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Looking a lot like Rosa's going to be our winner, and it's pretty much down to these two portraits now barring anything dramatic.  We'll give it exactly 2 hours as of this post. Any Armstrong voters are obviously free to throw in their vote here as well. Kanfy fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Dec 7, 2017 |
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Personally, I like the dark-haired portrait better. Also, in a TT campaign, 5th edition, that I was in...we got into a fight with a dragon. A young dragon, working as a security consultant for the place we were hitting, and he gave chase as we were escaping by air. We knew we had no chance of any of our weapons actually damaging him through conventional measures, until we hit upon the concept that "his scales can't protect him from damage if an explosion happens inside him, right?" This lead to our rigger saving the day by remotely piloting an ultralight full of grenades down the dragon's throat when he went to breath fire at us. Sure, the dumpshock sucked, but better than being roasted alive. We were pretty mirrorshades on our actual runs, while it was more of some runners' "recreational activities" that were pink mohawk. (See: the troll face riding around in a full-face gas mask with the street sam, cutting off the heads of Ancients gangers with a claymore.) And our mage was a constantly high stoner, but always managed to pull off the magic when we needed it. Miss playing with them, but scheduling was an issue, as well as (at the time) the routine cursing Skype for loving up the call yet again.
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Dec 7, 2017 19:41
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Kanfy posted:Looking a lot like Rosa's going to be our winner, and it's pretty much down to these two portraits now barring anything dramatic. cig lady has got personality in that portrait, they're both good though
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Dec 7, 2017 20:03
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I voted for the ponytail portrait that apparently all of two people wanted. 
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Dec 7, 2017 20:07
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If I was playing solo I'd probably pick the right one too, if only because it fits the wisecracking idiot kinda character I always play in these games. There are a lot of good snarky dialogue choices in this and HK. But they'll both certainly work.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:20
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I actually just finished playing through all three Shadowrun games about a week ago. Came across the Returns LP too late to really participate, but I enjoyed reading it nonetheless. Dragonfall is my favorite of the three, so I'm looking forward to reading this LP. I hope Brunette Kira Nerys wins the portrait vote. I just wish the modding scene for these games actually took off. I was really hoping for more campaigns.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:43
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Groetgaffel posted:I voted for the ponytail portrait that apparently all of two people wanted. You and me both.  But i also have a soft spot for her DMS alt-version with the purple hair and all the skull tatoos. It is very "punk". She even was my decker/rigger run. Some irony. AriadneThread posted:cig lady has got personality in that portrait.
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Dec 7, 2017 20:52
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OutofSight posted:You and me both. soycig
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Dec 7, 2017 20:53
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Kanfy posted:If I was playing solo I'd probably pick the right one too, if only because it fits the wisecracking idiot kinda character I always play in these games. There are a lot of good snarky dialogue choices in this and HK. A ton of them. You can be the smartest man in Berlin, and still spend most of your time being taken as the world's biggest fuckup. Just before you explain the whole plan you're dealing with, to the last detail.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:01
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Cig-Mage has clearly had it with her fellow Runners bullshit. She takes one last, long drag on her cig before flicking it into the corner. Blowing out a lungful of smoke, she summons the Magick. Time to save the fuckin' day. Again. Morons.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:01
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Voting's done! It was close, but with 4 votes, cigarette lady is our winner! Now to work on the actual LP. I'll do my best to deliver it faster than your average update, just so that we don't go for a week without any kind of content right off the bat. 
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Dec 7, 2017 21:03
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The choice between, "Done with this poo poo" and  .
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Dec 7, 2017 21:04
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That portrait is the best portrait anyway. Cigarette lady is just so done with all this fairies and magic garbage. Shame about the character personality you had already chosen
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Dec 7, 2017 21:16
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I dont know posted:Germany was a huge market for Shadowrun since punk/cyberpunk was huge there in the 80's/90's for obvious reasons, and boardgames/tabletops have always been really popular there. I think selling well in Germany led to FASA producing a lot of material centered around Germany/Berlin. Which, in turn, encouraged both German and non-German players to run campaigns there. Yeah, I figured it was something like that. I remember thinking that there was a lot of the "future of the 80s" stuff about Germany that was written into canon during the early years, Berlin especially, when I read the 3rd Ed fluff just getting into the game, and then things changed a lot regarding real life stuff during the intervening edition changes and the metaplot had to roll on to accommodate it.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:22
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Prop Wash posted:That portrait is the best portrait anyway. Cigarette lady is just so done with all this fairies and magic garbage. Shame about the character personality you had already chosen I can see her getting in interesting (but respectful) debates with Dietrich about hermetic vs shamanistic magic.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:23
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GhostStalker posted:Yeah, I figured it was something like that. If I recall correctly, it was popular enough that FASA's German publisher asked for and received permission to write their own original content. So there are (or at least were, this was 20 years ago during 2nd edition) official German language source books that never received English translations.
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Dec 7, 2017 21:51
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Drive Thru RPG sells a bunch of German Shadowrun e-books alongside the English ones. There are a couple of Allied German States splatbooks from last year that don't have English versions.
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Dec 7, 2017 22:21
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Also yeah, Dragonfall is my favorite of the trilogy, mainly just for the hub. Hong Kong finally gets to where they wanted to be mechanically, but I didn't care for the setting as much
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Dec 7, 2017 22:35
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OutofSight posted:I bet her cigs are vegan.
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Dec 7, 2017 22:49
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DeathChicken posted:Also yeah, Dragonfall is my favorite of the trilogy, mainly just for the hub. Hong Kong finally gets to where they wanted to be mechanically, but I didn't care for the setting as much Your avatar owns. "Hell, I gotta lot of friends." "...I don't."
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Dec 7, 2017 22:53
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DeathChicken posted:Also yeah, Dragonfall is my favorite of the trilogy, mainly just for the hub. Hong Kong finally gets to where they wanted to be mechanically, but I didn't care for the setting as much Hong Kong is really good, but it didn't blow me away the way Dragonfall did. DF being such a massive improvement on DMS in pretty much every area. Hong Kong had some good refinements over DF, but it was more incremental than evolutionary.
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Dec 7, 2017 22:53
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I think the missions in Hong Kong are the best of the three. There are at least two you can do without firing a shot.
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Dec 7, 2017 23:09
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Aw man, I missed the final votes. Oh well, what the hell... At least there aren't any elves.
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painedforever posted:Aw man, I missed the final votes. Oh well, what the hell... Are you "coolguye"'s alt-account? 
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Dec 8, 2017 03:41
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OutofSight posted:Are you "coolguye"'s alt-account?    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUplZNiZo0M&t=629s
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OutofSight posted:Are you "coolguye"'s alt-account? Ha-ha, no. I'm just short and nerdy. Therefore I have a natural mistrust of "tall and cool". And I have a lot of sympathy for "big, dumb and ugly" because I share 2/3 of their characteristics.
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Dec 8, 2017 06:07
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Is there something I'm missing in Anime Elf Post?
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Dec 8, 2017 07:19
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I was just about to say that if feels like most elf hate is transferring "what, YOU THINK YOU'RE BETTER THAN ME?" to a fantasy setting... and hey, would you look at that.
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Dec 8, 2017 07:53
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coolguy really hates elves. Also he says "God Damit" so much it could be his trademarked line.
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Dec 8, 2017 08:22
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Kieron Gillen said it best. "Elves are basically 'What If Aryans were right about there being a master race?' loving Elves"
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FoolyCharged posted:Nah, hardest difficulty and it took me till the third game to realize esp was a trap skill. I will agree with esp is a trap.
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Dec 8, 2017 09:01
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To add some merriment until this game starts here's a weird bug I encountered where the game overwritten my chrarcter with one of my teammates: Remember to save often kids!
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Horrible Lurkbeast posted:To add some merriment until this game starts here's a weird bug I encountered where the game overwritten my chrarcter with one of my teammates: NO! Not two of them! It's the end-times Mr. Pritcher! The end-times! I have never had that happen. So Kanfy, how will you be handling speech options that require different stat points?
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I'll let it slide here, but let's try to save discussion about future characters for when we actually meet them. I know right now this covers "literally every character", but still.painedforever posted:NO! Not two of them! It's the end-times Mr. Pritcher! The end-times! What do you mean, like situations where there are several different dialogue choices with requirements? I'll just pick the one that's the most interesting/entertainment or shows off the most content, as always. Overall our build's going to be pretty much aimed at hitting as many skill checks as possible, so we should be able to see almost everything.
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You know what makes me kinda sad? I wish there was a version of the Dragonfall campaign ported to the Hong Kong engine, because the additional Hong Kong cyberware and stuff like Cyber-Affinity are amazing.
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MJ12 posted:You know what makes me kinda sad? I wish there was a version of the Dragonfall campaign ported to the Hong Kong engine, because the additional Hong Kong cyberware and stuff like Cyber-Affinity are amazing. Well, they did it for Returns, so it might happen someday
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Dec 9, 2017 01:38
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Are there any good campaigns for Dragonfall on the Workshop?
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Dec 9, 2017 12:51
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Honestly they didn't seem to get really good until Hong Kong. That's when you start seeing things like Mercurial, and the entire Dead Man's Switch campaign converted to the new mechanics
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Dec 9, 2017 18:11
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I liked Antumbra 2 (kinda) 3(a fair bit) the Cobblepot Caper and Nightmare Harvest. I think I reviewed these in the main SR thread?
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Xander77 posted:I liked Antumbra 2 (kinda) 3(a fair bit) the Cobblepot Caper and Nightmare Harvest. I think I reviewed these in the main SR thread? Nightmare Harvest is the one where you can make a deal with a loving Dragon, right?
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