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Adepts are cool, but way more fun in pen and paper. There's a power that lets you run on walls and another that lets you change your skin and hair color at will. Not in this game though. Must be lazy developers.  Because I am even less creative: 1. male 2. Troll 3. Rifles 4. Trollface Nobody expects the troll of being the smart one who cracked the computer (unless it was done literary).
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Kanfy posted:That reminds me, fun fact about naming your character: The character limit isn't actually 12. I'd like to see the face of my GM if someone told him that's his runner's name and demanded it be said in full every time. Of course if he was serious I'd bludgeon him to death with the rulebook. 
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Apr 25, 2017 13:32
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Ze Pollack posted:statting up an adversary exactly as you would a PC is a tremendous waste of time
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GoneRampant posted:Elves also get a bonus to Charisma. Since talking is a huge thing in these games, that tends to make them a popular race.
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wiegieman posted:Dwarves are actually the best mages, not elves, and you're not playing a troll right if you can't laugh off a railgun to the face and bench press a truck. Elves are just fast and good looking, which admittedly gets them a long way. Poil fucked around with this message at 21:28 on Apr 25, 2017 |
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Apr 25, 2017 21:25
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wiegieman posted:Sorry, I meant in SRR. You're absolutely right about tabletop, letting elves take charisma traditions is crazy. 
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Apr 25, 2017 22:12
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I've never actually played as a decker because I only played the first game once and gave up near the end and in the sequels you get a permanent decker party member who can handle it with no problems.
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Apr 26, 2017 13:36
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Well... Seattle can't be any worse than this.
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Apr 26, 2017 16:40
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You get hit for 30 damage and you take 2 bleeding at the start of your turn. gently caress YOU GAME RAAARGAHAHAGGHHHH!!!!!
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Nice place for a nap, but the place is a bit dead.UnwiseTrout posted:The Chunky Salsa rule refers to the tendency of the tabletop ruled grenades to render creatures into it when you use a grenade in an enclosed area. You're ”supposed" to calculate the force of the blast being reflected by any surface it doesn't destroy and dealing (reduced) damage on each pass. It's a lot of needless math, imo. Easier to say that a grenade in a small solid room kills people dead. Poil fucked around with this message at 21:10 on Apr 27, 2017 |
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Apr 27, 2017 20:44
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Kanfy posted:Yeah, he really holds the spirit of a jester.
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Apr 27, 2017 22:48
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I kept hearing the game's sound effects when reading. In particular that SPLAT sound when you kill someone. A morgue sounds nice and cool in the summer. But aren't the hello
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup"  What better way to inspire confidence than knowing that the guy who has a cyberarm strong enough to crush a skull with a built-in grenade launcher is popping pills like candy?
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To be honest, the added Japanese feels kinda forced and reeks of weeaboo rather than any meaningful flavor. No surprise I don't remember any of it from the later games.
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Yeah I've played some Shadowrun pnp and I've never heard another player or GM (RM?) actually use the in-universe slang.Keeshhound posted:Part of that was the 80's meme that Japan was going to wind up owning the U.S. The next two games take place in Germany and Hong Kong, so... Kanfy posted:Eh, Kubota's half-Japanese and it's a fairly common trope for people speaking a foreign language to throw in foreign words here and there. Aside from her, I think so far there's just been that one "So ka" from New Larry.
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May 3, 2017 22:20
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Psion posted:I think you should start, min vän.
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Yup. Kanfy posted:I'm with you, in fact I've successfully managed to get through the entire LP so far without a single word in Finnish, but it's still a fairly a popular trope in fiction so I can usually let it slide. Poil fucked around with this message at 22:44 on May 3, 2017 |
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May 3, 2017 22:40
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Drek happens.  Really weird bug.
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May 4, 2017 23:28
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Iretep posted:The real reason to take quickness over str when you want the 3rd weapon slot is quickness increases dodge while str raises nothing useful besides damage. Which leads to me to wonder why ever even do a melee build when its so point hungry for so littler return. Like later games actually make melee a bit more useful mechanically but thats for those times. Right now im pretty sure str is pure garbage.
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May 6, 2017 21:16
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So the game applies the difficulty bonus when you load but it also saves the enemies stats when you save, and that's why it keeps on stacking as the game keep reapplying the bonus over and over through every save/load cycle?
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May 8, 2017 11:59
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Kanfy posted:This is a politics-free LP, no reason to deal with more than one dark dystopic future at a time. +Magic +No global warming +Dwarves, trolls and other cool races +Affordable cybernetics, the most basic 20/20 cybereyes costs as much as an iphone and can be done in an afternoon -Magical monsters like hellhounds and ghouls
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Pfft guard dogs are so lame. Guard hell hounds are a lot better but still not quite on the level as a wared up guard grizzly bear. There are rules for them in pen and paper, and yes you can buy one.BurningStone posted:You got me to pull this game back out. I've finished it as a rifleman and a mage, but I'd never tried drones. They're good, but it feels wrong to not be killing stuff myself. 
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I think his name was Butz or something, but yes. Is0bel is a million times better and cooler than he ever was.
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Hang on, she didn't do that.Ze Pollack posted:deckers are the worst Poil fucked around with this message at 22:49 on May 15, 2017 |
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betamax hipster posted:And miss the sweet sleeveless combat armor they sell? No thanks. Kanfy posted:Skyrim? Pff, Ultima V did that already back in 1988. They also took breaks to eat during dinner time. Gothic 2 did that as well. The first shopkeeper npc you run across is a shopkeeper's apprentice at a small stall outside his master's shop. During the day he stands behind it, goes and sweeps the street in front of it, during the evenings he goes to the tavern at the market square and at night he sleeps in his bed at his master's house. Oh and he occasionally goes into the alley near his stall and has a piss against the city wall.
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The Predator is kinda silly since it's, as far as I know, always the best choice for a handgun regardless of edition.GhostStalker posted:Speaking of mods, I wish this game had a weapon modding system like tabletop, allowing you to stuff extras into your weapons besides just smartlinks. But I guess that's way too much granular detail for people unfamiliar with the system and probably quite a bit of work for something a bunch of players would never bother with.  Spending far too much time pouring over the books just for a single gun is quite fun. What upgrades to get for it? What ammunition to use? If it's a shotgun or rifle is it better to go for the bayonet or the monofilament chainsaw? Underbarrel bola thrower? Underbarrel grenade launcher? Underbarrel flamethrower (yes, you can mount that on a flamethrower)? There's just too much awesome stuff.
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Ze Pollack posted:In 5 it isn't. There's a published adventure partially based around it: Ares Small Arms is horrified to discover that they are definitively bottom of the rankings at this season's self defense expos, and a series of Ares-on-Ares shadowruns follow as the execs involved make desperate bids to shift the blame. 
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A shaman can just send an angry spirit to deal with personal slights on their own.
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I keep thinking his name is McTusky for some reason.
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IBlameRoadSuess posted:McTusky's sounds like an Orc and Troll aimed fast food restaurant.
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May 26, 2017 23:00
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SIGSEGV posted:We're goons, dragon sized.
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For one character idea I had my mage would be following the metal tradition. As in carrying around an electric guitar and using appropriate spells to go with the rocking theme. I was playing Brütal Legend when I came up with it which may have influenced things. 
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Psion posted:so like when you level up did you get a multi-neck guitar like a decker would upgrade their deck?
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Vampires need to drink blood daily but they only need to drain essence once a month, according to the rulebook at least. So I always assumed that ghouls eat the meat to sustain themselves and the traces of essence is what the virus requires.
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If you thought BTL addiction was horrible, try understanding the rules for it in the latest edition.  Keeshhound posted:Well, those were perscription.
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PMush Perfect posted:Try understanding the rules for anything in tabletop Shadowrun.
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Losing one entire essence and only grabbing a datajack with no other ware is a terribly bad idea for anyone who's got magic. They better be amazing sharpshooters to even hope to make up for that. 
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A shame you didn't get a bug with being jacked in in the meat world and could run around hitting enemies for meat matrix levels of damage.
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