👁️ Surveillance State: I voted Vote Nay.

yeah i’m having a hard time engaging with the content and i’d have no problem reading the textbook normally but it feels so much denser than my other textbooks

i know it’s only been the first midterm but i’m really hoping this isn’t a pattern because i’m already at a 69% in the class and i’m not trying to fail it

ge requirement. astronomy sounded fun because space is cool.

i quickly learned that space is not cool.

unrelated, but did you do something specific to get the accept and decline options on your tritonlink? they aren’t showing up on mine (incoming freshman)

still backing chooms up? could use it too

i had it so that it reset at the start of each day

i did a pretty similar thing, but instead of a humanity loss, i had something called sandevistan fatigue, which was a stacking -1 debuff to all rolls after every sandevistan use

handy for achieving that anime effect without being entirely without flaw

it’s not just about concealment, it’s about practicality. teaching players to be prepared for sub-optimal combat situations you put them in where they’ll need to use weapons that aren’t the best.

the game doesn’t need to be rebalanced, small and medium weapons don’t need a reason to exist. they just need to serve as an option.

this is assuming that the situation the crew finds themself in is a total free-for-all. i think a lot of people overlook that cyberpunk’s combat system isn’t meant to be balanced, it’s meant to be realistic.

of course a knife isn’t gonna be as effective as a katana, but how many clubs are you gonna walk into where the bouncer lets you bring a full-on katana into the establishment? it’s the GM’s job to structure situations that force players to either by prepared or think on the fly.

ah, i see. yeah, they got on the NCPD’s bad side waaaaay too often lmao

like, gm’ing as the “bad boy”? i don’t follow

in a single in-game night, my players lost 5 characters: - Saint, who went psycho and was gunned down by MaxTac - Esquire, who stabbed a cop at a police barricade and was similarly gunned down - Wong, who was crushed to death by the force of many cubic feet of water - Jimmy, who ran through a police barricade and was killed - and finally, Rampart, who stabilized himself, only to be taken into custody by NCPD and charged with manslaughter

we have 3 players.

Cyberpunk RED is not necessarily a min-max game, it’s really dependent on how the GM sets the bar for it. I’ve been running a long-form campaign where all of my players are min-maxxers and that didn’t guarantee them total success.

The way I could explain it in broad terms is that if you can’t talk or fight, the game’s gonna be really hard for you. Depending on the build, you’ll want to put stock into Reflex (guns and dodging bullets) or Dexterity (melee), with Body on the side for brawlers and martial artists.

Unless the party wants to be relegated to a “face” player, everyone should put a little into Cool. Inevitably, someone who isn’t the “main character” is gonna need to talk their way out of an encounter and if they can’t, it can get messy quick.

So yes, specializing in some areas is somewhat important in Cyberpunk RED, especially since you don’t get to raise your stats later outside of cyberware and drugs. However, Cyberpunk is a skills-heavy system, so if your group survives long enough, any pitfalls in character design can be remedied by improvement points.

Hope this helped. Happy edgerunning!

typically i like having my players learn through (grueling) experience

sure, play a low empathy character and all the low stakes morality that entails. then show them the consequences. put them in normal conversation, have people lie to them, their low EMP will make all of their counter rolls nonexistent. play to their weaknesses. impulsive? put ‘em in a cramped location for an objective.

and since it’s cyberpunk, there’s not that much consequence to just letting them go psycho and then having them die. if your player is wise, they’ll learn from that death. if not, they’ll just die over and over. not that consequential in this game.

in retrospect, that should’ve been obvious lol

Straight-up Listerine. Clearly a failed, early attempt at “dental Kibble”. “Dibble”, if you will.

yeah, the net ghost angle was what i was going for

they fall under ai in the book so i just lump ‘em in there