Means to an end. Everyone needs cannon fodder.

And he probably took a tip from his old buddy Joe. Send in expendable troops in the first wave to make the enemy run out of ammo, then send in the actual army.

That and Hitler was deep into the occult, endorsing a number of freakish experiments that tried to take advantage of genetics (along with many, many other things).

2853: When I GM, I am not to encourage the new player to name their rigger Kane and point them to the scorpion shaped drones. By extension, I am also not allowed to mention any Brotherhood slogans
2853a: If I do encourage the above, I am not allowed to start deploying UCAS troops from the Steel Talons regiment
2854: I am not allowed to base any character I play off of Flashman (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flashman For those of you who don't apreciate good literature)
2854a: I should not try to get around the above restriction by basing them off Caiphas Caine instead
2854b: And Jurgen from the Caine series is also a bad idea
2855: I am no longer allowed to make a racoongirl metavariant for elves. I am especially not to make it a hyperactive ninja. Just because it worked for the cyberpunk group in another game doesn't mean it's a good idea for Shadowrun
2856: I am no longer allowed to make any form of anthropomorphic character, as it leads to violations of 2855 in new ways
2857: Just because Shadowrun and Battletech share similar rules, I am not allowed, as a GM or a player, to combine them
2857a: Nor am I allowed to combine Shadowrun with Paranoia
2857b: I am not allowed to combine Shadowrun with anything other than other cyberpunk games
2858: I am not allowed to make a six-limbed, empathic, sentient, and incredibly lethal feline using the rules in Running Wild
2858a: If somehow, I manage to get 2858 past the GM, I am not to name this abomination a treecat
2858b: If I managed to get 2858 and 2858a past the GM, I am not allowed to name the treecat Nimitz, or my character Honor Stephanie Harington and have her be a bioware'd face/street samurai
2858c: If I manage to get the entirety of 2858 through 2858b by the GM, I am not to be surprised if this character suddenly dies from an orbital Graser shot when the GM finally gets around to reading the David Weber book I bought him last Christmas

And Martin?

2849 and 2850 are from the same game, one that is still in progress. The main Johnson my group is working for is Nancy, and after the first run, the hacker rescued a resonant corgi. She had an open contact slot and it was just...to perfect. And she's also the reason for 2847.

This post has been edited by Queek: Aug 5 2010, 04:33 PM

Also, clicky.



I confess.

Squiddy runs the hacker in my Shadowrun game. And to be fair, the hacker only fed the kitteh troll porn (Two Trolls, One Cup to be exact) was because she was sent the sim by the troll street shaman. Gremlins were to blame for why she received porn rather than the rather innocuous file she was supposed to get (Cheezburger.jpg to be precise). This group is utterly insane if you hadn't guessed. There is Squiddy as the hacker, Cube (who has added to this prestigious list) as the troll street shaman, a Greek minotaur street sammy with a psychoreactive mohawk (which is sometimes, apropriately, pink), a night one sneak, a rigger with multiple personality dissorder (who spawned 2853, as I did jokingly encourage the main personality to be named Kane/Caine), and finally, a phys adept face with his motorcycle of pwnage. They will probably lead to more rules as we push the boundries of sanity and reason. Any further stories, PM me and I'll share them, as well as info about openings if you are wanting to get in on this madness

This post has been edited by Queek: Aug 5 2010, 05:20 PM

My Troll doesn't even keep porn on his commlink. His gremlins are just that bad. We've come to believe that his commlink has been possessed.

2859: As a GM, I may not attach a malevolent spirit to the comm of anyone with Gremlins.

Edit: 2859a: I may not do this as a magician either.

Yet another cog in the machine that makes the story in question a comic book SO bad it has become the Plan 9 of graphic novels.

Actually, I believe your troll blurted out that all his porn was analog...

Yes.

Yes he did.

On the other hand, attaching a BENEVOLENT one who simply curses at the magician in his doomed quest to keep his devices working would be funny ^^

well, that's easy... they aren't really hitler, just his clone (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

2860: As a GM, I'm not allowed to let the people with gremlins run rampant during the planning sessions. Though this is hillarious, this produces list fodder

Get it right, she should also have a sythetic lower cyberarm with a cybergun and a single cybereye with various bells and whistles.

Edit: Good series, just going though the most recent one at the moment

2861: I will not conduct overt Shadowruns against the UCAS Navy in Seattle. They can call in CAS from the Supercarrier Group, and we really don't want to admit that we got our hoops handed to us by Colin Powell. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif)

Perhaps Illinois Nazis?

"I hate Illinois Nazis." *Puts car into drive*

2862: The Blues Brothers are -not- an acceptable inspiration for any group that will be facing Humanis Policlub
2862a: Neither is the Producers
2863: I am no longer to taunt the Humanis Policlub by blaring Springtime for Hitler, even though it would be hilarious
2863a: I am no longer allowed to taunt enemies with -anything- from a Mel Brooks movie

2864: I am not allowed to constantly call the GM's new NPC by the name of the TV/movie/book/anime character he ripped off, but must use the actual name of the character.
2865: I am not allowed to use OBB* to kill a PC if they steadfastly refuse to call the NPC by his actual name, but rather by some random name he made up.**
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* Orbital Bovine Bombardment...it's when you, as a GM, kill the player by dropping a cow on them from orbit.
** One of my players has a very, very bad habit of ignoring the detailed and well thought-out names I've created for every NPC which takes into account cadence, root meanings, alliteration, and subtle clues...and calling everyone "Bob", "Neil", "Jeff", etc.

2866: If I have a chance to make Humanis Policlub members to fight amongst themselves, I am -not- to pass it up.

What? Someone had to post an opportunity that shouldn't be passed up sort of thing

2867: I am forbidden from giving a psychotic character skills in explosives, chemsitry, disguise, and various build/repair skills for the sole purpose of making innocent looking devices of doom...
2867b: Even if it does discourage the freeloader face from staying at my character's home
2867c: No exceptions, the exploding deoderant stick assination resulted in a GM sanity check

This is a fairly standard problem, actually.

2852c: And Bella, don't forget Bella (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

2866: As a GM, I am not allowed to name the NPCs impossible to pronounce names, in order to violate 2865 with a clear conscience
2867: As a GM, I am not allowed to name every NPC in my campaign things that are incredibly simple. This kills the ambience of the game, though it leads to fewer violations of 2865
2868: As a GM, I am no longer allowed to put a kitteh and a resonant kitten in the hands of the same group. This goes double for a group who has a group member with any form of item that is altered via PAN
2869: As a GM, I am no longer allowed to play around with kittehs, kittens, cats, or anything remotely resembling a feline in my adventures. My pestcat addiction needs to stop sometime
2869a: This doesn't apply to me as a player however

2866a: Naming people after Welsh towns counts, even if the Welsh can pronounce them.