Shadowrun: Anyone Up For It?

[Brother Shatterstone]

I think that was an exaggeration, but half an hour to an hour would be pretty normal, where the others cannot contribute at all, if you do not do it quick and dirty with a single roll.

Okay, that's pretty much what I thought.

You don't need to speed up things, because the others have to wait otherwise, since the waiting time is there, anyways.

Yes and no, if it's going to be 100 posts for the Decker and DM to finish there side adventure the others may or may not end up twiddling there thumbs... and twiddling thumbs in PbP is going to be much longer than a few hours, you start talking days.

But it really could work. For example, if I was the Decker and you where the DM, or likewise if the roles where reversed, I bet we could rip though 50 posts a day.

So the DM and the Decker Player better be very active PbPers. (At least in my opinion.)

 

[Thanee]

That's not what I meant.

It is much easier for the DM to follow two strings at the same time in a PbP game, because of the waiting time involved.

In a normal game, it's hard to do two different things at the same time, there is always someone sitting around and waiting. In a PbP game you do not just sit there waiting for a new post. You check the thread every now and then and if there's something new. Great. If not, you can do something else.

Therefore it's easier to have some PCs do something different than the others, because the players will not just sit around waiting because of that.

Also, the DM could just write one post for the decker and another for the rest of the party. Since the waiting time is already there, anyways, it's not a problem as it would be in a normal game.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

In a normal game, it's hard to do two different things at the same time, there is always someone sitting around and waiting. In a PbP game you do not just sit there waiting for a new post. You check the thread every now and then and if there's something new. Great. If not, you can do something else.

Gotca and indeed you are right, I've been in two games, but evil parties where the "group" is often apart, lack of trust, or simply never formed, again typical evil party and there lack of trust.

So yeah indeed it could be done, just keep all the PC busy with something and make them feel like it's important stuff and not simply stuff on the side.

ADG, hey if you need this poll closed I can help you on that, but I can't make it go away... (Just an FYI. )

 

[Velmont]

Adventure with decker can turn in 3 hours solo... but the challenge, is to have everyone occupied.

Last games I played, the deckers had some minor hacking to do, and generally, was resume into a few rolls, but there have been two mission where it was pretty important part.

1. The decker came with us, as he had to hack a close circuit system. The ony problem, it is he had to hack in the middle of a shoot out. Combat are fast too, so the decker was rolling for initiative, as everyone. He was doing an action at every 5 rolls, and had the highest initiative. The parallele was pretty good.

2. The decker had to hack a system from his home. His time frame was in the futur of the remaining of the group, so every time he failed a roll, we were wondering, what the hell will happen to us... that was much stress.

Now, if I play, I won't do a decker. I prefer magician (usually shaman) or rigger (find the relation...) but I may be willing to try something else. The usual cat burglar could be fun to do too... a classic for myself.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

ADG, hey if you need this poll closed I can help you on that, but I can't make it go away... (Just an FYI. )

Yeah, go ahead and close the poll, but we'll keep up the discussion.

And FYI, for chargen I'll be going with the standard SR rulebook system when we get there.

 

[Brother Shatterstone]

Yeah, go ahead and close the poll, but we'll keep up the discussion.

yup, and yup. It's done too.

 

[DrZombie]

Do you have the shadowrun companion? If so, do you allow alternate races, and do you use the point buy (my favorite char creation method for shadowrun)


If we're thinking about concepts, I think I'll go for a troll physad .

 

[Shalimar]

My only problem with the Priority method is that it makes it difficult to play my favorite kind of character. I'd prefer a Female Elf Sorceress, but with B & C locked down, it means I need to be broke to have the magical skills and halfway decent attributes, or I can be million Nuyen girl with crap for skill or attributes.

With Sum to 10 its more moderated, you can still build the Default A,B,C,D,E system usig sum to 10 and have it come out even. The sum to 10er will come out middle of the road, and the priority system person will come out more specialized. I tend to go B,C,C,C,D personally. Would give me an Elf Sorceress with 20k, 24 attributes, and 30 Skill points, pretty well rounded. Doing it with Priority, I would end up with 1 million Nuyen, Sorceress, Elf, 21 Attributes, and 21 skill points. 1 million is a lot more money then want but its either 1 million, or 20k, or 5k. I coul live with the 20k, but that forces me to have 21 skill points or 18 attributes, not a liveable proposition. I'd just end up flip floping and making a human sorceress instead.

 

[Velmont]

I would end up with 1 million Nuyen, Sorceress, Elf, 21 Attributes, and 21 skill points.

Don't forget, in 3rd edition, the number of spell point to spend depend if your are a full(25) or adept(35), not on your ressources. So, maybe 1 million is not necessary for you, except if you want to have some foci.

 

[Shalimar]

Don't forget, in 3rd edition, the number of spell point to spend depend if your are a full(25) or adept(35), not on your ressources. So, maybe 1 million is not necessary for you, except if you want to have some foci.

Yes, that would be the entire point of my post, 1 million is too much for what I want but to chose otherwise would not give me enough and screw up my siklls and attributes at the same time.

To Clarify, I posses SR3, Magic in the Shadows, Cannon Companion, and Man and Machine.

as a side note, with the 1 million sorceress, I ended up with a Level 2 Power Focus, a Level 2 Spell Defense Focus, and a sustaining focus, and I still have another 200k to spend after gear, so 'some foci' is an understatement and a half. Like I said above, I would rather have a mix of average areas then one of each, but thats personl opinion.