| From: | Robert Watkins <robert.watkins@******.COM> |
|---|---|
| Subject: | Re: Weird Campaigns |
| Date: | Tue, 19 May 1998 11:43:58 +1000 |
>>Has anyone ever run just a truly whack-ass campaign? I was toying with a
>>few ideas not too long ago, and the thought of an all-Matrix campaign came
>>to mind. Several characters, presumably deckers, in widely different
>>locations, all connected via the matrix.
>
>Wierd? I know at least 2 groups that have done that in RL, and I was about
>to try it myself when some.. changes happened in my campaign.
Actually, with SOTA rules, decker groups will do much better than individual
deckers, as they can share their SOTA upgrades. I've toyed with the idea of
a decker campaign several times, but my players have never been interested
enough. I've never considered an _all_ Matrix campaign, though... the decker
campaigns I've thought of still have _some_ interaction with the real world,
like when the Trace IC beats you down and the corp hit team is about to
pound on the door.
Seriously, though, a well-organised decker cartel will do so much better
than equally talented individual decker cartels that the only excuse for the
number of individual deckers must be the surly nature of programmers. :)
(Or, more likely, they modelled the decker image on the modern hacker
image... people meet and share info fairly often, but don't usually work in
groups. Such groups as do exist are quite small).
One problem with multiple deckers is that a system will go on alert status a
lot faster if there are more people in the system. More unauthorised
actions, the faster the alert status rises... :)
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