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Oops  

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I am sure that everything will go fine, so no worries, eh?

So, get well soon!

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Torturing is quite uncommon in our games. Only few PCs and only a few more NPCs have been tortured in our games, ever. I suppose without proper skill you end up killing your victim much too soon to get any information.

On the other hand if a PC is the victim of a torturer I would try to describe the feeling of what is happening to the character and make the player make resist torture checks. If the torturer is someone with resources I might make it all virtual and slap some mental problems after the "session" in virtuality.

If you are willing to roleplay interrogations (as opposed to torture) and your players try to keep tough despite the rolls (or you don't want to resort to die rolls) you might want to try the following just to make the player feel some of the pain of the character. Put the player to a stress position for a while. It won't cause any harm but will cause a bit of a discomfort for the poor player who will appreciate the feelings of his character much more after that NOTE! This should only be done if the player agrees to do it. It is just an option...

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LOL! Fortunately my batchelor party was a lot less wild    Besides it was held couple of months ago so I probably would have recovered before the wedding All the batchelor parties where I have been in have been quite nice to the batchelor and could have been considered as some sort of LARP ("we meet again, mister Bond..."). Mine was a bit less elaborate because of ... various things  

But yes, thanks again...

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Well put Monk. Most of the time religion is not a bad thing even in global scale. The problem is that it is so easy to use religion as a convenient excuse to attack someone when the real reasons are actually about energy (be it natural resources, money, power etc.). Of course there are lunatics in every religion (and in atheism as well) but if we judge the whole religion by those lunatics and abusers we really should not wonder why our hobby gets condemned so easily even today.

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Thank you all for your well wishings and ... tips  

I really appreciate them (and you)! I am sure all of you can imagine that I had other things in mind during the weekend but I'll hang around here this week before the honeymoon  

I'm a bit disturbed to note that someone has "stolen" my net handle. I used it about a year ago in Day of Defeat but I have not played much since then, so it wasn't me in that game. Sorry  

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Yup, that is the day that I get married. Only a few more hours of nerve wrecking waiting until the priest says amen  

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Happy birthday!!!!!!!

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Yeah, welcome back!

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OK, thanks.

Maybe Kerenzikov would be grades 1 and 2. Sandevistan would be grade 3.

I agree that this really makes reflex boosts powerful and so it won't work in every campaign...

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I am wondering how badly it would affect the game if I changed the way the wired reflexes work in the game. Now a character with high reflexes and combat sense will act faster than a character with lower reflexes and without combat sense but with wired reflexes. If players (and GM) wants to make reflex augmentation more important in their games then the effects have to be more radical.

Unfortunately I don't have my books here so I don't remember the names of the implants but I hope you can follow my meaning. The lowest grade (that gives lowest ref bonus) allows the character to act before any unaugmented character. The second grade allows the character to act before those with lower level augmentation or without any augmentation. I think there were a third grade augmentation and I might allow another free action before lower level augmentations or unaugmented.

In all cases it is best to roll for initiative as similarly augmented characters still have to know which one will act first. The best augmentation allows the character to act in "level 3" initiative (augmentation grade) and in "level 0" initiative (unaugmeted) but he still depends on good initiative roll because his augmentation doesn't allow him to act twice before his opponent(s) unless he rolls well.

I think that I might add a rule where the augmentation doesn't kick in at the first round unless character's initiative roll is, say 10 or 15. Regardles of the initiative roll the augmentation kicks in at the second round (if the character is still able to function).

Now, what do you think?

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At first I run my game with weird combination of homeless but cybered and armed to teeth PCs. It got old quite fast. My latest campaign was run totally without cybernetics. PCs had access up to assault rifles and some armor. Instead of cybernetics they had smart goggles and I suppose one used smartrgun. Noone touched the drugs (it has been really unpopular aspect of my gaming groups the whole time). Then again in that campaign PCs were professional troubleshooters and not just low level criminals.

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It's true that the time for large armies is over, for the moment at least but our army is not large by any means. So I don't think that we should downsize it but more mobility etc. would be a good thing. Maybe the way we train our soldiers could be improved?

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Yeah, happy birthday!

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Sh!t man, sorry to hear that

It's good to know that things are cooling, though.

Tsemppiä Aga ja yritä pärjätä,

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LOL

6th level :-)

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Good point and I liked the explanations you and freakboy gave. On the other hand it is enough if the GM knows them and can provide them if the situation arises. After all even if the players wonder about it and demand the explanation from the GM he really doesn't have to tell them anything, just smile ominously if the characters don't have access to that info. Why make things too easy on players when you can generate some paranoia by witholding the information

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I think that I was not clear enough about what I meaned about 'marching'. My meaning was that those troopers didn't move from the landing site to their LUP with all the stuff on them all the time. They carried and dragged their kit quite a short distance a time and only about half of the squad's kit at a time. By 'marchin' I meaned that they would have travelled all that distance more or less without interrupt carrying all their kit all the time without having to go back and forth to be able to move everything.

Damn! I don't feel too eloquent today    but I hope you understood what I meaned.

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I may be wrong but to my knowledge the SAS troopers were not exactly marching with all that stuff. They more or less dragged them few dozen meters at a time changing those who moved the stuff and those who were on security. It was really slow going...

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Hey, Darthmurph is alive! I'm glad to see that.

Stay safe,

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I just added the stats for 4_Is. Skills will be here some day

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Damn! I hope you guys are/will get soon OK.

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If airhypos won't work in that kind of situations then how about using some sort of artificial drug vein? I ripped this idea from Stirling's Artificial Kid. This drug vein is basically piece of rubber tube connedted to real vein and the artificial part is partially ouside the skin thus making injection of drugs easier.

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I tend to agree with Knighthawk here on religion as I consider myself an atheist. In addition to that I see religion mostly as a tool to powerhungry bast***s be it christianity or islamism or any other organised religion. Lately I have grown a bit more relaxed about it and I just think that it's all the same to me how anyone believe, what their political views or sexual preferences are as long as those things don't affect my life...

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Something I like to listen to:

- Iron Maiden

- Rammstein

- Motorhead

- Front Line Assembly

- HIM

- Bad Religion

- Nighwish

- The 69 Eyes

- Other Finnish bands like Apulanta, Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus...

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