Hi, I want to run an SR4 game over IM., Or whatever other program you want. Options

[emo samurai]

The rules will be this:

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450 BP.

No chargen caps on positive/negative qualities.

The last stat point does not cost 25 BP but 10

Skills and stats can all go up to 6 without penalties.

You can spend all your BP's on stats, if you'd like.

Post chargen stat caps are the same as chargen ones, but after chargen, all skill and skill group caps are at 9.

The cap for skills is 9 at chargen with the Aptitude quality for that skill and 12 out of chargen.

At chargen, skills cost 2 BP per point, groups cost 5 BP, and stats cost 10 BP.

After chargen, skills cost the rating you want to raise them to, groups cost twice the rating, and stats cost 3 times the rating.

For cash for Karma, skill karma costs 2,500 :nuyen:, stats cost 5,000 :nuyen:, and you can't buy Edge or Magic with cash for karma.

Orichalcum now allows you to shave 2 karma per unit off of bonding costs. You can buy half a unit.

Creating a focus from scratch, harvesting all the telesma for a focus, designing the formula, and enchanting it using materials you collected and made radical, will reduce the karma multiplier by 2. So power foci will cost 6 times the force instead of 8. But this is only if you do the whole shebang yourself. Otherwise, you get no odd benefits. This means sustaining foci will be completely free if you do this. Of course, "free" means 3 months of designing, harvesting, and enchanting.

Each exotic telesma you integrate into the focus that isn't there to pay off a critical glitch reduces the multiplier by 1. Finding one is an adventure in and of itself.

Complex forms come in at Resonance and level up with Resonance. They cost 3 BP and 5 karma. They balance against hackers because hackers can shoot technomancers in the head.

You get 4 X charisma in contact BP for free.

Plus, you get 7500 :nuyen: per BP.

And no availability limits on equipment.

No limits on spells and complex forms.

Banishing produces no drain, but gives magic loss if the spirit gets net hits. It's infinite utility and high risk this way.

New magical group creation rules:There's a "central" tradition whose centrality to the group will have no bearing on anything outside of group creation. The group has to have at least one magician of the "central" tradition. The negative modifier to creating the group for each extra tradition will be variable based on how much it diverges from the central tradition. For example, if you had a hermetic central tradition and you wanted to admit Gardnerian Wiccans, you'd have no modifiers and they could even join after group creation. Same for chaos mages. Chaos magic will have few traditions with which it would have that lack of a modifier, but it will have at most a -1 modifier with any other tradition. Hermeticism will only have a -1 with Wuxing, and a -2 with hedge witchcraft. And so on, and so forth.

The improved attribute power only costs .5 PP if you aren't maxed out and 1 PP if you are, and the improved skill power gives an extra automatic hit instead of an extra dice.

In fact, I'm using all the adept creation rules that I made in this thread.

Oh, and here are my rules for aspected magicians:

10 BP.

Free initiation grade at chargen.

Can't use summoning, or can't use spellcasting. Choose one.

Other than that, BBB rules.

We'll meet on Saturdays at 12 noon Midwestern American time. My AIM name is NinjaPhilosopher.

[Fortune]

[krayola red]

Do I dare...?

[emo samurai]

Yes, yes you do.

[krayola red]

Hell, I guess what don't kill you only makes you stronger. Let's do it. :)

Dibs on the hacker/technomancer slot. I've been itching to give the new matrix rules a test drive.

[emo samurai]

Fuck... I'm thinking of having FanGirl play...

Oh well, you have dibs, and I think she could play something else.

[krayola red]

Actually, she can totally play the haxx0r if she wants to. I was mainly going to focus on the drone control aspect of hacking anyway, until I realized that the core book has like all of two pages on rigging. I think I'll wait until Unwired is released before rolling up a hacker.

What happened to FanGirl anyway? Haven't seen 'er around lately.

[emo samurai]

What will you play in the meantime? That'll happen in, like, a year, and I'm not waiting a year to start this thing.

[krayola red]

There's a very loose concept of a gunbunny/face character that's been bouncing around in my mind for awhile. I'll see if I can come up with some numbers.

Incidentally...

[emo samurai]

I didn't think about that...

I'll make the defense pool (1/2) intuition+reaction+dodge, now that you mention it.

[krayola red]

Izzat for melee or ranged?

[emo samurai]

Ranged.

[krayola red]

So if you go full defense, you get 1/2 intuition + reaction + dodge + dodge?

[emo samurai]

Oh no, you only get + dodge. If you go normal, you get 1/2 Intuition + Reaction.

And non-full defense without cover is supposed to suck, so maybe I'll get rid of this.

[krayola red]

Don't get rid of it! It's no fun one-shotting grunts who can't even put up a fight.

Anyway, character coming soon. Looks like we're still a few players short of a full roster though. :)

[emo samurai]

I just started actively recruiting on the main forums. I'm also calling in my friends from college. So we'll be fine. :D

[Grinder]

Ok, if I have the time on sunday (and figure out how AIM works) I'll try to join. It's 7PM here, according to emosamurai.

What's your plan, how long will the game run?

[emo samurai]

For as long as I can keep it up. I'm thinking long-term character development with a lot of solo adventuring.

[krayola red]

Sounds tasty.

[emo samurai]

OOHHHHH yesssss....

[Grinder]

I'm sorry, I have to pull out. Just got the confirmation that I and a friend are going to see Hatebreed on sunday night. Sorry for that, but if it's possible to join the game on a later date I'm willing to do so. :)

[emo samurai]

It's probably not starting this Sunday, so go ahead and make a character.

[Grinder]

Can I get more BP? :D

Hm, I'm going for sammie or ki-ad, don't know.

Where do we run, setting-wise?

[emo samurai]

Seattle, of course.

And as a question for you guys and anybody who posts here in the future, how much of my campaign and character threads did you read?

[Grinder]

Of course :D