No, not laws.

Internal market policies of large cooperations regarding what is considered detrimental to corporate strategy and market position, in this case the choice of acceptable venture partners and usage of the corps name.

Some may even be internal corp law if corp strategy is explicit (not that likely for a triple-A, as they need more general -as in breakable- guidelines to not affect the bottom line).



But back to your game emo

While this specific game may be epic, you will find that it is, in the end, inconsequential. A few gangsters may be dead, but you will find that the insect shamans, or at least an insect shaman, did not intend for this scheme to affect anything permanently.

I was under the impression that MCT and Aztechnology were the 2 big leaders in Magical goods. S-K was/is mainly about resource collection and heavy manufacturing.

SK has a descent reputation for magic, it comes from having a dragon in charge.

To be honest runners rarely if ever buy SK branded products, some stuff from 3rd ter subsidiaries or that was made using SK raw materials but very little with an SK label.

Edward

SK has a reputation for releasing a few really high-quality, awesomely selling products. Quality over quantity; I never viewed magical goods as being mass-market kinds of things. That's why I see the magic store in a mall being more of a small specialty store if it's made for serious, discerning magicians rather than people who go "That looks tribal. Let's buy it." S-K seems more suited for the "small, high-quality store" than Aztechnology or MCT. And by the way, runners are MUCH less likely to buy from Aztechnology than S-K.

Not my runners. They'd buy from Verjigorm if it was a good deal.

No... fucking... HORRORS!!!

FanGirl, that is the only spoiler I'll ever willingly give you.

Bah, just because you say there aren't horrors doesn't meant here aren't. Those bastards are sneaky.

And they could sneak in by other names, demons, spirits, the things that go bump in the night, etc...

Things that won't appear in my game in any form.

See, they've even managed to convince you that they aren't there. Such is the power of Horror.

I will kill you over the internet.

Doubtful, as my Horror masters protect me. If I'm dead I'm no longer a valid target for damage shift.

Besides, unlike most foolish americans who don't know any better, I had the mini-uzi on my keyboard disabled just to protect me from uber hackers like you. And yes, I had all the other stuff disabled too.

What about... the POWER CLAW IN YOU MONITOR!!! HUH? HUH HUHUHUHUHUH??

This is turning into your first thread, and for that, you have only me to blame.

Besides he only said no FUCKING horrors.I am personally glad to hear that horrors will not be getting laid in Emo's game

Do they even have a concept of getting laid? I thought they were outside of human conception and everything.

if it can be used to promote misery and pain, there is a horror who knows all about it and excels in using it to cause misery and pain

so if you can imagine a way to use sex to cause misery and pain, there is a horror who will laugh at you, and tell you howit can do it better

So they hang out at maximum-security prisons a lot?

some horrors might

If they can think of a way to cause/feed off miery of the people there

(shouldn't be that hard)

Is there a horror that feeds off of existential anxiety? And what do you mean by feed off of? Do they do karma drain or something, or do they just kind of glide the wake?

Misery pain and negative emotions are to them what Air, Food and water are to you

they NEED it to survive.

In a strange way that makes them less evil than the humans who do the same thing

Yeah; but it's hard to fathom why they'd need to feed off of it if they were so outside of metaphysical reality.

They come from a point so far along the metaplanar axis that they are inimicable to earth life


you should really read the horrors book and a few of the Earthdawn books, there is some stuff in there that would really suit ya GM style

Bah, why bother with a bunch of Lovecraft rip-offs? Go straight to the source! Use Cthulhu, like this guy did.

Hmmm... awakened polyps... I like the way he thinks.

Very few things in my campaign will be unambiguously evil; those who do evil things will have a modicum of humanity, and those without it will do helpful things. The horrors do neither.

Uh does that rifle do MEGADAMAGE, or will it be something entirely new, like GIGADAMAGE, or even TERRADAMAGE?

This kind of thing is supposed to be on the first thread, remember?

How do they justify this? Can a normal person from a later book kill a great dragon from the first one?

It's RIFTS, they don't have to justify it. Each book is a different world / dimension.

Each one more overpowered than the last?

Apparently. I haven't played it except for one session where we used pregens, but the rest of my group has and that's the way they explain it.

I thnk RIFTS is the most unbalanced RAW of any game I've tried. It has some great concepts though. I really like the idea that a pistol won't disable a tank, no matter how much you shoot it.

RIFTS is unbalanced because of its extreme diversity. It really requres a GM who can keep things on track to maintain a balance. There come s a tim ewhen you just have to say "No you can't be a full-sized Zentraedi with a suit of power armor in our medieval historical fiction adventure."

What if you had all the stuff from all the books at once? Then you'd have Elminster vs. Godzilla; now THAT is fair.

A bunch of guys at Hampshire decided to figure out who'd win... Elminster or Cthulhu, after they put out stats for the ol' boy in D20 CoC.

If memory serves, it came down to who got initiative. Cthulhu one-shots Elminster, or Elminster stops time and drops a bajillion delayed fireballs on Cthuhlu.

What's Cthulhu's spell resistance?

Saturday, April 29th (morning)

Tonight I heard an acquaintance ask Emo why he hated puppies. His answer was as follows:

"No, I like puppies, which is why I feel bad about hurting them in my mind."


Naturally, I wrote this bit of strangeness on the Sci-Fi club's quote board, to ensure that my fellow fanpeople get a better insight into Emo's mind.

Emo also informed me that he believes that my backstory will be the most epic of all the characters in the campaign. Sweet.

No session this week, as my mommy and daddy are visiting me for our midterm long weekend and G is out of town. You'll have to wait 'till next week, boys and girls.

Y'all have midterms now? Dang, when are finals? I know a lot of folks who have finals right now, of course y'all might be on the quarters system so that would explain it...

Our school used to have a quarters system, but they got rid of the summer quarter because nobody would sign up for it. Our school year consists of three ten-week "quarters," with winter break lasting six weeks from just before Thanksgiving to just after New Year's (yay!), spring break lasting a week and a half in mid- to late-March, and summer break lasting about three months from early June to early September. We get a long weekend halfway through each term for midterm break, and finals take place all through the last week of term.

Let me clarify the puppies statement. The reason I said that was because I'm always listing killing puppies as the worst thing a person could do; "I won't have you firebomb a puppy farm," "Or maybe it landed on a puppy." Someone asked me what I have against puppies, and then I said that.

you have a strange idea of "the worst thing a person could do".

Look at country music for example.

What about country music about running over puppies?

Adding puppy deaths is one of the few things you can do to redeem a country song.

NOOOOO NOT THE PUPPIES!!!