Karavan OOC

Bear, your post.

And it is morning! Posting for everyone!

So... Nalan is still under the effects of Guts? Or is a night's rest enough to let it pass?

The Guts is gone. While it would've normally taken longer, Kraft has taken active steps to get it out of your system quicker. You wake up lucid and with a splitting headache. Your memory of events after you got shot are also really spotty.

Everyone gets 3 Karma: 1 for stopping the raid, 1 for keeping all of the villagers alive, and 1 for not leveling the town when Nalan got high on Guts. Ace regains a point of Edge.

Loading up four doses of Cram, 1 per slap patch. +1 Reaction, +1 Pass, 12-Body hours, 6S unresisted Stun at the end.
Loading up one dose of Kamikaze, 1 disposable syringe. +1 Bod, +1 Agil, +2 Strength, +1 Will, +1 Pass, High Pain Tolerance 3. Crashes after 10x1d6 minutes. Upon crashing, -1 Reaction, -1 Willpower for 10x1d6 minutes, suffer 6S unresisted.

4 Stim Patches (rating 4)

1 Trauma patch

Medkit (Rating 4), in addition to built in med-kit in cyberhand (rating 4).

Fully loading shotgun with flechette shells, and keeping the four other boxes in my jumpsuit.

Making certain I have my form fitting armor -under- my jumpsuit, to protect my pretty, pretty organs.

Random thought: maybe we should have a separate thread for each 'run, instead of having one thread with all the runs on there. It'd be much easier to go back and find the events of one particular 'run if each 'run was given its own thread and clearly labeled rather than having to search through one thread with a hundred or more pages.

Hmm...that's a really good idea. Let's do that.
Now, if only I could change the name of the thread....

You can. Just edit the very first post and change the title.

IT IS DONE!

Everybody into the truck! It's time to go hunt some raiders.

Okay, so, because I'm evil, I decided to find TVTropes for all our characters. Check it out and let me know what you think:

Ace

Nalan

Serik

Doctor Theus (I found two for him)

Nice.

Okay, I need a vote as to whether I should apply the following rule change: Spells and Powers that hit automatically and are only resisted with one attribute are instead resisted with 2x Attribute.

EDIT: Oops, forgot to add what the hawk is doing. That's fixed now.

I say no. Magic is dangerous and supposedly rare for a reason - because it's friggin' powerful.

Definitely. As we realized in chat, they changed the mechanics for the whole system from SR3 but forgot to change how the threshold for spells work. So on a balance level, it's absolutely necessary.

On a more practical level, none of us has counterspelling, so if when we run into magical opposition we're pretty screwed.

For those who weren't there for that conversation, Dura is referring to the way magic worked in SR3, where spells like Powerbolt and Control Thoughts had target numbers equal to one of the target's attributes. So, for example, a mage firing a Powerbolt at someone with Body 6 would need to roll a 6 on a single die in order to score a hit. If the target had Body 10, you needed to roll your pool, see how many sixes you got, reroll those sixes, and then see how many of those dice beat four. Only those counted as hits. Suffice to say, few people tried to Powerbolt trolls, especially if they could Manabolt, which was resisted with Willpower instead.

Now this was all very good and balanced, but then 4th rolled around and they changed the system to fixed target numbers. Problem was, they didn't change Manabolt at all to reflect this, making it suddenly far more powerful. By comparison, the only direct damage spells in SR3 with fixed target numbers were "Elemental Manipulations", which SR4 calls Indirect Combat Spells, and they were so powerful that their Base Drain Power was Force instead of Force / 2. (Dura, I know I said all Manipulation spells, but I looked it up and it was only Elemental Manipulations. Mind control and Shapechange were still F/2)

Of course, this means that another solution is to simply set drain for direct combat spells at Force + Modifiers instead of Force/2.

I guess that's an option, if it makes mages approach the Force with which they cast direct combat spells any differently.

Personally, I still think the best option is to just remove direct combat spells but that's just me.

That's 'cuz you're a curmudgeon.

I have always been of the school of "You don't have it, you better be able to make up for it." We had a mage, and he bailed. Nobody wanted to create a new one, so be it. If nobody had taken perception as a skill or any perception enhancers, you don't cut the enemies infiltration pools in half.

Hardly the same thing and you know it.

If they'd forgot to change the way Perception worked from SR3 to SR4 a house rule would be in order then too.

I would've proposed this change even if you had a party mage. This is more of an overall game balance tweak.

Dura wrote:

Hardly the same thing and you know it.

If they'd forgot to change the way Perception worked from SR3 to SR4 a house rule would be in order then too.

You are making the assumption that they actually forgot. I have never seen any of the writer's claim such.

You're making the assumption that they didn't forget. It's p. obvious bro.

Yes. It is obvious that the writers completely forgot such a big change in a important part of the system.