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Hi, new GM here. Our group has started playing SR3 since someone found all the books they had, and we decided to actually use them.

I have been the GM, and run 2 runs: An on-site datasteal, that the team did pretty well, and a sabotage mission that while successful, ended with one character drowning while trying to swim to shore, and another gunned down by an attack helicopter. All in all, great fun has still been had by the entire group. But I had a few questions:

1. I've been reading the rules, and have read discussions about SR3 on other forums, and I get the impression that the decking rules are broken or something? I don't understand, because after learning the rules, everything seems to work fine so long as my Decker and I are familiar with the system operations (which we decided to use a cheat sheet to keep track of).

I figure most places wouldn't put truly valuable data on the grid, so our Decker has to b&e with the rest of the team. Once in the matrix, I just run everyone's initiative in regular order, matrix or real world.

Basically, I guess my question is, am I doing it wrong? Because I have not had nearly the headache I expected to have when reading on forums about it.

2. Riggers. If a rigger is driving a drone or vehicle, do they get to use control pool to dodge gunfire and use gunnery? Or do they only get to use control pool on driving tests? We are confused over whether drones can dodge, and if so, if you use combat pool or control pool.

2a. Can riggers controlling drones use stealth at all?

3. Not expected to come up anytime soon. Our group likes to have all the cards on the table so to speak, so we're not fans of fiat when it comes to npcs (we are mostly 'S' when it comes to GNS theory). I've read a lot about dragons and great dragons (we have dragons of the sixth world), and while it says dragons and great dragons have very high magic attributes and sorcery skills, it doesn't really give any hard stats. So my question is, what *is* a great dragon's sorcery skill? Unarmed combat?

Again, not likely to ever come up, but I am very curious.

Takk.
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- Hrafn   New GM, a few questions (SR3)   Jan 10 2012, 05:55 AM
- - Moirdryd   1) nope, you're doing the Matrix fine and dand...   Jan 10 2012, 11:48 AM
- - Kagetenshi   QUOTE (Hrafn @ Jan 10 2012, 12:55 AM) 1. ...   Jan 11 2012, 02:06 AM
- - Lindt   Im not entirely sure stealth was covered in respec...   Jan 11 2012, 03:08 AM
- - Hrafn   Thanks guys. Anybody else want to weigh in on the...   Jan 11 2012, 05:39 PM
|- - Bigity   QUOTE (Hrafn @ Jan 11 2012, 11:39 AM) Tha...   Jan 17 2012, 01:18 AM
|- - Kagetenshi   QUOTE (Hrafn @ Jan 11 2012, 12:39 PM) Als...   Nov 10 2022, 04:33 PM
|- - Lionesque   QUOTE (Kagetenshi @ Nov 10 2022, 06:33 PM...   Nov 11 2022, 01:28 PM
- - 3278   QUOTE (Hrafn @ Jan 10 2012, 05:55 AM) 2. ...   Jan 11 2012, 08:46 PM
- - nezumi   QUOTE (Hrafn @ Jan 10 2012, 12:55 AM) Hi,...   Jan 11 2012, 09:40 PM
- - 3278   QUOTE (Hrafn @ Jan 10 2012, 05:55 AM) If ...   Jan 12 2012, 01:35 AM
|- - nezumi   QUOTE (3278 @ Jan 11 2012, 08:35 PM) You ...   Jan 12 2012, 02:50 PM
|- - 3278   QUOTE (nezumi @ Jan 12 2012, 03:50 PM) Co...   Jan 12 2012, 09:41 PM
- - LordHaHa   Rigger 3: "As described on p. 44, SR3, Contro...   Jan 12 2012, 10:33 PM
- - Moirdryd   Lord Haha has the right of it *nods* I;d forgotte...   Jan 13 2012, 01:13 AM
- - Hrafn   What book has the published stats for Rhonabwy?   Jan 13 2012, 01:39 AM
|- - 3278   QUOTE (Hrafn @ Jan 13 2012, 01:39 AM) Wha...   Jan 13 2012, 01:44 AM
- - nezumi   You're right, sorry. We house ruled it to link...   Jan 13 2012, 01:19 PM
- - 3278   No sweat. If I could remember all the book rules ...   Jan 13 2012, 03:38 PM
- - Rajaat99   QUOTE (Hrafn @ Jan 10 2012, 05:55 AM) 1. ...   Jan 16 2012, 11:55 PM
- - Moirdryd   The one in the back of Matrix, with a few notes on...   Jan 17 2012, 12:06 AM
- - Tiralee   Kagetenshi had it cold, btw: Unless you're us...   Nov 27 2022, 09:06 AM


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