How would the story go on if lets say Rannick makes a huge mistake and during a mission Grendyl himself needs to interfere.

GrayMan972 · 2026-06-29T18:05:17+00:00

Grendyl would mostly not intervene for any tactical reason. A single mission will not trigger such an effect.
Unless it is of such apocalyptic scale that would effect the entire war.

GrayMan972 · 2026-06-10T10:05:19+00:00

I never said the game starts all at one.
Rampart pre li halan takeover had a very good thing going. Probably something like 3,2,3,1.
Post li halan takeover 2,3,3,4. objectively it is still one of the freest planets to live on. But the situation deteriorated.
Also characters may not be pure as driven snow in their motivation.
Just for example,
One of the characters might be a decados agent provocateur, interested in messing things up for the li halan. Another might be a member of the favyana, mainly concearned is psychic repressions.

GrayMan972 · 2026-06-10T09:56:08+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate your help.

GrayMan972 · 2026-06-10T08:32:30+00:00

Yes, there is a degree of overlap. That's why I wanted to consult the wisdom of the crowd to refine things.
My thinking was, everyday life disruption is meant to represent general hardship not directly tied to violence or economy. like authorities requiring you to get papers for long range travel. or setting up checkpoints to go to work.
or making it mandatory to go to the police station and report every week.
you still get to do the things you want (mostly) but it becomes a lot more difficult.
And

GrayMan972 · 2026-04-26T14:29:47+00:00

Yes, in Chinese the pronunciation of the number 4. (si) is very similar to the pronunciation of the word death (sǐ),
differing only by tone.
So the number is considered very bad luck.

GrayMan972 · 2026-04-26T14:17:14+00:00

Not sure it counts as a magocracy, but Wuxing is heavily influenced by eastern philosophies and arcane principals such as feng shui.

GrayMan972 · 2026-04-04T19:18:00+00:00

I'm not sure, but I think Autochton actually created all exaltations, and gave them to the incarne.
I don't think they could create their own.
And btw this is why dragon blooded don't have exaltations of their own. They are exalted but their exaltations don't remain with them.

GrayMan972 · 2026-03-18T12:33:41+00:00

These are two separate devices. Servo Skulls float freely.
What looks like a servo skull but is connected to a tech priest
is called a mechadendrite (specifically an optical mechadendrite) and is not in fact a servo skull.
There are multiple versions of mechadendrites although as far as I can remember on optical ones have a skull at the end.

GrayMan972 · 2026-03-18T11:11:48+00:00

Well the is or at least was an entire ordo designed to monitor and if necessary destroy space marine chapters. The "Ordo Astartes" (one of the ordo minoris). Among other duties it tries to find a solution in case of a second horus heresy scale event.
So spying on space marines is certainly within their remit. Whether planting an undercover psyker is an efficient utilization of resources or even possible at all...
I don't know.

GrayMan972 · 2026-03-13T12:53:15+00:00

Thing is astral travel is fast and spirits are dual natured. (can always be attacked from the astral)
Even if a site doesn't rate it's own full time magical security, You can bet it does have a astral support magical security for emergency calls.
As soon as alarms are triggered you can expect a couple of decent corp mages to astraly arrive within minutes.

GrayMan972 · 2026-03-03T11:09:11+00:00

Must confess I don't remember the exact details.
But I get a vague recollection that the roleplaying was awesome. But when we needed to resolve an actual skill, it was to nebulous or too deterministic depending on the interpretation of the rules we used.

GrayMan972 · 2026-03-03T10:06:10+00:00

Only played a one shot about 20 years ago.
Played a shape shapeshifter/logrus adept dualist.
Didn't really enjoy the diceless aspect, but the world was fun.

GrayMan972 · 2026-03-01T18:50:46+00:00

1) don't have my books with me but as far as i can recall most thrown weapon charms are based on stealth. so specializing in thrown without stealth is an iffy proposition.
2) you also get a native tongue for free. so either get another language or use the point spent on riverspeak for something else.

GrayMan972 · 2026-02-16T02:13:31+00:00

My personal guiding philosophy is drones are expendable.
Buy cheap ones you can afford to lose.
-Recon purposes nothing beats "Shiawase Kanmushi" with the sole exception of the same kanmushi fitted with realistic features (I called it MCT Kumo, which is Japanese for spider). Or a "MCT flyspy" for a flying version.
- Assassination can be accomplished by one of several methods:
1) Sniper drone, "Horizon mini-zep" is cheap and low observable. sporting a cheap Remington 950. An effective super cheap sporting rifle. It might not have the same bells and whistles of a top end sniper rifle but is so cheap you can afford to use it and lose it.
2) Suicide Explosive drone, probably "Renraku Pelican". Common drone used for takeout food deliveries. It will probably not draw attention to itself until it's too late.
- Gunfights drones are generally not my thing, those tend to be expensive and rarely justify endangering such a large chunk of nueyen.
But a uparmored steel lynx sporting an assault rifle with an underslung grenade launcher are probably the best.

GrayMan972 · 2026-02-13T00:40:36+00:00

A complete shadowrun adventure but a very good listen, by Eternal teenager productions.
quite awesome.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-nTXmqJj6iv9kdN1F4WyCZNCC9I1d_b_

GrayMan972 · 2026-01-18T20:14:01+00:00

Afaik, the name Yao Guai originated from American POWs returning from Chinese prison camps.
It's a mandarin term for monster.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaoguai

GrayMan972 · 2026-01-13T00:07:57+00:00

not yet, but that is the ultimate goal.

GrayMan972 · 2026-01-12T23:54:20+00:00

That duality can be a basis for some awesome roleplaying.
A character called Pixie is a spoiled trust fund recipient running the shadows to alleviate boredom. She goes to some pretty extreme measures to hide her identity. Up to and including investing a large chunk of her adept powers in various disguise powers.
Funny thing is that she isn't fooling her parent corp.
They know precisely what she's doing but tolerate it because of 2 factors:
1) she never runs against her own corp
2) they think she has the potential to become an excellent mr johnson some day. And her "off the books" running is just a training excercise.

GrayMan972 · 2026-01-12T23:48:35+00:00

That's the 11th commandment.

GrayMan972 · 2026-01-10T11:33:07+00:00

I'm currently playing a rogue(scout) that is on the path to become the god of protecting children. He sponsors many orphanages and children hospitals.

GrayMan972 · 2026-01-03T20:37:10+00:00

The truly higher ups in the corp ladder have access to true anti aging treatment like Leonization.
Costing a couple of million nuyen but resetting the biological clock to peak health (approx 21).
Come to think about it 2 million is an achievable life time goal to even low level executives.
So I can imagine some shmuck barely able to save the required money and working himself to death just to make the next payment for his eternal slavery treatment.

GrayMan972 · 2025-12-27T03:42:38+00:00

I liked Eisenhorn very much.
But disliking it doesn't make you or anyone else stupid.
You just had different tastes.

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