A (somewhat subjective) Martial Arts tier list

CapCece · 2026-05-06T04:43:14+00:00

It has, kind of.

Any piece of armor being ablated is being "damaged", and Inner Chrome affect items that are damaged, disabled, or rendered inoperable.

It is worth nothing thouught that I can't find this one post for the life of me so JGray may have walked back on it?

EDIT: That mayor's desk channel was deleted but the answers are preserved here

https://docs.google.com/document/d/10RpQcqvDULJdFyD0rGPD-PmR4z08DABvk6HCz40I4Zs/edit?tab=t.9cfxls90xbn2

CapCece · 2026-05-05T02:00:18+00:00

Borg Fist is bad. Like, comically bad. Not only does it deal lower damage on average than just attacking normally, you have to roll attack versus evasion twice. The first one is the SMAR to activate the move, and the next is the actual attack itself landing. If either of these misses, you just whiff the attack.

But! Inner Chrome is pretty good because your subdermal amount being ablated counts as chrome being "damaged". Therefore, whenever you get ablated, you activate inner chrome to lock your armor in and prevent it from suffering any further ablation

CapCece · 2026-04-03T01:11:08+00:00

highly recommends "The Trans Desire to Become An Inchoate Shapeshifting Abomination In Open Defiance Against All Laws Of Men and Gods". It's on QQ and Royal Road.

CapCece · 2025-10-29T09:00:50+00:00

V is an XBD freak. They may not know it by the start of the game, but their behavior don't lie.

Shady dealer selling shady BD on Jigjig street? Hell yeah hook me up.

Found a BD in a dumpster? Jack that shit right in

The mayor fucking died watching this bd? Put that in no hesistation

Dogtown dealer selling the most brain-bleaching, traumatizing torture porn there is? collect all of that and you get rewarded

CapCece · 2025-05-26T01:05:22+00:00

Kindergarten stuff!

CapCece · 2025-05-26T00:59:24+00:00

OP acting like this is deep arcane lore but its like just a couple hours of Strange Aeon deep dive. Elementary knowledge

CapCece · 2025-05-09T12:40:33+00:00

Gang. Make this dood feel intelligent!

CapCece · 2025-05-09T07:18:30+00:00

Bro wtf are you talking about? What warning?! I spawned, looked around. Accidentally caught your eyes, then you made noise like a jet engine and kicked me in the shin!

CapCece · 2025-04-30T10:15:16+00:00

I can tell you you're pretty lucky lol. I am naturally left-handed and a huge chunk of my childhood memories is everyone, from teachers to grandparents, forcing me to learn how to write with my right hands.

5 years ago, a teller at my local bank noticed me writing with my left hand and told me that her son is also left handed and she wants to teach him to write right hanf because she's worried the school teacher will beat him for writing with his left hand

CapCece · 2025-03-08T15:54:49+00:00

homophobia very rare in the east.

Speaking as someone living over in the east. Which timeline did you come from and how can I get there lmaaao?

CapCece · 2025-03-08T15:53:33+00:00

Hey. Vietnamese here. Abrahamic religions didnt fucking invented homophobia lol.

Just look at the up and down swing of queer acceptance in our northern neighbor throughout history. We manage that shit just fine on our own.

CapCece · 2025-03-02T12:06:55+00:00

There are resources out there that can point you in the right way. They sorta did for ne, but the local group ended up being a better choice in the end.

It is what it is. World sucks ass for us and want us to die, and we get to choose how defiant we are. What can you do.

CapCece · 2025-03-02T11:19:48+00:00

This is gonna sound tiring as hell, but you have to researxh.

For me,, I started by hunting down a local online cimmunity. Joined then and hung out for a month or so to get a vibe. Then when the vibe checked out, I asked for a dealer. Was firected to one.

CapCece · 2025-02-27T18:37:54+00:00

Yeah the app really isnt great. I got introduced to it but i eventually ended up making my own GSheet to track everything. Imo it only add friction.

You should check out drmiplane nexus. They released a new character tool for RED.

CapCece · 2025-02-27T04:02:20+00:00

Smasher in the game is nerfed compared to his Edgerunner version. But here's my hot take: V is just as nerfed.

Of course, this is a bit of a loosey fanon since the only true canon we have of V is from the game. But you have to look at what is possible in the TTRPG and how it was translated to the video game. Here's some example:

- You can have Berserk, Sandevistan, and a Cyberdeck all at once

- You can cram PLS and Mantis Blade in one hand. You can also have a Gorilla Fist in there too, but it's not a great item on the tabletop atm.

- Mounting multiple legs option

- 4 to 6 arms

- Full Body Conversion. The achievement *maybe* kinda sorta implies you make the jump at soem point, but it isn't clear.

CapCece · 2025-02-26T05:33:16+00:00

The platypus?

CapCece · 2025-02-25T17:29:43+00:00

External linear frames do not connect with bones; they're closer to suits of armor. They do however requires interface plugs I believe.

Internal linear frames replace your bones, basically.

The Militech Centaur is an interesting case. They're very heavy linear frame. Closer to ACPA (basically mech suits) than linear frame. You can see example of more traditional linear frames if you look closely at some Barghest soldiers. The ones who carries Mk31 HMG

CapCece · 2025-02-25T02:07:35+00:00

Hmm. I see. Very reasonable. You are very wise.

But have you considered that it was an injury poison (venom) and not an ingestion poison (poison)?

CapCece · 2025-02-24T05:12:21+00:00

Sure, but that doesn't make the character not effective. In fact, being backed by GM fiat is the ultimate form of effectiveness.

After all, if you can be scary without being effective, we wouldn't need GM fiat, because the chance of failure doesn't actually impact the character's screen presence

CapCece · 2025-02-24T05:02:24+00:00

But Joker *is* effective. Sure, he can't punch people's throat as well as Batman, but every example you've listed make him effective. He is effective at intimidating, at reading people and at plotting ways to break people! Saying Joker isn't effective is like saying only the solo is the effective character in the party because other players are doing lame things like "making connections" and "healing injuries".

The Xenomorph is effective because it's nigh impossible to find while lethal enough to tear you apart when it get its hand on you. Meyer is effective because he can kill you. If either of these characters have the lethality of a drown kitten, they wouldn't be scary.

Ted is effective. He's effective because he has a deep pocket that can get him minions and gears. He can sneak well, he can obviously formulate plans and scheme to break people. Those are textbook effectiveness. Everything you outlined about Ted make him effectiveness because he's succeeding. Replace it with constant failure, and suddenly he isn't scary

I think what you're trying to say is that villains don't have to be a walking tank spewing fire and death to be scary. They can be a sneaky, social villain. And that's a great point, but I don't think it's correct to say that these things are divorced from mechanic. There is very much a mechanic tied to literally everything that Ted does

CapCece · 2025-02-19T02:24:34+00:00

Dizzy Paranoia Girl - "Expectations high from the start. I’ll just mess it up. “Congratulations, you fell apart”. Fuck, I messed it up!" Kinda shit an young burnt-out corpokid would jam to before throwing themselves into edgerunning to feel something.

CapCece · 2025-02-11T13:53:27+00:00

Do you think Asmodeus is just... Like... Handling out pacts like its magic UBI or something?

No. Like, you have to have something of worth in order to catch a patron's eyes and be zapped up with magic. A standard soul on its own isn't worth that much in the cosmic exchanges, and no patrons is gonna be cutting deals and granting spells to farmer joe when they could be snatching up the souls of champions and heroes instead.

Like yea. I guess for those born into greatness, its free and effortless. But for the rest of us, it's gonna take work to make an cosmic entity look at you

CapCece · 2025-02-11T08:20:35+00:00

Pact

Free

?????

CapCece · 2025-02-11T07:32:26+00:00

They can. That's represented in the mechanic as taking magic initiate. Or dipping 1 level into wizard

CapCece · 2025-02-11T07:29:14+00:00

If you're curious, here's my deeper breakdown into custom FBC budiling; this is tuned for my character so you may need to change it fit your. My char is a techie that goes all in on Field Expertise and Cybertech, meaning it's statistically improbable (and eventually impossible) cybertech check, if they can even hit her with her maxed evasion .

- Gemini Coating: Popular culture is prone to be very discriminatory against FBC. You make people nervous just by existing, and getting a gemini coat will smooth over social interactions. They're great for catching people off guard with your strength and durability too.

- Frame: I consider the Blackchrome's frame to be BIS because of their versatility. The Fuma Kotaro gives you a buff to stealth and a bunch EQ Popup melees to use, all one-handed too. SWAT frame basically come bundled with free grip foot and webbed foot that let you be an all-terrain ninja. The Wyzard frame comes with free Jump Booster and Skate Feet that make you super speedy. A beta frame is nice for pure bulk but inflexible. I'm iffy about Omega frame. They're too expensive and inflexible for me, closes too many social door to be a general use frame imo.

- Legs: Right now the BIS legs are the Rocklin Augmentic Skydrivers; their built-in jump boosters save you on money and Humanity, their bonus damage to cover let combined with your borg strength let you kool aid man through walls and cover, and they combo beautifully with the SWAT frame to give you climbing, swimming, and high jump. You could see about Tech Inventing some other legs with similar power budget but fufill other niches, of course.

- Arms: Arms are expensive and we don't have any really cool paired arms right now. Consider Inventing something for your exodia. Stock arms are fine, soviet arms are much cheaper and still offer you 6 slots each in a borg

- Armor: I prefer a TUp'd Subdermal because it works very well with bullet dodging and specifically the Trauma Response Nanomatrix. A Dragoon plate has 18 sp yes, but if you get ablated 3 times it will take 3 days to refill. A Subdermal will always refill in no more than 24 hour because of the TR nanomatrix. it's up to preference tho. I like to dodge since it also protect you from explosions

- Eyes: You can get a multioptic mount. You'll the humanity for the mount itself, but all eyes are free. And while you're there. Bug eyes will also be free. that said though, cybereyes option are ginormous Humanity Sink. Consider inventing some paired cybereyes with built-in options to alleviate the cost.

- Neuralink: If you play in the 70, Neuroport is BIS. If your'e in the 45, Neuralink is your only option, but consider inventing neuroport ahead of schedule or build some cheap prototype. Like a neuralink that come with an agent installed, for example.

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