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 Oct 30 2006, 10:04 PM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 269 Joined: 25-September 06 Member No.: 9,467  |
AR is where it's at for fashion. If I so desired, I could program it that anyone looking at me sees exactly what I want them to see based on their profile / who they are? Prostitutes wearing clothes that cater to particular fetishes, which those with the appropriate fetish can see, or even skimpier clothes for those who have better credit ratings. Nightclubs where every room changes what everyone looks like. In the AR, I wear what I want. Oh you can't see it? Then you obviously have last years designs still plugged in.
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Oct 30 2006, 10:26 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Even though I'm not a huge fan of AR, that has to be one of the most interesting suggestions for its use that I've ever seen.
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Oct 30 2006, 11:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 18-September 06 From: Chicago (CZ) Member No.: 9,422 |
I agree, SURGE too is a big one to mention. What happened to it? How has it changed the world since the comet?
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Oct 31 2006, 01:34 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,598 Joined: 24-May 03 Member No.: 4,629 |
We should take a poll about SURGE sometime. In the result I'd like to see, the effects lasted for a year-ish after the Comet passed (if that long) then went away. Note that the in-game run at teh beginning of the book has a Troll who was a normal human and then Goblinized due to the comet... It isn't unprecedented to Goblinize later in life, and a big mana surge like teh comet coul dhave done it, but is it a comet effect (SURGE) or a 'mana hit a threshhold' level, like normal Goblinization was? Luckily, it can go either way. -- Wak, in the "No SURGE please," camp. |
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Oct 31 2006, 03:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 18-September 06 From: Chicago (CZ) Member No.: 9,422 |
Festivals and party culture would be a cool topic to cover. IE: the grand ball in england, Carnival and Cinco de Mayo.
The Olympics making a comeback in Seattle (Denver or Chicago) would be interesting. Baseball breaking the metahuman barrier? The list for opportunities goes on but pary culture would be another issue to address in a SOTA 70' |
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Oct 31 2006, 10:53 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: 19-May 03 From: In your base eating your food. Member No.: 4,607 |
Hey I like SURGE, it allows me to play all the odd characters I've always wanted legitimately. Of course that never stopped me before. :D |
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Oct 31 2006, 10:56 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 394 Joined: 19-May 03 From: In your base eating your food. Member No.: 4,607 |
Except you don't have to run anywhere. Beer in one hand, binoculars in the other. Soon there's one less spirit around and nobody's the wiser who did it. |
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Oct 31 2006, 11:04 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,526 Joined: 9-April 06 From: McGuire AFB, NJ Member No.: 8,445 |
Might be the guy with a beer and binoculars who was prepared to see something. :D
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Nov 1 2006, 07:24 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537 |
IIRC, Runner Havens mentions that Seattle Metroplex and Salish-Shidhe Council are to host the 2074 Summer Games together. |
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Nov 1 2006, 07:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 858 Joined: 25-August 03 From: Braunschweig, North German League, Allied German States Member No.: 5,537 |
In Street Magic an Animus Free Spirit is mentioned who actually works as a sculptor. It seems his works are well sought-after and quite expensive... |
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Nov 1 2006, 07:27 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 18-September 06 From: Chicago (CZ) Member No.: 9,422 |
I'll shut up then. Great moment for the awakened world I'm sure it will measue how far we have come :-) |
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Nov 1 2006, 09:40 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...ahh, the "Season" as it is called. Actually ran a fluff role play session which took place at one of the balls (The Grande Estate Ball to be exact which was Leela's "Coming Out").
I thought it did. In Shadowbeat there is a picture of an Orc in uniform holding a bat and the Tir Taringire also has a team - The Portland Lords - which no doubt has only elves on its roster. |
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Nov 1 2006, 09:48 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Though there is no supposed metahuman barrier in MLB, only Orcs, Elves and Humans are allowed on the teams' rosters. Trolls and Dwarves have their own professional leagues.
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Nov 1 2006, 10:04 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
>>>>>[Well of course they do. Everybody knows that it's just not fair that a Troll's strike zone is so big and a Dwarf's is too small. It's not racism, it's just keeping unfair advantages from occurring in the MLB.]<<<<<
- Pitcher 16:04:21/11-01-70 |
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Nov 1 2006, 10:48 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
>>>>>[Besides - think of the amount of juice an elf would have to take to get to the baseline of a troll? And legs like that, trolls would have to have bases twice as far! Besides, no one wants to see giant green scaly buggers ruinin' the good ol' MLB....]<<<<<
- Southern_Cross 19:23:23/11-01-70 |
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Nov 2 2006, 12:13 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 18-September 06 From: Chicago (CZ) Member No.: 9,422 |
LOL so I stand corrected by many people its been a while since shadowbeat
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Nov 2 2006, 12:49 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,598 Joined: 24-May 03 Member No.: 4,629 |
If ever an old sourcebook needed a new release, Shadowbeat is it.
When's the last time anyone in *your* game played a reporter, rabble-rouser, or professional musician? |
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Nov 2 2006, 01:39 AM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Some people don't want to play someone who is in legit work. Its hard to justify being on a shadowrun when you're a reporter. Others are unaware of the fact that wired 2 and smartlinked submachine guns are standard issue for on-air personalities. |
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Nov 2 2006, 01:47 AM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...I second that. My last Shadowbeat based Character (and one of my personal favourites) was Lana Lane Ace Reporter (SR3). Our GM used the Shadowbeat rules for Pix & Punch as written. For Leela, we made Music Performance an active instead of knowledge skill (since it was technically her real profession) and followed the guidelines for performance impact. Her debut concert rating at New Festival Hall in London was 98, placing it at "Novastar" level (in the classical sense of course). Seing that she could make a very comfortable living concertising and recording (without having someone shooting at her cute little butt all the time), she retired from shadowrunning and eventually went on to become Europe's hottest classical keyboard artist. |
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Nov 2 2006, 04:03 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
...a reporter can make an excellent Face, she is usually set up to do better research and legwork, often has really useful contacts, and often able to gain to hard to enter areas for recon without making a scene. A reporter (as I proved with Lana Lane) can be a valuable asset to a runner team. Of course, they still need a little edge in the way of speed just to keep up & at least be able to shoot a gun if necessary. |
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Nov 2 2006, 04:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 340 Joined: 18-September 06 From: Chicago (CZ) Member No.: 9,422 |
One thing I'm verry currious about and think would be worth while to see in SR culture is protest music and media. I think it would be something cool to see if i third world nation staged an earth shattering coup through protest music and cinema (think Cuba, Jamacia, USA during the 60's and 70's, along with revolutionary artists like Lennon, Hendrix, Marley and even throw a little Parliment in there for shits and giggles).
Who would become big name performers of music? How would a leader present documentary sims to the masses that show the tyrany of the big corps without selling out his integrity. What groups would back the movement? Where would this take place? Would the revolution work? Better yet would it last (those wacky elves have gotten the biz handed to them) or would there be tibetian massacares like the asian kid ran over by the tank? Man the possibilties are endless with a metaplot sceme like that at the attention of everyone in the 6th world. My suggestion of places where it could manifest, Africa (the only continent that has never gotten a SB but has been mentioned more and more over the years). Plus something like this could take SR back to the roots of 1st and 2nd ed. Make things grittier and cyber punk again instead of awakened and cutting edge. Edit: BTW that could be included in a new shadowbeat, I to agree that a reporter would be a smooth face character. I would love to see rocker come back the last one I heard of was "Crime time" (I would love to meet the guy who came up with him i got ?'s to ask) Comments? |
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Nov 2 2006, 04:30 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
I was bemoaning the loss of the Rockerboi a couple weeks ago.
Bring back Shadowbeat!! |
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Nov 2 2006, 06:26 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,598 Joined: 24-May 03 Member No.: 4,629 |
On the one side, you have prefab musical groups pushed out of corporate enclaves ala Disney artists (Which, I suppose, means that Aztechnology is behind most of teh prefab bands in 2070 ... does there evil know no bounds?!) and teh 'edgy' corporate bands who are just as manufactured, but hide it somewhat better. (Screw those boy bands, I'm listening to this edgey alternative band! Wooo, I'm free of manipulative shackles!) On the other are the underground artists (Who quietly want to sell out but never admit to it) and the handful of big artists who survived the dispoable 'Idoru' culture and came out as actual stars. That a runner could very well say "Mercurial? Aw man, that was before I was born!" should show that we're due for a few new bands at this stage. :) Of course, there's bound to be a 'Pornomancer' style musician or three in bidness by now. And that... is kind of terrifying. |
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Nov 2 2006, 07:45 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
What loss? If you want them, you can have them. You don't need a badly-designed Archetype in order to include them in your games.
I agree. Just leave out those inane rules. :D |
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Nov 2 2006, 07:54 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
Yeah, but if they aren't in the sample characters, no one is gonna think to play them except oldschool fools. ;) I mean, really, that's not a concept a sane person comes up with and tries to play, without prompting. |
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