u/opacitizen

Go read it, see if you can merge it seamlessly with the official BR timeline.

And this is just one example. There's a lot of evidence out there proving the two franchises, owned by two rival IP holders (studios) aren't sharing their universes canonically. And it will remain so until their IP holders don't officially announce the contrary.

Sure, you can have your headcanon in which BR and Alien are in the same universe. But that's just your headcanon until the MONEY approves it. (Even if you're Ridley Scott, yes.)

As for easter eggs, those don't make shared universes. Else you'd have Spaceballs sharing the Alien universe (and Star Trek being in the same universe as Star Wars, and Indiana Jones being in the same universe as Star Wars and consequently of Star Trek and so on, and so on.)

I know this is not a Blade Runner post. But it's relevant, considering how many people consider the shared universe notion canonical.

It isn't.

Go read the official Prometheus timeline. It may have gotten outdated here and there, but that's just further proof it's the Money that controls the canon.

Cheers.

The SRA2.0 core rulebook has the following on page 84

>For example, a smartlink (cyberware) providing Risk Reduction 1 on the pistols specialization can be improved to Risk Reduction 1 on the Ranged Weapons Skill. The Amp rating will go from 3 (base rating 1 for cyberware + 2 for the effect) to 6 (base rating 1 for cyberware + 5 for the effect). The Amp rating increases by 3, costing 15,000¥ (3 × 5,000¥).

Am I correct to assume that this advancement of the smartlink in the above example serves no immediate benefit to the character in itself (because the pistol spec would allow an RR 1 on Ranged Weapons skill rolls anyway, as per this question and its answers here)?

(I hope I understand it correctly (?) that a specialization RR+1 costs 2 points, while a skill RR+1 costs 5, so to get to RR +2 from nothing would cost 2+5=7; while the example above simply turns a specialization RR +1 into a skill RR +1 for the cost of 3 points, instead of increasing the RR 1 to an RR 2 by adding the skill RR +1 to the already existing spec RR +1...)

Do I understand the above right? Could someone (Carmody maybe? 😀) please confirm or clarify?

Thanks!

Asking just out of curiosity. Is the upcoming edition a work of writers and designers who worked on the classic AD&D 2e DS setting? Or is it going to be practically a (hopefully great) homebrew made official by being published by the IP holder (that is, a ton of money and contracts)?

Don't take me wrong, homebrews can be awesome (our home campaigns are all proof of that, aren't they ;)), and I have nothing against awesome homebrews being elevated to official status. (Fingers crossed!) Am just curious if the new stuff has the input or at least blessing of the creators of the old stuff. :)

Does any of you have info about the above? Thanks!

Am on a coffee break, noticed only that the file is back to the smaller size (26.94 MB instead of the previous version which was above a 100 MB). The update history of the file doesn't say anything else but "An updated version of this title is now available." though.

Does anyone know what changed, aside from the file size? (Better compression I guess. 🙃)

(The faulty looking Working Joe image on page 177 is still as bad as it was, that didn't get updated, sadly. Second thing I checked. :D )

Or are you going to keep using the system you're using now (supposing you sometimes do play Dark Sun these days, using the original AD&D 2e rules, D&D 4e, or some fan-made homebrew solution)?

If you think you'll stick with the rules you're currently using, are you gonna buy the new books for the lore update?

Asking just out of curiosity, obviously.

Howdy chummers! I am digging into Anarchy 2.0 rules in anticipation of a new campaign. I have a ton of experience with 5th edition, but none with Anarchy and am trying to understand shadow amps, but finding them a bit confusing. The way I am interpreting the rules is that they are the D&D equivalent to specialization. Like you are really good at using some specific aspect of a skill or piece of gear and get a bonus to do that one thing with the skill or piece of equipment. Am I getting this right? Explain it to me like I am suffering from synaptic burnout...

It must be just me missing the answer to the question in the title somehow. Could anyone point me to the relevant section in the CRB, please? Or, in case it's not there (I doubt that, but it might happen), does anyone with a better statistical skill than mine (especially on any given Sunday morning, lol) make an educated guess?

Is rolling Risk Dice even a thing for NPCs? (When the GM decides to roll instead of using the pre-calculated average hits.)

Thanks.

u/PinkFohawk reflects on getting SRA2.0.

It's not a review, but still an interesting, short watch.

PS: I've deleted my previous post of this as I thought the video would be a full review, and so I mistitled the post… which was misleading, obviously. As we have more than enough misleading news these days, I'm correcting the mistake here, and reposting this. Sorry. :)

Am learning Affinity (3) Publisher. While editing text in Vector View Mode, inserting a character makes the whole text in the document go blurry (maybe pixelated?) for a second (or less, but it's noticeable nonetheless) before becoming sharp again getting rendered. It's kinda frustrating.

I tried changing Renderer (under Settings), and I tried disabling/enabling OpenCL compute acceleration (also under Settings.) Yes, I restarted the app after all changes. None of these helped.

I'm on a Win 11 laptop which has both an Intel UHD Graphics 770 and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 (Laptop), if that matters.

Anyone any tips?

PS: I don't think this is a bug, I guess it's some setting, so I'm not using the megathread. Hope I'm not mistaken. I've added software/hardware details in case there's a specific setting for these. Let me know if this question should be in the megathread instead, though. Thanks.

The artist's ArtStation gallery includes quite a number of similar sports-spinner designs. I think they're awesome. Take a look: https://www.artstation.com/nl4

Total beginner here, sorry.

I have a master page with two separate text boxes. (Practically two columns, but instead of setting up two columns in one box, I'd like to use two separate boxes.) I set the flow of the text from box 1 (on the left) to box 2 (on the right).

If I apply the master page to a regular page, then paste text into the page, then click the autoflow option (on box 2 on the right), a new page (following the master template) is created, as expected, but the text gets flown into box 2 instead of box 1.

How do I fix this, and what am I missing?

Thanks in advance for your help.

I mean, like, I'd welcome at least some ground rules most large(r) subs have, stuff like rules about no IRL politics, no spamming with pointless posts, no AI slop, stuff like that?

Like, check r/Shadowrun or r/alienrpg or r/callofcthulhu or r/savageworlds or r/rpg itself, for that matter.

What do you all think?

FYI u/Appropriate_Tax_245

Stumbled upon this two and a half hours long one shot SRA2.0 actual play on youtube from about three days ago. I thought it looked intriguing, so I decided to drop their link here for those who missed it but like watching such media for entertainment and/or learning purposes.

Disclaimer: I'm not affiliated with anything/anyone in this video. :)

Question in the title. Asking just for security sake, as for some reason (maybe I'm tired) I can't find a direct specification in the book now… aside from the Character Cost Sheet on page 83. Or is that it? 😅

(So if a PC wanted to move a point from that column to, say, the Skills one, it would cover two skills as long as the skills purchased don't exceed 5?)

Can someone confirm, please?

The files got updated and are available on gameontabletop (and via a mail you got, like in the case of the editable charsheet, for example.) Yes, even the core rulebook has a new version.

Sure, I know every KS backer gets notified about these, but I thought I'd drop a post about the update here, in case you missed it. (It happened to me with other projects, thought I'd help others avoid that. 😃)