Ok, I'm pretty sure everyone's come up against this question at least once. I can't remember if the books address it, and I can only imagine the house rules involved, but here goes. How does everyone address hooking up*, and how in detail do you go?
<Duck and cover>
*(Pulling the birds, gettin' boo-tay, whatever you wanna call it.)
Full Version: All (or most) jokes aside...
hmm, i would guess that the books that cover it would be neo-anarchist guide, or sprawl survival guide. i have neither...
there was some talk about virtual prostitution in target: matrix tho, that i know for sure as i have the book (and cant get that troll catholic schoolgirl of my mind
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there was some talk about virtual prostitution in target: matrix tho, that i know for sure as i have the book (and cant get that troll catholic schoolgirl of my mind
)
Actually, I have already wayyyyyyy too much information on this from the way my players have set it up.
Prostitution
A Regular Service: One PC has stated that he doesn't date but only indulges himself with Prostitutes. To this end he has a 'call line' with a holographic catalog he cyles though listing various vital stats. It's distinctly upper scale and he had to take medical tests and credit checks (on his false SIN number) to become a member of the service.
The game always opens with the players telling the girls to take a hike or them leaving his loft.
Random Walk ups: In Shadowrun, they certainly don't mince words. Prostitution is something that's easily available along with being abundant. Even Shadowrunners themselves get hit up often by people who wouldn't mind the mystique. Sex is a commodity.
Scoring the Old Fashioned Way
Robin Hood Rule: A player coined this term in D&D and it still applies. Pretty much by obligation if you save a woman's life she's obligated to sleep with you. It's an amusing rule that gets quoted frequently at the table.
Just Assume that Players usually have no trouble getting laid: A frequent rule is that they're dangerous, often goodlooking, and plenty of women or men are attracted to people with an aura of power.
Prostitution
A Regular Service: One PC has stated that he doesn't date but only indulges himself with Prostitutes. To this end he has a 'call line' with a holographic catalog he cyles though listing various vital stats. It's distinctly upper scale and he had to take medical tests and credit checks (on his false SIN number) to become a member of the service.
The game always opens with the players telling the girls to take a hike or them leaving his loft.
Random Walk ups: In Shadowrun, they certainly don't mince words. Prostitution is something that's easily available along with being abundant. Even Shadowrunners themselves get hit up often by people who wouldn't mind the mystique. Sex is a commodity.
Scoring the Old Fashioned Way
Robin Hood Rule: A player coined this term in D&D and it still applies. Pretty much by obligation if you save a woman's life she's obligated to sleep with you. It's an amusing rule that gets quoted frequently at the table.
Just Assume that Players usually have no trouble getting laid: A frequent rule is that they're dangerous, often goodlooking, and plenty of women or men are attracted to people with an aura of power.
Runner meets joygirl/boy. "Transaction" takes place in convenient alley, vehicle, or coffin motel.
Smart runners generally learn to ask for proof the joyboy/girl has had his/her shots after their next trip to the street doc.
"No, the burning sensation is not a malfunction with your nephritic screen."
Smart runners generally learn to ask for proof the joyboy/girl has had his/her shots after their next trip to the street doc.
"No, the burning sensation is not a malfunction with your nephritic screen."
That's what a mage buddy with cure disease is for. 
| QUOTE (Willowhugger) |
| Robin Hood Rule: A player coined this term in D&D and it still applies. Pretty much by obligation if you save a woman's life she's obligated to sleep with you. It's an amusing rule that gets quoted frequently at the table. Just Assume that Players usually have no trouble getting laid: A frequent rule is that they're dangerous, often goodlooking, and plenty of women or men are attracted to people with an aura of power. |
I LIKE IT!
...maybe they'll lay off the 5 Minute Rule...
| QUOTE (Smiley) | ||
I LIKE IT! ...maybe they'll lay off the 5 Minute Rule... |
Ewwwwww.
Maybe your players are just sick, perverted fucks.
In Shadowrun the Robin Hood rule is replaced by the Get off me you motherfragger rule. It you're lucky you get the old joke about the woman who was tied up in the deert and left for dead. If you aren't lucky then your peaches get stolen.
The Burt rule also works well. The first hot chick you pick up in a club or bar will be your your childhood best friend, Burt. Or, if the character is heterosexual female, the hot guy will be her childhood best friend Brandy.
The Burt rule also works well. The first hot chick you pick up in a club or bar will be your your childhood best friend, Burt. Or, if the character is heterosexual female, the hot guy will be her childhood best friend Brandy.
| QUOTE (ShadowDragon8685) | ||||
Ewwwwww. Maybe your players are just sick, perverted fucks. |
Maybe, but we have a laugh.
| QUOTE (Willowhugger @ May 31 2006, 08:12 PM) |
| Robin Hood Rule: A player coined this term in D&D and it still applies. Pretty much by obligation if you save a woman's life she's obligated to sleep with you. It's an amusing rule that gets quoted frequently at the table. |
Wow, that could be played out so wrong...
Female: Wow, you saved my life by killing that heap of troll gangers just now during the commission of your mission.
PC: Yep. *ziiiip*
Female: Oh god no...
But, as far as house ruling sex goes, I think that's going to be a disaster for two reasons. The first reason is that I've never actually tried to pick anyone up so I'm not actually too sure how you're supposed to go about that IRL although supposedly it's not that difficult in settings where people congregate to pick people up such as a singles bar. The second reason is I'm pretty sure that anyone who feels the need to role play out picking up women with a bunch of male players clustered around the table is probably just going to become a teeth-grinding embarassment to us all and we'll never want to play again after that.
| QUOTE (hyzmarca) |
| In Shadowrun the Robin Hood rule is replaced by the Get off me you motherfragger rule. It you're lucky you get the old joke about the woman who was tied up in the deert and left for dead. If you aren't lucky then your peaches get stolen. The Burt rule also works well. The first hot chick you pick up in a club or bar will be your your childhood best friend, Burt. Or, if the character is heterosexual female, the hot guy will be her childhood best friend Brandy. |
.....
That isn't much like my games I'll admit.
Nor have I any idea what that remotely resembles.
| QUOTE (Wounded Ronin @ May 31 2006, 09:15 PM) |
| Wow, that could be played out so wrong... Female: Wow, you saved my life by killing that heap of troll gangers just now during the commission of your mission. PC: Yep. *ziiiip* Female: Oh god no... |
This is Shadowrun.
*after half an hour*
Female: *wipes mouth* That'll be 30 nunyens.
PC: God damnit. Is nothing free?
Female: Nope.
PC: Ok, roll for Negotiation...
Or go the Grand Theft Auto III route...
Heh... social adept anyone?
And combine Burt with Robin Hood:
[afterglow]
PC: So why were those trolls after you?
Victim: For dressing as a woman.
[/afterglow]
[afterglow]
PC: So why were those trolls after you?
Victim: For dressing as a woman.
[/afterglow]
| QUOTE (Ancient History) |
| And combine Burt with Robin Hood: [afterglow] PC: So why were those trolls after you? Victim: For dressing as a woman. [/afterglow] |
*singing*
I know all there is to know about the crying game...
| QUOTE (Wounded Robin) |
| But, as far as house ruling sex goes, I think that's going to be a disaster for two reasons. The first reason is that I've never actually tried to pick anyone up so I'm not actually too sure how you're supposed to go about that IRL although supposedly it's not that difficult in settings where people congregate to pick people up such as a singles bar. The second reason is I'm pretty sure that anyone who feels the need to role play out picking up women with a bunch of male players clustered around the table is probably just going to become a teeth-grinding embarassment to us all and we'll never want to play again after that. |
Frankly, I've never encountered this phenemenon. Then again, the assumption is as a DM I'm not attempting to use my own body language to act out the part of an attractive woman.
The "horror" stories always fail because it's the difference between...
Bad DMing: I'd like to hire you for a mission and I'LL MAKE IT WORTH YOUR WHILLEE *licks air*
and
Good DMing: A breathtakingly attractive redheaded Half-Elven woman with a miniskirt and low cut bodice slides over to you with an ankh tatooed between her breasts. The woman's green eyes seem particularly alluring and its obvious she's got pheremone enhancers amongst probable other benefits.
She says unto you (doesn't attempt to do the voice) "I'd like to hire you for a mission and I'll make it worth your while."
The coin she intends to pay in probably won't be Nunyans.
***
Other options include...
The Girlfriend/The Kept Mistress: A reference where the PC creates a character that he's involved with that may occasionally show up as background material. The DM can fill in details with the PCs permission or provide a general selection. The Kept mistress is more lurid where the Shadowrunner's lifestyle includes a permanent sex partner he keeps in a varying foramlity state of for goodies.
| QUOTE (Willowhugger) |
| Half-Elven |
Which half? Top or bottom?
| QUOTE (Ancient History) | ||
Which half? Top or bottom? |
It's a tough call.
Elves have notoriously poor breasts and bottoms.
Thank god for surgical implants.
Hey, I happen to LIKE elf bottoms.
FEMALE elf bottoms, before any wisecracks...
FEMALE elf bottoms, before any wisecracks...
| QUOTE (Smiley) |
| Hey, I happen to LIKE elf bottoms. FEMALE elf bottoms, before any wisecracks... |
If you're playing an orc it doesn't matter.
On the plus side, this makes Orc women a lot wilder in our games since this is the "sex" thread they have no expectations of monogamy and are up for anything and everyone if you are.
| QUOTE |
| FEMALE elf bottoms, before any wisecracks... |
and male troll bottoms?
If you need to smuggle something...
true, its the last place anyone would like to look...
or maybe second to last, the ghoul variant being the definitive last
still, if the customs officer was a troll, all bets are off...
or maybe second to last, the ghoul variant being the definitive last
still, if the customs officer was a troll, all bets are off...
| QUOTE (Smiley) |
| If you need to smuggle something... |
Decker to troll: How the hell did you sneak that Roomsweeper past the guards? The patted us all down for christs sake.
Troll: I hid it where no sane person would feel up a troll.
-from the Shadowrun Quotefile
| QUOTE (HMHVV Hunter) | ||
Decker to troll: How the hell did you sneak that Roomsweeper past the guards? The patted us all down for christs sake. Troll: I hid it where no sane person would feel up a troll. -from the Shadowrun Quotefile |
From the Mr. Johnson thread...
447. Please inform the troll that clogging up their toilets is not a plan.
448. No sane man goes to the bathroom after a Troll.
449. You can hide an AK-47 in there I know....
450. It doesn't mean you SHOULD.
451. Referring to 437, yes I suppose all male orcs are ugly and girl orcs just have cute little tusks. Now stop pointing out out!
452. Yes, your orc girlfriend is up for ANYTHING we know....
Decker: I hope you wash your hands after you use it.
| QUOTE (HMHVV Hunter) | ||
Decker to troll: How the hell did you sneak that Roomsweeper past the guards? The patted us all down for christs sake. Troll: I hid it where no sane person would feel up a troll. -from the Shadowrun Quotefile |
i just hope he didnt "oops" that test...
| QUOTE (Willowhugger) | ||||
It's a tough call. Elves have notoriously poor breasts and bottoms. Thank god for surgical implants. |
Everyone knows that the secondary sexual characteristics aren't as important as what's inside a person...
...which means in this case the sex organs.
| QUOTE (Wounded Ronin) | ||||||
Everyone knows that the secondary sexual characteristics aren't as important as what's inside a person... ...which means in this case the sex organs. |
person? i didnt know that was a requirement
The only thing worse than a living girlfriend's wrath is a Virtual Reality one whom can takeover nukes to take out her displease.
That reminds me; I wonder if Magera and Dodger will be getting back together after the events of System Failure.
| QUOTE (Smiley @ May 31 2006, 07:24 PM) | ||
I LIKE IT! ...maybe they'll lay off the 5 Minute Rule... |
Good luck with that. If your players won't, what makes you think their characters will?
| QUOTE (Willowhugger) |
| This is Shadowrun. *after half an hour* Female: *wipes mouth* That'll be 30 nunyens. PC: God damnit. Is nothing free? Female: Nope. |
She spends 30 minutes AND swallows?! For going above and beyond her "obligation," she deserves the 30Y.
| QUOTE (Willowhugger) |
| Good DMing: A breathtakingly attractive redheaded Half-Elven woman with a miniskirt and low cut bodice slides over to you with an ankh tatooed between her breasts. The woman's green eyes seem particularly alluring and its obvious she's got pheremone enhancers amongst probable other benefits. She says unto you (doesn't attempt to do the voice) "I'd like to hire you for a mission and I'll make it worth your while." |
hahaha
I had a Ms. Johnson do that to a notoriously lecherous PC. She had his head so twisted around her (Oh, did I mention she's a social adept?) that she was hiring him to work for her until he got killed doing high-risk jobs, and at the end of the day he was pretty close to paying her for the privilege.
God I love SR3's social skills rules.
I honestly don't see why this thread isn't locked yet. But maybe I am a prude.
<<shrug>>
<<shrug>>
This is how things usually go in our games.
http://www.commissionedcomic.com/index.php...date=2005-02-14
http://www.commissionedcomic.com/index.php...date=2005-02-14
Can't some people talk about ... Oh, wait. Wrong forum.
| QUOTE (Smiley) |
| Hey, I happen to LIKE elf bottoms. |
ELF BOOTY GOT SOUL!
ELF GIRLS LIKE TO ROCK 'N ROLL!
| QUOTE (Ancient History) | ||
Which half? Top or bottom? |
...wait....either she's all elven or not.
While there are racial variants, offspring of mixed race parents still follow one or the other parent's metatype. There are no "half-races".
... in SR. However, I don't think he was referring to SR (the half-elf and DM kind of tipped me off).
| QUOTE (Jrayjoker) |
| I honestly don't see why this thread isn't locked yet. But maybe I am a prude. <<shrug>> |
Well to be honest. It is something thats relavent to gaming. Players kill lots of people so why not talk about them trying to score?
*shrug*
| QUOTE (Shrike30) | ||
ELF BOOTY GOT SOUL! ELF GIRLS LIKE TO ROCK 'N ROLL! |
Why couldn't she be the other type of Mermaid, with the top half of a fish and the bottom half of a woman?
| QUOTE (hyzmarca) |
| Why couldn't she be the other type of Mermaid, with the top half of a fish and the bottom half of a woman? |
One glance... was all it took,
she gave me the Innsmouth look...
| QUOTE (Shrike30) | ||
ELF BOOTY GOT SOUL! ELF GIRLS LIKE TO ROCK 'N ROLL! |
How did I miss that post?
GENIUS!
| QUOTE (Willowhugger) | ||
Well to be honest. It is something thats relavent to gaming. Players kill lots of people so why not talk about them trying to score? *shrug* |
Because violence is fun for the whole family. But sex is only between a man and a woman locked in holy matrimony.
| QUOTE |
| Why couldn't she be the other type of Mermaid, with the top half of a fish and the bottom half of a woman? |
Meow : )
I shan't make any comments about the smell, though.
Best bass you've ever had...
Sorry, I meant to say that our lodgings were on the edge of the undead distrct's red-light distrcit. You know what they say, "Nothing like a cold girl on a hot night".
i'm going to need a bigger wall, to make sure you're all first against it when the revolution comes.
| QUOTE (Crusher Bob) |
| Sorry, I meant to say that our lodgings were on the edge of the undead distrct's red-light distrcit. You know what they say, "Nothing like a cold girl on a hot night". |
Ok, I just have to steal a quote from a friend now.
"Undead doesn't mean unperson"
| QUOTE (SL James) | ||||
How did I miss that post? GENIUS! |
It's from Lords of the Rhymes. Ain't no party like a hobbit party.
| QUOTE (Willowhugger) |
| [QUOTE=Wounded Robin] The Girlfriend/The Kept Mistress: A reference where the PC creates a character that he's involved with that may occasionally show up as background material. The DM can fill in details with the PCs permission or provide a general selection. The Kept mistress is more lurid where the Shadowrunner's lifestyle includes a permanent sex partner he keeps in a varying foramlity state of for goodies. |
better make that
the girlfriend/kept mistress/fixer of the opposite sex
this always makes negotiations much more interesting. but then again my GM is a vicious fragger who likes to frag the runners at every chance he gets because he's let us get to powerful.
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