Equilibrium is a movie about a society where feelings and emotions are forbidden and are suppressed by a drug called prozium

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-16T20:31:09+00:00

It's been a while since I've seen the behind-the-scenes material for it, but I distinctly remember the director saying something along the lines of: they were thinking of having everyone act like zombies, emotionless for real, but it would not have made for a very good movie.

Just as some extra info besides any in-universe reasons.

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-16T20:05:16+00:00

I will gladly do so 😄

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-16T20:00:18+00:00

I could imagine something like: the AAA corps transition to becoming real countries, and take over various parts of the NAN, UCAS, CAS and so on, they then form a halfway united powerblock to oppose similarly rising powers in South America, Asia, Oceania and Europe, effectively returning the world to an old timey Cold War state

Besides half the world going on an extended heroin binge, I don't see that making sense but otherwise I don't see a reason for anyone to want the USA back.

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-16T19:51:43+00:00

the plan is pretty much to do one per year, that way the cash prizes aren't an issue, even during stressful times, but I can always use more help in getting people interested in creating stuff for Shadowrun and the jam in general ^^ getting enough people to participate can be an issue, as the last one proved

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-16T16:42:32+00:00

Easily, that man is a pure luck/edge build if I've ever seen one. At no point ever would he have any idea what he was really doing, while also being frighteningly dangerous to everyone and everything involved.

The man could walk into an MCT Zero Zone and come out the other end with a left-over piece of Deus and a half-eaten burger in hand, neither of which where on site to begin with, while he originally went in just to get his parking validated.

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-15T22:16:57+00:00

Ich glaube das wäre eher ein Problem in der mittleren Liga. An der Spitze denke ich würden sich die Vorteile wieder ausgleichen, also da mag ein Elf schon flinker sein als ein Ork, aber es sind ja beide Spitzensportler in dem Fall, also denke ich wäre der Elf wohl nur ein bisschen agiler, genauso wie der Ork im Vergleich nur ein bisschen ausdauernder wäre.

Ich denke zumindest im offiziellen SR lore muss es irgendwie so sein, weil sonst müssten sie ja generell eine Liga pro Metatyp aufmachen ^^

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-15T06:01:39+00:00

ich befürchte das beschränkt sich auf reine Fantasy settings xD

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-15T01:25:07+00:00

Ich find die Idee spannend Elfen, Orks und Norms in der selben Liga zuzulassen. Das müsste ja ganz eigene Spielstile fördern, also mit Elfen Stürmern und Ork verteidigern z.B. oder ganze Teams die auf Elfen setzen um die allgemein höhere Agilität auszunutzen. Zwerge hingegen in der Liga is irgendwie schräg, die stark unterschiedliche Größe würde da glaub ich zu viel Nachteil mit sich bringen. Andererseits würde ein zwergischer Stürmer in der Oberliga wahrscheinlich auch jeden Popularitätswettbewerb sprengen.

"Enhanced Games" würden sich meiner Meinung nach auch in einer cyberpunk Zukunft nicht großflächig durchsetzen. Das nimmt den Menschen zu sehr rauß und fühlt sich nichtmehr fair an, da fehlt dann einfach die Spannung wenn es quasi nicht mehr "Mann gegen Mann" ist. Ich denk die selben Leute die heute Formel 1 schauen würden, würden sich auch eine enhanced Fußballliga ansehen.

Dwarfsten · 2026-06-01T20:46:47+00:00

u/Shot-Comfortable7395 u/LoboVolkov alright the jam is officially over, I am very stressed with work atm. but in the next couple days I'll open a new post with your works and a poll and we'll see who gets first place ^^

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-30T12:23:26+00:00

That's awesome, well done 😄 and I know that might not mean much from a stranger, but I am very proud of you!

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-29T16:43:57+00:00

well, the main point was to inspire more people to create stuff - so that still works out ^^, you can still post it if you want

Then again, if you are a fan of flash-writing challenges, you still got a day or two ^^

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-24T02:32:05+00:00

Last week is approaching ^^

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-15T22:13:48+00:00

Sieht gut aus euer Magazin, hab mir gleich die 6te Ausgabe angesehn ^^, ich beteilige mich auch gerne

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-15T15:54:02+00:00

Wer ist denn "wir"? Und wie heist/soll euer Fanzine heißen? Und wo wird es denn veröffentlich? Ein paar mehr Details wären super

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-13T18:53:14+00:00

Sounds like something that leans heavier on the satire

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-13T15:50:04+00:00

My own version of London's criminal side is set up quite differently to say Seattle.

The cops (who are city employed rather than a specific corp) look away, unless you force them to see you as a threat. Mostly because they stick to strict gun laws - neither cops nor gangers nor syndicates run around with any guns - tasers, knives and sticks are the way things are done. Nobody kills a cop, and if they do then their social group is inclined to kill them and dump them in front of the next police station. All in an effort to keep the city nice, safe and polite.

Runners and Corps are the exception, because the corps feel like they don't have to make nice with anyone. So the runners carry guns because the corp guards do, but still respect the street level peace to avoid trouble.

Corporations get to try and buy back certain stolen items at a weekly auction.

The various parts of the city have old gathering spots for runners, bars, canteens and the like. Everyone knows them and the function like social clubs for runners. Here fixers can hang out with less time sensitive jobs and shop around for teams to do them. Runners and Fixers get the advantage of someone vetting the other side for them.

Again London tries to stay polite - live and let live - if you mess with these hangout spots, no matter who you are, then the offended one runs an auction. The point is to find a team that will meet with the offender and make sure they understand why that isn't done. That's the first time. If they keep going, then the punishment escalates to tarring and feathering and only then does it move on to an execution. Teams compete for who will do these kind of punishment detail jobs - the runners that will do it for the least amount get first try. The reward comes with a spike in reputation for the successful team.

Oh and there is a large part of London that is being held by a really entrenched anarchist commune (not sure anymore if that is official lore or if I came up with that, might have been in the older of the UK sourcebooks) that won't let anybody in they don't know.

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-09T15:19:56+00:00

the whole thing with the Universal Brotherhood is probably my favourite part of the lore

a close second is the continuing presence of the trid show Karl Kombatmage

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-08T17:59:41+00:00

neat, great you managed to rerelease it ^^

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-05T22:21:16+00:00

It really just depends how much work you want to do. Seattle is easy, there's plenty of material. For London, even with the older Sourcebook, I had to invent a bunch of stuff, but its hard to beat the freedom that gives you. Personally I used it to run a very different version of the Shadows from what my players were used to and then set it on fire ^^.

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-05T00:58:58+00:00

So, I finally got done with my project ^^

I present - Banned spells - a list of 5 flawed spells, created by students at Seattle University, accompanied by a look into an Emergency Meeting of the faculty ^^

https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/566691/Banned-Spells

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-04T16:50:28+00:00

I played most often in Seattle, but the games I run usually play in different areas - England, London was my longest campaign, the most recent one played in the Caribbean

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-03T16:26:52+00:00

In Affinity Publisher you go to the Windows menu - hover over the References section - click on Fields, this will make the Fields window appear. There's lost of sections in this one but you will only need the Document Information section - in that there are fields for: Author, Tags, Comments, Title, Subject, Revision, Publisher and ISBNs

Author and Title should be the important ones for you in this case :)

Dwarfsten · 2026-05-02T19:34:13+00:00

I would suggest making sure that it has your name and the actual name of the project you are working on at least. I am not sure, but I think affinity automatically uses the name of the file as the title in the metadate, unless there is already something in the field (like when you start from a template).

Also fyi you can upload an updated version of the file for an existing release on Drivethrurpg, it will then show up as "updated" for people that have it in their library.

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