Jan 9 2009, 07:59 PM
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So anonymity is getting crampingly complicated for me. Buy a new SIN every few weeks, keep multiple SINs for different purposes -- casual lifestyle, meeting Johnsons, etc. etc, use nanopaste disguises and a throwaway commlink on meets/runs, blast all your RFID tags, except your street clothes, because not having tags draws attention otherwise. Thank God material links are gone, or you'd need a mage to cast sterilize every 20 feet. Other stuff I've forgotten, which is the point. I've forgotten. Shadowrunners probably keep notebooks (stored on their super secret heavily encrypted disguised to look like an emotitoy commlink that only works when it's within 30 feet of an RFID tag that you've stored in your safehouse just outside Seattle proper that can only be reached by swimming through an underground tunnel in a cave with a 2 foot wide entrance) to know what to do every week, but I'd rather not. It interrupts the flow of the game.
So I'm thinking of creating a personal rule that you can buy anonymity as a lifestyle mod. Maybe someone's had this idea already and you can point me to the thread. It'd be split out like the categories in the Advanced Lifestyle rules in Runner's companion. At street, you don't have a SIN. You live in the Barrens or something and simply cannot visit polite society. At squatter, you're an average joe. You have a single SIN, real or fake, use it for everything, and suffer the total exposure of the modern world. At Low, you replace your SIN every once in a while, maybe your commlink too, etc. etc. What I need is a nice simple mechanic for "Anonymity tests." I'm not sure when or how often it would apply, what events would trigger it, etc. etc. I've never written a custom rule before and I'm looking for help/ideas. Please? |
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fctarbox3 Anonymity as a lifestyle Jan 9 2009, 07:59 PM
BlackHat I like the idea. It makes sense to abstract that s... Jan 9 2009, 09:43 PM
fctarbox3 QUOTE (BlackHat @ Jan 9 2009, 05:43 PM) E... Jan 10 2009, 06:49 AM
DireRadiant Really I would look at it from the other end. That... Jan 9 2009, 09:55 PM
Heath Robinson 2x Security LPs + [Appropriate Paranoia-related Kn... Jan 9 2009, 10:04 PM
child of insanity or you could just set a price they have to pay aft... Jan 10 2009, 08:47 AM
wind_in_the_stones QUOTE (fctarbox3 @ Jan 9 2009, 03:59 PM) ... Jan 10 2009, 06:34 PM
fctarbox3 QUOTE (wind_in_the_stones @ Jan 10 2009, 02... Jan 10 2009, 07:36 PM

wind_in_the_stones QUOTE (fctarbox3 @ Jan 10 2009, 03:36 PM)... Jan 14 2009, 05:33 AM
Rotbart van Dainig QUOTE (wind_in_the_stones @ Jan 10 2009, 07... Jan 11 2009, 07:04 PM
JFixer We've always sort of handled it by the book...... Jan 10 2009, 07:56 PM
Petrie_SMG I think that you have a good idea, depending on ho... Jan 11 2009, 12:07 AM
Hagga Material links weren't so bad. Just use yourse... Jan 11 2009, 12:42 AM
AllTheNothing QUOTE (fctarbox3 @ Jan 9 2009, 08:59 PM) ... Jan 11 2009, 09:14 PM
Hagga QUOTE (AllTheNothing @ Jan 11 2009, 10:14... Jan 12 2009, 01:28 AM
AllTheNothing QUOTE (Hagga @ Jan 12 2009, 02:28 AM) Tha... Jan 14 2009, 10:11 PM
Larme IMO, anonymity is not a factor on the streets. In... Jan 11 2009, 02:11 AM
fctarbox3 QUOTE (Hagga @ Jan 10 2009, 08:42 PM) Mat... Jan 11 2009, 06:12 AM
hobgoblin while not reading all the posts here, i would say ... Jan 11 2009, 02:39 AM
Hagga I've seen it mentioned in a few splat and sour... Jan 11 2009, 06:59 AM
hyzmarca QUOTE (fctarbox3 @ Jan 9 2009, 02:59 PM) ... Jan 11 2009, 07:36 AM
fctarbox3 QUOTE (hyzmarca @ Jan 11 2009, 03:36 AM) ... Jan 11 2009, 07:56 AM
Larme I don't see how material links should matter a... Jan 11 2009, 08:30 AM
hobgoblin they will potentially track and attack if the runn... Jan 11 2009, 09:17 AM
Larme Oh yeah, good point. They'll try to get back ... Jan 11 2009, 04:18 PM
hobgoblin shit can, and often will, happen... Jan 11 2009, 06:33 PM
Larme Well, you know what they say, shit happening is th... Jan 11 2009, 06:59 PM
Muspellsheimr QUOTE (Rotbart van Dainig @ Jan 11 2009, 12... Jan 11 2009, 09:23 PM
Rotbart van Dainig QUOTE (Muspellsheimr @ Jan 11 2009, 10:23... Jan 11 2009, 10:43 PM
Larme I don't have RC, and the more I hear about it ... Jan 12 2009, 01:12 AM
Heath Robinson Larme,
I think Catalyst just accepts that the Pink... Jan 12 2009, 01:52 AM
hyzmarca That particular section of RC was really a push. F... Jan 12 2009, 02:35 AM
Larme QUOTE (hyzmarca @ Jan 11 2009, 09:35 PM) ... Jan 12 2009, 04:42 AM

AllTheNothing QUOTE (Larme @ Jan 12 2009, 05:42 AM) Hoo... Jan 14 2009, 10:16 PM
Rotbart van Dainig QUOTE (hyzmarca @ Jan 12 2009, 03:35 AM) ... Jan 12 2009, 07:03 AM
Larme Anger... taking over!
Anyway, it seems like t... Jan 12 2009, 01:05 PM
AllTheNothing QUOTE (Larme @ Jan 12 2009, 02:05 PM) Ang... Jan 14 2009, 10:36 PM
Larme QUOTE (AllTheNothing @ Jan 14 2009, 05:36... Jan 15 2009, 02:51 AM
Blade I think that what they're trying to express is... Jan 14 2009, 10:25 AM
AllTheNothing QUOTE (Blade @ Jan 14 2009, 11:25 AM) I t... Jan 14 2009, 10:49 PM
ornot Can I have my cookie?
Mr. Furious from Mystery Me... Jan 15 2009, 01:15 PM
Larme QUOTE (ornot @ Jan 15 2009, 08:15 AM) Can... Jan 15 2009, 08:28 PM
Drogos I would contend that the only canon level of secur... Jan 15 2009, 01:37 PM![]() ![]() |
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