It could be worse. It could be Johnson, Brackhaus, and Tanaka, Attorneys at Law.

With Barrister Bunraku on retainer?

Just an idea I had for a game I might run, if the opportunity presents itself. High-risk extraction of clients, runs to hack corporate data and find evidence as "Discovery," depositions (much more thrilling when the councellors have wired reflexes and cyber-spurs in addition to their rapier wit), that sort of thing.

Nah, it'd be Barrister Smith or Barrister Jones.

2035: I am no longer allowed to refer to the Ancients as "Clan Jade Falcon".

Yes, indeed. The Ancients are so much more effective and intelligent than CJF, it's an insult to them.

Just something I thought of when reading up on the Ancients, how often their colors were noted, and the Elven Traditions they imported from the Tir. :/

You know, I've just had a terrifying thought...

There's nothing stopping them from running around in big stompy 'mechs, just by modding the anthroform propulsion method of mobility to their bikes... Or other vehicles...

Other than the fact that Ares just produced the first effective Battlemech for the 2074 Desert Wars, where it was promptly shot to pieces for being too damned tall to get "Hull Down" properly?

Ooh, which book?

I figure quad 'mechs are better than upright ones for that anyway. More stability, lower profile, basically a tank on legs.

I could stat that! A well developed, organized and funded street gang turns to building stompy robosuits?

You guys have yet to see the horrors I can unleash with Motorbikes and Overmodding!

Can you cite that?

Also, I don't think there are rules for vehicles going hull down yet. Or for that matter, for making taller vehicles more easily shot than low-slung ones.

2036: I'm no longer allowed to make the answering machine message for the group.

... what did you do this time?

Admittedly, I once answered the phone at the host's house with, "Billy-Joe-Bob's Dis-count Pet Cem'try an' Bar-be-cue. This's Billy-Joe-Bob, haw kin' ah he'p yew?" in my best hillbilly.

To be fair, a number of mine are preemptive statements to stop me from doing it in the first place.

2037: I am not to recreate Traveller's Man Portable Artillery in shadowrun. Particularly not the FGMP. Maybe the ARMP...

Ah, the only guns that have rules for when you miss...

...Or when you hit and over-penetrate... through a tank... and the tank behind it...
I can kind of see why my GM isn't so keen on me having one

Did Empire Strikes Back teach you nothing?!

Quad mechs, no matter how impervious their armor happens to be against blasters, are vulnerable to tripping at which point their armor ceases to exist!

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2038: I am not allowed to attempt to recreate any weapon present in Fallout 3 or Fallout New Vegas that does not already have a direct representative in Shadowrun.

2038a: ESPECIALLY the Railroad Rifle.

2038b: The Experimental MIRV and Esther are right out.

2038c: also the radscorpion dart gun

2038d: I am also not permitted to take a 9 iron and use that as a weapon while shouting "A SLAVE OBEYS". [FO:NV:GRA & BS Reference]

2038d, sub 1: Or any other melee implement (improvised or otherwise), while shouting the same.

2038e: I'm also not allowed to heavily modify a Ford Americar, call it a Highwayman, and dare anyone to try and stop it.

(Wow, we can just keep going with these Fallout jokes!)

2038e: or the Ballistic Fist

I now want to mod a cyberarm with hydraulics to replicate the power fist.

2038f: I am permitted to recreate the Shishkebob since a gas tank on your back is a wonderful idea.

#2039: Getting a blimp drone with a multi-launch drone rack and filling it with missile drones is fine. Commanding them all to bombard the area automatically if I flatline... less so.
#2040: Modding a missile drone to be able to fire across the city is borderline cheating. Modding it to be able to hit its target from another country then hiring out for merc work in said country and targeting convoys without leaving my lounge is simply being lazy.
#2041: Retaliating against a Aesir Satellite weapon system with missiles that will take several hours to hit it, and are launched on your death, is considered petty.

Actually, those are all very good ideas.

'39 and '41 is just incentive not to kill you. If killing you costs them a satellite or their lives, it's often cheaper to leave you alive
'40 is just being efficient. I mean, do you know how much time traveling to another country for merc work takes?

Precisely. There's an in-canon character of a guy who rides a motorcycle and has a nuke in the side car.
Carpet bombing a city block or taking out a satellite is far less devastating.

In-canon, but not in the Shadowrunverse.

You're probably better off asking what Shadowrun players HAVEN'T read Snow Crash, as those will be a rarity.




-k

*Raises Hand* Can't remember ever having read it. Does not mean that I have not, just that I do not remember it. I am usually pretty good about stuff like that.

I like your thinkin', chummer. Gonna need types like you when we claim the barrens as our own.

Those guys on the Aesir Satellites are pretty trigger happy.
Just remember to have your missiles en route before you say that to their face
Preemptive launch for the win.

I've actually not read any SR books but rulebooks. I wish to rectify that, however.

It's not a Shadowrun book but might as well be (well aside from the lack of magic/awakened/metahumans...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash

A pretty good one from the days when Neal Stephenson was able to write a book that was less than 1000 pages.

Touche.

2042: Much as I'd like it to be, Snow Crash is not a Shadowrun Novel.

2042a: My runner may not wire a nuclear warhead to their biomonitor and declare themselves sovereign.

2043: I am no longer allowed to apply a tranquilizer to pets.
2044: I am not encouraged to name my weapons.

You can read why here.

2045: I am a shooter, not a melee specialist.
2045a: That means when I have a perfectly good SMG and a knife available to me I do not answer the knock on the hotel door by taking the knife with me.

2043-A: Ex-Ex rounds are not capsule rounds. Ex-Ex rounds are not capsule rounds. Ex-Ex rounds...

Edit: It's arguable that you just tranquilized him VERY PERMANENTLY. At least, that's what I'd argue if someone caught me doing that.

2046: Live grenades and armories do not mix. Live grenades and munitions dumps, doubly so.

2046a: Unless they belong to somebody you don't like, in which case I refer you to this:

2047: I am no long allowed to stop to perform basic first aid on any foes I cripple and wound because I should no longer expect that the foe's teammates will be unwilling to fire on someone performing first aid on their ally.

I...

*sizzle*

*reboot*

...I may have to steal that.

You gave him CPR... for a bullet wound to the head? Yeah, that sounds good to me. You should've seen the guy who got shot in the foot, I just rubbed some aloe vera on his neck.

Yeah. I was greatly surprised when stopping and kneeling to do that first aid to slow the bleeding bullets started raining down and around me. Considering those assholes tried to kill me already that night I wasn't going to risk my life any further just to possibly save the life of the guy I threw out the window (he was still attached to a rappel harness), then shot his rappel line, then shot his hand to cause him to fall.