There are people who read the novelization, too.

Sniff! That was beautiful man!

I think they were just trying to rip off the Clowns from Akira. Do people drag things along the road in RL bosozoku? That seems like a good way to throw off your balance and die.

I was being sarcastic. I've read all 5 books.

Leave it to Adams to have a 5 book trilogy.

Well done.

duh. What'd he say?

Force 12 Free Spirit #1: I'm Yakko
Force 12 Free Spirit #2: I'm Wakko
Force 12 Free Spirit #3: I'm Dot

Top three reasons why you should never do a run against Warner Brothers. Their Wealth Powers let them create giant anvils.

I was going more for a Terry Pratchett feel. Like, "The beetle spirit smashes its head up against your mana barrier like a frustrated middle schooler with a crush."

splinter, log

Don't ruin Terry Pratchett for me. please

BTW, you never did tell us how old you are.

He never does in the other thread either.. (unless I just didn't follow it long enough) All I see is him snapping like a broken elastic, getting an actual kudos (that surprised me as anyone) and then him patting himself of the back for longer than warranted.
Note: Try not to give Emo compliments, it really goes to his head!

Let's ignore the Canon in Para animals of NA that hellhounds are friendly and make good pets

or the little old lady that had one in awakenings

Ignoring Canon is Emo's life long passion Kremlin, please don't encourage him, it'll only make it worse.

funny.I was suggesting YOU were ignoring canon

Umm.. ok, now you have me stumped.. just what are you refering to that I've said that's not cannon?

Your suggesting hellhounds are restricted

and your belittling of a reasonable idea that has been in Canon for quite some time

note I am more accusing you of ignoring a piece of canon than creating a piece of non-canon

made me want my own hellhound

I still want to know how old emo is. Just on principal now

I'm 20.

And samurai are TOTALLY emo. They whine about death and the evanescence of life all the time when they're not killing each other over honor and intimidating unarmed peasants. Haven't you ever read Lone Wolf and Cub? Granted, I doubt any samurai has ever had the kind of body count that Ogami Itto did, but it was based on Tokugawa culture, if somewhat exaggeratedly.

I think that this game should be fun, and if you are being a dick about my ideas because "that's not what people do, it's not street level, blablabla I cut myself," then you're just being a dick. There's analyzing something to its logical end while keeping both pro and con stances in mind, and there's being a troll. Which Dranem is obviously doing, while trying desperately to maintain a now-thin veneer of pro-canon piety. Like a Mother Against Videogame Addiction and Violence, he is using a bullshit cause to advance his own ability to flame and generally be a bitch.

And that Comic Book Guy monologue was a JOKE. Hence the *. If anything would transmit sarcasm over the Internet, I would think that referencing Comic Book Guy within *'s would do it.

Speaking of a lack of intellect, I think that reeling away from the possibility of having a hellhound puppy simply because it's unorthodox or not macho or whatever stupid "gritty" bullshit you could come up with shows a lack of intellect, as oppposed to my suggesting something that, through about 5 seconds of thinking, is obviously very much plausible.

Dick.

Back to the subject of paracritter pets. Are there any other pets that have grown completely awesome after the Awakening?

Me thinks its times to drink. I've been gaming longer than Emo has been alive.

Just a couple of thoughts, Emo. I don't mean to bash you on some of your ideas. Some of 'em are actually pretty neat. You're not the first person to want a hellhound puppy. And you're certainly not the first person to take the Superiorty Of Japan approach. In fact, I daresay that's an actual theme in Shadowrun, along with the 80s feel. There should be ninjas. There should be big hair. Hell, there should even be leopard print pants on your troll samurai.

It's just that the extent of the stuff you want to do, the sheer amount of conversion, and all that other jazz? I don't think I'm alone in thinking that you're trying to do something with SR that you really can't do within the scope of the given rules without some serious, 6-Million-Nyuen-Man conversion of the entire setting and rules.

I honestly think you'd be much happier with, like, an Exalted conversion or something. Any system that has rules for flipping out and killing armies of ninjas riding nazi dinosaurs. A system where the entire object of the game is to look more awesomer than everybody else. Seriously. You ought to consider flipping through a copy, some time. It's a really neat game.

Not that SR isn't. I know I've blown a wad and a half on sourcebooks and I've never even played on the tabletop scene, but only over the 'net. I'm just thinking that for the majority of your stuff you're proposing? You won't find much support on DS.

And I'm going to have to agree with some other folks. It'd really help if you'd keep your stuff all in one place.

Fire-breathing kittens! They would rock so much!

Fire breathing _viking_ kittens.

The kittens were a joke. But the hellhound puppies are 100% canon. And I'm using them.

Brother Grinder, I am ashamed of you. Turning agaist the holy drop bear and advocating Dikoted Fire Breathing Viking (sex) Kittens. You know the Vikings are the sworn ememies of the Holy Drop Bear!!

After the awakening many cats learn how to use the can opener and door knob. At that point they stake out a claim in the NAN where they all live where ever the damn well please. They get into the clothes distribution industry for the express purpose of shedding all over the product. A few get people as servants and dress them up with little ribbons and the like.

That's when they don't sleep. And they're randomly playful and fearful of all contact with other living things.

I still want to see what happens if we lock Emo and Boskop in the same room (perhaps with Jolt cola and a week's supply of Lucky Charms) and give them the task of creating a SR module.

Have you all forgotten that kick ass critter from the Paranormal Animals of North America book? I forgot what it was called, but it was basically a house-cat that, when it attacked, cast an illusion on itself (comically an ideal image spell) that made it look like a giant cat of doom. It also had spells to blast it's physical stats up to match it's new form. Plus, it would sometimes grow attached to people and protect them. We had one following us around in a group once. We always kept lots of tuna around.

Oh, and about Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy, I'm pretty sure it was a radio program before it was a book, so I don't think calling it a novelization is inappropriate.

As for people complaining about Senor Emo's posts, you can always choose not to read them. It says who started the thread right there, you certainly don't have to open it.

Maybe it's because I'm taking up valuable front page space. You know, maybe 3 or 4 slots out of 26. There's a possibility that on the 27th page there's the cure for cancer, and I've doomed millions with my wanton threadmongering.

Evil bastard!

That cat is fucking awesome. I want it. In fact, I would be willing to kill for it. Even George Bush, or my mom.

Depending on your political stance, willingness to off the former may not be that impressive of a declaration

although as awakened kitties go these would be more fun to play with