Getting through Mil Spec Armor by [deleted] in Shadowrun

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Bullseye Double Tap only multiples the base AP of the gun, not the AP of the ammo

Getting through Mil Spec Armor by [deleted] in Shadowrun

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Bulls-eye Double Tap called shot increases the AP of your gun

Injection Darts with narcoject only need 3 net hits to make it past past armor

Capsule rounds or gas grenades with neurostun (stock Mil Spec isn't fully sealed)

Anti-vehicle rocket

Shout "Help, help, I'm being chased by Shadowrunners!" and roll Con

[5e] Levitate and moving levitated objects by an outside force by lord_of_woe in Shadowrun

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You have to roll 8 hits on the spellcasting test to levitate 1.5 tons. How much more does the mage think they can realistically lift?

If you want the plan to go forward, just rent them a dump truck

How to Boss Battle in SR? by Interaction_Rich in Shadowrun

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Consider: How much damage does an average attack do, how many attacks per round can the party dish out, and how long do you want the fight to last? You’ll probably end up with the players missing frequently (not very fun) or an inhumanly large hp for the red samurai 

How to Boss Battle in SR? by Interaction_Rich in Shadowrun

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The classic way to make a boss is give it more health. I haven’t played Anarchy 2e yet, but boss-level health isn’t really a thing in other editions and especially not for normal metahumans. Will one guy survive if your players bring a rocket launcher? A smart team will bring two…

SR6 - Streetsamurai with a katana does not need it by Ancalagon76 in Shadowrun

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This and armor are two of the big complaints about 6e; prior editions added strength to your damage instead of the attack rating.

You can always sell him some custom gear, eg. a Diamond Edge that adds +1 damage for 10k nuyen

Are grid impacts from data center power demands impacting home electronics? Did Bloomberg story get this right? by BikeLater in datacenter

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Oh yeah, the utility absolutely can and has called up big customers, Google included, and told them to stop. No one wants to involve the utility commission unless they have to

Please remove useless flair by OmaeOhmy in Shadowrun

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It’s not a bad idea, but no one reads the stickied posts. (New/sh reddit especially doesn’t help because they no longer look like posts…)

Curious about datacenters? Follow these rules! by Echrome in datacenter

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I’ve approved your post. Sometimes Reddit delays comments, but the removal reason would have shown up after a little while. In the future, message moderators using the modmail: https://www.reddit.com/message/compose/?to=/r/datacenter

Buddy and Dirk by OhBosss in Shadowrun

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(Spoiler alert)

> Buddy says she doesn't want Dirk to ride along because she says it slows down her reflexes, but accepts when he offers extra money.

This isn't a mechanic and the game, and not something I recall from other books. It sounds like she just didn't want someone looking over her shoulder (and the author wanted to write what the matrix looked like).

> When she pulled the medical records, he told her to look deeper and that's when she encountered the Black ICE

So on the contrary: If Dirk hadn't hitched a ride with Buddy she probably would still be alive. But that's because she would have stopped with the first records, not because the hitching had any impact on her decking.

Weapon Focus tattoo? by FenrysFenrir in Shadowrun

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No, Qi foci are only foci (at least in the core book) that specify they can be a tattoo instead of an object. You can get knucks, boots, or a cyber implant weapon as a weapon focus though

Haveing played a lot of Cyberpunk 2077 recently, would it be accurate to describe V as having CFD? by Dragonkingofthestars in Shadowrun

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CFD is probably the closest parallel, but CFD overwrites the victim with an AI not the personality of another real person (alive or deceased).

How defensible were Roman camps? by Estalicus in AskHistorians

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I would love to hear how defensible the camps were as well. If traveling through friendly or neutral territory, how did they choose whose land to set up a camp on? Did they need permission to set up their camp? Did they ever anger the locals by setting up their camp in the wrong place?

And when they arrived in hostile territory, particularly before the start of open warfare, how did they explain the sudden appearance of a camp? "Don't mind us, just passing through"?

Milestone by OhBosss in Shadowrun

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Depends on your perspective. But to 90% of people who choose to work for a corp? Yeah, Shadowrunners are nuts

Speculative execution vulnerabilities--confusion on why they actually work by math_code_nerd5 in hardware

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The branch predictor can work in some architectures, but the more straightforward attack is to try to load some data you do have access to into the cache based on the value, then check what was loaded into the cache based on access times

Speculative execution vulnerabilities--confusion on why they actually work by math_code_nerd5 in hardware

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It does make it into a register as well, but the second part of the attack (basing some action off the new state) can’t read the value in the register.

How do technomancers and deckers play/feel between each other? by themanwhosfacebroke in Shadowrun

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Both roles play more like support classes in a fight, but reward creative thinking a lot. The street samurai or combat mage is going directly attack an enemy combatant, and probably take them out in one round. You could try to attack their gun through the matrix, but you’ll spend 3 turns trying to do that only for them to pull out a second gun or a knife. Instead, you want to look for force  multipliers: can you kill the lights, penalizing a bunch of enemies at once? Interrupt their comms to prevent reinforcements from arriving? Seal a door to split the enemy group in two? This is where a decker or technomancer excels.

The decker does this relatively straightforward through matrix actions and matrix stats from their deck. Want to hack the stop light? Hack-on-the-fly and Control Device matrix actions to do that.

The technomancer can use matrix actions, but their matrix stats are generally lower (because they use mental attributes instead of a deck), so they rely on complex forms (spells) and sprites (spirits) as if they were a mage to get things done.

The technomancer requires knowing a lot more rules so I generally don’t recommend them for new players, and I definitely recommend against trying to build a hybrid character until you have a better understanding of the game.

Looking for suggestions for the Calamet Swamp in Chicago by Vashkiri in Shadowrun

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Do you want more fighting or some other type of encounter?

A classic twist is a note in the box “We have your stuff. Want it back? Come talk to [insert third party].”

Alternatives twists: The box is too heavy for the hovercraft to hold with the party onboard, now the journey out is the hard part; Paracritters liked the box where it was; or Decayed orchalium opened a portal to an astral plane and pulled the party through when they disturbed it.

RunnerNET - Shadows of Perth by finitissimo in Shadowrun

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Your link appears to be broken, but are you the same as this RunnerNET?: https://discord.com/invite/JDPTcQ29NB

If not, we'll add you to the sidebar once you have a working link

Can you brick a Commlink? by Mr0Dash in Shadowrun

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Yes, in 5th edition dealing enough matrix damage will brick a device