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>Shoot straight
>Conserve ammo
>And never, ever cut a deal with a dragon

Team Edition
Who does your team consist of?
What kind of runs do you do?
What do you think of your teammates?

Cont from last thread.

>Playing a white human street Sam Humanis member who only wears sleeping tigers just to start shit

That's happening for sure Chummers.

Human is wot?
HUMAN IS WOT?
THIS MAN JUST RACIALLY DEGRADED ME!

>Beef the fuck out of him and get his strength and agility high as possible
>Make him instigate fights with Goblin Metas
>Make is catchphrase white is might
>?????
>Profit

>rest of the team is Orks and Trolls
It builds itself.

Does anyone else's chummer crash when trying to add qualities with FA toggled on? I've got the latest nightly

Trolling the easily trolled trolls?

My team?

>Sigurd: 5'3" dickhead Norse mage with a hate-on for dragons and delusions of grandeur. Sells drugs to the community and wants to become drug lord of the Hong Kong underworld. Owns a free clinic in Kowloon Walled City. In with Tamanous in a good way.
>Achilles: 8'-fuckheug Minotaur-turned-Mutaqua Tank with a serious hate-on for Yellow Lotus Triad and a love for his Stoner-Ares. Trying to make a deal with a dragon. Had CFD prior to his Infection. Probably the most pleasant person on our team. Took out an entire house full of triads by himself, including an adept with a monowhip, shit was cash omae.
>Rowan: 7"-whatever EXTREMELY Catholic South African hedge mage (manipulatiom) Elf Infiltrator wanted for a double murder he didn't commit and has a hatred for the Infected bordering on crazed obsession. Only lives in bolt holes. Really likes architecture a lot. Not very charismatic. Seriously hates the Ordo.
>Tony Pajamas: Human face addicted to orange juice and complexity. Has infinity identities, fucks free spirits in his down time. An enigma wrapped in a riddle.
>Liv: 6'-something Elf Decker/Face. Hates Sigurd because he hates her, has a lovely daughter that has seen the mafia almost burn their house down and kill her mother. Heavily involved with the City in a bad way.

We usually improve the communites we hide out in except that one time we violently evicted a bunch of Mexicans from their apartments. We get attacked by Aztechnology far too frequently. Their recent attempt on our lives chased us all the way to Hong Kong.

I love my team, wouldn't trade them for anyone else. Dunno how they feel.

What you running Omae?

Your team seems.... Unique.

*Vory, not City. Fucking autocorrect.

That'd be great.

>Rest of team only keeps him around as a fall guy
>Can't fucking get the guy caught/killed
>Blame it on human privilege

...

I'm the mage, and we're in 5e. We had humble origins, things just kinda... snowballed.

Fun fact, that's exactly the image he used to introduce the concept.

Who does your team consist of?

>Close on 7' lanklet Amazonian combat monster. Loosely holding onto the last scraps of essence she has after being repeatedly gutted and re-assembled. Barely remembers what being a human being is like. Born middle class, but became a shadowrunner just to kill people essentially. Moonlighted at a Bunraku Parlor briefly for quick cash but accidentally killed a client after loading the wrong simsense. Has a sort of secret sponsorship with Universal Omnitech after a run went bad.
>A lady-killing Irish-born Fomori shaman. Handsome, smooth talker, really laid back most of the time but actually intensely radical. Wants to one day return home and kick the elves out of power. Ireland for all Gaelics regardless of metatype and all that. Pagan and hates Catholics, unsure if they or elves is worse. Unconsciously an Awakened supremacist.
>5'2' Elf rigger and driver. Born and raised in the Seattle shadows. Probably the most streetwise of the bunch, if he weren't incredibly awkward and a bit of a push over. Turns into an absolute maniac when rigging or driving though. The most bloodthirsty of the bunch. Usually ends up crying himself to sleep.. Actually pretty cute but incredibly disheveled. Often forgets he's an elf. Has a crush on the combat monster.
>Bitchy Arab Hobgoblin chick, built for edge, also the face. Has metatype reduction but plays up being goblinized when it suits her. The scion of a very recently dismantled crime family, still has lots of money. Has a baseball bat wrapped in gold barbed wire. Wears a hijab as a fashion statement while showing off tits and ass. Honestly the chillest of the group

What kind of runs do you do?

We're actually pretty average in terms of what we run. Usually end up killing more people than we should though, but that's part of our charm.

>Bitchy Arab Hobgoblin chick, built for edge, also the face. Has metatype reduction but plays up being goblinized when it suits her. The scion of a very recently dismantled crime family, still has lots of money. Has a baseball bat wrapped in gold barbed wire. Wears a hijab as a fashion statement while showing off tits and ass. Honestly the chillest of the group

Holy fuck user How do you not TK that? What a Trainwreck. Kek

I've got a question. I'm considering trying to make a hybrid street sam/infiltrator type character. What sort of gear is absolutely necessary for those two roles (individually would be easiest I suspect, I can look for possible overlaps myself)

Bring an adept would be the cheapest way to do that.

But some things you're gonna want
>Something to beat hand scans
>Something to beat eye scans
>Something to beat biometrics
>Any other infill gear like lockpicks and key card copiers
>Anything to beef stealth

Acquire fuck high Agility, take all of the Breaking and Entering Gear. Take Stealth, Gymnastics, Locksmith and Hardware alongside your regular Samurai loadout.

How do you do all of that?

The chick that plays her is hilarious, so it works out. I can see how it could turn out to be a total fucking disaster though if someone tried to play it straight.

Lots of ways. Cyber, magic, straight up tech. More than one way to skin a cat user.

How small can trid-projectors be? Is it possible to have ones small enough to be fit onto the face via adhesives/piercings for an instant trideo-mask?

I mean, balaclavas and physical masks would easily be more useful and easier to implement, but this way sounds much more cool and genre-appropriate.

Well:
>Something to beat hand scans
Cellular Glove Molder, Dynamic Handprints, possibly Body Sculpt (depends on what your GM allows you)
Or simply opening it and tampering with it
>Something to beat eye scans
Retinal Duplication, possibly Body Sculpt, possibly reprogrammed cybereyes you take with you. Or, again, opening and tampering
>Something to beat biometrics
Body Sculpt, False Front, Retinal Duplication, Retinal Adjusters, Voice Modulator, having your Decker hack into it and letting you through
>Any other infill gear like lockpicks and key card copiers
This is just gear
>Anything to beef stealth
Muscle Toner, Reflex Recorder, Attribute Boost, Increased Ability (Sneaking)

This is just a small selection

>elf crybaby manlet with a crush on the 7ft chromed bunraku amazon
>jersey shore harley quinn slut who wears a hijab "as a statement"

...these people are from Veeky Forums

Right for the first two, wrong for the second. Now guess which I am.

Harley Quin Hi-job goblin?

Lmao
>my thoughts, your words.

the amazon, she's first. that or the elf

I'm the Amazon. The goblin is the only person who doesn't use Veeky Forums. She's also not really very Harley Quinn-y, besides the baseball bat. She's actually the most professional of the group after my character.

Well, yes, but I mean specifically, fagnuts.

See? This guy's chill. Thanks, mang.

Yeah, but we'll give you feedback on a character sure.

You seem to be under the misconception we're here to build a character for you. Put in the effort first dipstick.

>Wtf why won't you spoon feed me!?

Douche.

But the important question is, what about the fomoroi? Are they a regular fa/tg/uy or are they some kinda celtic pride /pol/ asshole?

Shit's omni-directional so I'd imagine it applies vision penalties for being right up in your own face. Other than that I would have the projector worn on the front of the neck under a wide collar or armor.

On the more normie end of fa/tg/uy. He's posted here on occasion.

Who besides fat middle aged white ladies has Celtic Pride? Is that actually a /pol/ thing?

IRL humanis love their eurotrash pagan bs. Kinda sad how so much cool history is being used as a political tool by asshats.

I know about Norse and Slavic stuff, but are the Irish actually doing that now? I thought they were mainly hardline Catholics?

Generally, unless your decker is not your chummer and does not hack security cameras, you don't want to specialise in fooling biometric scans. It's expensive, gives you a small dice pool, and the system has an pretty good chance of kicking your ass on the opposed roll.

Instead, what you want are Hardware and Locksmith skills, the correct toolkits for each, and (as mentioned) the decker to hack security so you don't flag as suspicious while dismantling biometric locks.

Who does your team consist of?
>Thrall, a Scottish orc shaman with anger issues and a love for punching. He's new, both to the team and to the shadows.
>Bulwark, a dwarf who is more machine then man and inherited his cyberarms from his dear departed dad. He takes rockets to the face and keeps on ticking.
>L33T, a human hacker/infiltrator who uses the two to boost the other. He does all this with no augmentations or magical abilities.
>Fox, a fox changeling who acts as party face. Most of his plans are pretty ridiculous like drugging hobos and convincing them he's God and forging the papers needed to convince Knight Errant Seattle that he's a UCAS FBI agent named Agent Popandopilis (they're starting to catch on).
>Bill Nye the Magic Guy (me), a human hermetic mage who joined the team shortly after his wife left him. He acts as the team's conscience and tries to keep them (particularly Bulwark) from wholesale murder of anyone who looks at them funny.

What kind of runs do you do?
Our runs tend to be either extractions or data steals against various shady small time corps. Usually L33T and Bill Nye come up with a plan that falls apart, usually due to either said shadiness or bad luck, and it becomes Bulwark's job to wade in with his cyber spurs.

>What do you think of your teammates?
Fox tends to seize up when ever anything unexpected happens forcing the rest of the team to scramble to cover for him. This is upsetting but workable in most situations but less so when he has to frickin' talk his way out of a situation.
L33T needs to get some augs if he's gonna make it in the shadows.

its anything euro dude. norse, slavic, celtic, germanic, etc. It's mostly meaningless. but let's drop bitching about pol and go back to shadowrunning.

Has anyone had any notable encounters with humanis in game?

4e had full body holo wear clothing. I don't see why you couldn't replicate that in 5e until they pull their collective thumbs out of their asses and write it into Attitude V2.

Latest being 5.192.70? Hrm. It should work, I thought I fixed all the leftover bugs from that. Do you get a specific error message?

...

So just how unacceptable is running a Bunraku parlor in the shadow community? If a player were to somehow come into ownership of one, would they be expected by almost all of their associates to burn it down and free the girls? Or is it mostly overblown by self-righteous Shadowland posters?

Hrm. Can't reproduce it, don't have access to the crash dumps at the moment either. Um. Is there a line reference? Is it a brand new character you're experiencing it on, or do they already have a few qualities selected?

>>Fox, a fox changeling who acts as party face. Most of his plans are pretty ridiculous like drugging hobos and convincing them he's God and forging the papers needed to convince Knight Errant Seattle that he's a UCAS FBI agent named Agent Popandopilis (they're starting to catch on).
Not for nothing but this sort of player tends to get under my skin.

I don't think you'd be expected to burn it down it's not like there's a shadowrunner police force coming to punish you, it's just that most people would think that you're a real piece of shit. More than most shadowrunners, I mean.

>Runners with morals

This isn't DnD Chummer.

Yeah, depending on the tone and the skill of the player it can really make or break a campaign. It's either a colossal groan fest where he drags the other players through his shitty schemes, or a hilarious romp. More often than not it's the former unfortunately, at least in my experience.

Furries are pretty annoying. Especially autismos that freeze up and probably shouldn't be facing.

Does he freeze up in character because of a quality? Or out of character because he's a spaz?

Thats the only info I've got from the crash dump box, it was on a new character though. I'll mess with the settings to see if its some weird combination.

Hrm. In theory it's going to be a quality looking for a prerequisite that isn't found, that it tries to then present to you. The prerequisite code is all set to if != null though, so that's puzzling. Is it a specific metatype?

Its present on all metatypes.

I can let playing a shifter slide but the spamming of aggressively stupid plans that fly in the face of reason and good sense is just unforgivable. It's always to accomplish something completely unnecessary too, like the GM mentions some small complication could arise with an existing plan and this player spins up some plan as elaborate as it is absurd just to negate the complication instead of approaching the problem from another angle.

The people that piss me off are those scrubs that think the NPC Butch ever appeared before Fourth Edition. I hate them so much, lying to my face like that.

Help me prove my beloved waifu is a 4E original, guys.

Yekka, shit's fucked up. If you make an Adept, give it the Stag mentor spirit, and later want to increase the levels of Light Body, you can't. If you take ranks in Light Body first, THEN take Stag, it makes all your ranks in Light Body cost nothing. This MIGHT happen with other mentors, but I haven't tested it, but I know it does it to Stag.

Yeah, it's a known thing. Mentors and qi foci are a clusterfuck that breaks pretty much anything with levels. I've got it mostly fixed in the databoundpowers branch, but it's currently disgustingly slow when rendering the power controls and it has some issues ingesting existing characters. I may have to just force a clean break with it, provide a dump of the current power ratings and such and tell the user to redo everything, but I really don't want to do that if I can avoid it.
I don't recall her from any of the older books, but most of the old BBS members were throwaway references.
Hmmmm. Do you have all the books turned on? Could be there's a quality that's checking for a reference that doesn't exist due to book restrictions?

Does someone have a direct link to Sixth World Tarot pdf? Having issues with the OP links.

So going off the last thread, are there any actual sources IN 5e books that state the appearance of the Sleeping Tiger suit and why it's so bad to wear one?

Chummer:
Go to Desuarchive or any similar Veeky Forums archive
Search for "Trash and Whores"
Weep

Is there any way other than doing that to really fix them, though? Since if there isn't, it seems like eventually it's just going to be forced to do that, so it'd be better to just rip that bandaid off and get it worked in.

Not to my knowledge, the actual description was in 4E books. 5E is delightfully unhelpful in that it just says that Shiawase bought out the Sleeping Tiger line and built on it.

So yeah, it's basically a suit that looks like it was made of garbage. Think 'Derelicte' from Zoolander,

The major quirk is with qi foci. I can force a refresh of the quality without too many issues, but qi foci cache their bonuses in a weird way that won't line up with the new system properly. The operating theory is that I'm going to have to unbind the focus, remove it, re-add it to regenerate the bonus code, and then ideally transparently reselect the power, but I'm not entirely sure it'll behave. I can't just tell people to do Reapply Improvements due to the bonus caching either, so it almost needs a full character rebuild of the powers component, which I really want to avoid.
As funny as it would be for it to be trash-chic, it doesn't really fit the aesthetic that was described previously.

Couldn't you just have Qi Foci do their thing in the same way that Mentor Spirits would?

Pic related is from canon companion, 3e. Some people here like to overstate just how much of ST is poly-latex, how uncommon and slutty that is in the sixth world, and get real ornery about it.

Cool, but nothing concrete has been printed about it's appearance in 5e books. That means I'm free to flavor it as I please.

>Nyah nyah, my niggersuit hasn't had a description made in 5e, that means all previous ones are invalid! It's not made of shitty PVC and latex that makes me look like a crackwhore, I swear!

Table ruling has always been free to do whatever with setting & mechanics, mate. You could say orks are purple one eyed cannibals in your games.

Well, yeah. That's called houseruling or homebrew. You can do what you want there, but it doesn't give you any sort of authority outside your game.

Short version 'Yes, but....'

There's some minor issues with it that would risk some problems with this and that. It becomes sort of a question of how much I want to invest into preventing stuff from breaking versus how much is actually being used.

This is sort of why we wanted to build in anonymous reporting a while back, it would've been useful to know that of the X adepts that have been made, only Y of them have qi foci. Not a big deal though, I should be able to sort it out soonish.

So what's your favorite thing to come out of the most recent book? I'm pretty interested in the Elder Gods tradition for an upcoming character.


Also, I need images of street witches and other more occult magic users.

Adept Counterspelling, so mages can't steal my tasty veins.

So, questionable Awakened streetdocs when? Tamanous coming back with a reagent-gathering specialty?

>Be an Adept
>Happen to have Revenant Adept
>You activate it while fighting Tamanous
>They narcoject you and start cutting bits off of you to force you to keep regenerating
>They trap you in a facility, your regeneration never shuts off until you stop being below full health
>You're constantly, forever, going to be chained to a wall at near death
>You will never see again. You will never hear again. You will never feel anything but the knife.
>You won't taste food, you're fed via the Nutrition spell. You won't ever breath again, you're given oxygen via magic.
>You will never escape.

>you're fed via the Nutrition spell
At least this way you'll burn out, eventually.

Nope.

Yep.

Explain instead of asserting. Burden of proof is on you chummer.

Read the spell. Nutrition is addictive.

Yeah, and? As long as you continue to have it cast on you it won't be an issue.

Yekka, there's some sort of a bug related to Infected that add magical skills like Spellcasting/Counterspelling and already having the quality that does that like MysAd or Magician. It makes the skills list themselves twice in the skills list, which bloats it up really hard.

I only know this because I'm making a Nosferatu Bloodmage.

>who has Celtic Pride?

Bostonians

>runners without morals

This is Shadowrun, omae

Well, it's not like hooders make enough nuyen to afford the hardware to hassle you.

You brave little soldier. I acknowledge your pain. Maybe one day you'll learn to read, and then open the core book.

I'm sure one of the Jackpointers has a hard-on for saving people from bunraku parlours. There's lots of folks with lots of different triggers, and more than few are capable of hurting you if they put their mind to it.

Leaving aside the question of whether your character themselves is ok with the moral implications of bunraku.

[5e] Can someone have more than 1 BTL chip running at the same time?

You theoretically CAN if you have more than one jack, or cram two into an adapter, but it would be extremely garbled and possibly painful to the senses. BTLs are basically full sensory immersions taken directly from someone's perception, and then turned up to 11. You wouldn't want to have an unfathomably peaceful moment of you sitting in the park, smelling the upper-class food district in the distance, while also playing a really raucous love-making session. They'd be telling your brain that your body is in two different places at once, experiencing two different sets of sensorium.

Yekka, Lash is incorrectly listed under Manipulation, but it's a Combat spell.

You're just talking about dreamchips. Not all BTLs are explicit scenes. You also have moodchips, personafix chips, and specialised chips.

In any case;

>Roll 1D6 for each drug beyond the first, and total the results. Modify the total by drug grade (if applicable) and consult the [Drug Interactions, Chrome Flesh 193] table.

Tumblrposting, guess I shouldn't expect anything better from someone seriously arguing in favor of ever using the core addiction rules.

You baitin' me chummer?

No thanks, m80. You keep whatever that post is for next time.

DEDICATED
SPELLSLINGER
10 KARMA
(ASPECTED MAGE: 5 KARMA)
Minimum Requirements: See description
Characters with this quality completely forfeit
use of the Summoning and Binding skills as ac-
tive skills, but they may still use any previously ac-
quired ranks in those skills as Knowledge skills. In
exchange, characters gain a new spell for free every
time they raise their Spellcasting skill, and the Kar-
ma cost of learning new spells is reduced by 1. The
character also receives a free spell for every rank
they possess in the Spellcasting skill at the time of
purchasing this quality, including character genera-
tion. Specializations count as one rank in a skill for
the purposes of the free spells offered by this qual-
ity, but the selected spell must be compatible with
the specialization. Aspected mages who are able to
learn skills in the Sorcery skill group automatically
meet the requirements for this quality.

Yekka, Chummer isn't currently properly taking care of Dedicated Spellslinger. It'll reduce the Karma cost as normal, but it doesn't actually give you the free spells like it's supposed to.

Yeah, it's a known thing. It's a vestige from when we made skills non-unique, I haven't had a chance to make it concatenate skills with the same ID yet.
Whups. Will fix.

Who does your team consist of?

Well, a few of them browse this thread so I probably shouldn't say much. But here's the stupid bullshit we've done before:

>ramming a van into the front entrance of a casino because they just had no fucking clue what to do
>dropping shipping containers on a submarine then our adept punching a hole through it
>a new teammate nearly dying on their first run because they took a taxi driven by a madman
>our sniper jumping off a building, killing a politician mid free fall, then grappling onto another building, all while ANOTHER team member witnessed the murder play out and was initially totally unaware of what just happened

We do some dumb shit sometimes.

Are they not?

>Jackpointers

You mean faggots right?
Same thing

Hey, cut that out! That's an insult to all faggots to be compared to JP'ers