 Fat Stacks of Cash, Your Shadowrunner's Budget |
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 Nov 30 2004, 02:50 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960  |
Hell on the last run we did, we paid the DRIVER 5k just to get us there and look after my car...which got wasted of course.
My damn GM ALWAYS destroys our vehicles...always. :S |
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Nov 30 2004, 04:15 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 29-September 02 Member No.: 3,348 |
Then there's hiring an all singing all dancing car jacking team.:) You need: Connected 3pts For selling cars to your chopshop contact. Day Job -3pts 40 hours per week, monthly salary 5000 nuyen or more. Obviously, these balance and could be added to most existing characters. So how's this guy working 40 hours a week at Stuffer Shack going to get rich? He starts by living at a Low lifestyle. At the end of the month, he's got 4000 nuyen. According to SC, p.100 it costs 2000 nuyen to hire a whole runner team for Burglary. In this case, we want to hire two different all singing all dancing car jacking teams to steal Ford Americars. Unless they're Clue File material, they should be able to manage that. If you sell the Americars for 50% of list, which is the harshest interpretation of Connected I've seen, that gets you 10,000 per car, or 8000 per car after paying the runners. That's 16,000 nuyen profit, with minimal risk or effort in a couple hours of your spare time. And next week you can do it again. By the end of 4 weeks, you have 64,000 nuyen in profit. And that's playing it conservative, only hiring two runner teams and giving them a whole week every time to get you a Ford Americar. :D |
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Nov 30 2004, 04:31 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
Who needs to be a car thief?
Connected 2 (the 5-point edge) in just about anything with a Street Index that's anything but 1.00 (even a lower SI is an advantage) allows you to buy and sell the same item repeatedly while netting a huge bankroll. Sure, it's a cheesy loophole in the rules, but it's a fact of those rules nonetheless. |
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Nov 30 2004, 04:35 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
If you don't mind spending six build points on two Connected 1s, you can do the survival knife/trauma patch trick quite nicely.
~J |
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Nov 30 2004, 04:41 AM
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Immortal Elf Group: Validating Posts: 7,999 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 1,890 |
Yeah, but it'll go a lot faster with Connected 2 in something like Vehicles, while being 1 BP cheaper to boot.
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Nov 30 2004, 04:47 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
True enough.
If they hadn't caught it in the errata, you could use that on the GMC-Nissan Hovertruck. Street Index of 750 :grinbig: ~J |
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Nov 30 2004, 05:03 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
While I'll be giving out 200Y Panther Assault Cannon as party favors.
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Nov 30 2004, 05:08 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 384 Joined: 18-August 03 From: North VA Member No.: 5,519 |
Now that's what I call a party. |
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Nov 30 2004, 05:12 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,013 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
Do you by any chance invite a lot of Ork Gangers?
~J |
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Nov 30 2004, 05:14 AM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 |
Nah, I went to the second grade, with pixie sticks in one sack and pather cannons in the other... :D
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Dec 1 2004, 02:50 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,405 Joined: 23-February 04 From: Honolulu, HI Member No.: 6,099 |
Also, if your GM is using the (in my opinion) godawful wounding rules presented in M&M, it's probably only fair that he also increases the payouts.
With the wounding rules that can end up screwing up your cybergear and bioware, mundanes loading tech have the potential of being even bigger cash drains than before. You take a cyber hit, you have to fix it, paying a percentage of the part plus surgery, plus downtime plus...etc etc. |
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