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Dug out the 6 year old file and updated it a little. The main change - Situational Edges give characters the Edge's level in rerolls per session when trying certain tasks in certain situations. It simplifies skill check calculations and stops Situation Edges being skill chip alternatives. Edges which give initiative bonuses are called Reaction Edges but are otherwise unchanged.

I'm pleased it worked out for folks that tried it and will post a copy of the new version in this thread once I've finished editing. In the mean time - did anyone create any new Edges that worked well in their games? Were there any limitations or house rules that you came up with to overcome any short comings?

Bukkake? Is that made with rice? No ta, I've just eaten.

Should this moment should be accompanied by the clouds parting to let a ray of sunlight illuminate Rock's awestruck face as the Angels of Revelation conduct a fly-over?

Spud was a quality surrealist, and a bit of a pain. Arf, the irony.

Given Rockwolf is not yet toast I assume it's okay for me to slobber, leer and make endless references to whomever I'm putting it to at the moment, right?

Break it down into simplest elements.

REF appears to be used in a lot of skilled, physical actions that involve reaction times and responding to dynamic events - combat, athletics, piloting, stealth and that sort of thing.

TECH seems to correspond to skilled physical actions that involve (relatively) static environments. Another definition for TECH might be 'non-combat orientated dexterity'.

As an example - in a theoretical situation I would ask a player to make a TECH roll to make pancake mix, but REF to toss the pancakes.

What?

"You can be my wingman any time."

"Bullshit! You can be mine."

Telll me pink planes arn't appropriate at that juncture.

Surely it comes down to 'squishy' and 'shiney' most of the time? Pharmacuiticals, genetically engineering and nanotechnology tends to be bioware AFAIK. Electronic and mechanical augmentations are usually safe bets to be cyberware. The only nanotechnology exception I can think of is the process of installing a neural processor and related augmentations. But neuralware seems a natural middleground between the two areas.

Maybe neuralware deserves a seperate classification to cyber and bioware.

I've had two Nomads die from being shot in the left leg. The same group always found that Nomads always seemed to die from leg wounds. Damn those fashionable-but flimsey-flairs and lederhosen.

Indigenous formations of water would be extremely useful for any potential terraforming intiatives.

Nice one on the happy ending.  Hope the restoration of the car, your daughter's confidence and you peace of mind all proceed apace.

Maybe keep a photo around of the car before wreck, after wreck, then take one of the supergroovermobile fully restored?  A fresh memory of what folks have, how easily it can be taken, and how lucky folks can be respectively.

People may be hierarchical, but it's only a method of organisation.  There are other methods of organisation, such as co-operative cells.  

Existing hierarchies are quite rigid - politician and voter, employer and employee, mentor and protege, etc.  One might even say that they are 'required', in that society currently requires mostly static roles in order to maintain coehesion and success (qualtiy of living, pursuit of science and art, or any number of axioms for successful society).

It will not always be this way.  Perhaps my vision of what I'd like people to move towards is vague, ambitious, unrealistic or impractical in the face of current events and political attitudes.  Some people may even view it as a bit sinister, but at no point do I advocate the removal of choice.

I just look forward to the day when everyone is a bit more enlightened and kinder.  

Heh.

Bring Me Your Munchkins

And, for the record: yes.  Because I reckon there's always an opportunity for folks to move beyond being just a munchkin and enjoy greater vistas of experience, such as drama, loss, satisfaction of loving it when a plan comes together and (where applicable) a savouring top quality car chase like one might a fine wine.

I have been fortunate that people in my games whom some roleplayers might sneer at and call munchkins have generally 'broken in' after a session or two, often becoming surprisingly creative thinkers and quite witty once the need to be 'better' than other characters has been replaced with a desire to excel, grab a slice of the drama and really get into roleplaying.

The trick in these instances is convincing the other roleplayers not to be childish asshats and mock the one person with even less social graces than them.  "After all," I tell them, "That's what the Internet is for."

About about ferroist?  From the adjective ferrous, meaning "of or relating to or containing iron".

Of course someone whom loves the cybered folk a bit too much might be refered to as a ferophile.  

Ew.

High-five!

At the moment my spare time is loafing about on the net, reading books/graphic novels, writing, making vague mental sketches of campaigns I'd like to run once I acquire roleplayers for the first time in a year or two when I move up to York, and smoking the occasional bowl with my brother and one or two of our chums.

I suspect my pasttimes will sharply optimise once I start working fulltime, again.  Of course I will also probably have to hunt about for furniture if I move into an unfurnished flat, that sort of thing.

Any realitic cybernetic research would require have years or even decades of lab trial runs before it could be a medical option, let alone elective surgery.

I would much rather have nanosurgeons optimise my natural orbs than worry about EM interference to whatever they stuff into my eyesockets after they scope out the gooey bits.

Elective prostesis does not really appeal, though the idea of something like a second skin (see Speculative Timeline) is very interesting.

Better reactions mean a better twitch.  One should also require skill no matter how fast their twitch is.

rofl

After NYE/NYD celebrations I am mostly sobering up and starting to sort out a place to live in York so I can move up before my job starts.

My poor choice of words, using 'value' twice.  

Not sure how 'nice' can be considered a bad thing though.  Although if there are folks that want to believe 'selfish' is better than 'nice'... er, go ahead.

It's also possible to like a bunch of stuff without necessarily having favourites.  Sort of like GMing for a group of folk - they're all equally important.  I don't see how I can break it down into simpler language or give a more relevant example.

*stiffles a giggle*

See google.com.

Give the dog a bone.

I would like to have neural interface/cyberlink type devices, but I am not keen on surgery or electronics being plugged in that I cannot pull out if they cock up or fry.

I think I would prefer nanotech/biotech enhancements.  Eyes, auditory, nasal, m&bl, some very light skinweave, that sort of thing.  The tuffbone implant would be handy if I wanted to go to places with different gravity.

(Hmm, "Add Reply" button seems to have gone walkabout.)

(EDIT: Oh, seems to be back.  There's a good fella, have a cookie.)

Advanced Human

Not a phrase I would coin.  I use it in my above definition to refer to a possible ethical framework (skeletonal at best) for how a person might act in an existing future society.  I hope there is nothing especially sinister in hoping for a society where people are basically nice chaps.  Maybe these "nice chaps" (seems less clinic than 'advanced human, but oh no, will I be ravaged for using a masculine collective noun?  egads!) will also value cultural identity whilst not assigning relative values?  It is not the doublebind some of the above posts have made it out to be.

The Positive Effects of Corporate Culture

Perhaps the positive effects of industrial/corporate culture were not driven by greed, but by the results of finding more efficient ways to fabricate and distribute goods.  And for a time it was needed, and still is needed until a better system than capitalism is proven effective, such as networks of co-operatives.

I back.  I shutdown.  All good.  Love you all.  Except the Clanger.  

Begone, pink daemon of whistles.

Soon I will be getting into a plane and making the 8+ hours journey back to the Motherland.  I have to say that it has been a quality experience and I strongly urge folks to (a) take all the horror stories with a pinch of salt - if you are careful with water, ignore hawkers and don't mind being stared at if you are white you'll be okay, and ( come and 'ave a slice!  Of, er, India I mean.

See you on the other side.

I can see the realism lawyers squealing already, but I like the former option representing the axiom: skilled marksmen may better maximise the damage potential of the weapon they are using.

Not sure I like the latter option.  It could result in some truely splendid comedy moments, particularly if one had a flukey solo who managed to roll a ten using a deringer against Metal Mickey.

Hah, on the otherhand it might be worth doing for exactly that reason.