| From: | Paul Gettle <pgettle@********.NET> |
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| Subject: | Rebooting the game back to 2050 [was: Re: Best Modules] |
| Date: | Wed, 13 May 1998 23:12:01 -0400 |
At 09:11 PM 5/13/98 +0100, Gurth wrote:
>That's why I started off with the first adventure for our recently
>re-started campaign: a simple run to get everyone in the mood for
2050,
>and at the same time put an ongoing thread through the adventures.
My co-gm and I are starting some novice SR players off in 2050 in a
campaign this summer, and my co-gm came up with an interesting
houserule that allows the players to start off with some of the
post-2050 toys from the various sourcebooks, at a price:
1. Anything in the BBB is available to runners at base cost (or street
index, if cheaper).
2. Items in SSC must be bought at street index (or base cost, if
higher)
3. Toys from sourcebooks after SCC must be bought at street index (or
base cost, if higher) with a price multiplier equal to the number of
years 'ahead' of 2050 the item is.
The timestamp on the first line of shadowtalk sets the year an item
was available. (Items with no timestamped shadowtalk are given a
default year, equal to the copyright year of the book plus 61.)
Exceptions may be made by the GM on a case by case basis. (after all,
I'm sure that they had cybereye covers and Toyotacorp Gopher
Pickuptrucks in 2050, among various other items)
This way, if the players want some of the shiny new toys from the
newer sourcebooks, they can get them, but they're discouraged from
doing so by the amount of character creation resources this would eat
up.
If you've got players balking at the thought of a 'Back to 2050'
reboot, because they simply have to have bioware and that one hold out
pistol from NAGtRL, they can do so with this system. Mind you, the
character's background had better have a good explanation why they
have the stuff that they do -- "That encephalon? Experimental military
prototype that got put in when they had to patch up my brain because I
took that assault cannon round to the head during the 2049 Desert
Wars"
You can also use this houserule if your players want to buy toys
'early' once the game is in progress. The multiplier is just how many
years ahead of current game time the item is from, and multiply the
cost and the availability time by it. The number of years ahead (or
perhaps even 2x or 3x the number of years ahead; GM's discretion)
should also be added to the availability TN#.
Another thing to remember if offering this houserule to your players:
The GM reserves the right to exploit the fact that the players are
using prototypes, beta-test units, pre-production models (Or even
reverse engineered knockoffs of the above) and is free to make the
items less reliable than the final product.
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