My Assistant
Site Message
(Message will auto close in 2 seconds)
  |
 Is all cyberware wireless? |
 Jan 26 2006, 02:27 PM
Post
#1
|
|
|
Target  Group: Members Posts: 72 Joined: 28-March 05 Member No.: 7,251  |
Half my players don't want to use wireless cyberware. They are afraid someone will hack into their commlink and screw them over. Is there any reason why they can't just use wires to connect everything like the older SR editions? The Horror |
 |
 
|
|
Jan 26 2006, 02:37 PM
Post
#2
|
|
|
Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,486 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Michigan Member No.: 7,180 |
Everything in SR4 is wirelessly enabled. This means you COULD wirelessly connect them. It also states that you can turn the wireless off, or phsyically remove it, if you like - and can certainly use wires or skinlinks to connect your things together instead.
There have been a few threads on possible uses for a wirelessly enabled cyberarm... but I don't think anyone ever came up with one. :-) I think your players have it right, Joe Consumer might want his toaster/lamp/arm/car/toilet wirelessly enabled, but a Shadowrunner has more sense than that. |
|
|
|
|
Jan 26 2006, 02:40 PM
Post
#3
|
|
|
Running, running, running Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,220 Joined: 18-October 04 From: North Carolina Member No.: 6,769 |
possible uses for a wireless arm: to choke that little fragger that just surgically removed it and sat it on the table while begining his cliche'd "evil do'er monolouge"... :silly:
|
|
|
|
|
Jan 26 2006, 02:46 PM
Post
#4
|
|
|
panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
hmm, detachable cyberlimb. why am i thinking about a teen titans episode i watched on cartoon network? maybe its because they where tossed out of their base, but after cyborg had his arm removed. the bad guys actualy put it on the wall as some sort of trophy...
basicly the arm could be remotely controled, and ended up unlocking the base for the group. all this while doing that thing thing. walking around on the fingers and all that... hmm, interesting concept for a drone rigger with a implant comlink :smokin: |
|
|
|
|
Jan 26 2006, 02:55 PM
Post
#5
|
|
|
Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,486 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Michigan Member No.: 7,180 |
Lol, yeah, and not outside the realm of possibility if they actually put rules for an arm-drone in one of the splat-books (un-wired?)... they have drone eyes... why not drone everything else?
|
|
|
|
|
Jan 26 2006, 03:01 PM
Post
#6
|
|
|
panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
hell, you dont realy need a special drone. all you need is for the gm to allow that you can run a drone pilot in your arm :P the fingers can do the movement bit nicely ;)
drone eyes are a diffrent thing, as unless you want it to roll around, you need to have foldable legs or rotors buildt into it. |
|
|
|
|
Jan 26 2006, 03:04 PM
Post
#7
|
|
|
Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,486 Joined: 17-March 05 From: Michigan Member No.: 7,180 |
Well, the arm could move - but probably wouldn't have any sensors built into it... so it would have limited use... unless the GM also ruled that being a "mini" sized drone, it was suddenly gifted with a minidrone sensor capacity of 3. ;-)
|
|
|
|
|
Jan 26 2006, 03:12 PM
Post
#8
|
|
|
panda! Group: Members Posts: 10,331 Joined: 8-March 02 From: north of central europe Member No.: 2,242 |
ah, should have known that not having the book would bite me somehow.
cybereyes and ears buildt into the limb somehow? hmm, realy it dont need to be rigger equiped or a drone at all. it realy just need to be able to route data back and forth. its your cyberlimb after all. just route the neural signals verbatim over the wireless connection :silly: |
|
|
|
|
|
Lo-Fi Version | Time is now: 12th April 2022 - 03:35 PM |
Topps, Inc has sole ownership of the names, logo, artwork, marks, photographs, sounds, audio, video and/or any proprietary material used in connection with the game Shadowrun. Topps, Inc has granted permission to the Dumpshock Forums to use such names, logos, artwork, marks and/or any proprietary materials for promotional and informational purposes on its website but does not endorse, and is not affiliated with the Dumpshock Forums in any official capacity whatsoever.