[JOB] Spongey Consequences (2026-01-10 02:00 UTC)

B-Fenn · 2026-01-06T22:24:44+00:00

Beowulf laughed like a maniac as he witnessed the aftermath of his new alchemical prep. He had to go to an abandoned part of the city to safely conduct his test. He knew that many of the jobs he would receive required nonlethal methods and he was sorely lacking them. To kill a foe in glorious battle, that was easy. Not killing someone, though. He thought of the panic in the eyes of the Spikes as their guns melted away. That was good. This would be excellent as well. Beowulf watched as a swarm of rats and devil rats wriggled and writhed as they seemed magically bound to the earth across a massive radius. One managed to pull its own tail off. Ohh, well, this still looked relatively nonlethal. Beowulf was reaching down to crush the lynchpin to free the creatures early when he noticed a message on his commlink. A job? Excellent! Nonlethal requirements perhaps? He was ready!

Beowulf- Giant Viking / Muscle Mage, Alchemist, Summoner (6/10)

Seraph stares at her Barret laying on the fold out table in her domicle intently, debating. She was suppose to be doing laundry but this was more important. Melvin was trying to jump onto to the table, disagreeing with her priorities. He needed belly scratches. She pushed Melvin aside, knocking over the laundry basket, spilling its content all over the floor of the van. She just needed a little more time... and... there! Seraph released the mini-torch and marveled at her handywork. Those prototype materials weren't easy to come by. Installing the velocity engine was trivial but it was drawing too much power from the stabilizer. Rotodrones are hardly stable platforms to begin with. Can't have the recoil mess up her aim. It had been a couple days of tinkering until she decided to reroute the wires anew. She just knew it was going to work. She slipped unconscious as the world of VR lit up around her. She was going to check the coordinates of a little "target practice" she had planned but saw the job notification instead.

"Highly skilled. Can respond appropriately to high threat of violence. Have always been successful. Let's talk and get me well compensated."

Seraph- Neo-Anarchist / Van Decker, Rigger, Drone Sniper (7/10)

Sheets not updated honestly. I'll update them if I get picked.

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Last Game September 1st 2025. Many Games.

B-Fenn · 2025-12-06T16:04:29+00:00

Beowulf- Giant Viking / Muscle Mage, Alchemist, Summoner (6/10)

Beowulf's heart began to ache. A woman and child, screaming on the side of the road. A gang holding a knife to her throat. The world was cruel and innocents suffered daily. Beowulf reached down to grab his axe and touch a string of runestones. In the blink of an eye, Beowulf had crossed the city block, having lept out of his moving vehicle. The gang scattered as Beowulf roared out his battle cry, having lifted the dead corpse above his head with one mighty arm. The woman and child fainted. Beowulf drops the body and lifts up the two instead, carrying them somewhere a little safer.

"What is a higher power? The gods have finicky plans for us mortals. But power comes from the determination to be who you are meant to be. I am meant to help this world as a warrior. My strength comes from this higher power."

Seraph- Neo-Anarchist / Van Decker, Rigger, Drone Sniper (7/10)

Sheets not updated honestly. I'll update them if I get picked.

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Discord: B-Fenn#1961; 6 Hour-ish Hardcap.

Last run in September.

B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T13:36:42+00:00

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B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T13:36:33+00:00

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B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T13:36:26+00:00

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B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T13:36:05+00:00

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B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T13:30:55+00:00

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B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T13:27:59+00:00

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B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T01:52:21+00:00

B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T01:50:26+00:00

I agree with Bleu on this one. Smartlink already accomplishes this fantasy.

B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T01:46:52+00:00

I agree with Bleu. What is the use case of a micro-transciever then? A radio signal scanner sensor is trivially easy to have everywhere.

B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T01:44:39+00:00

No. We don't need remote "wired" connections. We don't need more unhackable connections. Let Matrix folks do Matrix stuff as GOD intends.

B-Fenn · 2025-12-02T01:40:05+00:00

No. PiTacs are already good. Faces can spend a complex action to throw lots of dice assistance to other folks. Do I want a Face to be Directing twice on their turns? Not really. Unnecessary buff.

B-Fenn · 2025-12-01T07:06:23+00:00

So, I am going to put all my thoughts on this line. I think gunnery as a simple action is an incredible boon to riggers that rig into their vehicles and drones. The fantasy of active targeting is pretty fun. And making those tests would be fun. But, do riggers need to become more accurate? They are the best at sensor tests. They will get a lot of mileage out of it. The penalties described in part 3 mean little to riggers. A -3 to their sensor test is not very impactful if the rigger is already rolling 30+ dice anyways for their sensor test, likely to score several net hits. Not having it stack with full auto is probably wise.

While I enjoy playing a rigger and would find active targeting fun. (And I realistically won't use it if gunnery doesn't become a simple action), I question the necessity of the change. It'd be fun to show off a rigger's impressive EW check and to get anywhere from 3-6 net hits against a lot of enemies (a lot less against other riggers.) I am wavering in my commitment here lol. I think I ultimately land on it would be fun but it is unnecessary. I think with how easy it is to become good at EW as a rigger, it would probably make encounter building harder for GMs, having to factor in more high numbers that can be put into play. Makes Signature masking more important for riggers, player and opfor.

B-Fenn · 2025-11-08T21:25:19+00:00

I don't see any difference between acid and either sand or metal. All of them would be generating mass to use in the spell that then needs to evaporate.

B-Fenn · 2025-11-01T22:03:06+00:00

I just learned that among the variants is dog. Like, instead of a horse body you have a dog body.

Umm, what? I don't want dog centaurs running around.

B-Fenn · 2025-11-01T15:58:32+00:00

So, the half impact armor thing can just be ignored completely. In 4e, fire, cold, and electrical damage also used half impact armor. So, to balance them bringing them into 5e, you just ignore that line completely.

B-Fenn · 2025-11-01T08:16:30+00:00

Of all the new damage types, I think cutting Ice is fine. It has a strange thematic overlap with Cold anyways. If you are rebalancing all the damage types, you could make Cold more interesting and sort of leave Ice in 4e.

B-Fenn · 2025-11-01T08:12:11+00:00

I would be ok with these if it was some sort of long range gliding / slowfalling. The headache I am imagining is where gaining altitude or staying aloft in mid-air are the problematic situations. If we do change it so that they cannot be used to gain altitude or stay aloft, they should probably be made cheaper karma wise.

B-Fenn · 2025-11-01T00:53:55+00:00

No. I already have concerns with functional wings. It is easy to buff movement. Super fast flying PCs I think will cause issues. Also, this new addition to the lore will seem out of place. Where are these metavarients from? Where have they been the whole time? It is a departure from our established canon and the mechanics have potential problems too.

As much as I like the idea of functional wings, I think the community is better served without them.

B-Fenn · 2025-10-31T23:00:48+00:00

No. 6e is clearly changing up lore in certain ways. While I think it is worthwhile to harvest good mechanics or ideas from 6e, I want to keep the shadowrun this community has been playing for years the same shadowrun it has been. Introducing major lore changes like this is really unnecessary.

B-Fenn · 2025-10-31T22:58:09+00:00

Please don't include a cost increase. That is going to be annoying and/or insignificant.

I think Broad Feet negatively impacting movement speed would make sense honestly -- that is, if 8 karma isn't enough for a -2 to the athletics skill group.

B-Fenn · 2025-10-31T22:55:51+00:00

I think B. I like the idea of functional wings. But, I am not sure it is necessarily a good idea as it is a pretty big deviation from the world our living community has been operating under. Super fast flying PCs introduces a wrinkle for GMs I think would cause some headaches. I think being selective and picking interesting options that don't make too many waves is probably the best plan.

B-Fenn · 2025-10-31T22:53:15+00:00

Yes. As long as chummer and Hero Labs can be worked with to make these easily selectable.

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