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I mean you'd have to adjust a bunch of other values probably. The biggest thing is that even if two guys of the same level hit/block each other the same rate, I (as a player) want to be assured that I'm actually gaining levels by being able to hit lower level things more often over time. So, there n...

If it's a core rule there are no tracks, clearly.

https://gist.github.com/Lokathor/5ba4eea5181b95fe2ca8aef47c179412 I've done a first pass at a complete replacement to the Magic chapter for After Sundown. There are a few clean ups in the top matter, but most of the powers are the same as before, just put into a new format that gives a much more uni...

No direct hacking of cyberlimbs. That just is asking for too much trouble. If you wanted to have an alternate version of Seize that has the same effect (total incantation), but the fluff is that you're making their cyberware go haywire and that's what's causing them to lose their turns as they fight...

Problem (maybe): Due to the way that Resistance Tests work, it's impossible to activate a power and end up with exactly zero net hits. For most powers at least. Unlike with skill checks and attacks, the resistance test doesn't set the threshold, it reduces the hits, and then the threshold is almost ...

Correct.

Note that a fiber optic connection is non-wireless but can carry "Directional" signal for its segment of the path between two Networks.

The group I've been playing 5e with lately managed to introduce themselves to the game. They normally play card games, they were in the games shop, and they saw the starter set for 5e so they just got it on a whim and played a campaign and figured it out with using the online character maker and stu...

[*] A Connection does not require LOS. If you want to have it in your Network it must be in Handshake range of your network. If it's a Directional Retransmitter and you want to use is to draw LOS from, you need to have LOS to it. [*] When a retransmitter is in your network they detect it or not depe...

Oh I was thinking "Resonance Realms", which are right next to UV Hosts in the book.

IC will be 4-6, Hackers will probably be 6-9.

I think UV-hosts are supposed to be technomancer metaplanes, basically. Like weird alternative locations for some adventures, but not usually visited.

Having played 5e recently with folks who are totally new to the concept of DnD, it seems like the biggest crime of 5e is that it's complex enough that you can't quite play it as a drunk game with no prep, but you also can't play it as a game that has satisfying mechanics among the complex games wher...

Other than Authority, most Universal powers aren't psychic though. I think that Universal is fine because it lets you take a moment to explain power sources when you get the blank look. "What's Universal?" "Well the other three groups are each linked to the power source of a hell plan...

I like this, but I still don't get why this is a feat . This sounds like it should just be a rule that the entire play group uses or not. If you're non-proficient you roll 1d20 flat, if you are proficient you roll 1d20+FastChart for attacks, and SlowChart for Saves/Skills/Whatever. Pick whatever you...

Sorcery and Universal powers need to be cleaned up a bit in terms of flavor. Some sorceries are powers that should probably be "always on", and some are actually non-dispelable, but Authority is also universal and dispelable. So we need to know what powers have you saying funny words or ma...

The program that my players wanted was a way to feedback a drone, so we did that once.

The ghost thing is easy. It can just be a passive thing, but since it's not tiered and it's not a number you have to remember to add, should be fine. Necromancy Necromancy powers are the powers to interact with the dead. Yada yada yada. As a special rule: If you know any Necromancy power at all you ...

I guess you can always fall back on those taser darts.

Any suggestions on Tier bonus replacement? Pure elimination is easy, replacement is difficult If they're cool bonuses then just make them powers. You can have a Clout power that simply says "you get +1 to Strength all the time", and that's a fine power that some people will want to pick, ...

Good, but you didn't go far enough. Here's some more to do:

[*] Eliminate discipline Tier bonuses
[*] Rewrite Celerity to get rid of Initiative Passes

drones and robots that you can bring back to animate. Maybe they just need power, maybe they need to be put back together somehow.

Networks with open Connections to a Server can locate other Networks with open Connections to the same Server and then use the "Close Distance" action to open a direct Connection between them. People are assumed to have commlinks, so "normal computers" don't actually sit around i...

Simply from knowing that the game is called Space Madness! I'm going to assume that they have to do with reducing a target's madness score over time and combating madness forces trying to take over your mind by singing Marry Had A Little Lamb instead.

Scaling feats aren't good simply because they're too long of a list of things to weigh at once against too many other long lists of things. Just break them all up into individual feats and then give out feats more often.

Because you're not there on the physical plane, you're on the astral plane. You can project a psychic image into the physical plane, but that's not the same.

Short Answer: You don't need all the levels. LotR is like a 5th level adventure. It's a really long 5th level adventure, where maybe people don't level up at a pace you might expect from the normal game, but it's still a cool story that people love to hear about. Things past level 10 are kinda goofy...