shadowdice
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yesTrauma Team? Aren't those the heavily armed guys who rescue people using any means necessary?
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yesTrauma Team? Aren't those the heavily armed guys who rescue people using any means necessary?
I too would be ok with this.
Hilarious.So they ended up being late enough that I did a roll on if they had enough time to try to get on and try to defuse the bomb. That background roll lol-noped the possibility of the city not getting blanketed in hydrochloric acid.
In a continuation of that story, Medtech did very stupid shit.
Lassie the Robohound is best.As such, through the power of friendship, guns, and Lassie the Robohound, Almost everyone in the bar ended up surviving.
That dog is a fairly good method of making up ways for the team to survive *Aimed armor piercing machine-gun burst fire at a guy's head, micro missiles, nets, being able to run ridiculously fast*
YesMedtech: I am going to stick my hand in fucking death acid.
...Is he for fucking real?
Yes
I repeatedly stressed that was a bad idea, but eventually just let him do it because having to roll to keep his hand from burning off sounds like the one way to make him learn.
And that did not stop the guys from trying to just run around in the death cloud.
If it were literally any other character who dipped their hand in concentrated acid they'd instantly lose the limb. Medtech had both arms removed and replaced with incredibly durable hydraulic enhanced cyber arms with even bigger fists of death, then put bulletproof artificial skin over it. So it would have been something like 50+ damage or so for the limb to be completely destroyed.If you weren't already this deep in the game I'd say it sounds like fantasy superhuman syndrome. After all, when your barbarian can take a dip in lava and be fine, clearly stuff that is lethal to normal humans is going to be nothing to the party, right? There's often a rude awakening when when to play a more realistically scaled system, even action heroes don't have the kind of durability players expect.
Of course, they're absolute dumbasses for not grokking how fragile they are by this point.
One would question World War 3 being an effective survival tactic in any setting with nukes.How normal is it for players to intentionally start World War 3 as a survival tactic/spiteful revenge against their enemies?
Because that is what has happened in my cyberpunk campaign.
I'd expect it to be 50/50 when given the option tbh, but that's not based on any actual role playing experience.How normal is it for players to intentionally start World War 3 as a survival tactic/spiteful revenge against their enemies?
Because that is what has happened in my cyberpunk campaign.
I made it clear to them that the person they were giving the story to would write it in a way that would cause massive conflict, what with horrifying bioweapons being made in the USA by a foreign company and testing it out on the streets while also licensing the stuff most of the world's fuel, how it would piss off one of the organizations with the largest militaries due to one of the bioweapons being used to kill several of their higher ranking people, and Trauma Team having lost people to it, and the scion of two highly respected scientists that work for the corporations out in space having gotten tortured within an inch of his life.One would question World War 3 being an effective survival tactic in any setting with nukes.
Well, you know what they say. When you give them enough rope...My players go straight for escalation rather than anything else.
They do a lot of things which they forget about, which I later use to get back at them.Well, you know what they say. When you give them enough rope...
Here is the thing. This megacorp is an entity that is:I made it clear to them that the person they were giving the story to would write it in a way that would cause massive conflict, what with horrifying bioweapons being made in the USA by a foreign company and testing it out on the streets while also licensing the stuff most of the world's fuel, how it would piss off one of the organizations with the largest militaries due to one of the bioweapons being used to kill several of their higher ranking people, and Trauma Team having lost people to it, and the scion of two highly respected scientists that work for the corporations out in space having gotten tortured within an inch of his life.
I don't necessarily believe that they did something wrong when it comes to the majority of this.Here is the thing. This megacorp is an entity that is:
1. evil
2. inimical to humanity
3. specifically hunting down the MCs
War is simply organized violence on a large scale. It is only called world war 3 because
a. so many different factions are angry to evil-mcbadguycorp to join in on fighting them.
b. evil-mcbadguycorp is so powerful that it is not instantly destroyed by being ganged up on.
It being that powerful means that logically the MC's would never have been able to take it out themselves. So getting a whole bunch of different factions to gang up on them is a perfectly reasonable and legitimate tactic. And one that is a net good to the world at large.
And the fact they are testing bioweapons in USA cities mean they are already doing the worse parts of war anyways.
Your players did nothing wrong.
If it was just a few rogue elements within the megacorp and they intentionally twisted things such that it would lead to war with another megacorp instead of the normal negotiations ending in extradiction of the criminal parties. Then you would have cause to complain that they are escalating like crazy. But from what I heard from you thus far it sounded like there really wasn't a better solution.
Ah ok. from your previous post I got the impression that the reason for the war was that the evil corp was so evil and unwilling to capitulate on that regards (like doing an internal investigation when the news breaks and arresting the involved).It is more like, megacorp has something that makes it so war is an excuse for everyone else to try to take what they have (legal rights to the setting's super fuel).
Your players are craycrayAnd part of why things have escalated to this point is that the MCs kept going "I want to shoot the person." and "I want arrest this person while being shady as fuck with all of these other shady people while surrounded by an army of carnies with guns." (that last part is the main thing which makes me look at my players wondering what they are thinking)
Okay. there are multiple things going onAh ok. from your previous post I got the impression that the reason for the war was that the evil corp was so evil and unwilling to capitulate on that regards (like doing an internal investigation when the news breaks and arresting the involved).
But now it sounds like the other corps were just looking for a casus belli to declare war on them to take their stuff... hmm in that case its still not really the players fault. If they were looking to manufacture a CB they would have eventually anyways
Yes on this.
Oh, my group did a similar thing for a one shot.5e D&D party of fifth level characters with no healer, a Rouge, my Monk, a Fighter, a Fighter/Warlock, a Sorcerer, and a Bloodhunter, who were nearly murdered by flying Reindeer, after being attacked by snowmen. We've been hired to shut down Santa Claus.
We haven't reached Santa yet.Oh, my group did a similar thing for a one shot.
We flanked Santa from all sides while slashing out his eyes and shooting him in the face.
We also came to the conclusion that the Summoner in DnD could be used to make a character who has Oda Nobunaga as a Persona