Master_Drow

Well lets see, according to cyberpunk history in 2013

1. Netwatch is established by joint US/Eurotheatre Treaty
2. First True AI is developed at Microtech's Sunnyvale, CA facility.

Here is to hoping for Watson to become sentient. Happy New Year!

Actually the worst part about climate change is that is really screws with Israel. Height map. As can be seen by this map Israel's coast is pretty low. If the oceans rise a few meters then you will have people on the coast moving inland. Now if you look you will see the Gaza strip is on the coast, all of them muslims won't like that they are loosing land to the ocean and they will want to move inland, Israel wont like that.

Also if you look back into history you will see that Israel used to be in the fertile crescent, while the north still is the mid/southern parts are no longer, this is because of climate change back in the 7,000 BCE to 5,000 BCE era. Now Israel uses the water from the Sea of Galilee which is a large lake in the north of the state. The Sea of Galilee travels down the Jordan river into the Dead Sea, because it picks up a large number of minerals from the land the Dead Sea is completely useless as a water source. However, a few decades ago the Israelis started directing the water of the Jordan River into farm country of the north so they can increase crop yield. This means that less water is going south, and a side effect is the Dead Sea is shrinking. Another thing is that the Natufians did a similar thing during their reign of the area (11,000 to 7,000 BCE) and irrigation had the effect of salting the land as the minerals in the water would build up in the soil. All in all this leads to a very bad thing for the agricultural production of Israel which is mostly desert.

So it is not the migration of people that is going to do in Israel, it is the lack of food and any useful resources. The only reason there is even a country there is because it is a religious holy site, and while it might have had resources for the first people (around 11,000 BCE) it has been so picked over that their is nothing of any real value there. All they have are olive trees and goats and good luck feeding your people off of that for any length of time.

Now putting the 'usual' weapons down and maybe 'thinking outside the box' can anyone think of a nice ingenious way of knocking someone off that wouldn't arouse suspicion 'too much'?.

My classic favorite is drop a building on them. Collapsed ceilings happen, you just have to make them happen at the right time.

Also hacking street lights so the dark drives out in front of a bus works well too.

Just remember to scrub your prints (physical or digital) from the scene before you go home.

Oh wish lists! (how did I miss this post?)

Well, if the CP core books don't meet Wisdom's quality requirement I would love to take one off your hands.

So wish list:

Core Book (if Wisdom does not get them all)

Chrome book

Chrome book 2

Chrome book 3

Chrome book 4

Maximum metal

Solo of fortune

I do have all of these as PDF's I just like an actuall book sometimes, especially when I need to flip back and forth between sections. Which happens a lot.

The easiest way would be to not use bioware (which CP is sadly lacking) but to use cyberware. If you had a gang of Alphas just running around it would be almost impossible to tell them apart. Sure they have different serial numbers and brain patterns but that is not going to show up on security footage. And if you arrest one Alpha all he has to do is say a different Alpha did it.

Same scenario different tech. It would be like knowing the shooter drove a white van, good luck finding him in a city full of white vans. Uniform blandness is the new stealth.

The biggest thing is that the people most familiar with space will be excluded. Who would be a better recruit, a USA natural citizen who has never set foot in space, or a man who grew up in space a lived there every second of his life?

It is easier to indoctrinate someone into a cause that it would be to train a landlubber for the complexities of space.

I still don't see much of a market for this sort of thing. Remember CP is very lethal, so even getting hit once could mean death. If that is the case why would any sane person want a cool body mod that can only be seen when they are injured? Sure it is cool if your blood is purple and smells of bananas, but if the only way your buddies are going to see it is when you get shot then it is not so much fun now is it?

While I agree that changing how the oxygen bonds to the hemoglobin is a bad idea what we need to do is make it bleed a color, not be a color. What about a harmless chemical that just floats in the bloodstream until it is exposed to say the helium or nitrogen in the atmosphere? There is basically no helium in the blood, and the only time that I know of that it would be is for deep sea diving (deep sea diving tanks have helium in them). So the side effect of fancy blood is that you can't dive below say 300 feet?

In the same vein as Stray, the best move is to sidestep. They're guarding a room at the end of a hall right? Go into another room on the floor, climb out the window and onto the edge, shimmy along the side of the building until you reach a room that shares a wall with the target room. Enter the room and find the shared wall. Quietly make a hole in the wall big enough to get through and enter the target room. The borgs will never be the wiser and you won't have to tangle with a few hundred pounds of killer metal.

The only way to win is not to play. If the enemies game is to use a few borgs as guards then you must change the game.

OK how about this for cyberpunk.

You are the personal security for the famous actress/pornstar Misty Rivers. She is as famous as Angelia Jole and twice as hot, everyone knows who she is. Misty is also a Hollywood liberal. The only reason I bring this up is because is because she (and thus you and your team) are at a protest of the annual NRA convention in Houston Texas. The time is 7pm and the sun is just starting to set when a loud explosion is heard, it rocks through the streets like a tidal wave, and then, suddenly, quiet. Eery quiet, the normally blaring city is now dead. The billboards are dark, the music blasting from the 3rd story window is gone, even the street lights are down. The phone network is down, no internet, nothing. Only battery powered devices are working. People begin to get uneasy, Misty is keeping order the best she can but now the hated NRA persons are exiting their darkened meeting hall and a conflict is inevitable. A limo pulls up and the mayor is seen having a quick word with the Derrik Mals (the head of the NRA) before Derrik gets in the limo and it speeds off into the descending darkness. A protest member overhears the conversation and rumor spreads through the crowd like wild fire, the local nuclear power plant just 10 miles outside the city was hit by a terrorist attack and is venting nuclear radiation. The crowd starts to panic and you decide that is now time to get Misty back to her Hotel. The only problem, the hotel is across town. You can hear the sounds of sirens and riots starting in the distance.

The mission will be to get Misty back to her hotel without getting her shot, raped, or kidnapped. All of this while the city is plunged into darkness and riots begin as people decide now is the time to fight the system, and get that new 72 inch TV they wanted but were to poor to buy. Looting is prevalent, guns are everywhere, the police are too few, and radiation is slowly flooding into the city courtesy of a south-west breeze. As the night drags on the city falls into ever worse conditions. If the team tries to extract by car they will only get a few blocks before they are stopped by the car in front of them being hit by a Molotov cocktail and promptly igniting. Hoofing it on foot is the only option, and the back allies are the only place not filled with rioting people but they are also not the best place to take the Misty who was voted sexiest person alive for the past three years. Do you really trust your team enough not to just take Misty for themselves? After all she it looking smoking hot tonight, maybe you should just 'protect' her yourself, preferably in a bed somewhere. After all, it might be your last night alive...

The night is dark, and full of terrors. Good luck.

Is that cyberpunk enough for you Mikael van Atta? Or should I have more cocaine.

Comp, that is one of the best one sentence summaries of cyberpunk that I have seen.

"Cyberpunk, where people have chosen to respond to the ever increasing pressure put upon them by technological change by dehumanizing themselves, either to keep up with the system or in an attempt to transcend it."

~ Companero

As for the Shadowrun to Cyperpunk conversion. The best way would be to ignore the magic, it is impossible to convert the entire setting from one to the next. After all, how to do you explain a dragon running Denver in Cyberpunk? So for Chicago (the bug city) you can just come up with a reason for why it was nuked that does not involve spirits. Crazy AI, out of control Drones, Insurrection, rebellion, Canada attacked, Terrorists, etc. and then just have the radiation levels so high no one in there right mind would go there. I mean we have only dropped 2 nukes on cities, and our nukes now are what a thousand times more powerful? So if any city is nuked now the radiation levels would be crazy. That is why the ESA uses mass drivers and giant rocks to attack the US in the CP universe. I have played in a couple of Shadowrun modules that would work just fine in CP. Replace the spirits with Cyborgs, where appropriate, and you will probably be fine. However a mission where you need to hunt down a bunch of crazy shamans probably will be harder to convert to CP. Just go for the modules that are lighter on magic.

If you need more help post specific cases where you're having problems converting and I'll help you out, I know both systems pretty well.

I know that humans can get green blood sometimes due to medication. I remember this story from a few years ago (linky).

I like the Shadowrun way of redlining a cyberlimb:

Optional Rule:

redlining a cyberlimb

If the gamemaster allows it, cyberlimbs can be pushed beyond their design parameters. A cyberlimb user can take a Simple Action to temporarily override cybernetic safeguards and “redline” the cyberlimb’s attributes, increasing one attribute to any value up to double the cyberlimb’s normal rating in that attribute. The character may even exceed his augmented attribute maximum in this way. At the end of each Combat Turn a cyberlimb is redlined in this manner, however, the limb and the character suffer damage from muscle sprains, ligament tearing, and general biostress. The Damage Value of such damage equals twice the attribute modifier taken by redlining in Stun damage, and is resisted with Body. For example, a character who redlines his cyberarm from Strength 4 to Strength 8 to pull open a door will suffer 8 Stun damage each Combat Turn he redlines his arm.

So basically you can reline the limb up to twice ability but it damages you each time that you use it, as it tears away from the muscles and generally tries to rip itself off of your body.

In CP I would probably write this rule as:

A character can redline/overclock a cyberlimb by making a Difficult (DC 20) Cybertech skill check, this can take between several minutes and a few hours. If the character succeeds the cyberlimb has been modified to allow it to bypass normal safety limits. This allows the character to choose to go up too double the limb's normal BOD, REF, or MA. However, the character also takes 1d6/2 damage per point of stat boost every time the limb is used above its normal value, BTM is used to resist this damage. If this damage would deal more that 8 points of damage (12 points in IU) the limb is rips itself off of the character and the character must make a mortal 0 stun and death save, with another save one level more each turn, (i.e. mortal 1, then 2 then 3 etc...) until the bleeding is stopped or the character dies.

At the GM discretion the an overclocked limb may be more prone to sudden failure.

It is actually called Matterport here is the website it is a device that scans a room and makes a 3D mockup of it.

Also don't forget that police have a nasty habit of putting GPS units in to people with lots of cyberware, for their safety of course. But that would make it really easy to find the borg.

That is a Shadowrun tech, for CP I would not allow this tech on anything smaller than a truck. Also boosting power would probably burn out the system, unless you bought components to allow the system to handle more power (basically buy a bigger system).

As for description I would use the grey blob idea. Probably something like this

Just make that an appropriately difficult Drive Morotcycle test roll.

That should be all you need to do. Depending on the activity the test could be easy, hard very hard, etc. The rules outline what these mean so I wont do that here.

For example, something like jumping a bike from one building to the next I would make a choice on how hard it would based on the distance to the next roof, weight of the bike/gear/people, and whether or not there is a ramp.

Alternativly IU has a pretty good Martial Arts system that allows breaking of necks and what not with relative ease. Granted there is a bit of a learning curve as it is not the most clearly stated part of the rules, but I managed to figure it out after about an hour, so you should do fine. And once you understand them the rules are very nice to use.

A little bump to the topic, folks?

I'm just waiting for the GM to say he has some free time.

My interest is entirely determined by the price... especially since you want to sell the items as a lot purchase.

My thoughts exactly. With that many books I can only guess we are talking about $350 and above! (and that is at only $10 dollars a book!)

While I would love to expand my book collection (as I have next to none right now) I just don't see spending a few hundred dollars all in one go.

Link to Webpage!

So basically this group has come up with a bunch of odd hair styles and that when combined with face paints makes the it impossible for face detection software to recognize someone. Also, as a side result, the people seem to look the part of cyberpunk.

Honestly I like the improved version made by the fans a lot better.

Well this is definitely a mini-factory in a box. It will be interesting to see if they can get it to a bunch of poor villages in order to boost their productivity.

Skinweave dosn't protect againist netguns.

Well if you ever need to kill a guy in skin weave use a truck, after being hit by an 18 wheeler the target is just a bag of crushed bone and organs.

Just upload it to mediafire or some such place and then post the link. Problem solved for now at least.