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    Suggestions for Cyberspace/V-World Game Mechanics/Ideas?

    I actually got my hands on a copy of this book and i wasnt able to find much about cyberspace? Ive only skimmed it so far though but couldnt find more than a qucik reference to cyberspace in it?
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    Suggestions for Cyberspace/V-World Game Mechanics/Ideas?

    Hey thanks for the response ill check it out! Yah i definately considered that (having two character sheets one for wetspace one for cyberspace) but one thing ive run into is, im not sure how....static i want to make the cyberworld! If anyone has read Wheel of Time, Tel'aran'riod and dreamscapes...
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    How to decide which system?? Narrative focus

    A picture speaks a thousand words, even if it is a picture of.....text hehe. Ive stuck in some snippets of the style of forumRP ive used in the past. The first two come from a star wars game I ran several years ago demonstrating the joint narrative style. I also like to make accounts for each...
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    How to decide which system?? Narrative focus

    Thats a really good point! Essentially my games end up as more group written stories, with pbp characters adding to the plot with little GM interjections for action successes/failures leading to them continuing on with writing that success/failure into the continuing narrative. I mostly like...
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    How to decide which system?? Narrative focus

    Thanks alot for all the suggestions everyone!! So as far as I can see there seems to be a range of options which move from the mainly narrative, minimal game system side, to the more complete game systems with a narrative focus? The list I have so far is: GURPS Cortex Savage Worlds d6 Prince...
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    Suggestions for Cyberspace/V-World Game Mechanics/Ideas?

    no ideas? I figured someone must have written a sourcebook for existing within cyberspace for some system or other but I havnt been able to find one? thought maybe someone with some broader experience might know?
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    How to decide which system?? Narrative focus

    Hey all, so im really interesting in branching out from 3.5/4e/SWSE which i have the most experience with towards a system which lends more towards narrative focused/RP focus as opposed to combat and statistics. I really dont know much about the other systems out there so I was hoping someone...
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    Suggestions for Cyberspace/V-World Game Mechanics/Ideas?

    Hey everyone, im planning on at least 50% of my new setting relating to a global cyberspace network similar to william gibson style jacking in/matrix/V-world from Caprica. Im looking for some resources to help me get ideas, world out the limitations of what ive planned out so far and work out...
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    As a DM how do you combine Sci Fi and Fantasy?

    that gives me some great ideas thanks guys :) Yah my plan was along similar lines. maybe one or two character pick up magic when on the planet but beforehand magic is myth to them. Meanwhile their weapons have limited excess charge batteries after which they only recharge slowly from their...
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    As a DM how do you combine Sci Fi and Fantasy?

    Hey guys so i have a setting im putting together for a game, which is half scifi half fantasy. Think privateers/mercs/smugglers in their ship crashing onto a somewhat traditional fantasy style planet. I guess im wondering how people suggest handling it in terms of rules. Like having some...
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    Good Matrix RPG?

    Ahhh Calico, impuse buys are usually the most satisfying "forget the consequences im just gunna do it" hehehe. I hope it pays off for you mate :) thanks a ton to you all btw, so much to work with now. Ive got there is no spoon and im having a look through it, will also check out those other...
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    Good Matrix RPG?

    Yah i had a scout around google. I found some non-system specific stuff which is really great, awesome for the fluff side of things, fleshing out the world, now im just looking for rules stuff. cheers ill have to look up this "there is no spoon" system and check out mage ascension. Calico what...
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    Good Matrix RPG?

    Just rewatched the movies and was thinking it would make a great setting for a campaign. Im thinking a campaign with kinda seems like d20 modern with magic "chars with powers" but then they slowly get find out its actually a matrix campaign. Anyway im looking for a decent RPG system made for...
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    Chase Scenes - A how to?

    awesome thanks guys, downloading that PDF now :) another thread to copy into my onenote RPG section for reference later hehe. much appreciated!
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    Chase Scenes - A how to?

    Hi all, so ive grabbed some chase cards from one system and had a look into it in a few different ways, but im trying to work out how to run a chase scene in my game. Its a star wars SWSE game and id like to doa speederbike/swoop/speeder chase scene through a city. Would it work like a combat...
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    GMing - Reemphasising a plot hook?

    dang, computer ate my post :( So im running my first campaign at the moment. Its StarWars set in the Dark Times, just post Order 66. Im trying to keep my game fairly open ended and player driven, so they have alot of latitude with picking where they go, how they do things etc. Problem is, as...
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    Making places interesting/unique - DMing

    So im imagingin how id run a session entirely in a city and heres what ive got. *description of the city as you enter it, using some specifics , sites smells, local dress, style of the area you enter (ie business district) and the general layout of streets in the area so they know how to move...
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    Making places interesting/unique - DMing

    any suggestions for this would be amazing. I think its the real crux of what im not sure about with GMing big areas :) Suggestions/advice would be a really big help. Got my next session tomorrow! thanks a ton everyone :)
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    Making places interesting/unique - DMing

    I guess this comes to one of the cruxes of my "need to learn this to be a good GM" areas. For this sort of style of play, id design a handfull of shops/bars/establishments they could find, plus have an encounter table with a bunch of random encounters they could run into right? So they when it...
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    Making places interesting/unique - DMing

    Oh wow awesome, thanks guys! This is really really helpful! Im playing an SWSE game but this stuff translates well into Sci-Fi. I guess there arnt such huge differences between fantasy and scifi anyway :) Some amazing advice there though im so copying this thread straight into my OneNote so i...
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