Broken Rules., Or where RAW just fails. Options

[Epicedion]

Necromancy is still illegal in Shadowrun!

[Yerameyahu]

It's more that you bumped a thread from 4 months ago solely to criticize spelling. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) And the grammar is actually fine, as Sephiroth showed. Hehehe.

[longbowrocks]

We should probably let this die again. Moving this thread to the front page was an unfortunate side effect of my irresistible urge to comment on it.
Also, "replacement and made a cyberzombie" should at least be "replacement, effectively making him a cyberzombie", plus a period to denote the end of one of the two or three thoughts in that sentence.

[KarmaInferno]

I was searching to see if a question had already been asked rather than asking it again (which I'm aware is another source of annoyance for forum regulars). I found a promising post, but I could only tell that the subject matched my query. Nothing more.
It's amazing what 12 missing characters, incomprehensible grammar, and a 60% hit rate on punctuation can do to a post.

And yet, people are still able to generally understand what it was trying to say.

You could have, y'know, actually contributed to the discussion at least. Posted some other typo or broken rule you found. Instead of just criticizing grammar and spelling.

I think folks are more bothered by the necroing-to-post-grammar-complaints than the actual grammar problems.



-k

[Dumori]

This deconstruction makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I'm moderately sure I wrote that on 3 days of no sleep. Amusingly in the time between that post and now I've had my first piece of writing published.

FYI I am dyslexic maybe I should sig that fact to make people who do this feel mean. Not that I actually care one bit. Tbh I might sig the edited and original post.

[longbowrocks]

Yeah, once I started getting tired, I realized that you might have just been going the long haul without sleep. Why were you up for 3 days though?

[Shaikujin]

The movement power, just like other spirit powers, acts on the environment not on the people in that environment. You arrive to your destination as if you were going n times faster but you're not actually moving faster. It's the road that somehow gets shorter for you. For an outside observer, the vehicle really seems to go faster but for someone inside, it's not.
It's strange and not very easy to imagine but it looks like it's the way it's intended since it's written that it doesn't make it harder to drive the vehicle and it doesn't affect the ramming damage.

I've always pictured the movement power as something like standing on a travelator/conveyor belt. The spirit moves the surface of the respective environment you are traveling on, earth, water, air etc

You yourself are still only moving normally and only need to make control tests based on your normal speed without regard to the moving medium. Just like moving around on the deck of a moving ship.

[Dumori]

Yeah, once I started getting tired, I realized that you might have just been going the long haul without sleep. Why were you up for 3 days though?

Conic insomnia hit hits me every spring or so it seems. Now worries though it brightened my day to see that necro.

[Xahn Borealis]

Broken Rule? Response 1 Commlinks can't use programs. I have a Meta Link. I run Analyse 1. Oh no, that's my processor limit! My Response, and thus System are now zero. As System limits program ratings, my Analyse is now rating 0. Incidentally, who wants to hack my Meta Link? I can only roll 1 die to detect your intrusion! Yay!

[James McMurray]

Broken Rule? Response 1 Commlinks can't use programs. I have a Meta Link. I run Analyse 1. Oh no, that's my processor limit! My Response, and thus System are now zero. As System limits program ratings, my Analyse is now rating 0. Incidentally, who wants to hack my Meta Link? I can only roll 1 die to detect your intrusion! Yay!

From the FAQ

Does a reduction in Response from running more programs then the System rating also result in a reduction in System?

No. The System is limited by the base Response rating; if the processor limit (p.222, SR4A) is reached, the Response is temporarily reduced but the System rating is unaffected.

[longbowrocks]

You can ready (AGI/2) throwing weapons in a simple action, but you can only throw one per simple action. It doesn't matter whether there's a limit to readied throwing weapons or not (in which case you could ready quite a few) since it makes no sense that you can get six throwing knives into your hands, but only throw one in that same amount of time.

[Xahn Borealis]

From the FAQ

Does a reduction in Response from running more programs then the System rating also result in a reduction in System?

No. The System is limited by the base Response rating; if the processor limit (p.222, SR4A) is reached, the Response is temporarily reduced but the System rating is unaffected.

Yay! You fixed it! Now I can roll 2 dice to detect intrusion from my Meta Link! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[James McMurray]

Just don't store your sensitive material on anything you bought from Don't Worry You Can Trust Us, Inc. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Xahn Borealis]

I won't. Just my SIN. And cred account. And biometrics.

[James McMurray]

DWYCTU thanks you for your patronage.

[Xahn Borealis]

You just keep those creepy technomancers off my files!

[sabs]

Yay! You fixed it! Now I can roll 2 dice to detect intrusion from my Meta Link! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

actually you can roll 7 dice on the first roll, then 2 for all subsequent rolls.

When someone logs in you get to roll system+firewall. Your Firewall is not actually restricted by your system rating or response. So.. you can have a 6 firewall on a system 1 metalink. Tada, 7 dice.

[Xahn Borealis]

This just gets better and better.

[Stahlseele]

This is dumpshock.
EVERYTHING can be min/maxed . .

[Xahn Borealis]

Armoured socks? Yes please.

[Tymeaus Jalynsfe...]

You can ready (AGI/2) throwing weapons in a simple action, but you can only throw one per simple action. It doesn't matter whether there's a limit to readied throwing weapons or not (in which case you could ready quite a few) since it makes no sense that you can get six throwing knives into your hands, but only throw one in that same amount of time.

Split your attack pools and you can now throw multiple thrown weapons. No Different at that point than shooting at multiple targets.

[Sengir]

I won't. Just my SIN. And cred account. And biometrics.

Very good, citizen. Because everybody who stores those on a secured link obviously has something to hide (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[Xahn Borealis]

I'm hiding nothing! Here, I'll broadcast it to you!

[Dakka Dakka]

Split your attack pools and you can now throw multiple thrown weapons. No Different at that point than shooting at multiple targets.

This is not RAW AFAIK.

[longbowrocks]

Stick N Shock.

Too broad in its description and better off left out of your game. It will save you headache as a GM.

I thought stick n' shock was pretty explicit. Were you arguing about the relative conductivity of materials? I may be wrong about this, but if you're the GM, I think it's supposed to be as easy as "non-ferrous rocks conduct electricity because I say so!"