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Message: <blockquote data-quote="jollyninja" data-source="post: 3317443" data-attributes="member: 3208">In shadowrun, the computer hacker or "decker" enters what is called "the matrix" and it's kind of like the movies except that everyone knows they are in it. He has to deal with security programs that can fry his brain, concealing himself from other users and other nasty possibilities. essentially if the guys who made the movies were not at one time players of the game, i'd be surprised. The matrix is just a huge computer network and breaking into it requires a specific set of skills that few have axcess to. What it ammounts to is some computer skill rolls contested by the security programs that are protecting the information you are attempting to access. In game it's described as a 3d environment. low level security programs may look like the security guards and I seem to recall from a SR novel, one being described as looking like a dragon to the decker, another as simply a feeling that gnawed at his mind like the thing you keep seeing in your peripheral vision but when you try to focus on it, it's not there.essentially, it's like devoting a great deal of on screen time to R2-D2 turning off the death star's trash compactor in episode 4 and saving the group. Not all that interesting to anyone but R2-D2 storywise but if he didn't do it, the plot would have kind of fell off the tracks. In any good cyberpunk game, you need a guy who can do stuff like that somehow connected to the group but playing it up to much makes it turn into the movie swordfish, without a topless halle berry.</blockquote>

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