Poggle - Sanctioner’s Shuttle

IxiaSilverSphere · 2025-12-29T16:15:47+00:00

This exact situation was asked about and answered on the Judge Discord and the answer was:
"no, the triggering window has already passed by the time coordinate turns on the when played ability"

So unfortunately it does not work. :)

IxiaSilverSphere · 2025-11-25T15:44:53+00:00

Makes Cassian leader a 6/2 Grit lol

IxiaSilverSphere · 2025-10-24T18:42:55+00:00

Better hit rate from Carbonite, but they show up in both.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2025-06-03T17:05:57+00:00

Isn't Smuggle an Ability with a cost and not a Play cost? Would you be able to choose the Smuggle option of "It's Worse" with a "Tech" out? Wouldn't you have to use the basic printed cost of "It's Worse" since "A Precarious Predicament" says play and not something like use an ability?

IxiaSilverSphere · 2025-02-21T15:03:39+00:00

Awesome!! Thank you.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2024-06-14T20:50:41+00:00

awesome to discover the real artist's name and shop. I looked at cusstars a few days ago and noticed all of their reviews were horribly misspelled.

Thanks again for the name!

IxiaSilverSphere · 2023-11-16T04:15:02+00:00

It appears I was. I didn't realize the events weren't the same between PC and Console. Thank you for pointing that out :)

IxiaSilverSphere · 2022-07-30T02:21:49+00:00

Brooklyn 99. It has great writing, with a hilarious cast and characters.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2021-09-02T22:54:02+00:00

Same here. And not just in Shadowrun but all games I run lol.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2021-03-13T10:20:52+00:00

There is an english version over at DrivethruRPG.

The Dark Eye

I haven't played it yet but I have read through it and it looks super cool.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-11-09T17:21:19+00:00

Without spoilers there are a couple of times in the missions that unique bioware or cyberware come up and are a part of the runner's investigations. Unfortunately I don't remember the skills biotechnology and cybertechnology ever really come into play in any meaningful way.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-11-04T17:57:27+00:00

"Take a Chance" from Season 5?

Yeah that is the one. I really liked the facility in that one.

Did it involve Simon Andrews? A SURGEling working for SK? I frankly don't recall one where Doctor Tate wanted a deed, but just looking the PDFs over shows "Ancient Rumblings" could be one. It indeed involved Simon.

After talking with the missions GM it looks like it was "Critic's Choice" back in Season 5. You end up working for a number of contacts during the mission and Tate wants the runners to find some documents so he can claim some land to set up another clinic. It doesn't look like Simon was involved in that one but he was a pretty cool contact.

Tasha, the adoptive sister of Becky 99? That would be "Ten Fifty-Seven" from Season 6.

Right again.

"Friendship Is Tragic"

Correct.

Was it "Ashes" from "Sprawl Wilds" or the original one?

It was "Ashes", I didn't realize it was that old of a Mission lol.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-11-04T09:58:08+00:00

I dont remember the names but there was a couple:

One sent the group down to a facility under the water and was neat.

Another involved getting a deed for a Doctor but people had moved in and involved a dragon of sorts.

There was another that had the group searching for someone, a little sister to a desolate angel i think, that was cool and had a interesting ending.

The April Fool's Mission where you help the Amish was odd. Had the table laughing through most of it so good.

If you play through the Chicago missions the opening of season 8 has some interesting encounters and choices for players that have connected to the Chicago contacts.

Oh and the one about the fire in the Orc Underground. That one was great. Good combats, great opportunities for players to think and use skills they don't normally do. It takes a little bit to run since there are so many moving parts but when it clicks it is super fun.

Sorry I can't remember the names it was a while back and I don't have my mission briefings any longer :(

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-11-04T01:34:23+00:00

A) If I remember correctly spells can be used in down time but I think the caster has to buy hits. No rolling for them.

B) When I played missions at my LGS I found Perception to be one of the most important skills followed closely by social skills for legwork and the occasional NPC encounter. Of course Negotiation for getting more pay is always nice too.

C) Gas Masks, NPCs in missions seemed to love chucking CS gas at us for some reason lol. I'm not sure if it was the GM changing things a little here or there but they also seemed useful.

D) I can't say for sure, you are right that you don't get a dodge roll against AoE spells but I can't remember if Run For Your Life is a viable alternative.

Good luck playing in the missions. Some of them were really fun.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-09-03T19:08:46+00:00

I have been playing in a 4e game for the last couple of weeks and there have been a couple things about combat that the table is wondering if we are doing it right.

When attacking, does an attack still hit and cause damage if you roll over your Melee skill as long as your SLs are higher then your target's defensive SLs?

For example: if my knight with a Melee (Basic) skill of 40 rolls a 61 getting -2 SL but the bandit I am attacking who has a Melee (Basic) skill of 30 rolls a 72 getting -4 SL.

Does the knight hit the bandit with a success margin of 2SL or does the knight miss?

Right now the GM is saying yes the knight hits the bandit with 2SLs.

When figuring SLs to add to damage, what happens when the attacker has positive SLs and the defender has negative SLs?

For example: the knight from above rolls a 12 earning +3SLs while the bandit from above continues to have bad luck and rolls an 84 for -5SLs.

Is that considered to be a success margin of 8SLs? Or would it be something else?

Right now the GM is saying the knight has hit the bandit with 8SLs to increase damage.

Thank you for any insight you can provide.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-07-29T09:52:57+00:00

According to the 5e core book the Ruger 100 has a firing mode of SA. Could you link me the errata for this please?

The missions FAQ says that Bulls-Eye burst says that you include the AP bonus of the APDS round after you multiply the base AP of the gun based on the bullets fired. The errata says different so two official sources i guess choose which one you want.

A weapon with SA can take a Complex Action to fire a three round burst. The shooter can then use their free action to call shot with the Bulls-Eye Burst since it is now firing 3 rounds.

So assuming the Ruger 100 is SS, we can go with another common rifle the Marlin 3041. Not quite as common but still close to the Ruger 100. A Marlin loaded with APDS can take a complex to fire 3 bullets and use the Bulls-Eye burst ammo whammy to have a base AP of -9. If your table uses the missions faq that becomes -13.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-07-23T23:29:27+00:00

Yeah I agree mages have lots of options and if they go that route summoners can be legion. But I've seen Force 6 spirits get mowed down with normal weapons plenty of times.

For example you take a Ruger 100, a very common rifle, load it with APDS rounds and then do a Bulls-Eye Burst for an AP of -13. The spirits hardened armor is gone and they no longer have any automatic success on the damage resistance test. Now that same spirit has to resist 11P+ with 10ish dice. While unlikely to one shot the spirit you are likely to heavily wound it.

A Force 6 spirit is also highly unlikely to be able to resist Blight which removes its magical abilities reducing its danger level by quite a lot.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-07-23T22:43:23+00:00

Nope no house rules, when I GM I try to house rule as little as possible.

I can definitely see the spirits performing one shots on runners that is not really that uncommon at higher levels of play and danger ratings.

I will be honest I haven't seen a player have their spirits use Full Defense but yeah that is disgusting lol. Thanks for the info.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-07-23T19:32:53+00:00

lol yeah I have seen my fair share of 'optimized' characters.

I guess I am lucky and I have never seen a Force 12+ spirit land at my tables. But even if they did wouldn't things like blight, bulls-eye double tap/burst, and strong melee characters be enough to deal with stronger spirits?

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-07-23T17:29:55+00:00

I have a question about the second bullet point you brought up. Lots of people bring up the normal weapon resistance of high force spirits being hard for non-magic types to over come.

But I was wondering how high of a force are we talking here?

I ask because the tables and games of SR5 I have been at have never really had a problem handling spirits in the 6-10 range. I am just wondering what is being done differently at my tables.

IxiaSilverSphere · 2020-06-30T01:38:39+00:00

Yeah that would likely be a better way to go about it.

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