Plus it's generally a huge headache, especially in XP-based systems as opposed to level based ones, since people inevitably forget how much xp they're at and if it's uneven across the party the problem is endless
It's why my policy is everyone gets the same xp, but only people who showed up for a given arc or job (which is admittedly not as much of a problem as it used to be, since attendance at my games used to be very spotty) gets paid or a say in the loot
Which, since Shadowrun, generally works out fine because aside from finding cool weapons or vehicles, there's generally not a lot of gear progression in this group, since everyone's more or less stuck to the same basic guns and stabbing implements the whole game, and most of the big pieces of loot (like their submarine, or the rocket launchers or assault cannons) are either semi-shared, or severely limited in their ammo so they're very much for specific circumstances as opposed to being general-purpose, go-to weapons that end up as straight upgrades
oh i totally forgot to mention i'm doing this on 5E. and since the party (and i) were used to 3.5 it's really a lot simpler for us which is why we've been experimenting with the XP during breaks thing.
Speaking of Shadowruns, my players are in an interesting situation
The gist, is they got hired to bust into an Evo island base and kidnap a teenage mage. So after carving through the garrison (which involved about forty whole seconds of combat, which is just about a thousand years in Shadowrun, including both a horde of mooks, drones, and a fucking mech suit) to bust into this school. They get in, find the mage, she tries to mind-control the sammy but gets punched the fuck out.
At this point, they remember that one of their other contacts was offering to pay good money for some datafiles they thought that the party would find at the base. They do some digging, discover and underground basement and a fucking creepy lab, getting right and freaked out before getting their files and booking it out.
On the way out, they got intercepted by an Evo VTOL sent to reinforce the base, and the dwarf rigger reactivates the mech suit to fight it. He fails, eating three missiles, but the suit's ejection system carried him straight into the VTOL, which he proceeded to hijack. Shenanigans happen, combat is concluded, they park the VTOL on top of their submarine, and book it out of there.
The captured mage comes to at this point, and some interrogation later (with revelations their employer is actually working for Evo, they're getting paid a quarter of what the last group to attempt this job was hired, they're actually the 13th group to do this, their employer may have a rather aggressive view on runners as loose ends, oh and of course the mind-controlling mage will totally give them a ton of money if they help her get out of dodge), and now the party is divided on their options because literally everyone has a different idea of what they want to do
to the point they spent about two and a half hours discussing this IC and still didn't reach a conclusion that satisfied everyone, and kept discussing even after the session ended
I love when I actually manage to provoke stuff like this with my games
hey man at this point i think were just gonna ditch her, take the fat stacks and say fuck it to these shenanigans
this little girl is too much hassle!!!
[editline]4th February 2016[/editline]
not to mention we got a swanky 2 million nuyen vtol which well outweighs the costs of her just going 'lol cya no money for you' imho, but then again im a rigger so of course the vehicles mean more to me
Remember to paint sick flames on the side of the VTOL, and install shag carpeting.
[QUOTE=ElTacoLad;49670451]Remember to paint sick flames on the side of the VTOL, and install shag carpeting.[/QUOTE]
But what happens if it goes underwater, all the carpet will get wet! (Again)
[QUOTE=ElTacoLad;49670451]Remember to paint sick flames on the side of the VTOL, and install shag carpeting.[/QUOTE]
already did that in our eclipse phase game a long time back, my beautiful baby 'The Seventh Samurai'
this ones gonna be decked out for MAXIMUM air support, im gonna be the giga rigger from hell now
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;49670627]already did that in our eclipse phase game a long time back, my beautiful baby 'The Seventh Samurai'[/QUOTE]
I was there.
[QUOTE=ElTacoLad;49670648]I was there.[/QUOTE]
were you?
were you the other sick cyber ninja fellow? I can never remember who the fuck was my buddy when telling stories about that game
[editline]4th February 2016[/editline]
fuck that's right it did have shag carpeting didnt it
FUCK dude i forgot so many details about that game
[editline]4th February 2016[/editline]
ill carry on our legacy for suresies then
[QUOTE=No Party Hats;49670665]were you?
were you the other sick cyber ninja fellow? I can never remember who the fuck was my buddy when telling stories about that game[/QUOTE]
Yup! I still have the storytimes Rearadmiral wrote in my dropbox folder somewhere.
Elo's game died right after I got a VTOL I never got to strafe anyone ;_;7
[QUOTE=Rents;49670712]Elo's game died right after I got a VTOL I never got to strafe anyone ;_;7[/QUOTE]
You did out-terrorism 9/11, though
Obama Bin Laden is proud of you
I'm impressed how North America didn't turn into a dictatorship continent under constant curfew and military terror from megacorps and UCAS after all the destruction we caused.
[editline]4th February 2016[/editline]
We were like a nuclear bomb with a nitroglycerin trigger every time we left home base. Shit, we were volatile as fuck in the home base.
[QUOTE=croguy;49670971]I'm impressed how North America didn't turn into a dictatorship continent under constant curfew and military terror from megacorps and UCAS after all the destruction we caused.
[editline]4th February 2016[/editline]
We were like a nuclear bomb with a nitroglycerin trigger every time we left home base. Shit, we were volatile as fuck in the home base.[/QUOTE]
Seattle pretty much did.
Hopefully (probably not) the game I'll be running won't be as crazy. Or at least if you steal shit there'll be more of an effort to destroy it or get it back.
[QUOTE=Rents;49671062]Hopefully (probably not) the game I'll be running won't be as crazy. Or at least if you steal shit there'll be more of an effort to destroy it or get it back.[/QUOTE]
I'll just make them forget they ever had it in the first place.
Someday soon schedules will clear and I will be able to run my Black Crusade game again
And then people will actually get to be the bad guys and it'll be great!
good news nerts
I finally finished making the van
[QUOTE=FetchingToaster;49672794]Someday soon schedules will clear and I will be able to run my Black Crusade game again
And then people will actually get to be the bad guys and it'll be great![/QUOTE]
We're the bad guys in every game, silly.
[QUOTE=Vengeful Falcon;49672878]We're the bad guys in every game, silly.[/QUOTE]
Yea basically, between evil star wars and shadow 'the GM is losing track of the bodycount' run, we're not exactly winning any nobel prizes
Heck I don't even get the excuse in our superhero game since I just flat-out murdered a dude
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;49672811]good news nerts
I finally finished making the van[/QUOTE]
The most critical part of any Shadowrun team.
The Van.
The Van is practically a party member.
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;49672901]Yea basically, between evil star wars and shadow 'the GM is losing track of the bodycount' run, we're not exactly winning any nobel prizes
Heck I don't even get the excuse in our superhero game since I just flat-out murdered a dude[/QUOTE]
Your Shadowrun team can probably win the Nobel Peace Prize by 2075 if Donald Trump can get nominated by 2016
Shadowrun is full of complex moral decisions you have to make, like "Do I want a shotgun with a suppressor, a gyroscope stabilized machine pistol, or a flamethrower with a spare fuel tank implanted in my cyberarm?"
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;49672901]Yea basically, between evil star wars and shadow 'the GM is losing track of the bodycount' run, we're not exactly winning any nobel prizes
Heck I don't even get the excuse in our superhero game since I just flat-out murdered a dude[/QUOTE]
Yeah but he killed your bear-dad so it's okay. Superheroes are all about that vengeance (sometimes).
Also we've pretty much joined the alliance in star wars except we havent painted out ship rebel colours and got our standard rebel gear
[QUOTE=croguy;49672963]The Van is practically a party member.[/QUOTE]
faster than us, more resilient than us, and if I buy a top level pilot program maybe smarter than some of us
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;49674021]faster than us, more resilient than us, and if I buy a top level pilot program maybe smarter than some of us[/QUOTE]
It's already smarter than Tatsu's character.
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;49674021]faster than us, more resilient than us, and if I buy a top level pilot program maybe smarter than some of us[/QUOTE]
I am the only party member that cannot be replaced by the van
Vans can't do magic
We did the first session of Elowin's Anima game today.
TL;DR the city our characters were collectively staying in separate from each other for various reasons(I think everyone but me lived there, I got chased out of my swamp shack by a priest b/c I'm a witch) was attacked by an enemy army lead by a 10-foot tall guy in golden armor with sun imagery on it who glowed.
We proceeded to try and fight him for about 1 round, before we realized he was unbeatable and we tried to run. Then some mystic somewhere else in the city pulled the eyeball of a giant alien out of the sky and pissed it off, causing it to eye-laser the entire city into death.
Then we got offered a second chance at life by this woman in a robe while in limbo or something, with the only price being that we had to take our revenge. We accepted, and immediately found ourselves standing back by the gate where we fought sunman, with 150 extra Development Points(the equivalent of XP, in the version of the game we're playing).
It took me 2 hours to spend all of those points. Granted, about half of it was just scrolling through the spell lists in the book, writing down what spells I had. The answer is a lot:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/wJWqVni.png[/t]
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