Emerging Archive Options

[Aria]

This thread is to record the optional and house rules I will be using for my Emerging series of pbp games on DS. I will update this as rules crop up that I think need tweaking, ignoring or whole sale rewriting (which isn’t that likely…I try and stick to RAW where possible). Any questions or comments or house rules you think I should consider, please post them here.

I will also record useful links here to maps, player resources and the individual game threads. Finally characters and key NPCs will be listed with links where appropriate.

PbP House rules (In addition to those noted in the individual OoC Posts)

Character Gen

• All 4th Ed books are available. I may require a quote if I don’t have access to the book
• All normal races. Other racial types on request [Must be for a roleplaying rather than rules purposes!]
• Characters get Chax2 in free contact points
• Characters get 10 bonus karma at character gen (this may be more in some games…)

Mundane

• Vehicles & drones provide 'Body' in weapon recoil compensation - not full recoil
• SnS ammo is only available for shotgun rounds
• GM Mr Fix-it from RC is a humanoid drone with Walker mode
• The vehicle modifcation rules can make humanoid drones/suits/mecha out of motorbikes, cars etc

Magic

• Adepts may purchase new magic rating points in 0.25 increments (at ¼ of the karma cost of the full point). Once committed to this they may not spend karma on anything else until the full point is bought. Magic rating counts as being the original rating until the full point is bought.
• Adepts may take a point of power in place of a metamagic ability. Adepts following a Way may only do this once they have taken a metamagic associated with their path.
• Critias' "Walking the Ways" 10BP quality from his unofficial errata is available to all adepts. It provides another set of discounted 'Way' powers of the player's choice.

Matrix

• Characters need to buy full price programs at character gen - the registration program option is ignored for the purposes of tracking the program's use and copy protection is considered to be broken at character gen. These programs will not degrade but subsequently bought pirated programs will.

This post has been edited by Aria: Sep 30 2011, 06:18 PM

[Aria]

Emerging: End of Days
IC Thread
OoC Thread
Route Map

Emerging Conflict
IC Thread
OoC Thread
Stillwater Map
Stillwater Tower

Emerging
IC Thread
OoC Thread

2072
IC Thread
OoC Thread
2072 Locations
2072 UK
2072 Chicago

This post has been edited by Aria: Mar 12 2012, 01:17 PM

[Aria]

DS Characters / NPCs

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Archive of Adepts [One for every Way]

• Silk [Changeling F – Pattern adept. Infiltrator and hacker (Artisan's Way)]
• Toymaker [Troll M – Enchanter (Artist's Way)]
• Scratch [Human F – Freerunner, SCIRE escapee (Athlete's Way)]
• Hellion [Human F – Former Ordo Maximus enforcer (Invisible Way)]
• Switch [Orc F – telekine (Magician's Way)]
• Oblique [Dwarven M – circus master Cirque de la Lune (Speaker's Way)]
• Feral [Wolf shifter M – warrior adept (Totem's Way)]
• Domino [Elven M – Swordmaster former Paladin in training (Warrior's Way)]
• Escapade [Human M – Former Balefire runner (Burnout’s Way)]
  
• Cypher [Human M – doppleganger & shifter]

Medley of Mages [Many Paths to Perfection]

• Ember [Human M - French noble. University prof.]
• Masque [Elven F – Harlequin seer]
• Bale [Human M – Combat Mage, second incarnation of Bale]
• Raggedy Man [Orc M – Hedge Wizard]

Examples of the eVolved[Matrix Moguls & Ridiculous Riggers]

• Shrike [AI F - eGhost of Mother]
• Kit [Human F - Former Deepwatch rigger/dronomancer]
• Riptide [Elven M - Combat hacker]
• Summer [Human F - Matrix Oracle]
• Jazz [Human F - TM Enforcer]

Collection of Cyber Criminals [Marvels of the Mundane]

• Requiem [Elven M – former KE Firewatch]
• Key
• Feather

Key NPC Contacts

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Aria

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• A source of info or a go-between. Always interested in new bits of data.
• She is an elven technomancer of considerable power. She has bailed out runners in the past, running interference in a similar way to the ‘Erased’ quality.
• Never meets in the flesh
• She has set herself up as a spider in a web of contacts to gather and process info
• Appearance: her icon is of a young child with very long flowing hair

Summer

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• A plot hook rather than a source of info (first introduced in the 2072 thread), she sees possible
  futures through the matrix/resonance
• She is an Info Savant technomancer
• Appearance: a young girl in slightly odd ball clothes. Her icon sometimes follows an ‘Alice’ theme

The Old Man

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• A free spirit of Man who roams the 'plex influencing events for his own ends
• Appearance: almost always appears in a different form every time but always an old man

Stillwater Community

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I'm not saying that all this info is true, but this is what you've heard:

• They are a 'commune' of hippies, back to nature and transhumanist types on the edge of Redmond
• They are protected by the 'Wolf Pack' lead by a ganger/runner called Feral
• They are lead by a council of elders
• They must have corp backing as they've got too much cash for a grass roots organisation that they pretend to be
• They were attacked in 2070 and nearly wiped out but they've struggled on since. They hired Ares to deal with their attackers
• They have a UV node and a 'large' number of TMs working with them to maintain it. Nobody really knows what their agenda is but they run 'real life' simulations in the node, hiring in outside people with various less than legal skillsets...
• They have an impressive cyber clinic which churns out some strange clones and other transhuman stuff
• The Stillwater Circle is an initiatory group with a strange mix of traditions
• They have at least one AI working with them
• They eat babies!

Stillwater Circle

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Wolf Pack / Stillwater Clerics

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This post has been edited by Aria: Nov 28 2011, 01:38 PM