From: | Wavy Davy ctysmd@***.leeds.ac.uk |
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Subject: | Wheels and Nuyen and the T-200 |
Date: | Sat, 20 May 2000 12:02:59 +0100 (BST) |
Quelle suprise.
1) Do vehicle markup fators apply to purchasing customisations?
I don't think it should cost 10x more to modfy a drone after its been
built. Cant you just build your own from basic components? With an
Electronics and Elect.(B/R) at 6, say, I would have thought so.
2) Somethings, such as ECM/ECCM, seem way over priced, IMHO. How
could a shadowrunning rigger ever hope to afford decent (say
rating 4) sensor/emc/eccm ratings for more than one or two of his
vehicles at 250,000 a pop for ECM and 100,000 for ECCM. Also TAPS
and ClearSight softs are hugley expensive, along with many other
things. In the kind of SR world we play in, A rigger has enough
problems raising monthly maintenance costs. let alone anything
funky. Anyone got any fixes?
3) Even with SR3 halfpower/reduce Damage level rule, vehicles can
be hurt bad with small firarms, and ar basically fish fodder againts
any kind of AV munition. While I rcognise that AV munitions are
there to help fish eat vehicles, even a heavy tank (armour 18, say)
doesnt stand a chance against someone firing an AVM. Any
house rules
out their to adjust this?
4) Anthroforms : ? Great idea, no details. Are they controlled just
walking like normal, and therefore need know special piloting
skill? Shouldn't they be constucted out of cyberware parts and
options, and treated like runners, with a Body Quickness and
strength. Do they get standard vehcle reduction in power and
damage level as Rigger 2p 35 says
"Vehicles with legs use the standard character combat rules
rather than the vehicle combat rules.."
Does this mean just the manoeuvre score is not used, or does it
mean that they ar treated exactly like a PC?
I am determined to create a drone rigger with a few
'terminators' of various models (101, 200 :) that he uses in
different situations, including a lifelike social one. The
guys himself is paraplegic and blind, and so uses drones as his
interface with the world. Any one got/seen anything like that?
I guess a lot of this stuff has been asked before, but I couldn't find
answers on the FAQ's so I thought I'd open them to the collective
wisdom of ShadowRN'ers. Or collective something anyway....:)
--
Wavy Davy (who shares wins)
...We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can't scoff at them
personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.