 Shadowrun 101, At Origins 2004 |
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 Jun 9 2004, 08:38 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 56 Joined: 8-April 04 From: Utah Member No.: 6,225  |
Just saw this on Fanpros site and I was wondering if anyone is planning on going to it? Linkhere.
If anyone is, we should gather all the naggling little questions that get debated endlessly here and send them over to the "experts on hand" to answer. We could hand out bonus points for anyone able to come up with a question that stumps em (and no dikoted ally spirit questions). |
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Jun 9 2004, 10:26 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
Honestly, if you hang out here, Shadowrun 101 probably won't teach you a single thing that you can't already get from the forums; I'm not sure who's going to be on the SR 101 panel this year, but it's typically Bull, Jon, Pistons, and Rich Tomasso, IIRC.
And of course, here we have the luxury of reference books and the time to look things up and do research. In a panel, not so much. SR101 is really aimed at more intermediate or even beginning SR players. |
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Jun 9 2004, 11:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 751 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Hamilton.LTG.on.ca Member No.: 2,853 |
Personally i think it would be a god thing to go to, you can share ideas with fellow runners face to face ,and have the chance to beat the shit out of some one that flames you in your face. :)
But other words i wish i could go. |
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Jun 9 2004, 11:36 PM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Maybe someday we'll be able to have Shadowrun 201 and 240 courses. Ooh, or a full course! I wouldn't mind majoring in Rigging…
~J |
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Jun 9 2004, 11:37 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 3-December 03 From: Boston, Mass Member No.: 5,874 |
I was personally disapointed. I felt there should have been more stippers personally......You can never have too many strippers and loose women at a Con....Or maybe that's a Anime Con....It's all running together.
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Jun 9 2004, 11:52 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 191 Joined: 10-May 04 Member No.: 6,316 |
Most seminars qualify for college credit. You could probably take this one as an elective.
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Jun 10 2004, 01:46 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
I can't go, so someone ask this one for me...DO ATTACK PROGRAMS ROLL COMPUTER SKILL OR ATTACK PROGRAM RATING WHEN ATTACKING?!?!!?! Hell, even Pistons has gotten into debates on that on, and it's kinda an important ruling that could go either way...
The Abstruse One |
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Jun 10 2004, 03:28 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,138 Joined: 10-June 03 From: Tennessee Member No.: 4,706 |
There are good reasons why you'd have them roll rating. Dumb frames being one.
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Jun 10 2004, 07:22 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 830 Joined: 3-April 04 From: Columbus, Ohio Member No.: 6,215 |
I love how I'm from Ohio, and I've never really had anything important to do during the summer, and yet I've never made it to Origins. I swear one of these days I'll scrape up the money to head back home and go, but I'm not sure I believe myself...
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Jun 10 2004, 08:46 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,451 Joined: 21-April 03 From: Austin, TX Member No.: 4,488 |
I hate being from Southeast Texas...closes big city is Houston and NOTHING happens here. No big comic/RPG/sci-fi cons of any kind. Even the Houston Film Festival is lame. If I want anything remotely cool, I have to go all the way to Austin :(
The Abstruse One |
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Jun 10 2004, 10:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 17-June 02 From: Concord University, Athens, WV Member No.: 2,880 |
I live in West Virginia. The biggest gaming event here that I've seen was an 8-person Magic the Gathering tournament. My old D&D DM won it with a Hatred deck. And we're getting TsubasaCon this November, but they don't really seem to have anything there, looking at the website...
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Jun 10 2004, 01:01 PM
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ghostrider Group: Retired Admins Posts: 4,196 Joined: 16-May 04 Member No.: 6,333 |
Ha. You think nothign cool happens where you are?? Try being stuck on this gods-forsaken red dirt covered rock in the middle of the friggin pacific. At least if you had the time off and the money you could DRIVE to something.
Here, if I want to do anything it's a 600+ dollar plane ticket, then hotels, car rentals. Damn I can't wait to get back to the real world. |
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Jun 10 2004, 01:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 9-October 02 Member No.: 3,430 |
I've been going to Origins for the last few years.
I went so a seminar with Mike Mulvhill (sp?). No offense but it basically consisted of a bunch of fanboys sitting around complaining that there wasn't a sourcebook dedicated to Siberia. I don't play and don't go to seminars. I go for the vendor's area!!!! The SR booth was cool last year. And the trivia question were a cool idea. I also assume that Origins will be the place to pick up a coby of SoE before it hits my favorite gaming store. |
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Jun 10 2004, 01:31 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
And that makes it different from the internet... how? ;-) |
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Jun 10 2004, 01:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 9-October 02 Member No.: 3,430 |
Good one Adam. :grinbig:
Point taken. |
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Jun 10 2004, 01:48 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 312 Joined: 9-October 02 Member No.: 3,430 |
Actually Adam while you're out here watching this conversation, will anyone be at the booth worthy of an autograph?
I intend on trying to get books signed this year. I'd like to have Elmore sign my 1st edition book at some point. Just curious |
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Jun 10 2004, 01:50 PM
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Prime Runner Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 |
I know that Elmore is usually at Gencon and is happy to sign SR stuff, but I don't think FanPro has any special guests at Origins this year. The last couple years at GenCon they've been bringing in some of the German artists such as Klaus S.
A decent number of the authors are at both cons, though. |
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Jun 10 2004, 02:03 PM
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Not Cameron Diaz Group: Retired Admins Posts: 472 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Newark, Delaware Member No.: 188 |
Are you talking about IC, or (for example) Black Hammer? If it's the former, the IC rolls the host's Security Value. (Its own rating comes into play when deckers are resisting the damage it deals out.) If it's the latter, the decker uses both. The program rating subtracts from the host's system operation he's trying to defeat. (Computer skill + Hacking Pool vs. System Operation - Decker's Program Utility Rating.) Unfortunately, I won't be at either cons this year. Someone else should be covering decking. |
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