Combat Monster edge

Rule-of-6 on intiative dice, +1TN#

Can't remember location, but found in NSRCG

Once, counting only my (open) Stealth test and camo suit, someone's TN to spot my character ended up being a 54 or so. We decided to let him ignore the darkness and fog, to be "nice."

And, no. He didn't spot me.

Shortly afterward came one of my other greatest rolls ever, where (without using combat pool), I fired a single 6L anti-vehicular shot and knocked a Hughes Stallion helicopter (and the sniper riding inside it, more importantly) out of the air.

It was a dramatic entrance, at the very least.

Ok don't remember the exact rolls but this was the situation:

Human adept (me) in a building with bulletproof doors target was in a armored car with bulletproof windows.

Weapon ranger x ranger x arrows.

Skill (2nd mind you) was what ranged weapons/bows/ranger x for 8 dice plus 4 from adept ability.

Task shoot through the building doors shoot through the car window kill bad guy.

Target number 24 (going through 2 panes of bulletproof glass)

The roll 87

The decision by the gm was this:

You shoot through the building glass your angle was off so you end up going through the armor plateing on the car kill bad guy exit out car window you have no Idea where your arrow has gone it is no where in sight. (I was always picking up my arrows when done with an encounter if possible saves money)

After that the best rolls I have made have been in the 20's

I haven't got a copy of SR1 anymore, so can't argue the point effectively.

All I can say is that this came up at a Convention I attended in '90, where it was specifically pointed out by someone on the FASA staff (don't recall who though, which doesn't help my case ) that not all dice rolls are Tests. Only those rolls that are specifically designated as Tests were subject to the Rule of Six (and Rule of One). Initiative was one such roll, and other examples were the roll for Starting Cash, the roll for Magic Loss, and one or two others.

To be considered a Test, the roll would have to be a Success Test, Open Test, or Opposed Test (I don't recall if they had the Success Contests (or even Open Tests for that matter) in SR1, but if they did those qualified as well). If the roll in question was not one of these, then the Rule of Six (or One) did not apply. The only thing they changed was to make it clearer in later editions.

As I said though, this is merely heresay now (and moot to boot), as I don't have the appropriate books, nor can I prove my claim about the Convention.

I've got a few. First one, a little elf shaman by the name of Will E Coyote. For some reason, he was a big fan of the sniper rifle as opposed to spells. it was just "his thing".
Anways, their mission was to rescue this corp exec type that had been kidnapped by another runner team so that he couldn't make it to an ultra-important meeting.
long stor short, they track them down to some place in the barrens, and after a LONG fire fight (and losing one heir team to an HMG), it comes down to two of the runners, and one of the opposition.
The last man standing was a dwarf in heavy armor. He decided it would be a good idea to take up position behind the 'hostage' and put a gun to his head, making him a damn hard target.
Now the Shaman COULD have just tagged him w/ a manabolt (no idea why he didn't), but he decided his rifle was a better idea. Problem is, he doesn't have it together, it's in it's case w/ him (es, he went through the whole fight w/ the case in his of hand).
He decides he wants to put it together and take a shot. Now this rifle (the Walther I believe) requires 3 rounds to put together.But little things like 'rules' don't daunt him. He asks for a traget number. now (somewhere) in the main book (or some book) it says "don't say no, apply a target number". So I did, I told him 40. Sounded pretty impossible to me. So he rolls his rifle b/r (seemed appropriate), got a 44.
He shot out one of the chair legs, then dropped the dwaf as his hostage fell over.
Slick.

Hell, that wasn't the way anyone I knew (myself included) played it. It came as a complete shock to me when I first heard about it. It never even occured to me that Initiative should be treated any different than anything else. I was really glad when it was specifically spelled out later, as that one little hickup was the cause of more arguments than anything else in the game ... which is saying something with a rules-set like Shadowrun has.

Best roll that happened to me...

Our Elven Rigger got his paws on a SOTA T-Bird...he claimed he got it from TirT (long story don't ask the rest of the team IC and OOC were every bit as boggled) so my char, a Combat Decker, decided to double check the TirT Grids and make SURE that the T-Bird wasn't recorded anywhere anymore.

I cannot remember the exact numbers but I think I can safely say I have never SEEN so many 6's in my life and I had reduced the GM to whimpers, as he informed me that I waltzed though a Red-10 Host got the info, and some other items and waltzed out without a trace.

To this day I am STILL shocked I pulled it off.

A teammate of mine once rolled a 39 on a stealth roll to hide a van. We made jokes about him hiding the van up in some tree branches. My character was walking back to the van and bumped into it without seeing it.

Ahem…

The best roll I ever made was for a picnic one balmy summer’s day. Ham and cheese it was, with just a hint of mustard. MMMMM

Well, I have a few...

• 10 successes on a melee attack against TN 4. Took out a creature (an ED Horror) about five times my own size with a single hit.
• Managed three successes on an athletics test with a total TN of 13 (serious wound, medium stun, and what I was trying to do was a pretty crazy stunt in the first place).
• Rolled so many successes on a stunball that all targets took D physical.

If we're counting other games, there's my all-time best roll...not because the odds were so bad, simply for the badass factor.

The game was DSA, a german fantasy RPG. My character was a mercenary with a katana-like sword...he had few skills beyond mastery of his blade. A classic 'have sword - will travel' type.

We were on our way through an arid valley, when we were attacked by a lion. The lion leapt out at us from ambush...my character was the only one who noticed it before the attack and thus could act.

I fast-drew my sword...and decided to meet the lion's charge head on.
The GM demanded a will roll to see if I could really manage to play chicken with a lion.
I rolled a critical success.
Instead of just standing there and waiting for the lion's attack, my character jumped up to meet it in mid-air.
I was faster than the lion, so my attack came first. I rolled...critical chance. I rolled again...confirmed critical hit. I rolled damage...maximum.

The GM described the scene like something out of a ninja-themed anime. Two combatants meet in mid-air, weapons flash faster than the eye can follow, both combatants land. One of them looks confused for a bit...and falls apart. The other cleans and sheathes his blade without even turning to look.

That was the single most badass stunt I've ever managed to pull off in that game .

Once upon a time in a run, we were a bunch of cybered-up runners, most of us with built-in cameras, orientation systems and gps unis. So we rigged up a computer to build us a crude battletac for my character to snipe through walls. Unbeknownst to us, the evil GM decided that on top of full cover and no visibiliy modifiers, the crude projections flickered too. So my characters target number went from 2 to 18 to hit people inside buildings.

During the run, the rest of the group (aaah... how I love sending everyone else into danger and collecting an equal share of the paycheck) ran into a really nasty physad that resisted all of their nastiest attacks. When my characters initiative finally came up, they had used up their combat pools, made a karma reroll and sustained 2 light wounds. She pops two shots (APDS ammo for wall penetration) and scores two successes for each (making for two 10D wounds).

So the über-ninja suddenly just drops in front of my astonished teammates while my character shouts "Hello ma'am! Candygram!" over the radio. So much for the GM trying to stop our jury-rigged battletac with insane difficulty adjustments.

My group also plays with a rule where if you double your target number, you get an extra success, though we limit it to only TN of 7 or higher.

While I was building my cyberdeck (we play with 2 ed rules), I had some pretty twisted target numbers. I think the response circuitry (level 3) had a TN of 17 and a base time of 5 years or something ridiculous like that. What's worse, I tried month after month at this thing, never getting a single success, though I was using ALL of my karma pool every time, and my character's been around the block more than a few times. It's really, REALLY frustrating to try something month after month and keep failing, especially when your groups timeline sticks as close to real time as ours. On something like the 7th try, I not only hit the 17, I also hit an 18, and a 51. 5 successes. Suck cheese, other characters taht got to go those 7 months without being deprived of their karma pool, and thus doing all the cool stuff.

Of course, everyone really wants to know about the action stuff, and the best I've pulled there is a 40 something on initiative. We use the rule of 6, there though, otherwise, my decker is no good at that sort of thing. I used it to good effect though, and the uber bad guys never see it coming when the DECKER kicks their ass.

After a real embarrasing accident involving a motorcycle and a Jackrabbit, see "Negative Pressure Value" I put a single round from a Manhunter down the barrel of a mini Missile launcher from 80 yards out. Character had a: smartgunlink Lvl3, b:Internal Geosynk Orientation and Tactical computer, c: cybereyes with rangefinder, magnification/binocular, and finally d: lots of pent up frustration. Had to Roll Intellegence to aim, Quickness to get the first shot off, and finally Firearms just to make sure recoil didn't foul my aim. Target number for all three tests was 6 [ note: GM at the time wasn't using canon SR rules described in books, target numbers can be 1 - 6, you pick up as many dice as you have points in Attribute, or Skill, and roll them out, how many of those beat or greet the targ number is how many successes ] GM also warned me I needed at least 6 successes for each test. I rolled 6, 6, 8. So 80 yards away there's a real unhappy merc who's reaching for yet another really big gun when my buddy finally sneaks up behind him and well, since it was in the middle of heavy standstill traffic many witnesses got a good idea of how much blood spurs can spill.

I rolled a 52 once on an intelligence test, 8 sixes and then a four. I don't remember exactly what it was for but I knew every damned thing about particular bit of tech (I was playing a decker/techie at the time). I rolled it on those cheapo "casino" dice you get in a 5 pack for a dollar and some change, you know, the white plastic dice with the black dots for the numbers. To this day I always use those dice more than any others for SR. Everyone else has their pretty multicolored swirl, or metal flake, or just uber-nifty dice while I pull out those basic cheapos. If I'm playing with someone new they'll usually ask why I choose those over the other pretty dice I've got, and one of my buds will usually say something along the lines of, "man, he's just dangerous with those cheap dice."

While not the best die roll ever, I had a funny roll this week. One of the players made a physad that focused on whpis, looking to go the monofilament route. Since the availablity is over 8 you can't start with one. Instead he starts with a normal whip.

In a side conversation with some out of town fixers he mentions a monofilament whip. I laugh and grab some dice. Up comes one six. then another, then another. Only one more six to go, but I rolled a 1 instead.

I think my group is resigned to me having luck with specific dice...in the last run we did, the sniper had shade, cover, added a stealth roll of 10...and I rolled two 18s in spot checks with three different NPCs. Oh, and a 32...that's my new best roll.

Oh yeah, the sniper got taken out, captured, and returned to the wild with a weeks worth of amnesia and 1 essence of Mysterious Cyberware...where's that thread that was going around?

I currently top out at 35 on physical dice. The AIM dieroller has only gotten me up to 28 or so.

~J