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    Auto-fire?

    in Cyberpunk RPG Rules and Guidelines

    Posted

    Quote (psychophipps @ Aug. 27 2002,21:20)
    Yes, it was what you were getting at but you will, through your own experience i'm sure, know that instead of wishy-washying it and simply stating it in short, concise and rather plain language you can dramatically increase the level of comprehension.

    Ah, you forget, I'm an officer.

     

    I get paid by the word....and power point slide...

    The Commie Bomb

    in Armament

    Posted

    Quote (psychophipps @ Aug. 31 2002,15:38)
    A sucking head wound?  WTF?!? :p

    Mark(psycho)Phipps( HAHAHA! )

    Sucking head wound...like sucking chest wound..only he got his head blowed clean off...

     

     

    And Case, it's "commie bomb" now.  :p

    Real world events

    in General Chat

    Posted

    Quote (Suriel @ Aug. 31 2002,11:54)
    Well, before we head into another closed topic here, because we europeans want so desperately to prove that we love our old continent as much as you americans do your US, let´s look at some facts:

    Fact 1: Most of us are fed the news by newspaper, radio, TV and internet. And I must say that the first three of these options are not very much in favor of US eco-politics.

    Fact 2: I can imagine that in the US, according to their own news, they are NOT the big eco-sinners they are in our news. Probably we are. Kids always need someone to blame... And countries, too.

    Fact 3: We can continue to defend our news agencies or we can try to get at some neutral facts. But that would be work, for our news agencies just use statistics. And knowing how statistics are generated, I can tell you they are made to deceive.  ;)

    *Digs another trench* :9mm:  :fire:

    Are you kidding!? All our press does is sit around and tell us how bad we are (except for GIs in a popular war, little pretty white girls, and athletic human interest stories).

     

    It's kinda like being Catholic, only most people simply ignore the guilt.

     

    Which I guess is still kinda like being Catholic.... ;)

    PFLOP

    in Reservoir Dogs

    Posted

    Quote (wilphe @ Aug. 26 2002,22:47)
    Given their total ineffectualness (sp? is that a word?); What do use them AS?

    Also, they're damn funny, if your PCs have seen the movie. If not the humor will probably be lost.

     

    There is also a Power Point slide that I made with a wire & box diagram and some pictures that is pretty entertaining, that I could not post along with it.

    The Commie Bomb

    in Armament

    Posted

    So my PCs (that 70s poser gang) got their hands on some of the pistol grenades out of Chrome Book 2. Their Techie (Joey Ramone) decided to make them all into one big bomb.

     

    4 ea. HEP grenades

    1 ea. Incindiary Grenade

    2 ea. flashbangs

    1 ea. stench bomb.

     

    He rolled something like two 10s in a row and then a 6 putting his success roll well over 30.

     

    I had to make up the damage on the spot, so I just added up the total damage (including all appropriate modifiers for the HEP and Incindiary). Somehow I came up with 28d6 damage in a 5 m radius. That sound right?

     

    Anyway, they threw the bomb right after one of their solos (Dee Dee Ramone) took a sucking head wound from a 5.4mm rifle round. They blew up 3 of the remaining bad guys, and the corp's daughter they were supposed to rescue.

     

    Hence the name "Dee Dee's Revenge".

    Real world events

    in General Chat

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    Of course there is the U.S.'s annual $10 billion donation to developing countries making it the single largest donor of development aid -- with an additional $5 billion recently being announced by Bush. Name one other country that comes close.

    Oh, and I noticed that if you add up DE, UK, and Fr they add up to 7.1 tons. Don't forget there are 265 million of us. Europe produces far more carbon dioxide than the US and does far less to clean it up.

     

    Sorry that's crap what you are saying.

     

    If you add up Germany, UK and France, you get a per capita pollution of 2.7+2.5+1.9 / 3. That would be about 2,36 tons of carbon dioxide per person. Adding them up doesn't work with per capita. Simple math :p (wow I'm feeling sooo clever ;), hehe, hope you don't take the corrections personally :)). Perhaps the mean latin per capita was the problem.

     

    Also, the E.U. makes up for 53% of the worlds development aid, while only having 32% of the world currency reserves and a part of 23% on the worlds economic power. Figures from 2000.

     

    So far ;).

    OK genius. Yes that is simple math. All it is is an average. It means nothing. If you want to compare PER CAPITA of two seperate populations it has to be a weighted average. Comaparing a the population of a country (the UK) with 20% of the population and 2% of the land mass, and thinking that Per Capita means "all else is therefore equal" is a bunch of bull****.

     

    Think about this facial-cream. If person who lives in South Carolina gets a job in LA, she will have to drive 2500 miles without ever crossing an international boundry. Now imagine you are shipping a widget from a factory in the same place to LA. Same distance, by car or by air. A bit different than shipping widgets from Birmingham to London.

     

    Bigger country=more roads= more construction equipment=longer commutes to work=more time sitting in rush-hour traffic=more Carbon Dioxide output.

     

    If you want your numbers to mean anything, try comparing the UK's numbers to a region in the US with 60 million people.

     

    In order for a Per Capita comparison to mean ANYTHING here is how you do it.

     

    Two countries with 60 mil people. Country X = 2.6 tons per capita; Country Y = 4.9 tons per capita.  Country Y produces more carbon dioxide per capita than an EQUIVILANT country. There is a stat that might actually mean somthing.

     

    I also noticed you chose to compare the US (which spans a continent) with only three European countries. By coincidence the most economically well off. Why don't you compare Europe to North America? Or Europe (don't forget Russia and Turkey) vs the US, with Bosnia, Italy, Greece, etc. all rolled up into those numbers?

     

    Yet when it comes to developmental aid it is suddenly convenient to use the EU instead of just the three leading countries. What a bunch of bull-****.

     

    Oh, because then sour-cream can't get on her high-horse and point her finger.

     

    And while you are at it take everything invented in the US that you use, electrical power, your computer, CDs, automobiles, telephones, cell-phones, and chuck them in the ocean. Or do you use a computer made from dried bannanna peels, and power it with a generator that runs on cow-fart fumes?

     

     

    Speaking of proportions:

     

    Proportionatly the shrew is the best hung animal in the world.  :)

    Real world events

    in General Chat

    Posted

    Quote (Mephostophilis @ Aug. 30 2002,07:19)
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    That's because Europeans don't take baths or showers.

    And you drop bombs on anyone who looks at you sideways or threatens to withold oil. As I see it, the greatest problem with America (and to some extent the rest of the so-called developed world) is an insatiable appetite for oil. Every day, tons and tons of the stuff flows into the western world, where it is used to fuel unneccessarily large or inefficient cars, or turned into fast-food packaging. And it will keep on happening without any serious attempt at developing a substitute because of the vested oil interests in both government and industry. Eventually, someone that matters will realise that a substitute to oil is needed, but unfortunately, that will probably be five minutes after the last drop of oil is turned into a novelty styrofoam hamburger box.

     

    Oh yes, and does it make you proud to have constructed the world's second manmade landmark visible from space?

    Oh, and what would happen to the price of oil in Europe if we did not? What are you paying in Germany now, about $6 (US) a gallon? How jacked up would your economy be?

     

    And by the way, we get most of our oil from Canada.

    Real world events

    in General Chat

    Posted

    Quote (Strawberry-Cream @ Aug. 29 2002,18:57)
    Tons of carbon dioxide per capita (didn't get the time period):

    1.: U.S.: 5.6
    ...
    4.: Germany: 2.7
    5.: U.K.: 2.5
    6.: France: 1.9

    Yes, I guess the U.S. will be cleaning up the air afterwards, huh? (-> filtering, of course, is already integrated in the figures)

    Or the average amount of water per capita used daily (figures from 1998):
    U.S.: ~ 200 litres
    E.U.: ~ 80 litres

    Sometimes it's not nice to be the world leader :(.

    Of course there is the U.S.'s annual $10 billion donation to developing countries making it the single largest donor of development aid -- with an additional $5 billion recently being announced by Bush. Name one other country that comes close.

     

    Oh, and I noticed that if you add up DE, UK, and Fr they add up to 7.1 tons. Don't forget there are 265 million of us. Europe produces far more carbon dioxide than the US and does far less to clean it up.

    PFLOP

    in Reservoir Dogs

    Posted

    I used a "hit team" from the "Provsional PFLOP" towards the end of the post.

     

    So when the PCs went investigating, everyone they talked to said "PFLOP? No way. The never actually DO anything. Must have been somebody else."

     

    It was a hoot.

     

    (Case, don't you dare read this. Oh wait, to late. Doh!)

    Auto-fire?

    in Cyberpunk RPG Rules and Guidelines

    Posted

    I use the rule that if you fire full auto you fire your max rate of fire, or whatever is left in the magazine / belt, whichever comes first. When firing full auto you cannot decide , "OK I am only going to fire 13 rounds instead of twenty because statistically..." The way one controls full auto is with controlled bursts, where I would then switch to the burst rule.

     

    Or I suppose you could make them roll  2d10 for a 20 rd mag or 3d10 for a 30 to see how many rounds they fire, but that would be kinda weird.

    PFLOP

    in Reservoir Dogs

    Posted

    If you have not seen "Monty Python's Life Of Brian" you will fail to find the humor in this "terrorist / revolutionary" organization.

     

    And yes, I really use these guys in my game.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ARASAKA NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION PROFILE REPORT:

     

    TERRORISM / UNCONVENTIONAL WARFARE

     

    NORTH AMERICA: INDIGINOUS TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS

     

    GROUP: The People’s Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Peoples. (PFLOP)

     

    Geographic Location: North America: New York BZ / FFA, (previously BZ Atlanta, BZ Charleston, Free White Alabama (ex-secessionist state (see “Post- US Secessionists).) Lebanon, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tokyo, Hong Kong (wanted for Fraud).

     

    Group Philosophy: Marxist-Socialist / anti-establishment

     

    Group Organization: Self-Perpetuating Beaurocracy. Approx.: 5-500 members.

     

    Key Leaders and Personalities: REG, STAN/LORETTA, FRANCIS, JUDITH.  

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    NorAm Analyst Comment: PFLOP is a largley Rhetorical organization. “REG” is the only A-Type personality in the organization. He maintains control of the organization be constantly holding meetings and passing resolutions. Analysis of the resolutions has stopped, because most of them contain more resolutions, tag lines, riders and other line items. One resolution had no fewer than 345 sub-lines.

    No member of PFLOP is known to have any violent history, to carried out any violent act, or have any knowledge of actual terrorist operations. The odds of PFLOP actually finding time to carry out terrorist operations (violent or otherwise) is highly unlikely. They currently have 423 planned “actions” on the shelf and are unlikely to execute any of them.

     

    Note: There is an off-shoot (see below) to the organization known as the Provisional (PFLOP) “Pro_FLOP”. There are several confirmed members. The leader, Hugh Warwick, has some military experience (it is believed to be in the FFL). His subordinates all have violent criminal records (a requirement to join) and may have some para-military experience. Not much more is known about this organization, although “Reg” may associate with said group in order to give the “official” PFLOP some credibility as a revolutionary / terrorist group.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Off-shoot Organizations:

     

    The Provisional People’s Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Peoples

    The Free Peoples Front for the Liberation of Oppressed Peoples

    The Organization for the Freedom of People  Without Any

    The Organization for Freedom of Oppressed People, and better Dog-Cat relations

    The Democratic Party

    Freedom for People, Domesticated Animals, and ex-Parrots (patriots?)

    ACPA

    in Chrome

    Posted

    ACPA? Association of Creative Philharmonic Assistants?

     

    I'm a memebr of APSCA. The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.

    D20

    in Cyberpunk RPG General Chat

    Posted

    Quote (Joe Q. Public @ Aug. 16 2002,19:31)
    Just remeber the thing all good RPGers should know -
    if the Evil Empire (WotC) has made something open source, they must have a reason for it.

    Remeber that they nearly single handedly brought to an end RPGing as we know it last decade.

    Never forget, Never forgive.

    Really, who knows anyone who got into RPGing because of card games like Magic...

    That's what I thought....

    Wow! Bitter are we?

    D20

    in Cyberpunk RPG General Chat

    Posted

    Quote (Split @ Aug. 15 2002,19:12)
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    However, the medieval setting is EXCELLENT in the way it is portrayed and you don't need a PHD in medieval studies to grasp the settings. The only other Middle Ages setting that comes close is Vampire: Dark Ages. What a coincidence! ;)

    We used to run a Ars Magica-Vampire-Crossover game which worked out quite well (or would have if we'd played more than 5 sessions...). Ars Magica is made to play a mage. That's why it's called ... Ars Magica...

    Which is kinda my point, in such a richly detailed setting it really pigeon-holes the players into certain roles....Like only having 1 character class with multiple sub-classes.

    I have an ax to grind

    in Cyberpunk RPG Rules and Guidelines

    Posted

    Quote (Chrysalis @ Aug. 09 2002,04:39)
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    *sigh*

    Care to expand on that?

     

    Jester

    Sorry it's just that I find an over emphasis on weaponry to the roleplaying aspect like going back and living in caves.

     

    But ignore me :)

     

    -Chrysalis

    Chrys dear, the over-emphasis on weaponry is what attracts me (and I would bet quite a few others) to the game in the first place!  :D

    D20

    in Cyberpunk RPG General Chat

    Posted

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    Bookwyrm if you can find a copy get a look at ARS MAGICA a great game based around middle ages magic with majic user as the prime players.  a d10 system works great with realistic fighting rules.

    After playing a few times I just about gave up ever playing D&D and it's incarnates ever again.

    Ars Magica was cool except for one thing. You were either a wizard or a PEON. Better like playing wizards if you wanna play that game, and I never could get into a party consisting entirely of wizards.

     

    However, the medieval setting is EXCELLENT in the way it is portrayed and you don't need a PHD in medieval studies to grasp the settings. The only other Middle Ages setting that comes close is Vampire: Dark Ages. What a coincidence! ;)

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