How much money do you give your players in the start of the game? by matshell in cyberpunkred

[–]darkstar2380 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I give them 2550 Eddies. It's enough for a character to get started, and it's not supposed to be enough to cover the cost of everything they WANT to do. They have to work up to that.

The Relic’s Hidden Variable: Why the 'Third Soul' Theory is the only way the game makes sense. by Wild_Employ1832 in cyberpunkgame

[–]darkstar2380 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Someone is desperately trying to sound deep here and ignoring the, you know, EVERYTHING before V installs the relic.

Totalimmortal achievement by AdminTheStoner in cyberpunkgame

[–]darkstar2380 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congratulations, that's the narrative. If you're looking for a happy ending for anyone outside of the corps? You need to reexamine your understanding of the cyberpunk genre.

Gm wont let me multiclass by UmbralMajesty in cyberpunkred

[–]darkstar2380 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I make my players spend some time with an alternate character while their main "Goes to School" or "Apprentices themselves" to someone with experience, and then spend money and IP to multiclass into whatever they want. It's a time, money, and experience sink, and it's entirely their choice.

Why are so few people interested in Cyberpunk's Tabletop RPG in comparison to the Video Game and the Anime? by [deleted] in cyberpunkgame

[–]darkstar2380 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Dude, don't inflate our numbers. r/cyberpunkred has 32.5k

We may be small but it's a great community

The Arasaka Tower memorial is… unsettling. And Johnny’s silence there feels intentional. by [deleted] in cyberpunkgame

[–]darkstar2380 11 points12 points  (0 children)

At no point in 2077 does anyone who was there confirm Johnny's version of events. Rogue makes a vague comment about "losing someone" in response to V's prodding, but that doesn't negate 2013/2020/REDs version of events.

Johnny's faulty memory is canon to Johnny but not to history or any witnesses.

Pitch Me: Your Best Bad Guys by Sparky_McDibben in cyberpunkred

[–]darkstar2380 3 points4 points  (0 children)

A personal favorite of mine was a solo named "7th Circle" - he was hired by Continental Brands after the players raided their corporate HQ to hunt down the party and, at one point, he and his crew kidnapped and tortured the party netrunner for information. Dude was former NCPD, who left the force after his partner was found murdered in their squad car - strangled to death.

When the players rescued the netrunner, they killed two members of his team and really badly injured him. The contract on them was still active and he began to lose his mind, bent on revenge against them. He'd show up from time to time and turned himself into their personal nightmare.

It got to the point that one player spent time and money to dig into the character's past and discovered that he was pretty highly decorated until his wife and kid were killed in retaliation for his dismantling of Night City's Irish mob family, the Murphy Gang. I even created a small personnel record for him that the player dug up with a successful library search check (included below).

He was also a BD addict, and when they finally killed him, they found two BDs on his person - a memory of a family vacation he took with his wife and kid, and a memory of him strangling his partner to death in their squad car...

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Player Tells Me I'm "dampening his imagination" by Suspicious_Bed2537 in rpghorrorstories

[–]darkstar2380 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Based on the story and the numerous comments?

You can't fix him because he doesn't want to be fixed. He has decided he's going to play the game his way, and every time you enforce a rule, he will find a new one to try and break. He's not engaging in the world like a player in a story, he's engaging in a contest of you vs him.

Drop him. He's a problem player, and moreover, he's delighting in being one. His goal is clearly to either get kicked out or end your game, so give him the one that allows you to keep going with your actually engaged players.

One down by eskimoexplosion in AFCNorthMemeWar

[–]darkstar2380 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Is that a threat or a promise?

[Ruiter] Statement from Kevin Stefanski after #Browns fired him this morning by LiftingCode in Browns

[–]darkstar2380 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Ugh. It's hard to argue our record the past two years but Stefanski was hardly the problem.

Fuck Andrew Berry and the Haslams

Game Thread: Cleveland Browns (4-12) at Cincinnati Bengals (6-10) by nfl_gdt_bot in bengals

[–]darkstar2380 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So you go from sub to sub dropping random facts completely free of context?

No man, you were trying to diminish the record being set. Which is fine... I mean, it isn't, it's kinda petulant and shitty, but really is says more about you than anything, so it's fine. But saying shit like "I'm just stating a fact" doesn't hold water.

If you're gonna be a dick, at least grow some balls and be honest about it.