasm spell is like asking for a rape charge.

>>53808165
>/u/sexycyborg
>cyborg

Is that refering to her boobjob and other cosmetic surgeries?

>>53821026
>Replace orgy with mass agony or how is it called.
not my decision (player learned it in game) and also not really fitting the character
also: you shouldn't get caught, so whether you get in jail over assault or over (possibly) rape doesn't matter, since YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN YOURSELF CAUGHT

>>53820236
What is Initiation ?
Metaplanar Quest: Fuck Dark Goddess for a month

>>53821096
But the policegirl was cute!

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>>53821136
>believing policewomen
It never works. Well, unless you're primordial vampire and she's cute blonde with big titties.

>>53821096
>YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE GOTTEN YOURSELF CAUGHT

Good luck with that. In my games, the policemen are competent and motivated.

>>53821337
I did not say that the policemen are to be stupid
I'm saying you shouldn't get yourself caught

>>53821337
>policemen are competent and motivated.
The competent and motivated kind is actually called corpsec, you know.

>>53821337
So...unrealistic for a cyberpunk dystopia?

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>>53821529
Depends on if the protagonist is a cop or a riffraff, anon-kun. Sometimes it's a case where they're competent and motivated, it's just there is a metric fuckton of crime.

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>>53821529
Well, it depends.

>>53821946
that's HTR
or (again) corpsec

>>53821529
Even in SR, not every place is corp run ancap shithole.

Many of the injun nations and some parts of europe are described as pretty nice places to live.

>>53821946
Yeah, that's HTR/SWAT not run of the mill beat cops.

>>53805440
My Street Sam is taking correspondence classes hoping to one day get her medical degree.
The others I don't know as I haven't been able to play yet.

>>53812476
Ok, real talk, I'm Greek and what the fuck are borekitas. Pasteli is a kind of sweet, pastelikos is not.

>>53822158
borekitas seem to be some turkish food and pastelikos is apparently a dish of iberian jews
So I guess the plot thickens?

>>53821998
Corpsec is just the police by a different name. There's no functional difference in the levels of graft and apathy, whether they are wearing badges from Lone Star, Renraku Security, or local city police.

>>53822366
Corpsec is for when a corp decides they don't want this particular group of runners around anymore, despite the corps really wanting runners around.

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> create SkyFive, former security chief of a bought-out A-level corp
> face, SUT, Leadership, a bit of rigging in form of portable turrets, occasional mortar- or sniper drone and a few FlyEyes
> Straight man to the team crazy antics, willing to go on a limb to make sure everyone comes back home in one piece
> on one run decker annoyed at him patronizing her calls him 'daddy'
> mfw when entire team starts calling my character 'daddy'
> mfw never realized that this is kind of hot

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>>53811073
You could post pretty much the entirety of Lain and not be out of theme.

so I saw an ad for a shadowrun game at my college for a roll20 group. Said acting was a plus and to be comfortable with your voice being recorded.
Anything I might/should be worried about?
One of you guys on here?

Does anyone know a good streetname for a sociable mercenary / weapon specialist?

Everything I could come up with sounds pretty standard and plain.

>>53822864
what kind of mercenary we talking about? PMC or Black Lagoon?

>>53822864

The more details you can give the less plain suggestions you can get.

>>53822827
Sounds like someone wants to try to get big on YT.

>>53822864

Full Mag/ Maggie
Cover
Shekels

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>>53821529
>>53822000
>Implying the government is going to let the corps beat them in police brutality.
>Give emphetamines to your standard police force.
>Rules of Engagement no longer require you to think about non-lethal takedowns.
>Geared like the military
>Backed up with expendable drones.

I like to think that Russia still hasn't changed in the Sixth World.

>>53822864
Hanz Schutz-Fast. It's best if the character isn't necessarily MBW 3 grades of fast, and doesn't shoot first.

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>>53805440

>Fabulous gay dwarf face goes clubbing at the hottest clubs with his best friend (Huge fabulous obese fixer), makes synth music or does his BTLs. Mostly paid out of dads wallet.
>Fedora wearing Magical P.I. works around the clock with any job that comes through his office door. Lots of finding missing cats or helping the old neighbourhood ladies out. Otherwise listens to classical music and eats chinese food.
>Elven former ganger turned bounty hunter spends his days doing jazz, getting drunk (possibly with his old gangmates) or watching carshows. Usually getting hit on by their NPC getaway driver.

>>53822975
All that means is that they go for the first suspect with extreme prejudice and then close the case.

Cover your tracks or frame a third party and you're golden.

>>53823023
>Implying SORM won't be upgraded to a full-fledged AI-controlled surveillance program.

But in general yes, anyone who's good at covering tracks shouldn't have a problem with law enforcement. Hell there's so much crime that it doesn't matter until you murder police officers.

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>>53822883
>>53822898
He's started out as a child soldier during the Euro Wars and was with MET 2000 for a while before he joined an Ares team for the Desert Wars.
During this he lost an arm, which was replaced by generous Ares sponsoring which left him contractually obligated to work for their promotional campaigns as a cyberware model.
After all that he went to Seattle for a while to take some time off.

He's not your average cyborg merc or streetsam.
He's pretty friendly and not very heavy on cyber.
He's got the arm, eyes, smartlink and a tactical computer, so nothing really major.
He probably enjoys combat too much to be considered a normal person, but who can in the 6th world, really?
In any case, he's just as likely to take a job for the action as he is for the money.

He's proficient with pretty much all weapons by favours scoped rifles and light machine guns.

He went through great length to aquire a silenced Barrett M121.

Our game is set in the 2050s btw.

>>53814152

Do NOT let a new player be a hacker or rigger, Just don't.

Question related to your last question.
What city is the game taking place in?

>>53823085
Disarming Smile, Smile for short

>>53816750
>gets shit on by his wife and kids
>shit on by his kids

Fuck man

>>53822000
>ancap
Being forcibly enforced with STATIST CONTRACTS is not ancap in the slightest, anon. It's just more crony capitalism that gets away scot-free while people blame the true invisible hand of freedom that yet works miracles despite being so pitifully shackled.

>>53823630
Just because it's not ancap for you doesn't mean it isn't ancap for the corps.

>>53823657
>working hand-in-hand with the government
>Corporations, a legal entity recognize and artificially propped up by the State
>ancap
No. I know SR is a wacky cyberpunk land so realism goes out to lunch, but don't mistake ancap with corporatism.

>>53823700
But corporations are people and can do almost anything they want including shit on governments, so for them it's at least a libertarian utopia with only the Corporate Council ruling them. Don't be jealous because you're not considered a person like corps are.

>>53823735
>corporations are people
They aren't, and no Statist bootlicker will ever convince me otherwise.

Back to the game. How'd your last run go, /srg/?

>>53823785
I'm joking about how Shadowrun is ancap as long as you don't consider people to be people

>>53803528
I wish decks were still a thing of the past but they brought them back.

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Probably going to make a state part of TetraGrammaton. Make the players fight the equiv of Grammaton Clerics. But I really just personally want to play one.

>>53799782
This show fucking sucks

>>53823085
Friend, pejorative child name or buddy in whatever Eurozone language you like.

For some reason I'm thinking Mishka (little bear)

>>53823085
What's his name again?

>>53824065
Kaz "Motherbase is for the master race" Miller

>>53823957
In that case you better say goodbye to the idea of double wielding
because in SR that shit sucks

>>53824308
Why not just fluff things as dual-wielding?

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>>53824383
>>53824308
How can it be shit at dual wielding when so many Cyberpunk movies have that borderline as its staple?

>>53824308
What? No it doesn't.

Have ambidextrous and carry two pistols.
Shoot both on semi-auto once per turn, like you would a single pistol.
Now you have twice the ammo.

You can also have different ammo in either, giving you an edge over single pistol users who only have one ammo type.
Ex-ex for corp sec and gel for civilians? Heck yeah!

>>53824446
go full reaper/ dad from boondock saints and never reload.

>>53824446
you can make one attack per initiative pass

FIRE SEMI-AUTO, SINGLE-SHOT,
BURST FIRE OR FULL-AUTO
A character may fire a readied firearm in Semi-Auto-
matic, Single-Shot, Burst-Fire, or Fully-Auto mode via
a Simple Action (see Firearms, p. 424) but may not
take any other attack actions in the same Action Phase.
If a character has one weapon in each hand, he may
fire once with each weapon by adding a Multiple At-
tacks Free Action (see Multiple Attacks, p. 96)

And for that it says
MULTIPLE ATTACKS
A character may use a Free Action to attack multiple tar-
gets in a single action (see Multiple Attacks, p. 196) by
splitting their dice pool. This action must be combined
with a Fire Weapon Action, Throw Weapon Action, Melee
Attack Action, Reckless Spellcasting, or Cast Spell Action.

You can't attack one target with both weapons

>>53824435
because CGL (and I think FASA too) hate dual wielding

>>53824549
Except you can declare a multiple attack and Burst Fire with both weapons if you split your dicepools.

Mechanically it can be very benificial if you can do Full Auto 6 shots. Your split dicepools are compensated by the reduced defense for the opponent.

Dual weilding only functions at 24 and above dice I've found.

>>53824579
>Dual weilding only functions at 24 and above dice
which means that it only really works if you push your dice pools to autistical levels
which sucks
as I said

>>53824599
>Autistic levels.
24 dice is what a prime runner has for his principal abilility thought. It's really not hard to get that, especially since cyberarms can be used to jack up agi over the general rest.

It only sucks if all you play is one-shot characters to be honest.

>tfw no qt cyborg gf
Why don't we have better than natural cybernetics irl yet?

>>53824599
If you aren't willing to pay, omae, someone else will.

>>53824630
>24 dice is what a prime runner has for his principal abilility thought.
what?
As far as I can see, if you aren't an adept then the only way to get to 24 dice is to be an elf, get a Hand of God up to 10 AGI, get your skill up to 12 and then get a smartlink
You may of course specialize, get Exceptional Attribute (AGI), Aptitude (Weapon skill of choice), Reflex recorder, etc.
But I can't imagine a game going long enough to reach Skill 12
And getting all of that is going to mean you specialize for that and not much else

>>53824638
Because the ones that were better than natural limbs required rocket fuel, and were deemed too expensive. Additionally, the gouts of steam they produced were deemed too noisy by the military.

>>53824638
ASIST protocol hasn't been invented yet, plus our battery technology still isn't great.
>>53824579
That's not how Multiple Attacks works; it's a modifier on the attack action that you're using. SS/SA state that if you use Multiple Attacks, you can fire another weapon once at another target.

If you use BF/FA, you can split the fire between multiple targets. It doesn't let you use another gun.

>>53824549
You can't double tap in SR5?
Wow. Worst edition right there.

>>53824920
DOUBLE-TAP
Complex Action
A rapid pair of well-aimed shots from a Semi-Automatic- capable weapon fired in such a way to increase damage instead of making it harder to avoid. Tracking Progressive Recoil becomes very important with this Action. The attack gains +1DV and costs the firer two rounds of ammunition. There is no penalty to defensive rolls from this shot.

>>53824909
"Burst Fire/Two Weapons Recoil
Twin-Gun Teddy is back in action, this time with two machine
pistols, a Ceska Black Skorpion with 1 point of recoil compensation
and a Steyr TMP with 2 points of recoil compensation.
That’s 3 points added to the 1 from his Strength and the 1
free point for a total of 5.
In the first round, he has two Burst Fire attacks going. That’s
6 bullets, making the recoil penalty –1. Teddy takes 1 die from his
dice pool before splitting it between the two weapons.
In the second round he gets more aggressive—Long Bursts
with each gun. That’s 12 bullets this round, so the recoil penalty
is now 13. Teddy has to take 13 dice from his pool. He’d better
have a big dice pool if he wants to roll even a single die on this
attack. And he’d better start thinking about doing something besides
shooting next round."

p.177 the example given.

That seems like he's using two weapons to fire BF and the LBF

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>>53823785
>How'd your last run go, /srg/?

my game is on indefinite hiatus

But sure.

Our last run was a milk run to make some extra scratch at the end of the day.

The party
- Greyhawk: a grouchy, foul mouthed, egotistical, skinny-fat, baby faced, 20 something with dyed grey hair and a trench coat. Technomancer pretending to be a hacker and trying to figure out his life and what he wanted to do with it.

- Rama: physical adept who has to struggle to control his mouth and dresses like he stepped out of some ninja action manga. Part Indian (subcontinent) and part Japanese. Wears a respirator to deal with his crippling pollution allergies and conceals it with a dramatic scarf.

- Brick: A massively built seven foot tall Ork in medium grey sweatpants and t-shirt with an armored jacket and red knit cap. Former member of a 2-star gang in Philadelphia. Wheelman and knuckle cruncher.

The team had been formed for another job earlier that day. They were all new to Denver and to eachother.

Tiger was an Orange and Black Maine Coon. The poster listed a last known spotting and a place to deliver the cat if found along with a reward.

After returning the now windshieldless and bullet hole ridden unmarked grey van the Johnson of our first job had had us use, the party reached Brick's camper truck which had finally been released from Denver's customs impound.

Greyhawk proceeded to shut down, retrieve and re-program the 5 tracking bugs that Lonestar security had planted on the camper before releasing it. With the party now set up with its own wheels Rama announced "Let's go find some pussy" and we headed out to Tiger's last spotted location.

>>53808165
>>53807796

Her redditposts are cringeworthy bullshit.

I've lived in China, if you went out dressed like that, you'd be harassed to no end. She's talking out of her ass when she acts like they wouldn't shame you in China for such a thing.

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>>53825024
On the way there Grewyhawk did some digging and figured out that the neighborhood the group was heading toward was the home turf of a bunch of go-gangers. He also, at Brick's suggestion, repurposed one of the tracking bugs into a high performance pet tracker that could be mounted on Tiger's collar and linked to the owner's comlink once we retrieved and returned the cat, in hopes of getting a bonus.

Well warned about the dangers of the neighborhood the camper truck was parked deep in an alley to keep it out of sight and disguised as a trashed out wreck. (thank you chameleon coat)

Greyhawk stayed in the truck and began to canvas the matrix and claw his way into various security and surveillance cameras and sensors to try to spot the cat.

Rama set out to ninja around and search for clues and signs of the Tiger's presence.

Brick walked up the street and spent 5 Nuyen on a sack of cat food to set out bait.

Rama had found some traces of cat fur of the right length and color when Greyhawk called in. He had spotted what seemed like a cat of roughly the right dimensions and pattern on the roof of a nearby two story boarding house on a grainey security camera feed.

While Brick started crossing the street heading for the building's fire escape, Rama proceeded to ninja up to the roof in two leaps.

As soon as Rama landed, there was good news and bad news.

The Good news was, he'd found Tiger. The bad news was he'd spooked Tiger bad enough for the cat to leap at his face.

Rama's scarf saved his face from becoming a bloody mess but his respirator got pushed down his face causing him to suffer an allergy attack while he grappled with the panicking cat.

Right as Brick made it up to the roof, the door to the roof access opened and a shot rang out, zipping past Rama's general direction and a trio of twitchy Go-Ganger's started to emerge from the door to kill the trespassers.

>>53824823
You don't need 24. 20 is enough. And it's not hard to get. I'm playing a disgustingly unoptimized adept and I have that.

>>53824958
Eh, what a weird change.
It was so much simpler in older editions.

And not being able to fire two pistols at the same target makes no sense either.

Just more needless rules baggage.

>>53821414
>The competent and motivated kind is actually called corpsec
They're all called corpsec, omae. Nations gave the job of policing to corporations.Lone Star and Knight Errant are just the most prominent.
Any kind of law enforcement is technically competent and motivated by quotas and bottom lines.

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>>53825050

Brick, wired reflexes kicking in, turned and Drove a Kick into the chest of one of the Go-Gangers, sending the man, and the other go-ganger he fell back on, tumbling down the stairs to land in a pile of broken necks and skull fractures.
He then slammed the roof access door and tossed his jacket to Rama to help wrap and secure the cat, as he turned to face Mr. Trigger Happy.

Tiger managed to squirm around in Rama's grip and peel out on one of the ninja's arms, leaving it covered in bloody scratches as he got loose.

While the fight got going Greyhawk discovered the Go-Ganger's had nothing on them worth hacking and so went to work canvasing traffic feeds to keep a watch for the approach of additional trouble and erasing audio and video records of the incident.

Mr. Trigger Happy opened fire with another terrible shot, missing Rama completely and grazing one of Tiger's back legs, drawing blood.

Brick tried to get Mr. Trigger Happy into an arm lock while yelling "Stop shooting you fuck were just getting our fucking cat!".

Mr. Trigger Happy wasn’t having any of it though and managed to squirrel his way out of Brick's clutches.

Rama, still recovering from his allergy attack managed to steel himself enough to calm down a terrified and now hurt and and bleeding cat long enough to scoop him up and wrap him in Brick’s jacket while Brick booted Mr. Trigger Happy in the chest, sending him crashing through the roof access door and flying down the first flight of stairs to land unconscious on the bodies of his fallen comrades.

With Tiger secured, Rama leapt the two stories down to the sidewalk, landing with style, and sprinted all the way to Brick’s camper. Brick climbed down the fire escape, snagged up the sack of cat food he had left on the sidewalk, ran to the camper, tossing the food into the back before climbing into the driver’s seat and pulling out onto the road bound for the dropoff.

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>>53825114
Opening up the jacket, Rama found that while bloody, Tiger’s wound seemed to be mostly superficial. He shared this news with the group and tried of offer Tiger some food, which the cat ate.

By the time the Party had pulled up to the drop off site Tiger’s wound, while still obvious, had scabbed over. The location was an apartment building. With Greyhawk telling the others to let him do the talking and Brick telling Greyhawk to remember not to cuss in front of the Johnson, the party walked up to the building.

Having called their catch in using the contact information on the poster, they were met at the front door of the Lobby. The man in the doorway was stoic, plainly clothed, had a face prematurely aged by hard work of the sort where you couldn’t tell if he was in his early 20’s or late 30’s. He carried himself in the manner of a man with a lot on his shoulders.

"Did anyone in here order a cat?" Rama spouted, with Tiger resting in his arms, to Greyhawks annoyance.

The man was guarded and terse but not rude as he negotiated with Greyhawk, who told the man that Tiger had been injured in a fight with a feral cat before they had found him. The man seemed to buy this explanation, or didn’t think it worth challenging the statement, and even payed a bonus for the tracking device.

When Rama put Tiger down the man watched Tiger mosey into the building and a measure of relief seemed to wash over him. He thanked the three strangers before saying “if you have any more questions, go ask someone else” closing the door, and going back to whatever his life had him doing.

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>>53825162

Brick asked Rama and Greyhawk if they were going to take the bus home or if they were fine with waiting for Brick to clean the blood out of the inside of his Jacket, in which case he would drive them. Greyhawk retorted that Brick should drive them to their homes before worrying about laundry.

"Man Blood SETS, I'm not waiting around on that." Was Brick’s reply.

With an ambivalent "Yeah whatever" Rama headed for the bus stop. Now 750 Nuyen richer, Brick decided to pay Greyhawk back the 800 he owed the hacker for when he had bribed a police officer on Brick’s behalf during their first mission earlier in the day. Greyhawk then walked after Rama while Brick climbed into his camper to take care of his laundry.

And that's the most recent run we've completed.
With an ambivalent "Yeah whatever" Rama headed for the bus stop. Now 750 Nuyen richer, Brick decided to pay Greyhawk back the 800 he owed the hacker for when he had bribed a police officer on Brick’s behalf during their first mission earlier in the day. Greyhawk then walked after Rama while Brick climbed into his camper to take care of his laundry.

>>53824308
>>53824435
It sucks if you try to use it in a front on firefight, using the rules but squeezing out the highest level of situational bonuses, before your character is actually 30 dice kinds of good with one combat skill.

Surprise rounds == no defence roll == good for dual wielding.

>>53824579
>Mechanically it can be very benificial if you can do Full Auto 6 shots.
While Multiple Attacks says you can make a number of attacks up to half your combat skill, firearm attacks (page 165-167) say differently.

>(Full Auto Simple) If a character has one weapon in each hand, he may fire once with each weapon by adding a Multiple Attacks Free Action

>(Full Auto Complex) If a character has one weapon in each hand, he may fire once with each weapon by adding a Multiple Attacks Free Action

>>53825189

in case you were wondering Rama did make more puns during this run, but that was the only one I had written down so it's the only one I remember.

>>53825253
Yeah, after reading every mention of multple attack in there it seems that CGL has contradicted itself .

Again.

>>53825324
>Yeah, after reading every mention of multple attack in there it seems that CGL has contradicted itself .
It's not that they've contradicted themselves, it's that there are two limits on how many attacks you can make - the specific attack you want to use, and your skill/2.

Firearm attacks frequent have a multiple attack limit that's lower than your expected skill/2. Melee attacks do not.

>>53825038
>I've lived in China, if you went out dressed like that, you'd be harassed to no end.

China is xbawks hueg though.
I think it would depend on WHERE in China you lived.

Like what neighborhoods in which city(ies) in a huge country.

>>53803113

What's that gif from?

>>53825511
read the thread

The Last Night

>>53825103
>Any kind of law enforcement is technically competent and motivated by quotas and bottom lines.

did you meant to say "Any kind of law enforcement that happens to be competent is still motivated by quotas and bottom lines." ?