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i hope the forum can carry on in some form, i encourage people from the discords to go digging here all the time for old solutions to the same old issues. there's also the distinct possibility that RED won't be the most perfect RPG in the history of ever, and we'll need a place that isn't the sycophant ridden company discord to hammer out homebrew fixes

played a pickup session today with the nomad pre-gen, went pretty well... only one fatality on our side doing "the apartment" scenario. the solo spent most of the fight just spamming suppressive fire at a stairwell, i got into a fight with a beefy boy in the bathroom... and because we both had 10 reflexes we kept dodging each other's bullets, was kinda hilarious. combat was much more streamlined though, took about an hour less than i would have expected with classic

get ready for a lot of deja vu because a BUNCH of the text is recycled from older books

they've also handed out advanced copies to a couple people to run live plays, if you want to glean more info on how it plays.

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/457988889?fbcl...udMeM9M_vL0Qgs4

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/457837075

there's also a shakeup of the social stats, with the addition of will for what used to be the more "defensive" uses of cool, and cool taking on some aspects of emp (now controlling persuasion, for one). interested to see how it all shakes out.

also i think it's odd after the 3 way breakup of the body stat in v3 they've decided to leave it alone in this version.

https://rtalsoriangames.com/2019/06/28/kitb...ew-edgerunners/

https://gmshoe.wordpress.com/2019/07/24/qa-...-red/#more-6281

yeah, a friend and i were grilling their mouthpiece the other day about the fact we were 70 days from the "release date" and information about the product was REAL sparse. the guy would not even give us the final stat block, just deflected about how it's not really fuzion that was just easier to copyright...

maybe not August! for those keeping track this will be the third blown deadline for red since it's announcement

https://rtalsoriangames.com/2019/05/26/from...eets-5-26-2019/

yes, joking aside .17 caliber was a popular wildcat that has gone mainstream now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.17_HMR

as for why these ideas showed up then and not later... speculation on my part would be because the US ACR program ended in 1990. that trial included caseless guns like the G11, but also included flechette based weapons like the styer ACR and the colt offering using multi-projectile cartridges. all this was done to try and dramatically increase the hit probability of soldiers. so the program ends in 1990, report hits the street saying cool concepts but we're sticking with the M-16, mike gets his hands on the report and we see... flechette based weapons and multi-projectile cartridges.

i always assumed the .177 caliber smg was an inside joke, since that's the most common "caliber" for BB/pellet guns in the united states.

also it occurs to me the 38 caseless might find a niche as a round for a machine pistol, i know the russians had several prototype guns like that in 9x18

in the us .380 is normally a pocket carry size gun, however European gun makers have produced a few duty-ish sized .380 guns (glock 25, CZ-83, beretta 84 cheetah). my understanding is these weapons were marketed to civilians in European countries that banned weapons in military calibers.

as for why they're mouse guns, well there's a few things going on there. first, JMB designed the cartridge to be on the upper end of what a direct blowback action could handle, thus a weapon chambered in this caliber can safely be made without the need for a locking action... less complexity means fewer machining operations, making the guns cheaper, etc. also the current thinking among most agencies is that .380 is the "floor" or lowest caliber that they deem acceptable for self defense work. that also plays into it's niche roll, it's the bottom of the list so people tend to use it only in applications where they can't use a larger caliber AKA deep concealment/pocket carry

the question of why so small, well that's a combination of the 1994 Clinton assault weapon ban limiting mags to 10 rounds and the rise of shall issue CCW laws that began in the late 80's. people wanted small guns to carry and those guns were limited to 10 rounds by law, so that's what got made. keep in mind this wave crashed on the us market AFTER 2020 went to print, hence the dearth of P concealable guns in the books overall.

i can't see anything wrong with making a full size 38 caseless, although it begs the question of why? 9x19mm is a world standard and it's not going to produce that much more recoil (in fact, i've heard it said some direct blowback .380's kick worse than locker breech 9mm's). I'm just not seeing the market niche such a gun would fill.

yeah, the armor rules make it hard to have a good old fashioned pistol fight. the few games where i can recall medium handguns being used to any effect were house ruled with lower soft armor values. otherwise you're only hope is to go for a headshot or pepper them enough times the staggered penetration knocks their armor down a couple pegs... or charge in for the contact shot doing MAX DAMAGE

i mean, it's cool they designed a round that shoots flat out to 100m from a pistol barrel... i just can't for the life of me think of a niche application for it outside of perhaps 3 gun competition. the price alone insures this will stay a novelty piece, hell you could buy a Barrett 50bmg or a registered reising smg for that much.

thought i'd share this, the in-range guys got some trigger time with it at shot show

in short, a solution in search of a problem

yeah 1x-6x scopes got real popular with the 3 gun guys a couple years back, they're not even that bad on price now

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00S2P2KK...X0DER&psc=1

i don't know if a bonus to initiative is in order. i will say though that where red dots really shine is in transitions, going from one target to another, it's so much easier to get a sight picture FAST. perhaps they should negate some of the penalties for engaging multiple targets in a single combat round?

you hate that it's off grid?

auto-correct strikes again!

the closest i've found is Japanese micro apartments, there's a bunch of them detailed on youtube

fun fact, meth is not illegal everywhere. it's a schedule 2 substance that has a very narrow set of circumstances where it can be perscribed... the more you know

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methamphetamine

yeah, i keep a 6" Israeli bandage and a tourniquet in my range bag. plus i also keep a fairly well stocked firstaid kit in my "get home bag" that lives in my car year round.

if you're going to do dangerous things, you need to be prepared for that danger to turn on you. that's why whenever funds allowed, i always packed a dose or 2 of trauma 1... just to give me a bit more time for the crew to drag my character to a sawbones.

also, here's a better pic of that rig in use. notice the AR mags in this smooth criminal

here's another cool piece of kit i stumbled across. should be mandatory for any punk out there

so you've wrapped your abdomen in a compression belt with 9 individual pockets, each sized to hold a rifle magazine, pistol, compression bandage, radio, etc. with a loose fitting cover garment you could haul a lot of gear with this ON BODY.

my understanding is the RPG.net crew has a long history of being quick on the trigger to ban folks who don't hold the right opinions. if any of their ilk were given mod status here... well i suspect they would burn the forum down, as so little of our content would hold up to their standards.

on the other hand, I can't recall an instance where anybody (except spammers) on this forum received a ban for the content of their posting. the harshest measure that comes to mind is the construction of the smoking room after one member could not stop making everything he posted about politics somehow. keep up the good work atta

you can also get special bags that employ a bit of visual trickery to hide just how big the stuff inside is...

here's a twist that will shock everyone here... they're walking back the release window again, this time by a year or more.

https://rtalsoriangames.com/2018/11/09/plan...he-dark-future/

seems you're just as classy as i remember you