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Best version of an SR decker pre 4th edition was having the character played remotely. I know that sounds weird but it was during my freshman year of college the GM had a friend form his hometown who went to a different school chat over IRC during our session and that was out decker contact slash PC. They would do the decker stuff on-line while the IC meat world stuff was played out with face to face rp. Neither ICly or OOCly did we ever meet the guy.

@Lithium said in RPG Percentile Mechanics:

@ThatGuyThere See this right here is a problem. If I am able to throw 100 tons around without a problem, there shouldn't be any /swinginess/ when I connect. It should do an immense amount of force on impact and there shouldn't be a feel of 'anything can happen' in super hero's in my opinion. If 'anything' can happen, then what is the point of having super powers if they end up being worthless due to a swingy dice system just screwing you over all the time?

But that fits the primary source of the genre at least in superheros. Despite Spiderman's being nearly impossible to hit sometimes the nameless gun man wings him.
Thor is one of my favorite characters but he has a lot of bad loses over the years.

I generally prefer the high luck systems to the bell curve ones, since the bell curve ones tend to be the more predictable and the whole point of the dice to me is to add unpredictability.
While you don;t like the standing around because of bad luck there is nothing more boring to me then sitting around for hours to reach the result math said we would hit at the beginning of it.

Kind of along the lines of what Autumn said for me it depends on the character.
I tend ot make a lot of low end money chars because in Cgen there really isn't enough points ot go around so unless the concept requires money I go poor to save the points. In some cases they end up improving their lot in some cases not.
I will admit though some of the most fun scenes I had on a college student char were him blowing though a wad of cash he was given. In that case since the character was 19 and was given free money I had him ICly spend it like an average 19 yo would given free money. With in a few weeks he was back to broke with nothing to show for it but a car and stories.

I agree with Autumn, I have never taken being asked for my ID as anything but a compliment as I get older. Or baring that amusement at the question. For example Buffalo Wild Wings (at least the one I go to) cards everyone who orders a beer weather you look 21 or 90, I go there with my older brother sometimes to watch games neither of us is close to 21, yet we both smile a bit and show our ID, then delude ourselves into thinking it was cause we look young rather then policy that it was asked for.
Of course I would never leave the house without ID unless it was some sort of life threatening emergency either.

Phone code that makes you remember fake phone numbers
I like phone/text code where I can just use the char object name and move one. But a few versions of the code actually make you use a phone number. That would have been fine in the 90s but I don't remember real phone numbers anymore having me try to for a game just means any use of the phone code is preceded by me paging the person I want to call with, "Hey what was your IC phone number again?"

@Derp said:

Dammit, now I'm listening to Me First and the Gimme Gimmes. Look what you did.

That is not a bad thing that is a very very good thing.

I often forget the whole runner part of ShadowRun, honestly none of the campaigns I have played in have really been about a group of traditional runner. The first I played in back in first edition was basically a gang protecting their turf and from there we have done many things. the current campaign is probably the closest to a standard runner group but honestly we are closer to the A-Team then a runner group since we tend to spend about as much time checking out the job to make sure they are worth doing then we do doing the job. Of course when ever we have spare IC time or cash we use it to go after the corp all the PC has a bg reason to hate.
Shadowrun is very Noir without ever looking Noir if that makes any sense. Maybe call it Neon Noir.

@surreality
I would say that could stay on the wiki, I think i am one of the hardliners on not wanting to mess with the wiki while playing so what I want on the game is all things I would need in the playing of the game. (Minus the rules which can't be reproduced in the case of WoD or other tabletop of course.)

Information on the wiki could be more in depth and wiki specific for things like using the wiki but I also would not want to have to log on the game to get info about how to do X on the wiki.

I never understood how people could keep that many alts active. On games where I have two it is difficult to keep both involved and not running into each other six or seven sounds like madness.

@Thenomain said in Shadowrun: Modern:

Yeah, but it's ... it's Seattle. c.f. Columbus, Ohio. It's central to quite a few major urban areas, but it's Columbus, Ohio.

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I think a huge reason of why Seattle is grunge. SR 1 game out in I think 89 possibly 90 or 91, either way it came out when bands and a music style based in Seattle were not only starting to get huge they were starting to get huge with a disaffected sub-culture, Grunge really didn't hit mainstream music stations til around 92.

Now that I think about it you could make the argument that instead of cyberpunk that the first edition of SR was more cybergrunge. It lacked a lot of the punk ethos that you see in Gibson's writing.

@moonman said in The Death Of Telnet: Is It Time To Face The Music?:

• Should we even jump ships, or accept our fall into extreme RP obscurity?

This is pretty much my vote. I prefer text based and real time to the other options. I have no desire to have voice RP with strangers nor to give other people the ability to spam a scene with pictures or memes, I figure I will ride the ship down til I can't find a game I like with double digit players.
When that happens I will likely just start up a table top in the middle of the week, since I know a fair number of player around me who want to table top but don't want to give up a weekend day.

@somasatori
That sounds like the most awesome movie or game plot ever.

This thread has got me thinking, (always dangerous I know) but could an RPG be set up to tell two converging stories, Gibson does this a lot in his novels, though i think it is most definitely shown in Idoru. I have tried to think of ways to do something similar but have never found a good way to do it. I would want ther to be some mechanical connection between the two but not sure how a system would go about this.

@faraday
I make board post so rarely looking up how to is not a burden. Any command I use often is not hard to memorize.
What I don't want is giving some random other player the ability to shit out images on to my screen. I much prefer them getting to put a link I am politely not click on. If the default is to see them and the onus to figure out how not to is on me that is not a situation I would care to sign up for.

The biggest issue I can think of with cliques is that it greats an OOC atmosphere of us versus them on both sides of the equation that can lead to drama or decline in rp available.
I was on a game where the sphere I was involved in basically formed into two cliques there was not real drama between the two of them both sides were open to RP with folks not in either and RPed some with each other even then some one asked a question pertaining to IC boundaries to territory, and boom that became a powder keg. the sphere immediately became an you are either with us or against us situation. I was hosed cause while I was ICly loyal to one side I mentioned OOCly the other had a point and tried to get some sort of compromise happening, so person "Not someone to RP with" by both sides. In the end both sides left turning the game into an empty wasteland.
Now that is admittedly a rather extreme example and while cliques/playgroups will form it is something i feel staff should be on the look out for to be ready to diffuse said drama before it hits a boiling point.

Not retail but food service.
Being a regular does not remove your duty to tip. In fact it increases it. The rest of us regulars know this and this is why we get excellent service. Your food takes almost an hour because the waitress knows you won't tip so doesn't care. Also yes we can see it sitting at the window too waiting to be brought out, start tipping more then 8 percent and I am sure it won't sit there nearly as long.

Because of the diversity of the setting with infinite shadow worlds, I would suggest a universal system that is flexible enough to have rules for the various worlds encountered.
I don't really have a suggestion as to which one since I am in general not a fan of universal systems, honestly if you were looking low crunch I would say Fate, since it is fairly easy to do large conflicts with by making large corporate entities as characters and run with normal fate rule.
Though a lot of people don't like lack of crunch. For high crunch GURPS or Hero could work but either one would be hell to deal with on a much. sadly I have yet to see a middle ground generic system I have liked.
though I would love just about any Amber game that had rules less byzantine then the ones RtA uses.

The custom of someone's name changing as they got older was not all that uncommon among real world cultures either, at least before modern times. As was the practice of using a childhood nickname to denote a personal relationship as opposed to a more formal one. In some cases even historians adopted the childhood nickname rather then the actual one, for example Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus, is much more well known to modern people under his nickname Caligula (Little Boots.)

@Royal
What was the make and model? Anything that can take that kind of abusive before dying needs to get proper credit.