Shadowrun needs Power Ranger style physads, Venus Ranger controls your destiny Options

[Wounded Ronin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5ZZa6g8HRo&NR


After watching this clip no doubt existed in my mind that Shadowrun needs Power Ranger style physads. I expect that they'd just be used by the Japanese government against national-level threats. For example, let's say that a team of shadowrunners was on that mission where they have to abduct the child emperor. First the SWAT team and secondly the military and thirdly 50 ninjas fail to stop the runners. Then it's time to send in Venus Ranger.

Any discussion of Shadowrun never happened unless we have rules and statistics to go with it. Therefore, I present rules for:

Power Ranger Suit

The Power Ranger Suit provides 15/10 protection and furthermore its impact armor rating is not halved for the purpose of resisting elemental damage, acids, and so on, but it costs 1,000,000 nuyen to produce and it must be tailored to an individual's body. Because it's skintight and already comes with an enviro-sealed helmet you cannot layer any additional armor with it except for perhaps a shield or some kind. However, it weighs very little and does not penalize the wearer for having an inadequate Quickness, which makes it very popular among government physads. Since there's no obvious way for someone wearing the suit to speak and be heard whenever someone tries to talk while wearing this suit a macho-sounding dubbed version of their voice will play loudly from their general direction, which makes whispering and nuanced talk impossible. (+1 TN to all social tests involving speech while wearing the suit, not counting whatever else the GM may want to lambast you with for looking like a power ranger)

Since the suits are custom tailored to an individual's body it's not possible to steal a suit made for someone else and wear it. If a character gains or loses a lot of weight a new suit is required, which leads to the tantilizing possibility of a suit with a built-in potbelly.

The suit does have one major drawback. Whenever a character wearing the suit is hit by an attack and fails the knockback or knockdown test sparks and smoke fly from the suit briefly which makes stealth a difficult proposition. Furthermore, a character who fails a knockdown test doesn't simply fall down like a normal person. He or she is required to SCREEAAAMM while doing a mobius-esque backflip and landing with a great thud upon the ground while sparks fly everywhere and the suit looks kind of burned in the affected spot. This series of actions requires the player to waste his or her next action. Thus, an entire power ranger team may be neutralized by repeated attacks which knock them down each time.

[PBTHHHHT]

gawd... and if you want to make them ninja rangers, throw in some active camo, some thermo dampeners, etc...

[Wounded Ronin]

I just can't help myself. Here's another. Check out the goofy headgear, and also the passive-aggressive socially acceptable S&M theme they sneak into the trailer with the chain strangulation and the chair electrocution: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAZBEV36Oss...related&search=

[PBTHHHHT]

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Just make them physical adepts so they can do some conjuring of spirits along with some augmented summoning meta power for being an initiate (make one up), give 'em a spirit totem and when they 'conjure' their spirits, it's in the shape of a giant 'zoid' or something.

Then house rule another special thing where they can do a special ritual in which several spirits can combine into one large Spirit of Man (see that other thread somewhere where I made that insane post and I never thought I'd be mentioning it again... :silly:)

[nezumi]

I didn't catch any macho sounding voice. I assume that's based on another cultural reference I'm missing?

I have to admit, somehow the fact that it's FEDERAL Galactic Investigator Cosmo Lady makes it that much more amusing.

[PBTHHHHT]

Finally got back home from the office so I could watch this youtube clip. Oh my goodness... So is it standard regulation for ultra short skirt for their female officers? Wow... :facelick:

[Snow_Fox]

WR, I am going to have to hurt you for this. Now I can't get that out on my mind.

[Herald of Verjig...]

[Wounded Ronin]

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[nezumi]

I like that the helmet has cat ears.

I think you need to modify the original ruleset to include the fact that the power ranger can don the suit using a complex action (spinning around, optionally also yelling out some motivational phrase).

[Smilin_Jack]

[Wounded Ronin]

[PBTHHHHT]

Throw in the use of magic and bound spirits and who knows what you can get. ;-)

[nezumi]

There are a couple options that come to mind. The big one is magic. It's some sort of a spirit suit and always exists on the astral, but manifests on the physical when commanded. Maybe it's always on, but because it uses rhuethimiumum you can't see it. Maybe it somehow bundles up into a few small pieces of equipment that expand using myomer and polymers, to bind together into the suit (the spinning action somehow feeds into the machinary to allow it to work properly). Maybe it's cyberware that's installed below the skin, but only works when it leaves the skin and expands, creating the armor. Maybe the armor is really some sort of photon shield, which is why it's so effective, and so we only "see" and "feel" a constantly charged energy field (which is almost what real matter is anyway, as far as we're concerned). Or maybe it's just 'top secret Japanese technology'.

[Wounded Ronin]

[lorechaser]

[Hocus Pocus]

awesome clips. if i only knew them personally :( japanese schoolgirls ftw!

[Wounded Ronin]