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Captain_Karzak wrote:Some GM's may assign a power score (default is 6) to drugs applied in an offensive manner to see if their effects can be mitigated by a body resistance test. That would be a houserule though.

No, that's in Arsenal.

1) Gel rounds are stun ammunition. I think you're talking about capsule rounds, that can be loaded with toxins. I don't remember the exact rules for capsule rounds, but remember that toxins aren't instantaneous. For example, if you shoot a guard with narcojet, he can still use a free action to send ...

Which edition are you using? I've only played 1st edition, but I've noticed that: - Windlings are overpowered. Archers benefit from the Flying Archer situation (they can shoot people who can't reach them), and fighters can do an overpowered attack that will make other fighters feel useless. - Low-le...

The thing is that in SR, a single bullet will rarely kill you. Most of the time, you'll need at least two to kill someone, and that's for a not very armored character. And then you have narcojet that can knock someone out (or even kill them) with a single dose. So with narcojet pistols (or DMSO bull...

SR has always been street level combat mixed with urban fantasy. It doesn't matter where those streets are, what type of campaigns people run or how they view the setting, that's the core around which the game spins. I'm not saying it's not possible to have a common core around which every GM can m...

If i had enough money for this sort of thing, i would bring Weisman and his team from SRR, Primetide and his team from SRO, the people from Pegasus Spiele(Shadowrun Germany) and Frank and Ancient and some people these parties would recommend to me together and tell them to work it out. I don't thin...

UPDATE We get in the nitty gritty with the "Your Style" and "Using Style" chapters! The download link is still the same. Also some minor updates to other chapters: * Culture & Lifestyle of the SINNer - Work: Mentioning unemployment - The Cultist: Added memetic cults - Added t...

A "striking, shooting and grappling" rule? That's a bit hefty for a first challenge, but let's try. Design goals: I want a system that is: 1. More about telling a story than playing a strategy/tactics game. 2. Quick to resolve, so that descriptions don't get bogged down by dice rolls 3. St...

In Earthdawn the hoarding is explained (as are most of the usual fantasy tropes). Dragons don't really do much hoarding. They just like to keep a few souvenirs, as members of other races do. And when you've got a loooonnnng life, you get a lot of these.

"3D printers" is a broad term.

A 3D printer can be a machine that build plastic objects or a machine that create full objects directly from atoms/molecules.

When not having everything ordered bothers me more than having to roll and keep track of initiative.

I have never had a "actually, you believe him and do what he says" work in any campaign, your experience may be different however. Even using dominate or charm on players can be a sticky situation. I think that people just don't like it when their choices are made meaningless/for them by ...

The Fish-God Yob, who's as efficacious as any. (from Jack Vance) ?, the God of Taking Drugs and Burning Shit Down. Forgotten after his followers did a celebration involving both at the same time. O: God of orgasms. Invoked loudly during human mating rituals, but it's not clear why. Lesk: Also called...

Or maybe there shouldn't be a "melee fighter" archetype but a Fighter archetype, who can do both melee and ranged combat depending on the situation.

There were police response time in some books (can't remember which). They were completely unrealistic (it took a few seconds to get a complete HTR team at the door) in order to make sure the police could arrive before the PC were long gone.

Its rather simple. When two beings clash in battle, and then step back to trade insults, it is really just a small time-out to gather their breath again. So in D&D world that would mean, insulting your foe for a round gains you a part of your hitpoints back. Which leads to longer battles...even...

A simple solution is to offer more common challenges (a simple whodunit, for example) but set in that universe, and taking into account the possibilities it offers (for example : god intervention, magic, time travel, etc.). Another is to setup the usefuls facts: subtly introduce the elements the pla...

There's also a very simple system: free character creation. I've used it as a player on a homegrown game, and I've been using it as a GM on my own games. The table agrees on a power level and then everyone gets to create the character he wants according to that power level. The GM tries to make sure...

@Lago: The point is that Superman isn't "good" he's "The Good". And The Good doesn't kill. Yes, it can lead to absurd situations or situations that aren't good, but such comics are about archetypes, not about real-life. If Superman was set in real-life and handled rationally, he'...

The reason why comic book good heroes and villain don't kill each other is because they're respectively GOOD and BAD. And not just good and bad people, they're avatars of "good" and "bad". As such, the hero can't kill the villain. He has to give him a chance to redeem himself. He...

@Frank: It's not Smith&Tinker, it's Harebrained Schemes LLC. It sure looks like they're not going to exactly stick to canon. They cite the SNES RPG as one of their references. It wasn't exactly canon either, but it was still a pretty good game, so if we're lucky we might get something like this....

Otherwise, what is "Shadowrun" really, seems like just Fantasy in a Cyberpunk/futuristic modern world, is the key themes of being "human" like missing from being a Cyborg or sentient AI? Shadowrun isn't just Fantasy in a Cyberpunk world. You don't have ork tribes on bikes raidin...

I've been toying with the use of a "D2 system", using "success" and "no success" tokens (you can use playing cards, and consider that red cars are "success" and black are "no-success" for example), and a threshold to reach. Players declare their acti...

I am actually totally at a loss as to any real qualitative difference between "playing a centaur" and "having nonretractable hand razors". Playing freaks who could not possibly blend into a crowd or hold a job at Quiznos has been on the table since the very first core book. What...

Runner Companion is the kind of book that everyone agrees has badly balanced rules, but since it allows people to do more powerful characters, most players use it anyway. It's a bit sad. As for fixing racial options, there's not just the problem of rules: once you start playing "Magical Centaur...