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[Aaron]

Actually, if I was playing a pix' at a Scramble event, I'd wear one of those (real-life) bunraku full-body suits and interact with other players through a pixie-sized puppet.

[Leofski]

I'm pretty sure you could get small kids clothes to fit a pixie. They're meant to average ~45cm so shopping in the 3 year olds aisle is on the cards.

I would maintain that having no arms or legs is a bigger disadvantage in the sixth world. That house in Caerleon really must be an engineering marvel.

[Aaron]

I'm pretty sure you could get small kids clothes to fit a pixie. They're meant to average ~45cm so shopping in the 3 year olds aisle is on the cards.

Out of curiosity, how many three-year-olds have you met that are a bit shy of 18" in height?

According to this birth chart, almost all (non-premie, I assume) newborns are over 45 cm when they're born. So in theory a pixie could get newborn sizes, but the proportions would be way off.

[jklst14]

45 cm is actually about the height of a newborn baby - which would relegate pixies to wearing just bibs, onesies and little t-shirts that say "World's Cutest lil' Shadowrunner"

[Leofski]

Children are much larger than I thought. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sarcastic.gif)



But Dwarf babies are that size! Honest!

[hermit]

Desktop Forge + Edit Program = Pixie-sized clothes

[Bull]

Bull, if you show up to the Scramble wearing Tinkerbell wings, I'll give you a free Karma/Gear/Contact/etc. transfer. But, I NEED pictures. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif)

Hah! I may take you up on that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Actually, my thought was... Make a Sprite character, and take a 6/6 contact that's basically a full time bodyguard. And for the LARP, *I* would actually be the NPC Bodyguard, but I'd have a little puppet or maybe a GI Joe/Barbie Doll for the actual Sprite character (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

<grin>

Bull

[Muspellsheimr]

I am loving the Changlings - a lot of customization & specialties you can do with it while still remaining "human". However, there seems to be one Metagenic quality missing - you have available a tail, horns, extra arms, additional organs, etc, but no wings. As such, I intend to make such a Metagenic quality, but would greatly appreciate developer input on appropriate costs & balance issues.

As an initial rough-draft, I have the following:

Winged
Cost: 10 or 15 BP
A pair of wings grow from the character's shoulders or back; these may be scaly (like a dragon), feathered (like a bird), or leathery (like a bat). At a cost of 10 BP, the character is capable of flight at a rate equal to their base land speed. At 15 BP, they can fly at twice their base land speed. A character with this quality gains access to the Flight skill.

[Ancient History]

Flight in a man-sized creature is extraordinarily difficult from a physics perspective, suffice to say a pair of wings alone wouldn't do the trick. Dragons only manage it through an innate lmagical ability.

[Muspellsheimr]

It could very well be possible with a specially adapted muscle structure in said wings & shoulders, along with alterations to the bones for lighter weight. Regardless if it is fully possible through biology or not, many of the SURGE traits are not purely mundane anyways, so such a character could very well have a magical ability similar to that of a dragon to assist.

EDIT: Okay, not nearly as many obviously magical SURGE qualities as I first thought, but still 3 by my count that cannot be attributed purely to biological mutation.

[KCKitsune]

OK stupid question: If you have a cat girl, is she a anthropomorphic cat or is she human with cat ears and a cat tail? If it's just the ears and tail, what trait (positive &/or negative) does the ears?

[Synner]

A changeling cat girl would probably be a Class II or III SURGE example and what traits you give her might vary with the level of expression. Assuming the ears are functional she would probably have the Broad Auditory Spectrum or Keen-Eared quality (for Positive qualities I'd also give her Low light, Claws, Balance tail, Vomeronasal Organ and possibly Satyr legs, for Negative qualities I'd give her Unusual Hair for the cat fur and one Distinctive Style for each glaring cat feature). If the ears are not functional, just assign her a Distinctive Style Negative quality for them.

[Ancient History]

Y'know, there's a bounty on those in Japan.

[Jaid]

Y'know, there's a bounty on those in Japan.

you say that as if the rest of the world doesn't have people with catgirl fetishes...

[Cadmus]

Depends on how you do the counting on those cat girl bountys, japan simply has more bounty offers per square mile (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) mmm sucking chest wound...or fan boys/girls....

[Dumori]

No with cheap travel most if not all anime lover moved to japan as the contry began rounding up catgirls and such.

[Muspellsheimr]

Dragons only manage it through an innate lmagical ability.

New question regarding this - what happens to a dragon's ability to fly if their Magic is reduced to 0 for whatever reason (most likely Background)? Is their 'Innate' magical ability not affected by Background, as it is from them & not ambient mana, or do they draw said ability from the mana & thus can loose it?

[CanRay]

If a Dragon is in that sort of condition, the lack of flight is probably the least of his/her worries!

[Muspellsheimr]

If a dragon is in that kind of condition, their ability to fly may be the difference between life & death.

[hobgoblin]

you say that as if the rest of the world doesn't have people with catgirl fetishes...

or anthropomorphic animals in general...

with at least one graphical chatroom thats run by a couple that married in their "fur" (how i know this puzzles even myself), and one pen and paper rpg with that as a theme, i would say that the japanese interest in cat girls are just a tip of the iceberg.

not that im sure how much this has to do with SR...

[FlakJacket]

Are we going to have an errata thread or should we just post here? The survival tips section introductory fiction on page 20, fifth paragraph last sentence seems to just stop in mid-sentence.

As for the book itself I've only just started skimming through it so I'll leave off commenting for a bit.

Bull, if you show up to the Scramble wearing Tinkerbell wings, I'll give you a free Karma/Gear/Contact/etc. transfer. But, I NEED pictures. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/rotfl.gif)

Oh good Christ no, please don't encourage him. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I'd have to drink a hell of a lot extra booze to help block that image out and considering what the average baseline intake for alcohol is at GenCon that's saying something. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[hobgoblin]

bah, who needs alcohol when one can have a psychedelic trip by just walking the floor?

[Cadmus]

New question regarding this - what happens to a dragon's ability to fly if their Magic is reduced to 0 for whatever reason (most likely Background)? Is their 'Innate' magical ability not affected by Background, as it is from them & not ambient mana, or do they draw said ability from the mana & thus can loose it?

Well given how dragons are connected to magic, I would assume they would either die or go into a coma, it would be like having a zone with 0 mana and you toss a few meta's in to live, the follow generations in a 0 mana area would all be human, no mana, no metas, no mana, no dragons (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[Ancient History]

There's no place on earth that's "zero" mana, and while paracritters whose Magic is reduced to 0 lose access to their paranormal powers, they are not otherwise injured or limited.

[Muspellsheimr]

While I do seem to remember reading somewhere that Paracritters die if their Magic ever reaches 0, I cannot find where, and it also does not really fit with the Infected, who are technically considered Paracritters. If you happen to know where this came from, please provide a quote.
EDIT: Answered Above, but still does not answer my original question - Is a dragon's flight considered a paranormal ability that they can loose from reduced magic?


Also note that being in a Background Count strong enough to reduce a dragon's magic to 0 does not necessarily need to be a Void; A Surge/Storm could work just as well, or a Mana Static spell.