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Do you get XP/IP for yelling a lot and swearing profusely?

Thank you. And thanks for your really informative post on vadding. It's something I've dabbled on the edges of when younger and always wanted to do more of but never had the guts to do properly - always hit low risk areas and looked wistfully at interesting-looking places to "explore" that I...

I think I've had a lot more experience with variable dice than with pools - only played WoD a few times. I do like both and they do significantly different things. Cyberpunk in its raw form has D10s and D6s with the occasional percentile roll on 2 D10s. My heavily modified house/alternative...

That I can relate to. There are some "jerks" who turn up with the attitude that 5 other players and a GM get together so that the jerk can have fun starring in his/her own adventure show. "I know, I'll rape the Burgomeister's daughter, that's the "way out there" kind of guy my character is...

At times in the past, I've wished my players would "play smart" instead of bouncing around like some kind of Hollywood stereotype. My games are not tooled up so that the "good guys" win against impossible odds like in the movies, they're supposed to think their way through the situations and...

Knew I should've chosen the VISA platinum... Would be an interesting adventure in any genre to travel with nothing but the clothes on your back and some form of inexhaustible "credit" or a promissory letter from a patron... "He doesn't fight but he's paid for food and lodgings for the whole...

It all depends on your preferred genre and playing style. I really enjoyed playing Traveller (original) - we didn't just roll up the characters but never play, in fact we had two different long-term campaigns: one as Mercenaries, the other as Free Traders (a different form of mercenary). The...

Well, since - as GM - it's my job to make the players have fun, it must be their job to jump on the train, go where I send them, react according to my script and bloody-well have fun. ;) Now, seriously: My biggie is that the players do not behave like the game is The [insert player name] Show...

I pretty much do that - I have various levels of info the players can get access to and certain NPCs have their own ideas on the "dirt" on other NPCs - opinions are common, like :):):):):):):):)s... everyone has one. Some of those opinions are more accurate than others, there's disinformation...

Another thought I had re "Easter Eggs" - I named streets after Cyberpunk authors, then characters (when I ran out of author names) then mainstream SF authors and local (Hamilton) streets. I don't know if the players have picked up on that as no one has commented on the fact that their first...

Nah, all you really need is what we bikers call The BMW Toolkit: In addition to fixing your bike, it'll also get you food, accommodation, clothes, any equipment you might need...

LOL. In our games that would probably be a "Punknaught" with the works and extra pepperoni. A Punknaught, for those unfamiliar with CP2020 is an old truck or bus crudely armoured with whatever scrap metal and old flak jackets that can be found, armed with whatever firearms the occupants can...

I'm pretty sure I've seen something akin to that "rule" - or at least its sentiments - in most game rule books I've read. Rules are necessary. They tell you how much more of an advantage that veteran has over a greenhorn when it comes to doing the same task. They tell you what you need to do...

Looking at how I was in my early days of gaming compared with now, I have to agree with this. I'm sure I came up with a lot more "outside the box" stuff back then or just did things because I had no idea how hard they were supposed to be - like taking on a Dragon Turtle because, "y'know, it's...

Y'know, I think you're just pollen our legs...

In game and in real life I travel light. Necessary stuff for the area I'm in, enough spare clothing to get by. Most my characters like multipurpose things, as I do. If they can cut down weight and bulk by carrying one item that does two or more different things, then all the better - like an...

That would work really well, provided the players did not spend more time looking up/reading online than gaming. In the case of references to diGriz and others, I prepare notes beforehand - usually taken from real internet entries to get the style right, often abridged if it's going to take too...

DANG! We need candy like that over here. That would have been awesome.

Damn, TS, I still can't give you XP. Great story. The glory days of being a Free Trader - I miss them so...

The called shot thing pertains to the game I run - an extremely modified version of Cyberpunk 2020. In the core rules, all shots, unless you make a called shot (at negative modifiers, natch) at a specific body location, are considered snapshots in the general direction of the character and you...