tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post479517394556154988..comments2024-03-27T03:37:22.778-04:00Comments on Age of Ravens: Running the Ashen Stars One-Shot: Hacks and ComplicationsLowell Francishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02359280169506945906noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post-19084729311286945932012-12-21T22:42:53.190-05:002012-12-21T22:42:53.190-05:00You may have needed to completely recreate the cha...You may have needed to completely recreate the characters, to make the rules work better in the setting. Perhaps there is a sci-fi set of characters out there on the Internet that could have worked with less tweaking?<br /><br />When I have played Savage Worlds, I've only ever had the skills I know on my character sheet. No others.<br /><br />As to the pilot character, maybe not offering at all, instead of discouraging it, would have been better. <br /><br />Perhaps a more action based scenario would have worked for that group?Undeadhosthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131084242228738203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post-70056919982483402652012-12-21T00:46:43.710-05:002012-12-21T00:46:43.710-05:00yeah- that's about perfect, especially the con...yeah- that's about perfect, especially the consolidation of the Technical abilities. Lowell Francishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02359280169506945906noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post-71082801823077639432012-12-20T22:40:20.550-05:002012-12-20T22:40:20.550-05:00Riffing on the Fear Itself list...
ACADEMIC
• Xen...Riffing on the Fear Itself list...<br /><br />ACADEMIC<br />• Xenoculture (anthro, archaeo, xenoculture, other culture stuff)<br />• Biology (biology, botany, zoology and forensic anthropology)<br />• Geology<br />• History<br />• Law<br />• Linguistics<br />• Forensic Psychology<br />• Forensic Accounting<br /><br />INTERPERSONAL<br />• Scum and Villainy replaces Downside<br />• Respect is part of Reassurance<br /><br />TECHNICAL<br />• Astronomy<br />• Data Retrieval (includes Decryption)<br />• Engineering (replaces Industrial Design, chemistry )<br />• Forensics (includes evidence collection, kinetics and explosives)<br />• Sensors (bio sig, energy sig, holo surveillance, imaging)huthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16502682297320819595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764158821384594980.post-76483655897115888652012-12-20T15:53:48.832-05:002012-12-20T15:53:48.832-05:00I think one of the contributing mood-killers was t...I think one of the contributing mood-killers was the Hacking skill combined with system unfamiliarity. It's akin to Magic for people who don't know what hacking really is and only have Hollywood to guide them. Trying to use it to quickly close down alarms & surveillance aimed at ourselves--sure. But the frustration mounted when they wanted to use it to make the system do things -- and do things they weren't designed to do. Was it CyberPunk that handled hacking with Scripts or Modules -- little single-purpose abilities to mix and match in an assault on a system? Something like that strikes me as a better way. Those are easy to understand--what you can and can't do. And really, most hackers are called script-kiddies for a reason. Auzumelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09745556063535219123noreply@blogger.com