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Is it possible we could just use the netrunner card game to make a hacking mechanic out of? To save time and make things quicker the runner would start with some icebreakers and software installed. Using hacking as your action would just let you take one in game turn. The other side wouldn't have a ...

So I've been watching full metal alchemist brotherhood and one thing jumped out at me.

This thing needs an rpg as bad as avatar the last airbender.

I was what basics you all think would be needed?

Disgaea isn't really old mythology. Monkey faces monsters called demons, but in western mythology views of demons aren't really demons because there's no... satan or angels or shit to make them demons. This is rambling, but basically they're just standard monsters a lot of which would be great in a ...

If your going demons eastern doesn't work because really... they aren't demons. Modern Western doesn't work because a myriad of problems that have been laid out repeatedly. Solution? Use Gnosticism. It's really influential in western religions anyways. Also why the hell worry about moral compasses l...

Somehow everyone missed me saying Parties vs. Parties, not 1v1. Also I assumed it would there would be unbalanced parties. Maybe 4 lvl 5's against 8 lvl 3's, or 2 lvl 7's. Whatever you desire to be your balance point make sure that player classes can handle the discrepancies you desire much like how...

When reading through the how many monsters should DnD have thread I saw it get side tracked by monster then system, or system then monster for a while. I thought that a new thread would be appropriate, and here's my solution. Design player classes. Then make it so that it's balanced around player pa...

Modules can be fine, if applied carefully and properly. Of course if you choose the basis of your system to be a module your fucked. Take for example if I made a class that uses a Winds of Fate system, or a whole bunch of classes who do. This is fine. How about hero points? Those can be dropped into...

I didn't say no vertical advancement. I said weapon selection is horizontal, other parts of the game can definitely be vertical. We can definitely have +1 and +5 swords, or whatever, as long as the goddamn characters can use most weapons. If your martial character has +4 to using swords and -2 to ax...

Ok, I'm late to the game but I saw a thread on weapon proficiencies, and felt like creating a topic for feedback on this idea. First of all, weapon proficiencies are stupid, don't use them. Second, vertical weapon specialization is just as dumb, and shifts the same numbers but is even more exclusive...

Just ask for this wish and see what happens.

"I wish that this sentence is false."

erik wrote:Giant Crabs: Something is causing local creatures to grow to unnaturally large sizes near an abandoned tower on the coast.

Oh gods, the TPKs, the TPKs.

Don't lower the amount of regen, this starts encouraging shorter work days because the parties aren't optimal. I see it as two options. 1. Limit the number of full refreshes characters gain per day. Maybe 4/day? 2. Create a current and total power pool. Current is what they have available at the mom...

I'd drop party hard. The bonus is minor enough it's not worth writing imo. The vampires need to have their killing them creating them reworked I think, for example they should die if burned to death. Spawning new vampires should specify fresh blood, otherwise take a vampire, bleed him into the water...

4e treated errata as a video game style patch in the worst ways. Release broken shit, continuously and constantly try to fix it after the fact using errata. Oh, and compound this even worse than all video games by making your team in charge of balance the worst one out there. Of course this doesn't ...

Ok, hacking into something I can tolerate, but decryption is... no. Yes, we are going to abstract things, however if you allow my character given time to break any decryption I'm never going to leave my basement. I'm instead going to have a field day making the entire internet my bitch. We were talk...

Ok, I should specify. To decrypt AES by means of brute force is simply not going to happen. No method other than brute force has been found to attack AES with any efficiency. So to decrypt AES without already known the key is a joke that will not happen. So the only way to decrypt AES is to know the...

That's implementation. The algorithm is fine. The problem is when people implement things poorly. This mostly leads to sidechannel attacks, which is why I have no issue with people hacking websites and such. Letting characters simply decrypt AES 256 with no other advantage (aka sidechannel)... yah, ...

What are you talking about Surgo?

Currently used symmetric and public key encryption algorithms aren't even remotely breakable.

Frank, allowing people to decrypt things that are considered secure raises too many verisimilitude issues to be worth it. Now if the company is a moron, tries to create their own encryption technique, and that is insecure, that's a different issue *cough* cd's and dvd's *cough*. If you allow them to...

I think we need to all get on the same page about something . Like I said earlier, if we're going to abstract hacking, we should abstract it with some purpose. I propose we focus not on how hacking works, but rather on what the hackers goals are and formulate hacking such that it focuses on those go...

I agree with most of those assumptions except for 3. We actually call people who download these attack tools and blindly use them script kiddies. They are considered to be fairly poor hackers. Hacking tools are more like a toolbox, and you need a skilled hacker to know what tools to use. Pre-built a...

Actually bizarrely enough that's how someone actually attacked a bank. They left a flashdrive with malware on it by the smoker area. One of them picked up the flash drive, put it in his computer to see what was on it and the malware uploaded itself to the computer and gave the attackers access. Of c...

I think you misunderstand access. All I mean is that it's your foot in the door, robustness is what you do once your there. So in the bank, moving from the joe shmoe teller to the CEO account? Robustness check. Moving from that to finance? Robustness. Maybe it could break down into user or admin acc...

I think detection avoidance should apply a penalty, as opposed to another roll. Also, I was thinking that once you have access, you have Access . You don't need to roll any more to gain access to other layers. Robustness should just be one roll to achieve whatever you want once your in, because diff...

I'm having an extremely hard time describing what I mean by robustness. I picked that word because I can't think of anything else. Even once you have access to a system there's a limit to how much you can affect. Chrome for example uses a sandbox so that the hacker can't escape it and do anything (t...