Glazius posted:

...really, Big Head Mode's not bad, at least for these noncombat times. It's a nice look at a little bit of sprite that was done in pretty good detail.

Fighting Trousers posted:

He must have been a hell of a front man. Just look at the fan club he's already got in this thread.

IMJack posted:

Has anyone mentioned how silly the Prescott illustrations for these books are?

Loxbourne posted:

If you are very smart, and a very quick thinker, you can try and persuade him that the real money is in the maintenance agreement.

Although now if I ever GM Shadowrun and the players meet a dragon, their mission will be to obtain (a) that pesky decker who did something very annoying last week, (b) this list of condiments, and (c) "drop by my personal bakers and pick me up one of the special super-size hot dog buns".

Kanfy posted:

It goes without saying this LP will end prematurely should we ever hit a game over, thus providing a proper immersive experience.

Conot posted:

And yeah, Janna probably has more going on then meets the eye. I'm kinda shocked a experienced shadowrunner like Rosa just took "innocent ol' me is just a innocent ol' person" schtick at face value but I guess plot convenience.

frankenfreak posted:

Fighting Trousers posted:

A.B.P.

Always. Be. Punching. (nazis)

oystertoadfish posted:

bond probably gets some supernatural benefit, a spy shaman who worships the spirit of 50s patriarchy or something


and i didnt know that thanks, cool that we as a james bond consuming populace are in the Slyly Winking phase this decade

Manic_Misanthrope posted:

I know it's a fictional acronym in a fantasy world. But I want to find whoever made that acronym and stab them.

chiasaur11 posted:

Humanis sucks, the Lodge sucks, Alexander's barber sucks.

Sadly, you won't be able to find someone who'll pay you to shoot people over questionable barber practices. A real pity.

MadDogMike posted:

On the bright side I rather like that the Lodge objective is something that's easy to do without looking like you're doing a favor for them. Skipping shooting the unarmed guy running away in favor of blasting the guys with guns right there is a logical response, one that you don't have to explain to your team for doing. Sure it might be disappointing to them but it isn't the slightest bit suspicious really.

The Lone Badger posted:

(4E)
Load alternating stick-and-shock and capsule rounds filled with a DMSO/narcoject mix. A double tap will drop anyone without serious augmentation.

By popular demand posted:

More into Nietzsche probably.

GhostStalker posted:

Yeah, Ghostwalker took over Denver following his reemergence from the Watergate Rift years after President Dunkelzhan got blown up, and then cemented his control after the failure of the renegotiation of the Treaty of Denver, which is what formed the NAN and precipitated the dissolution of the old US.

And his prohibition on Spirit Binding as slavery is rumored to be from his friendship with the City Spirit of Denver, Zebulon. When two mages on different sides of the NAN War tried to summon and bind him to act against their enemies, he got violently split up and never quite recovered until Ghostwalker showed up and healed him by with a magical ritual after gathering all of his parts together.

One of the more prominent beings arrested for Spirit Binding since Ghostwalker took over Denver (or the Front Range Free Zone to use it's formal name) was Perianwyr, who has been mentioned before in this thread. He's a dragon that loves music, and has part ownership in a club in the city after he passed out on either drugs or the astral sensations from the music and transformed back into his dragon form in the middle of said club. The club owner promptly partnered with him so as to exploit the publicity.

He was convicted by Ghostwalker, but escaped when the Great Dragon was dealing with an attack of some sort (I think it was Harlequin coming after him with Excalibur and them fighting a duel or something? I forget. I do remember that in the aftermath of that battle, the Azzies were able to re-enter the city through corporate cutouts for the first time in decades since Ghostwalker kicked out all the Azzies and their direct and open subsidiaries from the city once he took over. The Azzies were super pissed and kept trying to get back in, not just for the massive business opportunities, but also because of their wounded pride and hyperexpansionist narcocartel origins driving them even more so than other megacorps slighted in such a manner, as they once controlled part of the city as a part of the NAN before they were kicked out, and Ghostwalker showing up only completed their ouster from the area).

GhostStalker posted:

OAquinas posted:

Actually he was the lieutenant of Satan, who was in turn just a back up singer for the main God of the fiction and I've just sprung a nerd trap haven't I.

PMush Perfect posted:

Stroth posted:

God help you if you ever end up out in farm country. You know how many chickens there are on a serious chicken farm? Enough that, statistically, there's probably at least a few cockatrices running around. Imagine a chicken. Now imagine that it's ten feet long from beak to tail, weighs about a hundred pounds, can run faster than most cars can move on those lovely old roads, is perfectly capable of flight, can paralyze someone with a touch, is entirely carnivorous, and likes to eat its meals slow.

Analytic Engine posted:

content:

Coolguye posted:

now i want to try to make a tiger shaman in shadowrun to see how a cyberpunk calvin and hobbes would roll

The Dregs posted:

There were a pair of street samurai in one of the intro stories for one version or another. One was blonde and the other had tiger stripe tattoos. they said no one ever got the joke.

Xander77 posted:

Preferring organ meat over muscles is actually historically accurate for the medieval period.

...

In general, "what, this is something other than muscle tissue? Yuck, get it away from me!" is a neurosis particular to anglo-saxon cultures.

GunnerJ posted:

"Knight-King" is the sort of nonsense concept a kid would come up with for playing let's pretend because it sounds totally sweet and it's great.

GunnerJ posted:

Also just sort smugly walking around with one arm torn off and a knife in his shoulder like it ain't no thang.

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

Oh, there's plenty of inexpensive meat in the Shadowrun universe, it's just that it's the sort of meat most people aren't interested in eating.

Also if you're really responsible with your money, you'll go with Soyfu instead of tofu; a soy-based tofu substitute which requires less soy to make than tofu.

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

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IMJack posted:

They tend to be hard to make and impossible to "farm". I think any attempt to grow awakened plants on a large scale will revert most of it to its mundane counterpart. That, or eat you.

habeasdorkus posted:

Coquatrice au Vin is an old French Elf recipe, of course. Gotta braise those fuckers or they taste like stone.

FoolyCharged posted:

Yeah but that would involve blitz doing well at something.

The Lone Badger posted:

Having a Plan B is very very good. But in my opinion you should always, always maintain Plan C.

wedgekree posted:

On the topic of 'why not bring everyone along in RPG's', probably my favorite incarnation was Phantasy Star IV. Purely as they actually made it part of the plot (Characters would come and go based on the point you were in the game and the plot narrative).

Aware it's generally a balancing/engine thing, but it'd be sort of nice if more games would try and give a reason in universe or let you bring along 'everyone'. Or at least give a reason or something handwavable (Ie, Pathfinder: Kingmaker where the characters not along you can presume are.. well, helping run the kingdom)

wiegieman posted:

Modern astral protections usually involve an FAB3 pack inserted into the wall during construction. The gel suspension keeps it fed pretty much forever, and it even glows in the dark when it eats evil spirits.

By popular demand posted:

I envy you for experiencing it for that magical first time.

Poil posted:

You take the loss when you add the beneficial ware.

A "Primitive prosthetic" doesn't cost any essence at all. If you have the money for it you can get bioware replacement limbs for a fairly small essence cost. But if you're going to replace both legs you might as well go for the centaur lower body upgrade.

Siegkrow posted:

On the other hand, that is based on the player, like the intro level implies, you can play as Attila the gun or Ghandi(minus nukes)

Fighting Trousers posted:

Tag yourself: I'm "reorganizing the bottom shelf".

paragon1 posted:

Eventually they'll figure out that you can do this exact same concept to animals and call them "biodrones" and no one will give a gently caress.

Kanfy posted:

Part 49 - Doom & Gloom



Technically we already have enough to cover her fee if we paid some from our own pocket but eh, dragons live a long time, a few extra days of odd jobs aren't going to make a difference.

Kanfy posted:

There was a courier drone back there, but it self-destructed. Whatever it was carrying went up with it.

"It self-destructed" is technically a 100% correct description of what happened, and any mentions about us trying to punch our way through an anti-tampering system which required all of 2 Intelligence to detect are to be erased from the official records as both inaccurate and blatantly slanderous.

Kanfy posted:

It's really too bad Eiger was working with X-COM probabilities with this one.