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Should low Essence values influence mental health?
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Serbitar
post Jan 7 2007, 01:14 AM
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Should low Essence values lead to paranoia, phobia, and other things. Since SR3 this is not mentioned any more, except in cyberzombies.
What do you say?
Would you want guidelines for mental illnesses, phobia, anti-social behaviour, sociapathism, coldness and so on?
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- Serbitar   Do you want cyberware to affect psychology?   Jan 7 2007, 01:14 AM
- - fistandantilus3.0   I think that it should. I ran a game once with a c...   Jan 7 2007, 01:17 AM
- - Slump   If anything, low essence should affect stamina and...   Jan 7 2007, 01:19 AM
- - Jaid   i suppose it all depends on how you look at it. i...   Jan 7 2007, 01:20 AM
- - Serbitar   Just a remark: This is not about realism. This is ...   Jan 7 2007, 01:22 AM
- - fistandantilus3.0   the Cybertechnology of cuorse has that nice piece ...   Jan 7 2007, 01:34 AM
- - Trigger   I personally think that a large amount of cyberwar...   Jan 7 2007, 01:46 AM
- - Catharz Godfoot   If anything, using too much VR/BTL, especially rig...   Jan 7 2007, 01:47 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Catharz Godfoot) If anything, using too muc...   Jan 7 2007, 01:51 AM
- - Serbitar   Sure, this is not about forcing players, but to ma...   Jan 7 2007, 01:52 AM
- - Fortune   The first part of Catharz' post is valid as we...   Jan 7 2007, 01:56 AM
- - Jack Kain   Mechanically characters are already punished for h...   Jan 7 2007, 01:56 AM
- - fistandantilus3.0   too many dice to roll that way. What I would p...   Jan 7 2007, 02:01 AM
- - Serbitar   Again: This is not about forcing things on players...   Jan 7 2007, 02:03 AM
- - Glyph   (Edit - posted before Serbitar's last post) O...   Jan 7 2007, 02:06 AM
- - Jaid   QUOTE (Jack Kain) And Jaid if anything cyberware w...   Jan 7 2007, 02:47 AM
- - Shrike30   I would like to see specific pieces of cyberware h...   Jan 7 2007, 02:49 AM
- - Serbitar   Yes, at first this was all about essence. But I re...   Jan 7 2007, 02:54 AM
- - Jaid   hmmm... you know, it wasn't that long ago some...   Jan 7 2007, 02:57 AM
- - Trigger   Actually I have been wanting to write some more SR...   Jan 7 2007, 03:01 AM
- - Catharz Godfoot   QUOTE (Serbitar) QUOTE Besides: I think a co...   Jan 7 2007, 03:56 AM
- - Banaticus   The smarter than normal guy would be like a Mentat...   Jan 7 2007, 04:20 AM
- - Crusher Bob   Mostly I vote no on such things because too many p...   Jan 7 2007, 04:33 AM
- - Catharz Godfoot   QUOTE The smarter than normal guy would be like a ...   Jan 7 2007, 05:03 AM
- - Banaticus   QUOTE (Catharz Godfoot) QUOTE The smarter than nor...   Jan 7 2007, 05:17 AM
- - emo samurai   No, more like adepts that take 3-d memory and phot...   Jan 7 2007, 06:04 AM
- - FrankTrollman   Everything that a player character does in Shadowr...   Jan 7 2007, 06:32 AM
- - Rotbart van Dainig   And of course, as loss of essence means loss of em...   Jan 7 2007, 06:54 AM
- - Crusher Bob   There are plenty of people who spend much more tim...   Jan 7 2007, 07:20 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Crusher Bob) Fortune (used) to spend tremen...   Jan 7 2007, 07:25 AM
- - Blade   I voted no, but what I mean is that I like it the ...   Jan 7 2007, 12:50 PM
- - nezumi   I support that and I also support magic having a s...   Jan 7 2007, 02:18 PM
- - Serbitar   QUOTE (Blade) I voted no, but what I mean is that ...   Jan 7 2007, 04:21 PM
- - Thane36425   There was a now defenct Cyberpunk game that had a ...   Jan 7 2007, 04:57 PM
- - Thane36425   QUOTE (nezumi) I support that and I also support m...   Jan 7 2007, 05:02 PM
- - Banaticus   No, I thought the general tone was that technology...   Jan 7 2007, 05:17 PM
- - Blade   QUOTE (Serbitar) QUOTE (Blade @ Jan 7 2007, 0...   Jan 7 2007, 06:51 PM
- - Serbitar   Ah sure, sorry, I was talking SR4.   Jan 7 2007, 06:53 PM
- - Rotbart van Dainig   QUOTE (Serbitar)QUOTE (Blade) I voted no, but what...   Jan 7 2007, 07:11 PM
- - Banaticus   QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig) QUOTE (SR4v3 @ p....   Jan 7 2007, 07:22 PM
- - nezumi   QUOTE (Thane36425) There was a now defenct Cyberpu...   Jan 7 2007, 07:26 PM
- - vipox   I have never quite understood why getting a dataja...   Jan 7 2007, 07:32 PM
- - Serbitar   QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig @ Jan 7 2007, 11:11...   Jan 7 2007, 07:38 PM
- - Dissonance   Well, the datajack playing with your mind makes so...   Jan 7 2007, 08:25 PM
- - nezumi   I don't know why Dissonance, but that really e...   Jan 8 2007, 12:37 AM
- - Crusher Bob   More random stuff: In general, part of the assump...   Jan 8 2007, 10:25 AM
- - TBRMInsanity   I think it is important to add the mental effects ...   Jan 8 2007, 01:13 PM
- - 2bit   QUOTE (vipox) I have never quite understood why ge...   Jan 8 2007, 03:00 PM
- - Catharz Godfoot   QUOTE (Crusher Bob @ Jan 8 2007, 05:25 AM) In...   Jan 8 2007, 03:08 PM
- - nezumi   One thing they described was that having cyber eye...   Jan 8 2007, 03:46 PM
- - Rotbart van Dainig   Yet again, this feeling of distance is actually so...   Jan 8 2007, 04:15 PM
- - FlakJacket   QUOTE (Serbitar)Would you want guidelines for ment...   Jan 8 2007, 04:31 PM
- - TBRMInsanity   QUOTE (vipox) I have never quite understood why ge...   Jan 8 2007, 06:06 PM
- - nezumi   QUOTE (TBRMInsanity) QUOTE (vipox @ Jan 7 200...   Jan 8 2007, 06:47 PM
- - vipox   QUOTE (nezumi) QUOTE (TBRMInsanity @ Jan 8 20...   Jan 8 2007, 08:45 PM
- - Dissonance   Exactly. They're called Street Samurai becaus...   Jan 9 2007, 12:15 AM
- - Thane36425   There could be a two tiered approach to how cyberw...   Jan 9 2007, 12:59 AM
- - Thane36425   There could be a two tiered approach to how cyberw...   Jan 9 2007, 01:00 AM
- - ornot   This is an interesting thread... I especially like...   Jan 9 2007, 01:14 AM
- - Fortune   This type of thing might make for an interesting ...   Jan 9 2007, 01:18 AM
- - fistandantilus3.0   cyber-sensitive: -5 -20. Character's psyche is...   Jan 9 2007, 01:22 AM
- - Thane36425   QUOTE (fistandantilus3.0) cyber-sensitive: -5 -20....   Jan 9 2007, 01:31 AM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Thane36425) There are already rules about p...   Jan 9 2007, 01:42 AM
- - fistandantilus3.0   I think he is thinking the previous editions. The...   Jan 9 2007, 01:46 AM
- - Thane36425   QUOTE (fistandantilus3.0) I think he is thinking t...   Jan 9 2007, 01:53 AM
- - ornot   Penalising all essence loss restricts tech based f...   Jan 9 2007, 01:55 AM
- - NightRain   QUOTE (Thane36425) This difference could explain w...   Jan 9 2007, 01:57 AM
- - Thane36425   QUOTE (NightRain) QUOTE (Thane36425 @ Jan 9 2...   Jan 9 2007, 02:00 AM
- - ShadowDragon8685   I think maybe all good Shadowrunners should have a...   Jan 9 2007, 04:01 AM
- - Nasrudith   QUOTE (ShadowDragon8685) I think maybe all good Sh...   Jan 9 2007, 04:08 AM
- - ShadowDragon8685   Save his life a couple of times. Hire runners of y...   Jan 9 2007, 04:56 AM
- - WhiskeyMac   I voted yes but I think it should be based on the ...   Jan 10 2007, 10:38 PM
- - eidolon   Voted yes. Core concept of the genre, to me.   Jan 11 2007, 12:33 AM
- - hyzmarca   All Shadowrunners should have a dead shrink as a c...   Jan 11 2007, 12:41 AM
- - Glyph   As far as the military and corporate people go, th...   Jan 11 2007, 02:29 AM
- - nezumi   QUOTE (hyzmarca) All Shadowrunners should have a d...   Jan 11 2007, 02:35 AM


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