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If his home town was mostly a forge it being 135f wouldn't be that surprising

Current character build for a SR game a friend of mine is running is best described as "how many drones can I have running at once before everyone hates me?"

[QUOTE=Nerts;50986060]Current character build for a SR game a friend of mine is running is best described as "how many drones can I have running at once before everyone hates me?"[/QUOTE] Trick question. Everyone hates everyone no matter how many drones they have.

[QUOTE=Archimedes;50983889]He never specified since I'm 110% he just pulled the first number that came to his head. I assumed Fahrenheit since Death Valley is about 136 f, while 135 c is terrifying. [editline]1st September 2016[/editline] Honestly if he was actually playing a Fire Elemental in a dwarf disguise that would explain so much.[/QUOTE] Considering that 100 degrees Celsius is the boiling point of water I highly doubt 135 c is survivable for humans.

[QUOTE=Nerts;50986060]Current character build for a SR game a friend of mine is running is best described as "how many drones can I have running at once before everyone hates me?"[/QUOTE] The important question is if your drones are anywhere near as good as mine and that answer is obviously going to be no

[QUOTE=gufu;50986998]Trick question. Everyone hates everyone no matter how many drones they have.[/QUOTE] How many until it's a legitimate OOC grievance because most of the turn is spent figuring out who I'm hitting with suppressive fire I mean. [QUOTE=SiberysTranq;50987287]The important question is if your drones are anywhere near as good as mine and that answer is obviously going to be no[/QUOTE] It's 5 doberman drones with AK97s, with a discount from Dealer Connection, and all getting their autosofts from an RCC. They're dirt cheap, expendable, and pretty effective as long as I have signal and they don't group up.

[QUOTE=Nerts;50988855]How many until it's a legitimate OOC grievance because most of the turn is spent figuring out who I'm hitting with suppressive fire I mean.[/QUOTE] Just one

I dedicate this to my shadowrun group [img]http://i.imgur.com/9g70bP3.jpg[/img]

lmao streetlevel shadowrun

[QUOTE=cdr248;50989867]lmao streetlevel shadowrun[/QUOTE] The convenience store they robbed in the first session didn't stand a chance. Nor did the neo-nazis within.

[QUOTE=cdr248;50989867]lmao streetlevel shadowrun[/QUOTE] Is that bad? Never played it.

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;50989901]Is that bad? Never played it.[/QUOTE] Street level rules are really imbalanced when it comes to magic v normies because it caps the shit out of how much money you can spend on what. For that game I ended up using a less harsh version of the street scum rules which just lowers priorities across the board, which is a lot better. But you'd definitely need to stick to the priorities they advise in order to get that true street level feel imo.

[QUOTE=Vengeful Falcon;50989922]Street level rules are really imbalanced when it comes to magic v normies because it caps the shit out of how much money you can spend on what. For that game I ended up using a less harsh version of the street scum rules which just lowers priorities across the board, which is a lot better. But you'd definitely need to stick to the priorities they advise in order to get that true street level feel imo.[/QUOTE] Not using the book's rules for it thankfully, it's priority but with BBCDE instead.

[QUOTE=Nerts;50989999]Not using the book's rules for it thankfully, it's priority but with BBCDE instead.[/QUOTE] It worked pretty well tbh

To be frank we ceased being even near 'street level' after like 3 sessions by the simple fact my decker is so profit-oriented If we didn't have me to be stealing paydata and blackmailing people and fixing up all the bricked shit we'd have substantially less income and thus be more basic bitches level

So the character moment I'd been building up to for the entire campaign happened this session (backstory exposition to a party member I'd chosen to confide in) and afterwards I had one of our mutual friends approach me and thank me, as it'd been the first D&D session he'd sat in on and was impressed by such an "emotional moment". I recommended he check out Critical Role in his free time if he's really interested in getting into DnD and he seemed pretty enthused, so pretty cool session overall.

So I was looking through SR4e book and ran across Miracle Shooter™ entry. [QUOTE]This multiplayer online roleplaying game from Ares Games takes place in reality. When you log in, the features of your chosen character are overlaid on your personal appearance, visible to all the other characters in the game. Shoot monsters to gain experience points plus cash to buy new guns and upgrades, or become the member of a faction in order to challenge players of other factions to battles. This game has already led to a number of freak accidents (for example, one player jumped from a footbridge right in front of a moving train); meanwhile, other software companies are rolling out their competing releases.[/QUOTE] Shadowrun predicted Pokemon Go, confirmed.

[QUOTE=Archimedes;50997435]So the character moment I'd been building up to for the entire campaign happened this session (backstory exposition to a party member I'd chosen to confide in) and afterwards I had one of our mutual friends approach me and thank me, as it'd been the first D&D session he'd sat in on and was impressed by such an "emotional moment". I recommended he check out Critical Role in his free time if he's really interested in getting into DnD and he seemed pretty enthused, so pretty cool session overall.[/QUOTE] Lucky, a lot of groups I've been in recently can't stop making stupid fucking meme jokes or takes literally nothing seriously, and characterization of PCs has been near zero. Like, there's cracking jokes and having a sense of humor, which I partake in myself, and then there's making a shitty and forced Harambe reference when you come across a mass grave full of rotting corpses, or continually interrupting a PC when he's trying to interact with an NPC with "le funny joke i garrote the NPC :^)".

How do you guys feel about writing/lore? I'm DMing for my friends and started writing backstories for the PCs. Problem being, everyone who I might show them to is part of this session so I have nobody to run them by for feedback. If you guys want to take a look I can post em here.

[QUOTE=chonks;51009829]How do you guys feel about writing/lore? I'm DMing for my friends and started writing backstories for the PCs. Problem being, everyone who I might show them to is part of this session so I have nobody to run them by for feedback. If you guys want to take a look I can post em here.[/QUOTE] What do you mean by writing backstories for the PCs? Are you using pre-gen characters?

[QUOTE=Vengeful Falcon;51009867]What do you mean by writing backstories for the PCs? Are you using pre-gen characters?[/QUOTE] They gave me an idea of what their character is like, or some vague origin story and I adapt that into my setting and make a backstory for it. I'm running DnD 5e in a homebrew setting. I wanted them to feel like a part of the world and have their past be relevant to the story. Could be a little railroady, but my players don't really take the initiative in terms of advancing the plot so that's how I give them a reason to care about stuff.

So what's the best way you've ever started a campaign? Either as the DM or PC Mine It's always been standard you meet at tavern. What do.

in the womb

I had my party start outside a burning tavern, saving the barkeep from bandits. Then, as buildings full of giant kegs of dwarven ale tend to do when on fire, the tavern exploded soon after.

Depends on the setting, but having the party wake up together in a dark room with no recollection of how they got there is always a good start.

[QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;51009157]Lucky, a lot of groups I've been in recently can't stop making stupid fucking meme jokes or takes literally nothing seriously, and characterization of PCs has been near zero. Like, there's cracking jokes and having a sense of humor, which I partake in myself, and then there's making a shitty and forced Harambe reference when you come across a mass grave full of rotting corpses, or continually interrupting a PC when he's trying to interact with an NPC with "le funny joke i garrote the NPC :^)".[/QUOTE] I feel like there are a couple of easy solutions to this.

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;51010181]So what's the best way you've ever started a campaign? Either as the DM or PC Mine It's always been standard you meet at tavern. What do.[/QUOTE] I always take a look at my players backstories and work it out together with them. Personalized campaign starts automatically make the players care more about the game in my experience, and you can establish some interparty relationships from the start, if you so desire and your players are up for it.

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;51010181]So what's the best way you've ever started a campaign? Either as the DM or PC Mine It's always been standard you meet at tavern. What do.[/QUOTE] Someone assembles a crack team of highly skilled people with deep issues and questionable ethics and offers them large amounts of money to kill.

[QUOTE=Destroyox;51010605]I feel like there are a couple of easy solutions to this.[/QUOTE] Directly talking to them out of game didn't help at all, so I've just left the game when they didn't improve their attitude. Talking OOC has almost always helped in the past, many times, with other groups, especially playing with friends. It's just these last few groups in particular that are especially stubborn. I swear they sounded like they came straight out of the pits of /tg/ itself; one played as the overdone, really cringy "i'm a shy healslut kitsune cleric pls no molest me~~" Like, I'm usually the person flinging jokes around left and right in RPGs unless they're at inappropriate moments in the story, but these last few ones...eugh.

[QUOTE=Nerts;51010625]Someone assembles a crack team of highly skilled people with deep issues and questionable ethics and offers them large amounts of money to kill.[/QUOTE] I especially like when this is done with very little regard for if anyone on the team has any ability to work with others see: any Shadowrun game in the history of ever [QUOTE=LiquidNazgul;51009157]Lucky, a lot of groups I've been in recently can't stop making stupid fucking meme jokes or takes literally nothing seriously, and characterization of PCs has been near zero. Like, there's cracking jokes and having a sense of humor, which I partake in myself, and then there's making a shitty and forced Harambe reference when you come across a mass grave full of rotting corpses, or continually interrupting a PC when he's trying to interact with an NPC with "le funny joke i garrote the NPC :^)".[/QUOTE] I still maintain that the level of focus in my games improved as soon as I instituted a 'you meme IC, you die' policy