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My take on this would be to make a new cyber option - cyber body - that was available to starting characters if they took all the possibly available cyber options on one app. This would then include a stack of starting bonuses and penalties appropriate to the situation, yet leave room available for ...

Yes, but the file hosting abilities are fairly well used - there's some good stuff up there, and worth signing up so that you can get to the files area to download (just say you don't want any emails when you join up)

The club used to have two permanent tables with the same old faces at the same table every week. The members decided if it was to attract new members and make the place feel like a club they needed to mix things up. We now have four or five tables running simoultaneous each rotation. GMs offer to r...

Whilst there's not been much out for a while, there is plenty of support available: The Great Metropolis, Upload: Etherpunk, Mysteries of the Occult, The Lemurian Candidate, Just a Delivery,and if you have the original hard cover rulebook you can also download the additional adventure, Cinnamon Rose...

We ummed and ahhed a bit over whether to gove pursuers access to Search or not. It does make sense, but felt it was too often used as a "thief skill" and not enough as a more general skill to be fully suitable for pursuers. Plus the original pursuer we designed was far and away the best of...

Hi folks.

anyone over here on facebook? if so look me up.

Ben

I see Alaska, along with the other side of the pacific rim, being largely untamed desolate widernesses. However, the Soviet economy is built on high-tech scope industries, with a number of significant costal cities being pretty heavily populated and full of techie-nerd types. (think socialism meets ...

Hi folks, I've just got into D&D online (perhaps a bit late), but I was wondering if there was anyone here played it, particularly in europe (we could start an Etherscope guild...)

Cheerio,

Ben

Hi all, For those of you who don't know, I'm an ICT teacher (computers) in RL. At the moment we're teaching how to make and edit simple video files, so I decided to put one togetehr as an example, and thought you lot might be interested in seeing it too. I've posted it to the yahoo group: http://gro...

I toyed around with "Take a 15" for starting characters when I was designing it, but Nigel didn't like the idea. It is messy, but perhaps makes a good house rule to speed up the situation.

Ben

Hi all, I've just started playing a DM game and I'm playing a steamborg (by far the coolest class). We stated with pregen characters, so I just picked it because it sounded cool, but looking at them in more detail they seem a little underpowered. Have I missed something major, or has anyone got any ...

Perhaps Max Dex Bonus isn't the best terminology. If you think about it as "Max Dex" for an item of armour it might make it clearer - the highest dexterity you can have and still use all your dexterity bonus to defence. A Leather Jacket (max Dex bonus +8) is the same as max Dex 27. If you ...

Ed beat me to it. Everything he says is correct, although I'm not sure from memory if the Tumble check stuff is Etherscope cannon or just a standard D20 system extra rule...

Ben

The players will may choose from some of the supposed characters, described at the end of the adventure. There are a "Reich Team", a "Britain Team" and a "American Team". My question now is the following: Do the players have to play characters, who all belong to one (a...

There are many lost cities...

Some are known to many, some are not. Some as yet exist only inside the heads of Nigel or myself.

To which one in particular do you refer?

Ben

Just a quick point of information: Middle classes weren't workers of any description. They were professionals (lawyers, teachers, priests, politicians and doctors), businessmen (from shopkeepers to industrialists who own vast empires of factories), and those paid to be in charge (facotry managers, g...

Most standard british holidays will probably still apply. There's only May Day and Guy Faulks night which I guess our friends in the US might not know about. Aside from that I guess you need to think about specific etherscope dates. I'm not sure how many events there have been that would lead to a p...

Fantastic idea. Here's my PC: Karl Reeper http://etherscope.wikispaces.com/space/showimage/KarlReeper.jpg Backgound Karl was born Prince Ernst Heinrich Hesse, the fifth son of Grand Duke Ludwig of Hesse by Rhine, and found it difficult to find a position for himself in life. He was a quiet and devou...

Sorry if I've been a bit quiet of late folks. I'm going over previous posts and hope to catch up fairly quickly.

Cheerio,

Ben

what about a summary of the different skill checks involved in scope riding, eg jumping the rails, locating a target domain with Scope awareness, program crafting and degrading DCs, Scope resilience checks to change your avatar appearance, etc. ditto nigel's point - it will be great to see this as a...

I can't seem to find an etherscope story on teh deviantart page and the blog link is broken. I'm very interested to see your story, so please give me a new link so that I can read it, or post it here (I'm pretty sure that will be okay)

Ben

Fighting techniques are cross-class skills for anyone other than a combatant who has taken the fighting technique talent. Generally speaking for a level 1 savant, you need to spend 4 skill points and you would get two ranks in the FT skill. You also need to make sure you have the prerequisite feats:...

Hi! Welcome to the forums. Let me have a go at answering your questions... 1) This isn't really my area. Joseph..? 2) There are a number of reasons we chose to go with D20 when we were designing Etherscope: Firstly, it is the system we play most regularly (although not exclusively, and not our favou...

So, people are starting to get back from Gencon. As I was unable to make it, Iwas wondering how the games I was going to run went. Did anyone play in those games? f so, I'd appreciate comments - particualrly for Cinnamon Rose (if it went ahead) as we're of a mind to get this in a book soemwhere down...

Hi Maded, welcome to the world of Etherscope .

Was it you posting a "sell me on..." to RPG.net the other day? Glad to see our responses persuaded you to take the plunge (if it was you )

Ben