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>replying without context
MBW is the most reliable initiative aug in 5e, not the fastest.

MBW 5e gives no init dice at rating 1, and only +1d6 at rating 2 & 3. It does give +3 init and +1 reaction per rank. +12+1d6 is absolutely for flat, reliable initiative scores.

Contrast with Wired Reflexes, that gives +1 Reaction and +1d6 per rank = +3+3d6, and can take Reaction Enhancers for another +3. It has a wider range of potential than MBW, but sometimes you'll roll shit and end up worse than MBW.

Nope. That's still pure fast.

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>Nope. That's still pure fast.
... Dude. Be a chummer, not a shitter.

+13-18 Initiative

Or

+9-24 Initiative

Which one can go faster?

and now with the reaction enhancers

>The synaptic booster cannot be combined with any other form of Reaction or Initiative enhancement.
No.

But Emi doesn't have freckles.

Bollocks, I thought that just applied to cyberware/bioware. Back to the drawing board then.

See if you can get Synaptic Acceleration or Boosted Reflexes + Drugs past your GM.

>If a character has an augmentation that increases their Initiative or grants any Initiative Dice, synaptic acceleration has no effect

>boosted reflexes [...] are incompatible with any other Initiative-modifying augmentation.

Question about how drugs and addiction work, chummers, because I can't make heads nor tails of this damn book.

Lets use cram as an example. It has an addiction rating of 4 and a threshold of 3.

I take a dose of cram and enjoy the bonus initiative. This starts the addiction timer, and sets the time limit at 7 weeks (11 - AR = 7). The addiction threshold is 3, and it's a psychological addiction (resisted with Logic + Willpower). Every week I go without using cram, the threshold for the addiction test falls by 1 - meaning after 3 weeks it has a threshold of 0 and it's impossible for me to fail.

But when do I start making addiction tests? If I make one as soon as I use the drug, the 'falloff' period is useless. If I don't make one until 7 weeks have passed, chances are pretty good I won't have to make one at all. My character has a Log + Wil pool of 8, which gives me about a 50% chance of passing the test on any given day, but I'd rather not risk it. Taking a week or two to cool down after a run would be much easier, if it's possible.

Thanks for the advice mate!

Did somebody say cripplefucking?

I mean mechanically, compared to its competitors.

At the end of week 7 you make the test. But remember that if at any point before the threshold, not only does the threshold go back up to 3, and it doesn't go down for that week.

So while Cram can be kept from being a problem if you can space out runs properly, something like Jazz or Kamikaze is harder or impossible to space out.

Will we ever get an open world free-roam Shadowrun game?

No.

Best doujin.

Sometimes the best things come from the worst people.

I figured. If I let the threshold go down to 0, does that reset the 7 week timer?

Also, changing the subject - since Rigger 5.0 stated that drones can only hold one magazine worth of whatever weapon they're armed with (unless you take the ammo bin modification, which I have no room for), can you manually reload a drone that's within arm's reach?

Honestly, I just want the guys behind Payday to make a Shadowrun heist game.

You're watchdogs on this one, Bring a heavy jacket and even heavier guns. Don't let the novacoke go anywhere.

Yeah, if you can go three weeks without using, you're off the hook. But if at any point in those three weeks you use, back on the whole way.

So avoiding the tests can be a bit difficult if you use one drug and run more than once a month. If you can switch drugs around, that's a bit better. If you can afford pharmaceutical grade, even better.

How much more/less than the Genesis on would you want it?

Never played the Genesis one.

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sauce?

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what doujin is this?

what doujin is this?

stop copying me.

I just learned Tineye is pretty great at finding some cropped images.

[ShindoL] Fuwafuwa Imouto-nee wa Kuso Miso Katana

stop copying me.

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you started it, so stop copying me.

Stops copies me

What does that mean?

You're a nut! You're crazy in the coconut!

So /srg/ question.

The penalty for healing someone with essence loss, does it apply as well to nonmagical healing ?

Would it be logical to say that someone with the cybertechnology skill wouldn't be at a penalty when treating someone's wounds.

shindol - tough and fragile

> the current big thing is troll tranny porn.
> Plan 9

Have they updated this since Attitude?

Are there 5e rules for nunchucks anywhere?

please stop copying me.

No, yous stops copies mes.

Yeah, seriously. Though it speaks volumes to me that Shindol can write something like this. If I didn't know any better I'd say that Shindol's other stuff is written in such a way that it forces us to really be introspective on humanity, and consider our own capacity for empathy and compassion.

Then I cut myself on Occam's razor and realize that it's far more likely that he's a troll and/or a real sick puppy.

>you can't play a technomancer in any of the Shadowrun games

What the fuck is up with this shit?

IIRC all the shadowrunh games to-date are set before Crash 2.0.

>you can't play Infected in any of the Shadowrun games

What the fuck is up with this shit?

>you can't play Infected in any of the Shadowrun games
What a shame.

Okay guys I need your help.

So one of the players I've been playing with for a couple years now has been having an increasingly hard time being consistent with being able to come to games. This is because he needs to work more hours, has family things and has a whole other friend group.

So for this next Shadowrun game I'm DMing I want to tell him that he has a lot going on and shouldn't be a part of it.

How can I do this in a way he wont get defensive or feel like its personal.

Correction: you can't make the MC an Infected.

No, YOUS stops copies me!

i swear to god i'll get the mods if you guys all keep copying me.

You must be 18 or older to access this board.

You wanna know what the real fucking shame is?

Gunslinger adepts are unsupported in all the SRR games.

Changing the subject, rate my pink mohawk drone rigger.

Are you talking about the -Essence Lost that healing spells with the Essence tag take? Becuase that's a no.

For the -1 per 2 full points of loss, I'd allow it to be bypassed if you didn't mind mucking with the implants. It's never going to be worse than what an Awakened/Emerged is going to get on normal treatment.

Only the implants can probably be repaired more easily than those special ratings.

I don't think he's particularly wicked individual. Sure, it takes being a bit out there to put some of these things on a paper at all. But I think he's not... living his personal fantasies through it or anything and that his main motivation (besides feeding the fame that makes money) is the storytelling. Everything he does is never "just porn" there's always some undertones, there's always a story. He can do a twist right, turn whole story upside down in one page. And he has his reference and homages to a T. From vidya through history to international culture. Hell, the last time there's was a goddamn Frodo Baggins! It might sound like a stretch but I would compare him to Douman Sayman in those a way (ignoring the fact that one works mostly with simplistic sketchy style and the other with far more details). Both can do heartwarming and soulcrushing with equal ease. I think he would make excellent GM.

Well, we know that his Dragon Quest stuff is basically part putting fantasies on the page.

Or at least wonderings on there.

I want to say that you can do some fun stuff with adept powers and pistols, but I found out that Counter got a cap, and the cover powers take a bit of investment to get.

>I think he would make excellent GM.

Shindol Campaign... Jesus it would be like a David Lynch film.

>can do heartwarming and soulcrushing with equal ease
>soulcrushing
>would make an excellent GM

I've never had a GM make me sad before. Am I missing out?

Yes. It feels like this: youtube.com/watch?v=eRsGyueVLvQ

Well, looking at the wiki, quick strike, lightning strike, and counterstrike all look like they might be neat if they work with pistols, but I doubt they do since Harebrained seems to thing Adept == warrior-monk.

>15 min long

I mean to be fair I've killed the only character at my table that tried to play a flesh-eating waste of a sheet. It wasn't even hard. Shouting "oh god, an infected!" with a few gangers around during the session one meet had a few people filling him with rounds pretty quick.

The moral of this story; don't play a character that is an innate danger to the rest of the team if you want them to stick around for any amount of time.

>that image
>ShadowRUN

I've had some that made me very disappointed, I guess that's close enough.

>not 15 min long
you fail at foreplay

I now want an image set of all the KS girls as 'wared up, jaded runners.

>Is hand lotion any good for anal?
Wrong tab, friend?
From what I've heard, the answer is no

No, the oils will rot and infect your anus. certain types of Processed coconut oil work though. In general you want water based lubricants, so only stuff made for sex.

She tastes like bacon...

>Hanako as (former) Halloweener
fund it

Doesn't lubricate long enough. Just buy lube.

I'm sorry, I had /d/ in the next tab over.

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Null sheen cummer. Fa/tg/uys are perverts.

This, pretty much. We'll de-rail an entire thread just to help a guy find a dominant QT GF on Fetlife. Just be glad you posted in /srg/, not /pfg/, otherwise you would have been taking advice from Weebs that only got laid that one time because of the emotional insecurities of that one girl in the college anime club who was later diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety.

Are there still drakes in 5e?

I'm trying to figure out what an undercover bodyguard for a troll gangster who's basically a modified Kaz Yakamura in a bastardized Ghost Cartels might look like. Two ganger PCs from different sets have put aside their past differences to kill Cassie Yang, the Fire Girl at the center of the tempo trade in Minneapolis, but they don't know how deep Horizon and Amazonian influence goes in this shit. They also don't know that the team's face is also being played by an Amazonian intelligence agent inside Ares. It's complicated. Anyways, I figured with the dragons and shit in Amazonia they might have a servitor of theirs do it.

You sound like a right cunt, maybe your just bad at telling stories.

Rin screams shaman to me, for that matter.

This is why you're running with bodyglove and custom ballistic mask and never let the team really see you without them. Smoothskins can't be trusted.

The GM and I have been buds for a bit, and he was pretty clear that he wanted grounded characters for the game. He let the players come with whatever they wanted but warned that anyone too conspicuous would probably have a hard time of it. It was supposed to be a corp espionage campaign.

I'm not sorry for purposely getting someone killed for not listening and ruining the mood that was trying to be set. It would be different if he had thought out how he would play a pariah, but the player just walked up in broad daylight and said 'hi' to the group.

>Rin able to giver her wild trips physical shape that can interact with the world
that's downright terrifying

Suzu - decker
Lily - face
Emi - street-sam / gunbunny

>Emi as a street sam with cyberlegs
>Hanako as a halloweener with flammenwerfer
>Rin as artsy shaman

Lily (aka best girl) would have to be the face, right? Which leaves deaf girl as the decker and Wahaha drills as a rigger?

I swear to god there was a corp unit that had a flame gimmick, but for the life of me, I cannot fucking remember.

Iwanako as the Mr. Johnson the team never see again after the first botched run.

Kenji as the gibbering BTL addict who has all the stupid-ass government/megacorp conspiracies (that are all true).

>Emi as a street sam with cyberlegs
Can you install spurs in cyberlegs?

If so: youtube.com/watch?v=tJQggH7S7wc

Wahaha is Suzu's lesbian Dependent.
Rigger is Miki, with junk-grade cybearm and Furiosa facepaint.

Drakes aren't not a thing, but I don't really remember them being highlighted that much. Worst comes to worst, just eyeball some 4e stats and make adjustments where necessary?

god fucking dammit i had the librarian gal/kenji's ex crying CG, but I can't find it in my files. pic somewhat related

anyway she's the hyper submissive corp secretary you need to (easily) convince to get into the branch/HQ

Alternatively, Iwanako is the face.

Because she's good at talking and disappearing.

:V

I want this.
I'd use the homeroom teacher as the fixer, with maybe the nurse or best dad as mr. Johnson.

Deafness could easily be a dumpshock or Crash injury.

Aehm...

Actual factual Dragon.
What, you expected any less?
I'd deal with her anytime, even I know I'd be on the losing end.