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    Cyberdecks...

    in General Chat

    Posted

    have to agree with Bookwyrm on this one.  It's just too much hassle to dink with both of them at once.  The "custom systems" of today are really just a kitbash of stuff from different manufacturers put into a fairly standardized box with a power supply.  Why would it change by 2020?

     

    Welcome to our modular world,

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Power for the cyberware

    in Chrome

    Posted

    or you could do the CRAFTY, SMART, WICKED, TWISTED, and/or DOWNRIGHT EVIL thing and just CONVINCE the poor bastard that there's a bomb in there...*wicked joker's smile*

    "Damn Frank, i've scanned you about 50 times and I STILL can't find that bomb!  Must be some super-stealthy newtek or something", as the medtek shakes his head sadly.  "You're stuck just doing what they say, i guess..."

     

    yes, i've done this...MWAHAHAHAHA!

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Drugs

    in Cyberpunk RPG Rules and Guidelines

    Posted

    you guys are missing the point of capitalism entirely.  if you can make CHEAP, PURE relatively NON-TOXIC drugs and hook MILLIONS on them, you're the WINNER!  why save the "good stuff" for the wealthy if you can get EVERYONE hopped up on stuff that a company of YOUR'S makes?!?   send tons of your high-quality product out and get everyone involved in being a dope fiend, fer chrissakes tounge.gif  and if you make it so that it doesn't kill everyone off or ravage their body(for a few years, at least), you can potentually hook them on other products as well...DUH! biggrin.gif

     

    please note the not-so-subliminal message above,

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Player Paranoia

    in Cyberpunk RPG Rules and Guidelines

    Posted

    that's pretty good, actually.  i didn't say that i didn't have boosters, though.  i just don't have OBVIOUS boosters wink.gif  hard to be mean and nasty as boosters when you all dress in the same colors and the cops have assault carbines with spoon-tipped AP rounds...

     

    i go for less 'Anime Flash' and more 'Northern Ireland/Beirut Grunge' myself,

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    GAME DESIGNERS NEEDED

    in General Chat

    Posted

    *sheepishly raises hand*  i'm a fairly well-known terrorist in Port Angeles, WA as i've been terrorising my players for YEARS now...8 years, with sporatic contact at best, and i'm STILL infamous! * beams with pride* wink.gif

    on another tangent completely now: as a confirmed person without taste and a vicious sense of humor, i must still agree with the previous posts here.  i guess it pays to not have 10,000+ innocent people SLAUGHTERED while being SHREDDED, BURNED, and/or CRUSHED to death on two of YOUR nations biggest national landmarks when you're designing games in this case...

     

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Player Paranoia

    in Cyberpunk RPG Rules and Guidelines

    Posted

    i ran into that stuff in my games as i had the players so wound up that they started punching/blasting everything that MIGHT have been a threat! *LOL*  a few chats with the "nice, clean-cut young men with carbines" that is the police in my game cured them of that pretty quick wink.gif  i'm proud to say that every time i've popped a PC(read: had someone go after them instead of their job getting them dead), they have yet to see it coming...

     

    I'd use a scrawny, burnt-out 'dorpher myself,

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

     

    Player Paranoia

    in Cyberpunk RPG Rules and Guidelines

    Posted

    do y'all ever get the idea that you're trying to hard?  i just use the tried and true methods used in novels and movies that have been used for decades(if not centuries).  the most important rule in creating paranoia is K.I.S.S.(Keep It Simple, Stupid).

    how to create paranoia?  this is pretty simple in CP 2020 considering that anyone with the right skills or contacts can find out ANYTHING about you, no matter how private.  this means that it's pretty easy to get screwed over if someone really wants to do it to you, but at the same time makes it so payback can be had.  so how we have a whole society that can hose the other people while the they can be hosed themselves...

    paranoia, and it's close relative fear, are easily attained by adding the threats of random violence, the unknown enemy, and they are watching you:

    random violence...i don't use obvious boosters, chromers, or other violence-based stereotypes in my games as they are too easy to identify as threats.  how often have you heard the quote, "look, it's a booster/guard/solo, we better watch out!"?  probably a bunch.  why would they know about the "badguys" in all those instances?  they're in a heavily-armed, violence-based society!  EVERYONE should be a potentual threat.  try this one as a change of pace, "you're standing on the overly-cramped mag-lev and you see a thorough mix of harried, stressed-out people with the normal bulges of concealed weaponry, the smell and feel of bodies pressed to closely together assails your senses.  at least five other passengers(per party member) seem to be paying a bit too much attention to you until you look back at them and they act like they're busy looking at something else."  now watch them squirm as all their ops/missions runs through their minds.  "who have i pissed off?  did they ID me?  are these people after me or do they just like my shirt/cologne?"  

    have a grandma mug them for crack.  that harried neighbor that they always take the piss out of should try to run them over.  always look for someone to jump them that they would NEVER consider a threat.

    the unknown enemy and they are watching you...these are  covered a bit above but you can take it a step further while mixing them.  tap their phones randomly and have them find it.  have people seem to be following them on a regular basis, it being the same person again and again as they go to certain places.  have them get wrong numbers and then a knock on the door when they hang up like someone was seeing if they're home.  an ex-GFs BF's friend is convinced to kick their ass as he'd never been seen before by the PC.  the possibilities are endless while some of the above questions run through the player's heads...

     

    stop trying to get through wierdness what you can through simplicity,

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    The end of the world as we know it

    in General Chat

    Posted

    well, hopefully we're awake now.  i've seen this coming for YEARS.  you can only have your airline security being a JOKE for so long before someone takes advantage of the situation.  i'm a bit bit busy being stunned to really say anything but this unofficial message from the US Government, "YOU'RE FUCKING DONE!  YOU HEAR ME?!?  DONE!!!  WE'LL SPEND BILLIONS TO GET YOU!!!  YOU CAN'T RUN!  YOU CAN'T HIDE!  YOUR ASS IS OURS!"

     

    thank you for calling and please have a nice day,

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

     

    Asps

    in Armament

    Posted

    i just want to make sure here...you're saying that INTENDING to walk out while he doesn't, SURPRISING him with a random whateverishandy, and then using that fist, foot, misc tool o' death, etc. to VIOLENTLY ACTIVATE the pain centers of his body, is the way to win a fight?

     

    i'm easily confused, you see wink.gif

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Asps

    in Armament

    Posted

    *LOL*  two frozen fish?  use a table to block stuff?  howling like bruce lee?!?  you're killing me! *LMFAO!*  last time i had to deal with a martial artist-type, i just tackled him and punched him into submission.  seems his dojo forgot about that particular trick...

     

    INTENT, SURPRISE, and VIOLENCE OF ACTION wins fights, not that fancy jap-slapping crap wink.gif

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Asps

    in Armament

    Posted

    i just got back from a redneck-fest...err, gunshow and i picked up another baton for $36 including shipping.  turns out that the Asp company is charging about 4 times as much as i paid for basically the same thing because it's the AGENCY that buys the things, not the officers.  good thing to see our tax dollars being spent wisely, eh? tounge.gif

    the extra point of damage is from the fact that this is DESIGNED for striking rather than being randomly being USED for striking.  my baton is better for striking than my bamboo short staves as it's heavier in weight and thinner at the striking end.  most "clubs" are random lengths of whateverishandy and thus do the 1d6.

     

    just my opinion on the matter,

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Them's Fighting Words

    in Cyberpunk RPG General Chat

    Posted

    *LOL*  wolver-wiennie regenerated from the smear in that case because he was sitting right next to(or was in contact with?  can't remember now) some superfly-cosmic-power-thingy(how magneto got the necessary power to yard the adamantuim out anyway) that hyper-boosted his powers.  if it wasn't for that(and his posterboy status), he'd be corpse...GAWD DAMN IT!!!  can't those badguys do ANYTHING right?!? angry.giftounge.gif

     

    i just think that it's funny how i HATE the character, but know more about the story than you guys...

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Drugs

    in Cyberpunk RPG Rules and Guidelines

    Posted

    the first problem is the price of the bloody stuff!  50eb per difficulty, per dose?!?  GET REAL!  like ANYONE could afford a Black lace habit at 650 eb a pop tounge.gif  try difficuty times 5 in eb, and we can start talking about something even resembling reality.  biotech would also make the manufacture of the stuff cheap as dirt.  just design a new force-grown organism that makes the stuff as a byproduct of it's metabolism(like they do with insulin now), package, ship it, and *BANG!*  you're rich!

    second, the durations are WAY off.  why buy a drug that lasts about 4 minutes on the average at 500 eb a dose?  *knocks on Maximium Mike's head*  "Hello McFly!  anyone in there?!?"  AND it gets almost impossible to make if it lasts a whooping 40 MINUTES on average shocked.gif ...LOL

     

    i'm actually pretty surprised that there's drugs in your game, SpiderMurphy.  i NEVER get them in mine...

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

    Akira vs Ghost In The Shell

    in Network 54

    Posted

    if you can't laugh at yourself, you don't have the right to laugh at anyone else wink.gif  i think that my friend Thomas said it best with this quote, "you know Mark, you're a lot like a tomato.  you're fine by yourself...but with a little salt, you're that much better!"

     

    Mark(psycho)Phipps(HAHAHA!)

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