Please, use this space to argue over dead horse and other topics.

So, how about those called shots ignoring armor?

Can I call a shot with my dikoted Ares Viper Slivergun and ignore armor while having sex with my ally spirit (assuming I paid for dinner)?

is the Ally spirit Dikoted also?

You are misinterpreting my remarks. I'm sure it is deliberate.

what good would having a gun dikoted do? now a dikoted manifested spirit could be fun to play around with. assuming that the manifest was strong enough to survive being dipped in the plasma hot dikote bath.

What about a Dikote Spirit? Would that be the child of a Salamander and a Gnome (Spirit of the Earth Thing?) OR the child of a Fire and Earth Elemental?

Liar. I'm a street punk who can kill any black belt, but then I went to the mystical kung-fu dojo and can cast magic spells.
And if you don't munch your characters, you aren't roleplaying properly and are doing a disservice to your players.
And you used the word canon. Die.

~J

Postscript: where did Wrathful Buddha go, anyway?

Where I should be. Back to work.

Aw, man...how about we keep the silliness to a minimum, eh?

You ex post facto'd my ipso facto ying yang [latin phrase here] whangdoodle. stop that.

These thread are only good for the silly because they have no emotional attachment or content like is generated by a legitimate thread. It's a lost cause.

PICKLES!!! And also, FROSTY DONUTS!!!

So, does anyone else get random phrases stuck in their head? I've been dealing with a few for the past year or so... mostly "7.65 mm rifle" and "buy a shotgun and head for the hills".
On a side note, in Spriggan/Striker Yu Ominae is noted as having a 7.65 mm rifle. Does this caliber actually exist or was it a mistake for 7.62? (Specifically it was in Spriggan/Striker and the Forest of No Return)

~J

Man, the rules for combat in this cyberpunk fantasy game bare no bearing to reality!

PS: What if I turned my dikoted Ally spirit into FFBA and stacked it with another dikoted Ally spirit in the form of a Secure Jacket ?

You would die from exertion by the encumberance rules.

There are absolutely no problems with the rules in SR because a good GM can make anything work and anyone that believes otherwise is a worthless rollplayer that has sex with munchkins and gay wookies every night.

I've banned the following from my games because they're overpowered.

Artwinkulation
Mnemonic enhancer
Smartlinks
Wired Reflexes
Assault rifles
Datajacks
Cybereyes
Ex-explosive ammo
Elves
Silencers

Nu-uh... I could have sworn there was some obscure and misquoted rule that I heard about second hand that says I'm right and you are wrong.

I don't have my books with me right now, but I'm sure you haven't accomplished your goal. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I just like to type and make you read what I type even if I respect you so little that I won't take the time to look it up. Sexcuse my spelling, but my time is so important and my words are so important that you should be able to figure it out even if my memory isn't so good and did I say that maybe it's a house rule but I don't remember which is a house rule and which isn't because I can't afford to buy the books or take the time to search previous postings but you know what I mean and can you tell me your best designed spells to cast while in the matrix using our house rules because this is a contest and I'll award a prize to the one who wins the game.

OurTeam, that was great! We should get together for coffee sometime!

Coffee or watching together newest BTL chips?

And if you sleep with underage spirit, will spirit police come and arrest you?

yes

dudes, can u tell me where 2 get teh books online for free? I dont wanna spend my money on shit like this, but it's a gr8 game and I want 2 play.

~J

Postscript: Damn, it's harder than it looks to properly butcher the English language. By the by, thanks Austere.

Which makes no sense, considering how often people manage to do it.

And Kage, I know you're being sarcastic. I'm just waiting to see how many people miss the </sarcasm> tag.

-Siege

That's true. Maybe we should flood the 'net with pirated copies of the original version of Rigger 3, made in such a way as to be unsearchable... oh, and missing the table of contents...

~J

Someone missed the /sarcasm tag...

One can never know when one of these posts are for real.

Damn, for a moment there, you almost had me. That was hilarious!

I'm going to hope I'm not a target for this satire, and say that in MY game we have fifty million house rules which are all written down with the skill of a middle ages illuminati monk on authentic parchment, which is for the express purpose of filling up the time of someone who insists on 'canon' whether it makes any sense or not and refuses to play unless pre-breifed on all the 'non-canon' rules as defined by him, and we do this so that the rest of us can GET ON WITH THE DAMN GAME.

Ahem.

You can always go to run with a couple of baseball bats.
And cars are too overpowered. You should go everywhere with bycicle or legs.
Or else game becomes too fast-paced

Going back to Kage's post about silencers.

Why not user poor man's silencer? The 2 liter bottle. I'm not sure if it really works, but if it did the runners would still leave being plastic with GSR on it right?

whoops Behing not being

oh forget it.

I've never tried it personally, but according to various second-hand sources it seems to work.

-Siege

Wetwork runs, I will pay you to snipe this guy in the head.

If you fire a shot the run is hosed!

I guess you fail either way.

Guys, we're getting off topic, and by that, I mean we're not talking about how awesome my new character is. I mean he is so sweet. He has 15s in every stat, and rolls 50 dice when shooting people at a -27 TN with his dual Ares Cobra Slicerguns (a totally sweet mod I made of the Ares Viper Slivergun that does FA 20D AV shots with no recoil, 300 rounds, and a conceal of 15...it's totally by the book when I used the house rules on this site I found) . oh, and he is a shaman/physad/decker/elf/face/cyberzombie/Mage/drake/troll/free spirit/dikoted/drone rigger. With him, I can totally win the Shadowrun!

Man, the GM said I fell unconscious when I suffered a Deadly physical wound! Is that railroading or what? I mean, <i>I</i> didn't say my character fell unconscious!

~J

that's nothing. Mine said I felt ill when i ate some fugu five. It doesn't say you feel ill, its says nausea! that means throwing up and feeling sick, when I feel ill - and its commonly accepted knowledge that my opinion is right, remember - I get a blocked up nose! It doesn't say that I feel 'ill' by my definition in the book, so I walked out of the game. That showed him. He admitted it to, but then he made some stuff up that it actually only showed him what a PGT I am, but he was obviously using a dubious set of reasoning parameters. It was all because of some stupid railroaded plot as well where all I'd done was opened this can of stuff in a chemists lab and drank it because if random objects could be dangerous I should have been told - and in the book it doesn' t mention them being so they can't be unless the GM is using another stupid house rule without telling me first...

okay, I'll stop now, cos I'm just venting.

But anyway, all that aside, I think you'll find that cars are not at all overpowered. It is in fact skills which are overpowered. I mean, think about it: you have a pistols rating of six and you can actually shoot people with it! If that's not an sneaky GM carte blanche to get players I don't know what is! What next, 'ammunition'?

OMG shadowrun is like so cool its almost better than pokemon but not quite cuz it doeznt have cards and stuff and its not animie enough you know
i wanna play a samurai deker wizard who can sumon big demonz with his sword
a big sword like clouds from final fantasy!!!!!!!!!!1111111111

I had players who road to there missions on the city bus. Seattle hasa great Metro system you can get anywhere on the bus.

Boy with all the forbidden topics I'm surprised no one mentioned my Vampire ninja CZ.