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Eyeless Blond
post Jan 27 2008, 06:58 AM
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What do you think are the most useless pieces of cyberware/bioware/nanoware in the SR3 books? In this case, "too bad" means that it is insufficiently useful in some manner (for example by providing negligible benefits (or detriments outweighing benefits), by having a cost in nuyen or Essence that is too high to justify the benefits it provides, or by being too narrowly applicable), or is rendered worthless by one or more pieces of gear (cyber or non-cyber) being strictly or almost strictly better than it.

Canonical examples include:

Move-By-Wire, which is fantastically expensive in cash and Essence while also being a one-way ticket to the grave
Cyberhorns and Cyberfangs (for being almost strictly worse than the bare fist)
Math SPU ratings other than 3, for being so close to the SPU 3 in costs but meaningfully less in benefits
The Adrenal Pump, for having a bad trigger and also for the punishing "drain"
Pain Editor, for having no effect whatsoever on Physical damage while having penalties other anti-wound-penalty gear doesn't get. Additional penalty points for not working on injuries that High Pain Tolerance will work on.

Others?

(Note: This thread is an offshoot of the SR3R -- Shadowrun Revised project. The project is being hosted elsewhere, to divorce concerns over copyright from Dumpshock, but topics like this I feel are perfectly fine on these boards, and may help garner more responses. If you prefer, you are more than welcome to register on the SR3R forum and post there; we would love to have more fresh bodies working on this project.)
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- Eyeless Blond   Broken Cyberware—too bad   Jan 27 2008, 06:58 AM
- - Grinder   Cyberlimbs. Too expensive (both in money and essen...   Jan 27 2008, 02:55 PM
- - Fix-it   QUOTE (Grinder) Cyberlimbs. Too expensive (both in...   Jan 27 2008, 03:55 PM
- - Stahlseele   needed fixing, done in SR4 . . just bribe your GM ...   Jan 27 2008, 04:46 PM
- - Snow_Fox   Isn't there a similar thread about bads cyber ...   Jan 27 2008, 05:21 PM
- - Kagetenshi   It's only similar in the most tenuous of ways....   Jan 27 2008, 05:32 PM
- - Fortune   QUOTE (Snow_Fox) Isn't there a similar thread ...   Jan 28 2008, 02:41 AM
- - Eyeless Blond   Headware radio/phone?   Jan 29 2008, 03:28 AM
- - ShadowDragon8685   QUOTE (Eyeless Blond) Headware radio/phone? Ac...   Jan 29 2008, 04:07 AM
- - Kagetenshi   "So why do they call you Mr. Signal?" ...   Jan 29 2008, 04:22 AM
- - ShadowDragon8685   Hey, it could be worse. They might have sabotaged...   Jan 29 2008, 04:25 AM
- - Ravor   I seem to recall reading a story once where a runn...   Jan 29 2008, 04:34 PM
- - Siege   Which reminds me of one of the funnier jokes to co...   Jan 30 2008, 12:27 AM
- - mfb   VCR, at least in its current form. it's too mu...   Jan 30 2008, 01:12 AM
- - Kagetenshi   Duh buh wha? You sure you didn't mean to post...   Jan 30 2008, 01:42 AM
- - Mercer   Sometimes "bad" means "good".   Jan 30 2008, 01:51 AM
- - mfb   the VCR is not too good, in terms of what it can d...   Jan 30 2008, 01:59 AM
- - Link   The VCR's power has gradually crept up through...   Jan 30 2008, 03:30 AM
- - Kagetenshi   Well, that brings up another problem, which is tha...   Jan 30 2008, 03:56 AM
- - Link   The rules for driving tests say that they are only...   Jan 31 2008, 02:27 AM
- - ShadowDragon8685   Link, I'm fairly certain the problem is that a...   Jan 31 2008, 04:49 AM
- - Kagetenshi   QUOTE (Link) The rules for driving tests say that ...   Jan 31 2008, 06:03 AM
- - ShadowDragon8685   No, it really dosen't. That would mean one out...   Jan 31 2008, 09:09 AM
- - Eyeless Blond   And don't you have to make the check every thr...   Jan 31 2008, 12:47 PM
- - Herald of Verjigorm   It means one out of three would not be a clean and...   Jan 31 2008, 11:28 PM
- - Link   QUOTE (Kagetenshi) Slightly over 66% of the time, ...   Feb 1 2008, 02:49 AM
- - Kagetenshi   QUOTE (Link) I need some maths tutoring. When I...   Feb 1 2008, 03:14 AM
- - mmu1   QUOTE (Link @ Jan 31 2008, 10:49 PM) QUOTE (K...   Feb 1 2008, 04:05 AM
- - Stahlseele   and i still stand by my decision that the probabil...   Feb 1 2008, 10:06 AM


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