Everything Old is New Again, Some things never die... Options

[Lady Door]

Okay, so here goes. OOC Thread for EONA. (I'm throwing out random acronyms just for Ben. Gotta love military-speak.)

Game Information:

Game is taking place in Seattle. Spring of 2071. Already in play are an Awakened Chaos Mage, and a Street Sam type.

Cast of Players:
Fist o' Doom
SinN
Oenone
**Game effectively closed... unless you have a character idea that is so completely fantabulous that I must have it for my very own.**

Character Stuff:

*500 BP using Frank Trollman's character creation rules

[ Spoiler ]

Attributes are 10 BP, Group Skills are 5 BP, Individual Skills are 2 BP, and Knowledge Skills are 1 BP

or I'm open to the karma creation system from the new Runner's Companion.
*No cap on negative/positive qualities
*Create your own contacts so I don't have too and I'll gift free knowledge skill BP

House Rules:

[ Spoiler ]

Smartgun link applies to two weapon firing - It makes no sense that the targeting sights that appear in your line of sight suddenly have no effect what so ever because you are using two guns. That rule is gone.

Common Sense Points - A lot of times, people come up with great ideas of hilarious comments in games. Those deserve reqrds, but karma is a bit much. So I reward Common Sense Points (CSP). Essentially, they work the same as karma, but can only be applied to knowledge skills. Knowledge skills are great, but rarely raised, because everyone puts their karma on active skills. This fixes that.

Bad Karma - Doing something very screwed up, like being an major ass, or doing something just plain evil in game, such as raping a goat or stealing candy from babies. That can get you bad karma, which is essentially edge for the opposition.

Edge for NPCs - Everyone has edge. Keep this in mind. It may not be a lot, but it's there.

Soft caps on skills and attributes, no modified max from cyber or magic
Cyber is built in, so it makes no sense that it should stop at 9 for attributes. Same goes for magic. Skills and attributes can go over 7 (after buying Exceptional Attribute or Apptitude), but increase the multiplier by 1 (skills x2 becomes x3 ,etc).

Improved Physical Attribute Adept Power changed
It makes no sense that you can buy cyber and raise atttributes normally, but when you use magic, it costs more to raise the attribute. So it doesn't. It also makes no sense to make it cost 2 magic points once it goes over the normal attribute. So it doesn't. This all seems to be an attempt to nerf physads attributes, when they were already expensive enough to begin with. With powers like Critical Strike, it makes no sense to make normal attributes so much more expensive.

The "Oh Shit!" Card Occassionally you'll have a character that has been around for a long long time , and has used up his/her Hand Of God. I also ignore the rule about being able to use HoG once by brning off a point of Edge. Having 8 HoG's is just ridiculous. But as a happy medium, I use the "Oh Shit!" card.
You can buy one for 50 karma. I also sometimes give one out for birthdays. You can basically save your self from one "Oh Shit!" moment by burning the card, such as , say dying. Doesn't come up a lot, but it just might save your llife.

Qualities---+2 qualities The BBB has qualities that apply a +2 to a number of specializations, such as hacking/exploit. Specilization qualities as we'll call them are available for any non-combat skill, including spellcasting/counterspelling for the same BP/Karma cost.
---Neg Qualities There is not a limit to the Negatvie qualities you can take ,as long as the ones you use aren't ridiculous such as Incompetent:Archery. If you want your character to have a number of crutches, that's just fine. Neg qualities also do not count towards notoriety. The fact that you suck with computers, or are addicted to cigarettes, are not going to make a bit of difference in most social situations.

For anything else, see me.

Posting Whatnot:

Colors:
Salmon is for Speaking
Aquamarine is for Thinking
Red is for AR/Text Messages
Purple is for Handwritten Messages
Gold is for Rolls, Spells, all action-y type things
and just for the sake of completeness:
Aqua is for telepathy

[Lady Door]

Reserved for Cast of Characters

[Lady Door]

Reserved for Locations, Locations, Locations

[Oenone]

I might be interested in playing, I have a vatjob social bunny to hand, although I'd need to update her and shift the BP costs to take into account Franks rules.

(Speaking of which, do they remove free knowledge skills? Or just make them cheaper to buy in general?)

[Lady Door]

The knowledge skill changes are in addition to the free knowledge skill points granted at creation.

[Oenone]

Cool. I'll get the sheet finished up asap for you to take a look at then.

Will you be running any other house rules? (Mainly I ask in regard to the empathy sensor software and emotitoys)

[Fortune]

FrankTrollman's rules still use 'free knowledge skills', and most of the other normal chargen rules. Plan B listed most of the changes in the spoiler, although there are several other minor ones as well.

[fistandantilus4....]

Oenone - Just keep in mind our prodigious post rate. SinN, Plan B (she's my wife, lucky me! , and I are all close friends, so we tend to chat a lot online as well. We always like new people, and a face could be really cool. We can just be hard for people with real lives to keep up with sometimes (except for our inevitable lazy bouts).

[Lady Door]

Fortune - if you would be so kind as to let me know what those minor changes are I would appreciate it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Edit: I edited the original post to include our house rules.

[Fortune]

I gave you a link in my last post. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Contacts are a semi-major change, as well as costs (both price and essence) of Wired Reflexes higher than level 1. Various other little bits and pieces are covered in the thread I linked. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

[fistandantilus4....]

Way to be, Glenny-On-The-Spot.

I'm making you one of my contacts. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Oenone]

Oenone - Just keep in mind our prodigious post rate.

Hmmmmmmmm how fast is a prodigious post rate? Several every hour every day?

(I can probably manage this every night except Tuesday, although I am in GMT which I guess could cause problems if you'll need people to be active while I'd be forced to sleep... Someone really should get thier acts together and make a RL sleep regulator.)

Edit - Erm, and providing this is indeed going to be okay, I probably should have asked which city is the setting and are you running all suppliments? Because I have the urge to try restricted gear and a bunch of the identity shifting stuff from Augmentation. (A face with a morphing face, fingerprints & retina's... pretty much the full works)

[Lady Door]

I just noticed that, Fortu-itous. Thank you. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[Fortune]

I'm making you one of my contacts.

I thought I already was! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

[Lady Door]

Hmmmmmmmm how fast is a prodigious post rate? Several every hour every day?

We tend to have posting "spurts" ... such as now, really. I will try and gather together a somewhat loose schedule of when everyone is available... and then cry when everyone completely shoots it to pieces. *grumble* But, we'll do what we can to accomodate everyone.

(Though really, everyone SHOULD be accomodating me. I'm the one with newborn twins, after all.)

[Mickle5125]

Oh how I wish I could join you guys... sadly, with the number of games I have going on right now, I doubt that I'll be able to keep up with the posting rate you have... *sad*

[krayola red]

(Though really, everyone SHOULD be accomodating me. I'm the one with newborn twins, after all.)

Hey, congratulations! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Holy shit, the old smiley is back. Woo hoo!

[Oenone]

Hmmm. Well I'd be willing to try if you are!
(Even if spending 500 BP with Franks costings seems like kid in a candy store overload. Especially with the extra nuyen per BP...)

[Lady Door]

Hey, congratulations!

Thank you. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Even if spending 500 BP with Franks costings seems like kid in a candy store overload. Especially with the extra nuyen per BP...)

Isn't it wonderful? *dreamy eyed*

[fistandantilus4....]

Hmmm. Well I'd be willing to try if you are!
(Even if spending 500 BP with Franks costings seems like kid in a candy store overload. Especially with the extra nuyen per BP...)

And I still always manage to go over and have to prune. *sigh*

[Oenone]

Might have been missed because I pulled an edit on a post, but any problems with using the restricted gear quality from RC?

And which city/country should I assume? For things like native languages, area knowledges and suchlike.

[Lady Door]

Oh, and because it does bear saying... I tend to run games more in a "slice of life" type of setting rather then a "go here, do this, get Item A" type of setting. Lots of character involvement, lots of interesting NPC's showing up for no real reason, life outside of the run, etc. ... sooo... if that doesn't seem like your particular flavor of soycaf... let me know.

[Lady Door]

Might have been missed because I pulled an edit on a post, but any problems with using the restricted gear quality from RC?

Nope.

And which city/country should I assume? For things like native languages, area knowledges and suchlike.

Seattle, UCAS. Spring of 2071. (So, buy a raincoat... )

[Fortune]

And I still always manage to go over and have to prune.

You and me both! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I'm tempted to join, but you guys took all the good parts already. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)

Besides, y'all are probably sick of me by now. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Oenone]

Seattle, UCAS. Spring of 2071. (So, buy a raincoat... )

I totally missed that from your first post. Doh!

A raincoat huh? I was planning on spending 4000 nuyen simply on assorted uniforms, but I think to take into account the rain I might shift things around a little and buy some mundane clothing too. Can't have the face's business suit getting wet now can we?