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Pet peeve/Favorite thing |
Sep 9 2008, 10:28 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,916 Joined: 31-December 06 Member No.: 10,502 |
I'm curious about pet peeves. As it gives a laundry list of what to watch out for in SR4. Favorite things is more for fun and keeping the thread from going so negative it generates a background count.
Pet Peeve: Movement Power. One little thing, so much annoyance, Favorit thing: Matrix went wireless. |
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Sep 9 2008, 10:34 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,251 Joined: 11-September 04 From: GA Member No.: 6,651 |
Pet Peeve: Adepts specialized in combat being routinely trumped by Street Sams. The Adept can do more, go faster OR take more damage but never two of the three or all three.
Favorite Thing: The organization of the splat books so I always know which book to find a type of item in. [Weapons in Arsenal, Drugs in Augmentation, etc.] |
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Sep 9 2008, 10:37 AM
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The ShadowComedian Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,538 Joined: 3-October 07 From: Hamburg, AGS Member No.: 13,525 |
peeve: (imroved)Invisibility[if i am invisible, and i pick up a pen and put it into my pocket, will the pen be invisible too?
favourite: cyberlimbs in SR4 finally are worth a consideration! |
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Sep 9 2008, 11:08 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,925 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 948 |
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Invisibility Illusion spells should fool the mind, not the eye. Regardless of visual mods or technological whatnots if the spell convinces you that im not there then im NOT there. Same goes for cameras regarding improved invisibility. Basically - Invisibility is too simple to foil. Physical Combat Spells Why are the spells that are A:Noticable B:Obvious C:Easier To Resist - So bloody heavy on drain? Let see... I throw my low-drain invisible death beam at someone and he rolls 1-6D6 resistance and i roll around 12D6... Or i can get headache from casting a beam of fire that sets the poor sap alight AND he gets to dodge AND resist... Guess which i'd choose? |
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Sep 9 2008, 11:14 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,838 Joined: 1-September 05 Member No.: 7,669 |
Favorite Thing: The wireless Matrix concepts and the possibilities they offer.
Pet Peeve: The wireless Matrix mechanics and the possiblities they fail to deliver on. |
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Sep 9 2008, 11:29 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,925 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 948 |
Pet Peeve:
Wireless matrix - Quick hacking rules for combat (Like a combined simple roll for spoofing something without X amounts of tests to find persona etc etc) |
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Sep 9 2008, 11:42 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 831 Joined: 5-September 05 From: LAX, UCAS Member No.: 7,687 |
Pet Peeve - Technomancers are magic.
Favorite Thing - The Matrix is easily playable now, and the magic system is nice and coherent for the first time since Awakenings. |
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Sep 9 2008, 11:57 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,141 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Neverwhere Member No.: 2,048 |
Pet Peeve: full on sex change operation with cloned fertile eggs is not possible
Favorite thing: Wireless matrix is not only there, but playable. |
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Sep 9 2008, 12:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 199 Joined: 27-April 08 Member No.: 15,932 |
Pet Peeve: Physical/Martial adepts being so terrible compared to cybered-up street sams.
Favorite Thing: Social combat. It's wonderful! |
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Sep 9 2008, 12:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 400 Joined: 8-September 08 From: St. Louis, UCAS Member No.: 16,329 |
Pet Peeve: focusing on the rules and complaining instead of suspending belief and enjoying RPing.
Favorite: The world and setting. For the first time I found a game where magic is explained and has a reason for being there along with my sci-fi. |
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Sep 9 2008, 01:01 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,162 Joined: 16-November 07 Member No.: 14,229 |
Favorite Thing: BBB Magic section. Layout is great. Yay for streamlined/unified magic rules! Except for a few minor things, which don't really merit mention, I have no issues with this part of the rules.
Pet Peeve: So many...
And despite all those pet peeves, I still like this edition. |
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Sep 9 2008, 01:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 24-July 08 From: Resonance Realms, behind the 2nd Star Member No.: 16,162 |
Favourite Things
Pet Peeves
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Sep 9 2008, 01:32 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 194 Joined: 30-October 07 From: Sadly, NE Member No.: 13,962 |
Pet Peeve: Technomancers are copypasta Mages.
Favorite Thing: Matrix 2.0 or "Holy crap, you mean we can transmit information through the AIR?!" |
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Sep 9 2008, 01:37 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,851 Joined: 15-February 08 From: Indianapolis Member No.: 15,686 |
Pet Peeve: The Matrix chapter - It's poorly laid out, lacks examples and gets really confusing without a knowledgeable translator.
Favorite Thing: Streamlined rules, easier combat resolution and... jeepers, the hacker can actually run along with the rest the team instead of sitting in his mom's basement, eating Cheetos, and whining on the Matrix about how the new Neil the Ork Barbarian series doesn't fit his vision of how the show should be. |
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Sep 9 2008, 09:40 PM
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Awakened Asset Group: Members Posts: 4,464 Joined: 9-April 05 From: AGS, North German League Member No.: 7,309 |
Pet Peeve: The matrix chapter. I´m really curious about the origin of its structure.
Favourite Thing: The variety of playable power levels, even within one group. What do you want to be today? |
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Sep 10 2008, 01:31 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 189 Joined: 5-September 08 Member No.: 16,312 |
Favorite thing:
The well formed world: complete with logical fantasy injection to an otherwise sci-fi genre, a good interpretation of 'the world to come' (also, a nice tie-in with the world long past) and the general and uniform mechanics under a 'point buy' skill based system. Pet peeve: I haven't been playing long enough to notice a lot of nuances in the game and system; but it does annoy me that something as simple as 'braking' was neglected in the book. |
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Sep 10 2008, 04:29 AM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,916 Joined: 31-December 06 Member No.: 10,502 |
A couple people complained about the adepts now not having the same combat capabilities as a sammy.
But think about it and decide if that's really a problem. Personally I like that the two have different playstyles now. Sammy can bring the straight up combat prowres, but the adept can d all sorts of special stuff Sammies simply cannot do. |
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Sep 10 2008, 04:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 560 Joined: 21-December 04 Member No.: 6,893 |
A couple people complained about the adepts now not having the same combat capabilities as a sammy. But think about it and decide if that's really a problem. Personally I like that the two have different playstyles now. Sammy can bring the straight up combat prowres, but the adept can d all sorts of special stuff Sammies simply cannot do. There aren't that many things that adepts can really do in the way of combat - period. Sure, they can have an unarmed combat skill of 10 and lethal damage with fists...but a sammy can do the same thing with strength and spurs without giving up as much versatility. The only real advantage is that an adept is discreet. Even relatively low-profile cyber - say, muscle augmentation - can be seen in unusual body structure or movement patterns. An adept just looks like anyone else...until he doesn't. |
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Sep 10 2008, 06:12 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 400 Joined: 8-September 08 From: St. Louis, UCAS Member No.: 16,329 |
and that's exactly why my ninja adept is going to kick ass.
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Sep 10 2008, 06:25 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,336 Joined: 24-February 08 From: Albuquerque, New Mexico Member No.: 15,706 |
The only real advantage is that an adept is discreet. Even relatively low-profile cyber - say, muscle augmentation - can be seen in unusual body structure or movement patterns. An adept just looks like anyone else...until he doesn't. Actually, being an Adept is not as discrete as bio/genetic augmentation. While the perceiver will not necessarily know what the Adept's capabilities are, it is significantly easier to identify them as an Adept (requiring an Assessing test) that to identify a bio-augmented individual (requiring a medicine test taking minimum of 30 minutes, see p.125, Augmentation). |
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Sep 10 2008, 06:52 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 265 Joined: 30-July 08 Member No.: 16,176 |
Hmm...
Pet peeve: Adepts are either for kicking people in the face or talking at them. A more diverse range of Adept powers (Gun Kata!) would be well recieved. |
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Sep 10 2008, 07:10 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
Peeves: Really hate the new dice mechanic. The old one had its flaws, but at least it was fun and versatile (especially from a GM/design point of view). You had at least three different ways to adjust the difficulty of an action. The impact it has on the new rules are wide-spread and, now that I think about it, are the core for most of my other peeves, too.
Favorites: The new cyberlimb rules are greatly appreciated even if others don't care for them (I always preferred to use them for utilitarian purposes rather than OMFG I KILL JOO uses). Really dig cyberware suites, too, and wish they were more widespread in the rules. I also appreciate the idea behind allowing more things to be customized and personalized even if just in fluff (armor being a good example). |
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Sep 10 2008, 07:48 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 748 Joined: 22-April 07 From: Vermont Member No.: 11,507 |
Pet peeve: Adepts are either for kicking people in the face or talking at them. A more diverse range of Adept powers (Gun Kata!) would be well recieved. Who needs guns when my Thrown Weapons adept can throw a paper clip 60 meters for 6P damage, a rock 72 meters for 8P damage, a ball 120 meters for 7P damage, and an aerodynamic grenade 180 meters. That along with 3 IPs, Killing Hands, and Facial Sculpt. |
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Sep 10 2008, 07:55 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,058 Joined: 4-February 08 Member No.: 15,640 |
You can punch doing elemental sonic damage, which ignores armor. Sammies can't really do that. Anyways....
Peeves: Loosey goosey rules. I would really like a tighter rule set and better examples of what can and cannot be done with certain spells/mods/whatever. At least two or three times a session we generally get into a rules debate because of the fact that things are not clearly defined enough. It is annoying to look into pretty much all of the books for guidance on a specific problem only to find out that there is nothing that can help our situation. The matrix - I still think it is made of icky Favorites: I love the setting and the history. I like that using dice is generally a straightforward skill + stat + mods. |
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Sep 10 2008, 07:58 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 265 Joined: 30-July 08 Member No.: 16,176 |
Who needs guns when my Thrown Weapons adept can throw a paper clip 60 meters for 6P damage, a rock 72 meters for 8P damage, a ball 120 meters for 7P damage, and an aerodynamic grenade 180 meters. That along with 3 IPs, Killing Hands, and Facial Sculpt. Because maybe I'd like my gunslinger adept to have cool things like throw anything or elemental strike or facial sculpt? Or let my hacker adept have something more interesting to take than 'Improved Ability: Hacking.' I'd just like to see more diverse breeds of adept than 'melee Adept,' 'throwing Adept' and 'face Adept.' |
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