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Trizzdog posted:Something definitely existed in 4e, because I used it to make our party temporarily astral for a special mission. It's always a good joke to describe the barely metahuman cyber-troll with shite mental stats when they're astral. Yeah there is a drug in SR that lets you go astral, based on a previous discussion within my group but the name eludes me. It lasts Essence+1D6 hours but you need to return to your body before the duration runs out or you will die. But going by RAW you can't end astral projection unless you're a mage. 
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Tempo. It was a whole plot thing in 4e, sort of getting hinted at in the start and coming to a head in Ghost Cartels.
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Cooked Auto posted:Yeah there is a drug in SR that lets you go astral, based on a previous discussion within my group but the name eludes me. It lasts Essence+1D6 hours but you need to return to your body before the duration runs out or you will die. Easy, you just get back to your body and sit on it until it wears off completely
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Cooked Auto posted:Yeah there is a drug in SR that lets you go astral, based on a previous discussion within my group but the name eludes me. It lasts Essence+1D6 hours but you need to return to your body before the duration runs out or you will die.
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40 Proof Listerine posted:Not the same drug, but Deepweed forces Astral Perception in a similar manner. This was used by the group to get an edge on security spiders in a building by remotely delivering (via rigged drone) a Deepweed gas grenade to get the spiders high and interfere with Matrix actions due to seeing Astral. Ah ok.
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40 Proof Listerine posted:Not the same drug, but Deepweed forces Astral Perception in a similar manner. This was used by the group to get an edge on security spiders in a building by remotely delivering (via rigged drone) a Deepweed gas grenade to get the spiders high and interfere with Matrix actions due to seeing Astral. Another useful application of forcing people to Astrally perceive is that it makes them Dual Natured for the duration. That opens them up to bring torn to shreds by a Projecting mage with a weapon focus.
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Mystic Mongol posted:So all this chatter has got me reading through the 5E splatbooks I never really took a look at before. I think some powerful free spirits can do it. That is what my GM did when we did a group Astral Quest.
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Astral Gateway. There are astral rifts. Basically normal folks can do most magic things [Including calling spirits], they just have to jump through a few more hoops. e: I mean....technically I think a robot could call a spirit. You can use Arcana instead of Ritual Spellcasting in Calling, and the random magic crap you setup is what powers the ritual. There's technically nothing saying a robot can't call a spirit. Mulva fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Sep 23, 2017 |
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Has anyone considered doing the McMansion Hell of guns because gently caress me the gun heaven book illustrations
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It'It'd get boring pretty quick. IIRC some of them are even badly photoshopped images lifted from Wikipedia.
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The pictures in Gun Heaven 3 is pretty good all around because that book was made when the SR5 designs had entered. Now 1 and 2 on other hand, now those have some really bad illustrations. But then again it felt like that was the case for even the core SR4 book as well. The SR4 XM30 design looking really awful for instance. Speaking of something completely different I wish that they had actually released the 30 Rides book because that was supposed to have a bunch of German exclusive vehicles in it.
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Basically every single SR5 gun is just "Random gun" or "Random with random part of other random gun photoshopped on". They are hilariously badly designed.
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A single gun in Dragonfall had more character then basically every other gun in Shadowrun combined. Then again, it also had two absolutely hilarious mechanical niches.
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ProfessorCirno posted:A single gun in Dragonfall had more character then basically every other gun in Shadowrun combined. Then again, it also had two absolutely hilarious mechanical niches. SSC guns were cool and good 
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Mulva posted:Basically every single SR5 gun is just "Random gun" or "Random with random part of other random gun photoshopped on". They are hilariously badly designed. I still think they look better than most SR4 guns.
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Cooked Auto posted:I still think they look better than most SR4 guns.  e: (in all seriousness 4E had some really bad gun art too, just bad in a different way) LGD fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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Jesus what's the perspective there
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LGD posted:
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Goa Tse-tung posted:SSC guns were cool and good alright, I rescind my comment after going through it after nostalgia hit me, 12 year old me thought they were cool and good they're bland trash
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Goa Tse-tung posted:SSC guns were cool and good 
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^^ Pretty good if drawn on a graphing calculator
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I just discovered the Imbue Item ritual. Holy flaming teabagging troll balls that's some seriously awesome poo poo. 5 karma to learn the ritual 6 karma for the actual ritual +1force karma cost for binding the focus to you And for that you get to add your initiation rank to your weapon focus' accuracy (if you pick the Alliance trait)! No more rolling 20-30 dice to hit but only able to use five successes.  Obviously you need to initiate some too. But that's the price you have to pay for proper decapitation. children overboard posted:^^ Pretty good if drawn on a graphing calculator  Let me just photoshop this pistol handle to this shotgun stock with a zoomed in sniper barrel and it's another HMG done. Poil fucked around with this message at 21:36 on Sep 29, 2017 |
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"Do you have Exotic Weapon: Church Pew?" "No?" "Take a penalty" Ronwayne fucked around with this message at 02:25 on Oct 1, 2017 |
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For a game that supports serious gun porn, they have some seriously ugly guns (the previous cursed image of the p90 aborted fetus with a harpoon shoved in it is a prime example). That said, I can't wait to buy the next gun splat that comes out, even if they keep up the low standard of "art". Still waiting for a truly badass breach loading double barrelled shotgun that's also somehow futuristic.
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Okay, so I'm currently writing a CYOA in shadowrun called Blake Island School of Magic. Some of you might like to read it. I'm a former professional writer and I'm currently over 50k words in which is the size of a small novel. The thread dictates emotional and moral choices of people who aren't Shadowrunners, but could one day be powerful. Imagine Shadowrun if the main character is not a high functioning sociopath but a normal person with the potential for some power. I delve pretty deeply into the lore because Shadowrun lore is fantastic and I've been reading the books, playing the games and messing with the tabletop stuff since about 1996. I'm a former Seattle native so I'm pretty sure I've got the flavor of the city right. As a writer I specialize in character driven stories along with heavy emotional content. If you have any feelings and you allow me to I will wail on them like a speed bag. While there is a plot the thread has only been having brushes with it which is good because I'm slowly creeping up on it. Besides, I've been busy establishing the characters. The plan is to have four distinct arcs and I just finished with arc one, 50k words, in about ten days. So you could say that I'm a prolific writer and I take pride in my craft. Also even if your idea gets shot down if I like a piece of it and it fits with the narrative I'll work a piece of it in while sticking to thread choice. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3835049 Go check it out. It's probably the best thing I've ever written. Ice Phisherman fucked around with this message at 15:38 on Oct 1, 2017 |
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This drek is arctic, chummer. Well written updates with locations that feel alive, characters that don't feel like cardboard cutouts, emotional nuance that doesn't come across as forced. A++ would read/vote again. Come on by and say hoi
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Ice Phisherman posted:Go check it out. It's probably the best thing I've ever written. Hexenritter posted:A++ would read/vote again. Come on by and say hoi If you enjoy a Shadowrun story that isn't all pink mohawks and murder, then please come give this CYOA a try: 1) Very well written; author takes pride in his work and the effort shows. 2) Multiple 'Chapter Length' Updates daily. 3) A true CYOA where the thread's vote means something. 4) Plot evolves organically and realistically; characters are well developed and driven by real, underlying motivations. 5) The Feels. Good Grief, the Feels. Swing by and give it a try!
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I ran over some corporate security with a backhoe and superman-punched a cybered-up street sam who was busy being spooked by a gigantic ghost, then jumped up 10 meters to a freight elevator that was the only escape out of a basement about to explode and grabbed a teammate who couldn't quite jump as high Being an adept is pretty neat, but I already want to initiate and get that third level of improved reaction. 
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mp5 posted:I ran over some corporate security with a backhoe and superman-punched a cybered-up street sam who was busy being spooked by a gigantic ghost, then jumped up 10 meters to a freight elevator that was the only escape out of a basement about to explode and grabbed a teammate who couldn't quite jump as high It's always pleasant to see someone playing the game correctly.
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I like roleplay quite a lot (I spent two of my six power points on Voice Control and Facial Sculpt stuff to be an effective party Face. I used that stuff in the session to turn myself into looking and sounding like a drunk upset at Urban Brawl games to distract front door guards) but I also really really like tangibly progressing and growing my character to kill things real good with my bare stupid hands. So yeah, I'm a little torn between getting Killing Hands S or Improved Reaction 3, but leaning towards Reaction. (this is SR3) mp5 fucked around with this message at 23:20 on Oct 2, 2017 |
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Is 28 dice for melee with 11 accuracy good enough if you're expecting to run into spirits with force in the two digits, and other magical stuff?  Also: Solid Poopsnake posted:It's always pleasant to see someone playing the game correctly.
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Poil posted:Is 28 dice for melee with 11 accuracy good enough if you're expecting to run into spirits with force in the two digits, and other magical stuff? Are your weapons magical and/or have absurdly high AP?
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I'm going to assume the 28 dice and especially 11 accuracy come from a melee adept, so I'm going to bet there's a weapon foci too, which means that question was rhetorical. Anything within literal Reach in physical space that isn't a Force 12+ Spirit of Air / Fire with an absurd dodge pool or a gat dawm greater dragon is going to explode. Meanwhile, in the game I'm running, a few hostiles with guns and average skill can easily cause a TPK.
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So we may have completely murdered a red samurai this session on complete accident.
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Did it involve accidental lead poisoning?jagadaishio posted:Are your weapons magical and/or have absurdly high AP? Trizzdog posted:I'm going to assume the 28 dice and especially 11 accuracy come from a melee adept, so I'm going to bet there's a weapon foci too, which means that question was rhetorical. Anything within literal Reach in physical space that isn't a Force 12+ Spirit of Air / Fire with an absurd dodge pool or a gat dawm greater dragon is going to explode. That's fun too. I got invited to a high level campaign so I need to be strong enough to be able to do anything. Just don't ask about my dodge dice.
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If you have a dice pool and accuracy the size you mentioned, a monowhip or maybe a stun baton can get some hits in.
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Stun baton is not a bad idea either. Not great but definitely better than nothing. But getting that accuracy as a non-adept/mage is extremely difficult unless a mage is willing to sustain a limit increasing spell on it. I spoke with the guy who was supposed to GM but he had half changed his mind about playing the campaign at all.  Why do I even bother trying to make characters to actually play instead of just masturbatory builds for my own enjoyment of creating characters?
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Honestly, he's probably not wrong. SR doesn't run really well at that scale. Lots of save or die.
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Liquid Communism posted:Honestly, he's probably not wrong. SR doesn't run really well at that scale. Lots of save or die. edit When I was out walking I realized he never said anything about the game balance and it's likely it could have made it too frustrating to balance encounters and challenges and stuff. Poil fucked around with this message at 21:14 on Oct 3, 2017 |
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