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And she wields a bo staff? I've maybe seen that weapon used once before ever, that's awesome! I can see what you mean about her fire though, that looks like the sort of fake Shadowflame stuff I used to have Max wield. I have to give props for that, fire may be popular with alot of people but fire is a tough element to pull off. So, does she only have the flame in were form or is it available in both like Laz?

Once upon a time there was a guild called The Garage, ran by yours truly - And Kizu Pantera.
We took a big ol' steaming dump in everyone's Froot Loops.
Pissed everyone right off.
s**t went on for years, to the point most of us in the guild were alienated from the rest of the community. Not that we were bitching about that.
And that is how I saved Christmas.

I remember when Anthon did s**t like that. ******** time cops. But Anthon's was cooler. I thought about creating a 3.5e psion power based on what he did, called Rape Time. When anthon did it his whole body went into another frequency, so his relative mass, opacity, everything changed. it was so gross i had to retire the character, because it stacked onto itself something like 8 fold.

for example, if you were 10 times faster, everyone else would look 10 times slower, and their kinetic impacts would, if you bothered to let them hit you, be 100 times less kinetic energy. Additionally, when you struck them, from their perspective, your impacts would be 100 times more foot lbs. But you could aim so easily for every single vital location and their chance to dodge would be close to zero. Additionally, when you tried moving, not only would you be able to go "10 times faster", gravity itself would be 1/10th G, so you could jump obscene distances, and terminal velocity, normally 200 or so miles per hour, would be like nothing, like hopping off a bike.

But not only would you have an easy time jumping, be nearly immune to falling damage, and impossible to hit, with every hit against you doing essentially zero damage, and every attack you make being essentially instant death, but you would also be able to make multiple attacks compared to the "1 round" everybody else got. So you would have 10 times more attacks per round, each 10 times harder to dodge, each doing 100 times more damage. Not only that, but if you were running in close proximity to someone, you would be moving too fast for them to see, gaining effective invisibility.

This is one of Anthon's Cardinal powers he had when he was young. Mikey doesn't have this power, and learned wormholes and space stuff instead, because it was less imbalancing. First time i saw this time stuff correctly portrayed was on the hallmark channel with an HG Wells movie. Second time was the Movie "the Matrix". Anthon had been retired about 3 years by then, with a temporal "rape" factor of x100. He suicided by buying a space plane for 500 million euros and setting off a 1 megaton nuke in Low Earth Orbit...

ahh... memories.

SR seems hugely popular with people who wanted cyberpunk plus D&D races and classes. It's way too campy for me. I'm going to choke down my disdain and run it for the day, but i guess..

Cyberpunk is like one of those dark anime where the good guy sometimes loses.
Shadowrun is like One Piece or Fairy Tale.

in Cyberpunk, a 7.62 rifle bullet does more damage than a 5.56 rifle bullet
in Shadowrun, a cartoon doodle is "better" because it "does more damage".

In Shadowrun, there are elves and orcs because.. MAGIC
in Cyberpunk, there are sex slaves modified by biotech to look like elves and orcs.

In shadowrun, you can get on the interwebs Matrix VR either with a decker or MAGIC
in cyberpunk, you can get on the Net, where the Netrunner is so badass they don't need MAGIC.

In shadowrun, a Human being maxes at about 6 strength, a troll at about 10 strength, and can lift/carry 60-100 kilograms with a test to lift up to Body+Strength x 10 more, by rolling dice. Which is up to +120 kilos for a human and up to +200 kilos for a Troll. (180-300 kg totals)
In Cyberpunk, a Human being maxes at 10 body and lift up to 400 kilos, with no roll required before cyberware,
THis could be because of the quality of proteins: In shadowrun, everyone eats processed soy/tofu, while in Cyberpunk, the base staple is dogfood made from unknown vat grown animal parts, since the farms SR uses for soy beans are used in Cyperpunk to grow CH002, which is sort of like Corn Ethanol/Kerosene for jets.

In Shadowrun, you are always a criminal and perpetually caught between the middle and upper middle classes, with mission incomes in the 3000-30,000 range. Which makes the Dystopia more like a Disney tour of a scary fun house. You always work for a Mr. Anderson and the Fixer is an NPC. "Shadowrunner".
In Cyberpunk, you can be legit or a criminal called an Edge Runner, and work your way from a homeless bum to a condo in the Orbital Crystal Palace. You can come home to find the front door wired with explosives. Human trafficking is common. Black Market organs are why the characters have a new car. The Fixer is the player sitting next to you and he's just opened a new Russian whore house, using the specialized rules on prostitution skill checks.

When people want you to see what Shadowrun is, why it's cool, and dark, and teched out, they literally use pictures from the Cyberpunk core book cover and trading card game.

For ******** Sakes! That last bit is true, even on youtube.

But Shadowrun has a vastly more detailed world... which the players and GM can't really do anything with because their characters aren't really heroes, or villains, they are perpetual goons. They are window shoppers. In Cyberpunk, life is what you make it. Not a New Yen mission assigned by Mr. Anderson.

Shadowrun is Scene Hair and Emos.

Cyberpunk is Visual Kei and Malice Mizer.

the core book looks nigh 500 pages. the players expect me to know it and the other books, which amount to about 20,000 pages of content.

i wouldn't mind all that content, but its mostly fluff. I have scores of books and thousands of pages and no clue where to find stats on something like a 4 legged 5 ton drone i want to use for a security bot.

That's a lot like White Wolf products, actually. No meat on those bones.

what do you mean open world? There game system world is totally dominated by the NPCs and every major location, nook ,and cranny is detailed in such a way that the whole damn thing reads "Shadowrunners are powerless to do s**t about their world. See chapters 1-240 to find out why. move along move along".

its not really sandbox if someone with an a bomb already came in and turned it all into glass. Shadowrun feels written. like, they don't need the players or the GM. What do MMOs call it? A theme park? That's it right there. You are wandering through Harry Potter land but you aren't Harry Potter, you aren't even one of the red heads. You are just some jerk in a rollercoaster seat watching muppets play out a script.

But i think thats not SR's fault. That probably goes back to First Person Shooters and Cut Scene video games.

My response has been posted. I had to take a moment to guess what kind of energy the blast was dishing out and whether the sword would glow. Conclusion: it would glow around the event horizon, briefly, but imperceptibly, because there would be a temporal distortion field as the particles traveled backward into forward time, it would create aftershocks in the present and then future as it fell back in time. It's a byproduct of early Quantum chromodynamic experiments. I would say more but the rest would be considered blasphemy against the good people of Mecca.

Funny I know several people here, so I am not sure who suggested me, but I doubt it was Max for to a bunch of guild members of another guild as Marvel Characters and I called sow him as the Blue Apocalypse and I was Mr. Fantastic Some guy really named Peter would be Peter Parker people agreed on that.Back thinking i think Ed would make a Great Human Torch and Lou Beast..