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Elfenlied
Hi all,
we've all been playing pink mohawk games at some point in SR, or at least yearned to. Now, as we all now, pink mohawk deviates from standard SR in the fact that the Rule of Awesomeness should always trump common sense.

That said, what are your custom rules for it? Mine are the following:
-Cyberware scanners don't exist outside of medical facilities
-SIN scanners have to beat the rating of the fake SIN as a threshold
-We play in LA nyahnyah.gif
-Healing, whether by medikit or spell, is instantaneous
-Rocket Jump: As a complex action, detonate an explosive at your position. Everyone around you, including yourself, takes the damage of the explosive. If you remain conscious after this, you can make a jump check, with an effective Great Leap rating equal to the DV of the explosive.

Makki
QUOTE (Elfenlied @ Aug 1 2011, 07:19 AM) *
-SIN scanners have to beat the rating of the fake SIN as a threshold

that's a common house rule and considered the way it should work and been written. Scanner Rating x2 (fake SIN rating)

For some reason my group doesn't like cyberware scanners either.
Xahn Borealis
QUOTE (Elfenlied @ Aug 1 2011, 01:19 PM) *
-Rocket Jump: As a complex action, detonate an explosive at your position. Everyone around you, including yourself, takes the damage of the explosive. If you remain conscious after this, you can make a jump check, with an effective Great Leap rating equal to the DV of the explosive.

How does it work for vehicles?
Elfenlied
QUOTE (Xahn Borealis @ Aug 1 2011, 02:06 PM) *
How does it work for vehicles?


Only subjects normally entitled to make jump checks can benefit from rocket jump.

Which would rule out every vehicle except for those anthropomorphic cyborg drones, AFAIK.
Stahlseele
QUOTE (Xahn Borealis @ Aug 1 2011, 03:06 PM) *
How does it work for vehicles?

If you have a Ramp, you gain additional flight height/distance?
we all know that something has to explode under/behind a vehicle that's driving of a ramp . .
CanRay
Warthog jump. wink.gif
KarmaInferno
TURBO BOOST!

grinbig.gif




-k
Mardrax
QUOTE (Xahn Borealis @ Aug 1 2011, 03:06 PM) *
How does it work for vehicles?

There already is a rocket jump mod for vehicles in Arsenal. wink.gif
CanRay
QUOTE (KarmaInferno @ Aug 1 2011, 09:07 AM) *
Super Persuit Mode!
Elfenlied
You guys beat me to it
CanRay
I lament the 2008 Knight Rider series being cancelled, as I really wanted to see a Knight Industries 2000 versus Knight Industries 3000 fight. wink.gif

Not to mention a few other ideas I had... Yeah, I'm a fanboy. I think being here despite having wanted to play Shadowrun since '92 proves that enough.

KITT is surprisingly Pink Mohawk, however...
Elfenlied
Wait a sec, you've been DMing for 19 years without getting to play yourself?
CanRay
GMed for a 9 month campaign after I said "F*** IT!" and got the 4th Edition rules and took a year or two to find a group. Then fell apart. Me, not the group, that came later.

That's it, that's all.
Stahlseele
QUOTE (CanRay @ Aug 1 2011, 04:28 PM) *
I lament the 2008 Knight Rider series being cancelled, as I really wanted to see a Knight Industries 2000 versus Knight Industries 3000 fight. wink.gif

Not to mention a few other ideas I had... Yeah, I'm a fanboy. I think being here despite having wanted to play Shadowrun since '92 proves that enough.

KITT is surprisingly Pink Mohawk, however...

The 3000 was red.
CanRay
QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Aug 1 2011, 09:39 AM) *
The 3000 was red.
No, that was the Knight Industries 4000, which was a vastly inferior model.

The 3000 was a Black Shelby Mustang that didn't come with a "Hoopty Mode". nyahnyah.gif Yeah, the "Gadgetmobile" option kind of made me go WTF as well, but was an interesting touch.
Stahlseele
i thought the new black one was the 4000?
ok, my bad.

In a one off run, we found a hidden away old storage for prototype vehicles.
a black sports car, a black sports motorbike, a black military helicopter, a black sports boat.
and a big black truck capable of transporting one or two of the others, depending on choice.
yes, basically, we found kitt, streethawk, airwolf/blue thunder, thunder(thunder in paradise) and goliath/the rolling command center from the old knight rider series.
CanRay
Oh, very nice! biggrin.gif

I was planning on having my group be hired via the Matrix to steal a "Prototype Automobile", only to find out it's a 1982 Pontiac Trans-Am. Turns out, the AI living in the high-level Pilot System that the owner had put in as part of a KITT-Fan Club conversion, the AI had hired them himself ("I am not an it, and I most certainly am not female. I like the curves on those other cars too much to be anything but male." "Or a lesbian." "Hm, possible. No, male.") to get away from all the drooling fanatics that kept pawing him.

I figured he'd be an interesting contact as he drove from town-to-town righting wrongs. A sort of a combination of the original Knight Rider and The Littlest Hobo.
Stahlseele
Yeah, we liberated the AI in the sportscar the Johnson told us to get.
And imagine the grinding of teeth figuring out we could only take the sportscar OR somethig else using the transporter . .
But we basically hosed the Johnson(and the GM) by telling letting the AI decide what it wanted to happen to itself.
Turns out the johnson was bulletbroof, but not car-proof.
we got the gloiath-transporter and now have, basically, in SR3, a pilot/rigger AI as a contact. in a combat ready vehicle.
CanRay
If Gun-Fu is insufficient, start using Car-Fu.

And damn but I wish I could play. frown.gif
Stahlseele
poor guy.
tried the missions/play by post or IRC games?
CanRay
Can't do PbP, just can't, no matter the game.

I also find IRC exhausting for some reason. frown.gif
Stahlseele
move to germany.
we'll play with you.
Tymeaus Jalynsfein
QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Aug 1 2011, 09:29 AM) *
move to germany.
we'll play with you.


Or Colorado... And you would even be able to shoot those Guns you want to shoot as well... wobble.gif
Mardrax
Hell, I'll come visit you Germans when you do.
Missing out on the illustrious CanRay? No way. nyahnyah.gif
CanRay
Might as well wish David Hasselhoff joins our group as well. nyahnyah.gif
Stahlseele
Don't Hassle The Hoff!
The Hoff sang and the Wall fell!
Xahn Borealis
THIS is a rocket jump.
hobgoblin
QUOTE (CanRay @ Aug 1 2011, 04:15 PM) *

I'll be, a real like MASK vehicle.
CanRay
Oh man, that brings me back to my youth indeed!
Xahn Borealis
QUOTE (CanRay @ Aug 2 2011, 03:53 PM) *
Oh man, that brings me back to my youth indeed!

Off he goes again. Who wants to pull him out of there? Not it.
Stahlseele
QUOTE (CanRay @ Aug 2 2011, 04:53 PM) *
Oh man, that brings me back to my youth indeed!

QUOTE (Xahn Borealis @ Aug 2 2011, 05:08 PM) *
Off he goes again. Who wants to pull him out of there? Not it.

Scott and T-Bob.
tete
QUOTE (CanRay @ Aug 1 2011, 04:09 PM) *
Might as well wish David Hasselhoff joins our group as well. nyahnyah.gif


have you checked out http://www.penandpapergames.com/forums/memberlist.php, granted there are only 25 people in your area but I would suspect you could get other people to play possibly one to run
CanRay
QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Aug 2 2011, 11:40 AM) *
Scott and T-Bob.
Great, the annoying kid and even more annoying sidekick.

T-Bob stands for Thingamabob, BTW.
hobgoblin
Like R2D2 with a nervous breakdown.

I am surprised Lucas did not slap a lawsuit on them.
CanRay
Well, unlike R2, he didn't swear every second line. nyahnyah.gif
hobgoblin
Heh, good thing the tin can only speak binary then wink.gif
CanRay
That isn't binary, that's the censorship bleep. nyahnyah.gif wink.gif

R2-D2, the original Pink Mohawk Droid!
hobgoblin
Ah yes, the bleep that is becoming just as offensive as the words they are supposed to cover up (if the US busybodies are to be believed).
Xahn Borealis
QUOTE (hobgoblin @ Aug 3 2011, 10:22 AM) *
Ah yes, the bleep that is becoming just as offensive as the words they are supposed to cover up (if the US busybodies are to be believed).

So they want to censor the bleep? Seriously?
hobgoblin
QUOTE (Xahn Borealis @ Aug 3 2011, 12:01 PM) *
So they want to censor the bleep? Seriously?

Iirc, it was about the visual version of the bleep applied to TV guides. That "S*it my dad says" was offensive, even with the *.

Still, various Discovery programs seems to be overloaded with bleeps to the point that it has become something of a "trademark".
CanRay
****ing idiotic *******s that have nothing better to do than censor some ********ed good ****!!!

Whatever happened to freedom of speech and the idea of "I may not like it personally, but I'll fight to ensure it can be said."?
KarmaInferno
Well, to be fair, censoring a word in a way that you can still tell what the word being censored is, really isn't censoring.



-k
CanRay
Ah, true enough. Sorry, knee-jerk reaction.
Xahn Borealis
I tend to prefer implied profanity, anyway. So blark you, scrut-fogs!
Irion
@CanRay
It is kind of funny. It depends on the country for what you get into trouble if said/done on TV.
Showing your tits in France does not do anything.
On the other hand I guess there is a lot of stuff in American TV for which you might get in deep trouble over here in europe.
Xahn Borealis
QUOTE (Irion @ Aug 4 2011, 07:50 AM) *
Showing your tits in France does not do anything.

/me moves to France. eek.gif
Stahlseele
QUOTE (Xahn Borealis @ Aug 4 2011, 04:23 PM) *
/me moves to France. eek.gif

nobody wants to see your tits.
Mardrax
QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Aug 4 2011, 04:24 PM) *
nobody wants to see your tits.

You'd just prefer him to move to Germany and show his tits there.
Stahlseele
QUOTE (Mardrax @ Aug 4 2011, 04:35 PM) *
You'd just prefer him to move to Germany and show his tits there.

nobody wants to see his tits here either.
Xahn Borealis
/me puts bra back on. Somehow.
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