Posts made by Jennkryst

@NotaNumber said:

I love the setting of Shadowrun ... but, my experiences with Denver over the years make me question whether it is a great thing to try and use the system online.

Then again, if this gets off the ground, I'll probably try anyway because fuck it, Shadowrun.

Many of the issues with Denver stem from it being SR3 (bucketloads of karma pool), and as such, the numerous house rules floating around. Some of it also had to do with the revolving door of staffers changing things, and Alpha just wanting to play/refusal to make the hard call on staff stuff. Examples include... the attempted matrix re-write, because they were just so... unintuitive, and then the one decker player got brought on staff to consult (despite numerous complaints), and decreed 'MATRIX IS FINE AS IS, GO ABOUT YOUR BUSINESS, NO FIXES NEEDED EVER' Add onto it the current Chief of Staff constantly griping about staff decisions publically despite the fact that staff fired one of the best PR people on there ever for doing the same thing.

tl;dr, Denver's issues are more about it being Denver, and less about it being Shadowrun.

@Tempest said:

@Thenomain If you have 7th sea code, why isn't there a game of it around?????? I don't even know it, but I believe it's the same system as L5R? Which I have a little experience with.

It's similar, but 7th sea was prior to L5R, so it's a little less refined. Same basic mechanic, though.

@Thenomain said:

@Saulot,

Yes, Eclipse Phase would be hell to code for. Just the monetary system alone requires, what, 8 different kinds of currency? Yeah.

I'd have thought being able to swap bodies (and thus alter every skill on your +sheet) would be a bigger concern. In my imagined EP mush, there would be actual money, and your rep would limit what can be done with it, rather than actually be the money.

Technomancers can be a thing, just slowly introduced. Otaku were things in older editions, and I know some of them weren't of the AI/Deus variety.

As for qualities... some can go, others should stay. If you have a lifepath that gives you a Criminal SIN, it should probably remain. Though, I suppose, there could also be a lifepath thing to get that deleted somehow. Should really re-familiarize myself with 5E.

... or one of her variants. New place, new confections to be had!

DeeCee is also a place if we want to go there, to toss out the UCAS capital as an idea. On the other hand, Boston and San Fransisco both have better access to water, so BOATS. Which could also make a Carribean League setting interesting.

SO MANY CHOICES. I almost want to vote for all of the things, since it's not exactly the darkages, and transportation exists.

I'll need a quick crash course in build code, but I'd love to help with the grid-work, and other randomness. I'm best with grunt-work (+sheet changes, karma spends, eq purchases, and such), to let others do the actual plot stuff. The occasional plot might happen, though!

It's possible. Just have to find the coder. And the money to pay them to build it.

She is on Fallcoast as Jade.

@ThatGuyThere I may need you to walk me through fixing it, then, because I can't figure out anything anymore. I didn't even know how to edit my own posts until the refresh trick was pointed out to me.

Automatically jumping you to the newest post while you're in the middle of reading old stuff is the most convenient thing ever! Along with hitting refresh to make the big pictures turn into teeny pictures! We certainly don't need a Sarcastica font to display tone. Certainly not.

I haven't found my 1e copy of the matrix book just yet, because moving sucks, but I did find 2e; though cell and radio networks weren't things, Sat uplinks were. In 3e, we definately add in cellular LTGs and other options. So wireless is there, but it runs on the wired infrastructure. I'd say that usin 5e mechanics on a 1-3e setting should be doable, but we keep the option for wireless there, because shiney. EM polution and signal degredation are even taken into account for doing long-range wireless stuff. I envision it as it is today - wireless routers/cell towers/whatever everywhere, tied into a wired grid. You could hop from device to device without the need to go through the wires, but it will by no means be the only way.

As for gritty, shadowrun was always supposed to be flashy-grit. Mohawks everywhere! The super cereal ex-military folks who dress in their BDUs and are super cereal is a playstyle, sure. But they're right there next to the latest Karl Kombatmage wannabe.

I also can't get it to work on Chrome. Or anything, really. Spent a few hours pressing all the buttons trying to reply until @GamerNGeek mentioned Firefox.

You go in wired for when bandwidth is super-important. Gives some mechanical bonus or something. Not /required/, but helpful. Plus there was the Crash of 29 that made people anti-tech for a bit. Or something. Theme can be hammered out!

Or just make it wireless matrix. Still have the option to plug in because bandwidth.

I had a character on Seattle, but never got to play. I still play on Denver, but mostly because there is nowhere else to go.

I would staff the shit out of a SR mu, if it's code worked similarly to Denver's. When I worked there, I did minimum 2x the job-work than everyone else combined, but got fired cause I griped on pub-chan about stuff. It was fun.

As for setting, my vote would be a rewind to 2050, but use 5e rules, because the tech curve is the tech curve, but older editions had some bonkers plot arcs. Granted, most veteran players will know what happened, but just like you can know Palpatine gets killed at Endor, you can still play a Star Wars game set during the Rebellion.

You forgot the L5R mush!

Fair points. Will hold off until I find out how this pay pal money thing is supposed to work that I may or may not be getting.

@tragedyjones We have a Theno!

GO GO SR5 MUSH BUILDER POWERS!

@Alzie said:

I can neither confirm nor deny that a PM to me asking about PDFs of 7th sea may result in a link to some PDFs stored on google drive.

Can't figure out how. Cray-cray. Should really check on that group again, but... effort.