The Metrópole books seems to be out, And DTRPG's search function can't handle the ó |
The Metrópole books seems to be out, And DTRPG's search function can't handle the ó |
Oct 23 2016, 10:33 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,082 Joined: 3-October 09 From: Kohle, Stahl und Bier Member No.: 17,709 |
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Oct 23 2016, 05:14 PM
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Runner Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,039 Joined: 23-March 05 From: The heart of Rywfol Emwolb Industries Member No.: 7,216 |
Yep, still looking through it.
31 pages long, though two pages are just cover and credits so really 29 pages. Mostly fluff of course, 1 disease/infection, 1 new magical tradition, 1 new vehicle, 1 Life Module and a couple of NPCs for crunchy bits. It seems interesting, though a bit short given it's like a mega-seattle, but will have to give it a more thorough read tomorrow. |
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Oct 23 2016, 09:43 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Preliminar impression: Reads great. However: It's Olivier Gagnon. Not Oliver. Really, CGL, that's beyond quality control, that's grossly impolite.
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Oct 24 2016, 09:11 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 5,082 Joined: 3-October 09 From: Kohle, Stahl und Bier Member No.: 17,709 |
So how batshit deep green is Metropole?
PS: And has anybody already bought it from DTRPG? If their search already craps out from the "ó", I'm a bit skeptic about testing how well their purchase processing handles diacritics... |
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Oct 24 2016, 09:37 AM
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Runner Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,039 Joined: 23-March 05 From: The heart of Rywfol Emwolb Industries Member No.: 7,216 |
I got mine through DTRPG and seems okay.
As for how green.... Animals and sentient critters are given equal rights to the metahumans. Now this may sound pretty decent for equal rights, but just remember they included non-sentient animals. So say you fell off a boat into the water and a gator gobbled you up, it's covered by law since this was the natural course of things. You would have the right to defend yourself to try and stay alive, but if it dragged you under and drowned you, your buddies could not hunt down that gator later to kill it, because that would be unlawful murder and treated just as harshly as if they had killed another sentient/metahuman. I imagine it is a nightmare in courts as well, say you fell in said water and defended yourself with a weapon. That would probably be okay, but if your buddies still in the boat opened fire, its a bit gray here on would they be covered or would they be intruding because they are staying in the boat. So now you got a big ass city loaded with a lot of different critters, many of whom see metahumans as a threat or a treat and a lot of metahumans there definitely feel like second class citizens. |
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Oct 24 2016, 10:26 AM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
Well, since the courts are presided by magical beings, I imagine a lot of evidence-gathering, -presentation and pleas by lawyers is circumvented by way of clairvoyance spells and metamagics. And, of course, the honorable justice creature.
It is Animal Rights Paradise. Kudos to you, Olivier, and I hope the research didn't hurt too much. Are metahumans mandated to go vegan? Bought it from DTRPG. Worked fine for me. It's just that their search function isn't worth shit, and has been like that for a long time, I think. |
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Oct 24 2016, 11:03 AM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
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Oct 24 2016, 11:07 AM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
Well, since the courts are presided by magical beings, I imagine a lot of evidence-gathering, -presentation and pleas by lawyers is circumvented by way of clairvoyance spells and metamagics. And, of course, the honorable justice creature. It is Animal Rights Paradise. Kudos to you, Olivier, and I hope the research didn't hurt too much. Are metahumans mandated to go vegan? Bought it from DTRPG. Worked fine for me. It's just that their search function isn't worth shit, and has been like that for a long time, I think. Hehe, thanks. My idea was that I used to have a friend that was all super into animal rights and being green and stuff (not that that's wrong or anything). And he used to think Metropole was the "good guy" setting in the Shadowrun world, the ones fighting the good fight. As a dystopic cyberpunk game, I though, well let's push "a good thing" to "too much of a good thing". So I tried to make Metropole this incredibly dysfunctional place that fundamentally runs of pretty ideas that just really, really don't work well in reality. Glad you guys are liking it! |
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Oct 24 2016, 12:22 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 84 Joined: 3-March 16 Member No.: 200,271 |
I crossread one of your earlier versions (v4) and while I liked the animal thing, I personally expected more Favelas. Those hundreds or thousands of Arcologies, may look nice from the outside, but must be very costly to maintain - especially when they are self-sustaining. But maybe Favelas and "the good guys" don't fit together.
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Oct 24 2016, 12:38 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
I forget the exact name I gave it (sorry, wrote this sucker a LONG time ago), but there is that one arcology that essentially is a giant favela, the one that used to belong to an Aztechnology sub and was then abandoned. That would be a good example of what you're talking about.
A lot of those arcologies would really look like Vaults from Fallout. Broken down, with weird social orders keeping them going. They are a great opportunity for GMs to do something whacky like that and send the players in. |
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Oct 24 2016, 01:43 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,748 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Good ol' Germany Member No.: 7,015 |
I forget the exact name I gave it (sorry, wrote this sucker a LONG time ago), but there is that one arcology that essentially is a giant favela, the one that used to belong to an Aztechnology sub and was then abandoned. That would be a good example of what you're talking about. A lot of those arcologies would really look like Vaults from Fallout. Broken down, with weird social orders keeping them going. They are a great opportunity for GMs to do something whacky like that and send the players in. So like the one from New Judge Dredd or even worse ? (The Raid 1 maybe ? ) With a dance in the Favelas Medicineman |
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Oct 24 2016, 02:03 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
So like the one from New Judge Dredd or even worse ? (The Raid 1 maybe ? ) With a dance in the Favelas Medicineman Sure! More like Judge Dredd though, The Raid would be too small.. but you could do something along those lines, have the PCs fight their way up or something. Would be fun. |
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Oct 24 2016, 03:01 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,748 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Good ol' Germany Member No.: 7,015 |
I didn't mean the Size (I like 'em Big (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif) )
but the ugliness or dirtiness If been to the Chung King Mansions ( and Boy, they were creepy ! ) so I know what it's supposed to look, but I've never been to the Favelas so I don't know about ....the "flavor" of Southamerican run Down Arcologies with a Dance in Hong Kong Medicineman |
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Oct 24 2016, 05:20 PM
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The King In Yellow Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,922 Joined: 26-February 05 From: JWD Member No.: 7,121 |
I think Métropole arcologies are a lot more Peach Trees than Neu-Essen.
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