I AM ENJOYING YOUR ADVENTURES.
You lack The Puppy, The Reverend, Trinity and MAX AWESOME COOKIE among others, but it's still amusing.
The woman corrects the man about weapons in a Cyberpunk game. I regret my current marriage suddenly.
It's Militech SSG, not SMG, in the trailer. FOOLS. It's a whole letter!
You know the "May blow up in hand" description! Excellent! I thought it was the Dai Lung Cybermag as well, whoops. Wisdom could tell us.
"Is an autopistol a handgun." I blagoogleness.
How can his car not have GPS. HOW? HOOOOOW?
"I thought Jared had a car?" "He did, but it blew up in space." "Well, that sucks." SPLAIN. Sounds like sixteen kinds of awesome to me.
I find it reaaaaaaaaaaaaaally frustrating not to be able to yell at you and your players as I listen. To compensate, I have yelled at my children. APPRECIATE.
Well, time to make lasagna or my daughter will murtilate me. She says. KIDS.
More commentary later. You lucky fellow.
I am going to attempt to respond to both posts in one reply so bear with me... or be bare with me... no wait that sounded bad.
I am not getting the reference to the characters you are mentioning. Is that maybe a reference to Zdorab's game? We are actually talking about doing a crossover session but that's a lot of logistics to sort. We've been chatting back and forth for a couple weeks now.
Christine is awesome. She seems to be the voice of reason at times. (Ironic as her character is the only Solo at this point)
My own wife doesn't get Cyberpunk at all and I can't get her to go to the gun range with me at all. Although she once called me and asked me if my black rifle would shoot through the bedroom door. She had felt threatened and locked herself in the bedroom. I was like yes... lean it on the bed, aim about six inches to the left of the door and walk it across. Reload if necessary. It didn't come to that thankfully, but that's not a call you soon forget. I called the individual and told him that she was locked and loaded, I'd be there soon. Leave her alone. (It's a long story and he was a childhood friend staying with me. I still consider him a brother, but in that moment shit got real. I don't even blame him. There was a lot going on.)
Militech SSG... Did I say that? For the most part we haven't gone outside of the main rulebook (except me I cheat... LOL) I'll have to go back and try to find that part in the Vid. But yes it is a Militech SSG. (which kinda makes me wonder what kind of ammo. In the trailer she had a FMJ bounce off her cheek... a 20 guage shotgun is pretty small... but that is certainly another debate)
The BudgetArms Auto 3 has the "cheap, powerful and blows up sometimes" description but I want to say it's somewhere else as well maybe in a sidebar or something in another book I was sure that it was the Dai Lung Cybermag (or maybe Streetmaster)... It'll bug me until I find it.
Autopistol is an uncommon term. It you are not familiar with the game it's an honest mistake.
GPS in the car? You have a point. I had this discussion with the players: Do we want to update the technology to reflect the last 20 years or play it as it was in the early 90's. We discussed alot of these things in the first session before it was live. This will answer another question you had but I actually fastforwarded the timeline a few years and I think we had decided to use the old tech for the
most part. Don't quote me on that. It is a "suspension of disbelief" violation.
Peroxicide's Car... I allowed them to make their characters on their own and then we tweaked them a bit before the game started. Then I pulled the rug out from under them. They had all been killed and were waking up as clones. Peroxicide had been in LEO and had died suspiciously in a docking accident that resulted in explosive decompression. It was hinted that an AI was controlling the docking manuever. His memories were less than 6 months old. The Law, was murdered in questionable circumstances and hadn't bothered to back up his memories in YEARS. (This idea was borroewed heavily from Voice of the Whirlwind by Walter Jon Williams) There was a 2nd wife and a kid he didn't remember. Destin decided to give his character a clean break from the past so hasn't attempted to reconnect. Doc had been part of a deep space mission that had failed. (Borrowed from Walter Jon Williams' Lethe) her memories had been backed up and transmitted back before the mission failed but her lover had not. Since that person was lost to her she decided to undergo the Lethe procedure to edit this person out of her memories completely, but there are complications to the memory thing. The clone facility was in Louisville Ky, and the Belle storyline is borrowed from Rudy Rucker's "Ware" series. (As is my online psuedonym) So in a short answer Jared's Car is probably waiting for him in a long term storage facility near a spaceport.
Lasagna. Fat orange cats approve.
@ Prospect 101 Thank you for the comment.
Body Type... I agree and disagree here. I know some very strong people that are relatively compact. I am sure you know already but this is for the benefit of someone reading it that may not be familiar.
There's a lot to be debated about size vs. strength but this guy is a Alpha Class Full Conversion (from description on pg 66 of Chromebook 2 an unmodified Alpha...) stands 6' 6" and weighs approximately 350lbs and is built like a linebacker or world class body builder. The base Body is 12. Per the rules (same book pg84) REF, MA and Body were increased. Body was maxed at 20. SDP was increased. It doesn't say that this increases size, but I think that's a liberty the GM has to take if need be. What's more scary? Arnold the nerd or Arnold the Terminator? This comes up again later in the story... There's a reason why he is so big. He was C-Swat once upon a time and he needed to be as big as the perps. From the rules on page 107 of the Chrome 3/4 book. He also has the CyberSteroids mod. So in the context of the game he has very large size (we'll call it a 20 bod) and 60 strength. This is why is VERY heavy and VERY strong.
The snickers bar boosterganger... well they didn't bother to stick around to see if the big guy swallowed. (Wow... that sounds bad, but no penalty flag we'll call that field goal good!) Being an Alpha class nutritional content of boostergang members is irrelevent, he just did it because he is batshit crazy and isn't fond of boostergangs. More on that in the 3rd session. He was meant to be an element of chaos.
Robots? I get lazy with my terminology sometimes. I made it a point to call the remotes for the AI, just that. I really wish I had more time to give a description better than John Coffee. It made for a very flat character and it felt cheap and like a crutch for me. The other thing to remember here is that I haven't run a game in years... everyone else was new to Cyberpunk 2020, and I am heavily medicated most of the time. So I have memory lapses and slips. (I had fusion on C6-C7 recently. Vicodin is a close personal friend of mine) One of the reason I ask for comments is a desire to improve. I am not fishing for compliments. The big chrome dude is a Borg... but surely I've kicked that dead horse enough.
As everyone gets more comfortable with the game I'll pull the modifiers in tighter. Alot of the time I am motivated to move the story along rather than bog down in mechanics. I know I need to streamline combat. Good points absolutely.
Luck... I go back and forth on this one. I played with one Ref that allowed a point of luck to either negate a critical failure or reroll a task, or allow 2nd or 3rd action without penalty... that made the game unbalanced. I like the classic use--the idea of declaring it before hand but if I know it's kind of important (that a roll succeed) I am not very consistant in enforcing it. Maybe that makes for a bad Ref but a more interesting session? Style over substance is my default answer to that question. LOL
Handgun vs. Body plated borg... If it's all I have I am gonna empty it and throw it at him. Then I'll insult his momma. Thats just an experience thing... They don't have any Cybernetics yet and little in the way of weapons. It was a whim to liven up a lull in the story. I wasn't going to maim anyone that time around. (going forward however game on!) The borg has joints and other weak points of course. Alphas don't breath but twice a day (I think?)
C-Swat had been coming for a while. They had been tracking the borg for a while. I was messing with the awareness rolls and making them purposefully vague. Did they hear it or not? The Borg's history is explained some in the 3rd session.
No comment on the hacking thing... muhahaha.
The grenade again was something of a mcguffin.
That poor car is about done. It is dealt with more in the 3rd session.
*edit* And oh yea... almost forgot thanks for the replies.
Chris
Awesome feedback. I am always looking for ways to polish and improve. I am in a rush so I will stop at that and address your comments in more detail when I have more than a couple minutes.