/srg/ - Shadowrun General: Chilling Out, Maxxing, Relaxing All Cool

It's not selfish, it's exploitative. It's not sharing your cookies, it's using mind control spells to make your cousin into your cookie slave, constantly making you fresh batches of cookies and pulling hot trays out of the oven with his bare hands. And you don't even eat the cookies, you just want to be able to have fresh cookies if you decide you want to eat them later, and you enjoy exercising your power over your cousin.

Also, no bounty for Black Magic, as far as I know. The Draco Foundation has a standing Blood Mage bounty, and bounties for certain Toxics, but not a general Black Magic one.

They have to sacrifice innocent virgins to make their phylactery.

Godspeed user.

>willing

>using mind control spells to make your cousin into your cookie slave, constantly making you fresh batches of cookies and pulling hot trays out of the oven with his bare hands.
Genius!

No Nonon no!

>using mind control spells to make your cousin into your cookie slave, constantly making you fresh batches of cookies and pulling hot trays out of the oven with his bare hands
This shouldnt turn me on so much

YES

>HIS bare hands

wow, thats gay
It could have been a hot fantasy, but thats really godawful homosexual.

straightfags go and stay go

I never said I was a girl

Just be a girl then
You know that house husband shit is in

>ywn have a cute trap gf you force to make cookies

To hui with you, pidortroll

Wow, its getting worse

>trap
>cute

Yeah, i bet "she" is also an honest, hard working jew from poland and probably also a Feminist.

Where did all that come from? Are you cranky, /pol/?

Shaddap, Shiksa and make me some Hummus

Wow, these threads are suddenly turning into more of what I'd expect of 4chen.
>fags
>lolis
>mind controlled cookie slaves
>etc
I like it.

My character relaxes by popping off 1500m shots with a sniper rifle. Usually at melons, sometimes at wildlife.

Alright. So what abilities do adepts have to mitigate astral hazing? Would Heightened Concentration/Adept Centering work? Home Ground obviously wouldn't qualify.

>What exactly makes Black Magic evil.

>Black Magic is not just about fulfilling a desire; it’s about the satisfaction of having people line up to give you what you want, of bending them to your will so that they forsake everything they thought was important to them in order please you. If you cannot conceive of the satisfaction that can come from that, you have no place in Black Magic. Black Magic understands that evil is not about random, uncontrolled destruction—it is about the systematic breaking down of others to facilitate your own pleasure and enjoyment.
>Black Magic takes all kinds of practitioners, as long as they are willing to dedicate themselves entirely to this way of doing business.
Something like that.

>not popping melons with your thighs

My character has strength 6 naturally, that's also a possibility.

So, the rapid healing adpet power, is it worth it, also since it adds +1 to body for healing, does it mean that a rating higher than 4 becomes useless ?

Nah, just grab the quality that gives you +3

Ya mean quick healing ?
Already got that one, plan is to sleep off damage in one to two days.

Obviously I don't know what kind of campaign you're playing, but needing to full heal in one day has never ever come up in a campaign for me. In fact, I don't think I've ever even rolled to heal damage sleeping. But if you really think you'll have to, quick healer and rapid healing would be great.

Most runs last multiple days and have 2-3 encounters. So power napping bullet wounds away is really handy... last character could not.

Not him, but if the idea is to get rapidly patched up, I'd rather just have a really good first aid test and a heal spell, and save my power points for other stuff.

It qualifies you for Revenant Adept, which can be quite useful. It gives you an "oh shit!" button that you can use as a last resort. Can only use it once every 3 months, but how often do you need to burn edge to save alive? It could work out cheaper.
Also, RP-wise it makes you immune to age since you can just regenerate.

Well, plan B ist the more common route, perception out of the ass, danger sense and decent initative and a big gun.

>Also, RP-wise it makes you immune to age since you can just regenerate.
Is this how I can get my loli caster up to 30 magic without having to do spirit pact?

Nah, you need to be able to get adept powers.

Loli Mystic Adept

So are there must-have qualities for a B&E specialist/Infiltrator character ?

I'm building one with cyber and I was wondering if anyone knew of some good quality combo.

Other more obscure item and suggestions are also welcome, trying to make them good at what they do withouth stomping too much on decker stuff.

Catlike is pretty good if you want really high sneaking.
Interestingly enough its priced that you can actually buy it INGAME (at doubled cost) and still have a relevant gain from it compared to just buying skill Levels.
If you include social Infiltration in your request, you'll also need the first Impression Quality, that gives you +2 on social tests everytime you meet somebody for the first time.

So if i want to put a FAB sensor into a drone, like any sensible rigger, does the drones Avai. raises +7 ?

>social infiltration
Alibi is good here too. Bit of legwork will grant another +2 dice for having a plausible cover story.

So is Profiler if anybody in your team got a decent computer skill, and by all means you should because easy legworking.

How Viable is it to use Hard and Soft Nanogear and 'ware as a shadowrunner, what about biological warfare, like adding Salmonella to a buildings water supply and have the building clear for a few hours on the next day ?

Get some software on your commlink that allows you to research stuff without going on the Matrix, so you can run silent.

For example, download some Encyclopedia, Atlas, Architecture, etc. software. Then when you are deep inside an enemy facility and run into a feature you don't recognize, you can google it without alerting the local spider.

Someones P.2 Account info for your face.

>sets deadly poison to be discovered in a building
>walks in 24 hours later
>expects the place to not be crawling with security

Although if I know my shadowrun corps, they'd probably just try a cover-up and keep things moving normally.

Exactly, I'd just have to play a mysad instead of full caster. Which would probably be better since after a while, you run out of usable metamagic feats, but as a mysad you can just take 20-odd PPs and still raise your magic.

Which corp Sinner would die from Pooping sickness ?

Of course people would be looking but way less innocent bystanders.

They'd just find a way to blame it on NeoNet, get the Corporate Court to fine them again, and move on.
Sometimes the metaplots are amusing.

Also DMSO Taggant nanites look like they would turn any shadowing into a relaxed dinner with the local gunbunny while you only check your commlink from time to time.

I fucking love DMSO shenanigans but I'm not sure I would rule nanites as a 'compound,' 'chemical,' or 'toxin' for the purposes of absorption. Luckily taggants don't need to enter the body to do their job.

asked in earlier thread and got no answers: how would you guys design a datahaven that's basically Veeky Forums?

But having them able to create their location as ARO basically gives the sammy a new target, unbound by pesky things like light or sound.

Design a future TOR to ensure the anonymity of the userbase. Basically route all traffic through all users in a random fashion that makes it impossible to identify users. And I'd also force anonymous to a) prevent retarded tripshits like yekka or virt shitting up the place and b) remind you that you can never really know who you're talking to.

>Make anonymous forum
>make all participants weebs with no life or valuable data, entirely unable to contribute to society or each other
>???
>Success

Yekka, something is weird with Chummer. Adding points to stats doesn't always make the actual representation of the level they're at change for some reason. Also, adding weapon foci is seemingly acting up?

>retarded tripshits like yekka
I hate random tripfags as much as the next guy, but yekka actually has a reason to identity himself.

Not really, you don't need a tripcode to read bug reports.

End-user support is quite a bit more involved than that.

You think anons would start impersonating the fucker if he suddenly dropped his trip?

...

No one in their right mind would email or upload crash dumps (or anything for that matter) without verification the recipient was on the dev team. The trip also makes it clear you're getting signal and not noise wrt support advice. It's relevant.

I stayed user for the first six months or so of me doing development; I started tripping in response to feedback that it was hard to know when I was around and that I am who I say I am. Anecdotally, I get more issue notifications from people responding to my shitposting and commenting on unrelated topics than I get of people going 'Hey is yekka here, my problem is xxx'.

If it bugs you that much, just turn on forced anonymous in 4chanx.

Ignore the idiot, you are doing good work.

Also pls see:

The fuck is up with that anatomy. From a distance it looks fine but examine closely and it all breaks down.

Bah, drone mounts. Yeah, I can fix that. Busy with work at the moment, likely won't make it into the next build.

>If it bugs you that much, just turn on forced anonymous in 4chanx.
So you're saying that whenever you see a problem, you should ignore it rather than point it out? You should become a politician.

I agree, it does look off. Redline it?

More, "When you're the only one with a problem, grow the fuck up and handle it instead of whining that everyone else should change." You should be a talking head.

Don't have to, just look at the pelvis and the neck in relation to the shoulders, then compare to the overall length of the torso.

I enjoy powerwanks and like playing overpowered characters. Think exalted.

Is there a way to make something like that work in Shadowrun setting? Way I see it, normally you're supposed to play pathetic petty criminals who die because they got in the way of some richfuck making even more money.

Mages

Don't they always die first?

Only if they look like mages

Wear some armor and invest in bod. And don't look like a mage.

Well, facing drones and a team knowing what they are up against is kinda shit for them.

Prime runners

Are there demigod mages in shadowrun?

Doesn't quite match what I was thinking of.

Prime runners are just regular runners who are richer. Don't fall for the meme.

I forget, can something like a necromancer exist in shadowrun?

You can be a guy who talks to spirits that pretend they're your grandma's ghost. And in FA there's a way to bring back people who are dying but not totally dead (the same way you can be clinically dead but still revived by doctors). And you can summon possession spirits and put them in corpses.

That's about it.

well he could also move skelletons with some spell.

alright, I was thinking of making an npc streetdoc that was making frakenstien monster like things from parts harvested from patients "after they were no longer needed"

What spell?

That's a different sort of thing from 'necromancer'. Where do you think Used 'ware comes from?

No, I know that they get more karma/priority points to assign, but they're just a bit better than regular petty criminals.

Animate

I would let it slide under possesion spirits.

>Addiction (mild) Almonds (activated)
>Allergy (mild) Almonds (regular)
Is this bad idea?

Yekka, why does your crash handler keep bugging my antivirus?

Omae, it's not just harvesting cyberware to sell used, the guy is making corpse people and animating them.

>The object moves according to its structure (balls can roll, rugs may crawl, humanoid statues can walk, and so on). The spell imparts a limited flexibility, allowing solid objects such as statues to shamble a bit as if they had joints.

This brings up a question about whether the skeleton can move 'according to it's structure'. It doesn't need limited flexibility, it needs an entire series of muscles, ligaments, and other connective tissue to hold a bunch of disparate pieces together and make them move.

Although you could string it together with wire and attack people with high school biology displays.

i get it and it's as funny as is it stupid.

Go on your quest to find activated almonds user, godspeed.

Or just buy a bunch of high school biology displays.

>Although you could string it together with wire and attack people with high school biology displays

That sounds like you don't like the idea, you and me clearly have a different evaluation for good tools.