From: glewis@spam.maths.adelaide.edu.au
Newsgroups: rec.games.cyber
Subject: Re: Vampirepunk!?!?
Date: 1 Oct 92 17:39:06 GMT
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In article <1992Sep30.194638.5810@Veritas.COM> wilder@mik.uky.edu (jeff wilder) writes:
>I bought Night's Edge, and, believe me, I'm not a vampire freak.
>
>It's well worth the bucks, and I think you missed the point of the
>supplement...
>
>If you have your players on the edge of their seats in your grim 'n'
>gritty CP2020 world...think how much fun it could be with real, live
>vampires.  The PLAYER'S *know* that there are no such things as vampires
>in your world, right?  They *know* that.  So how do you explain...Nah.
>Couldn't be.

Who needs a supplement to be a vampire...I just do it :)

>There is a section on creating vampire PCs.  Ignore it.  Never even let
>your players know that you own the supplement, much less that you're
>using it.  Sit back and have fun as they look for "rational" explanations,
>while their paranoia just keeps growing and growing...

*snicker* ignore it? And let a chance like that slip? Sheeit...
Being a vampire is fun! All you need is the appropriate cyberware and
you can do a pretty good imitation of it yourself :) You may need to get some
GM approval for some rather exotic cyber stuff...but you can still do it :)
Since we just started this campaign (a previous campaign is currently on
hold whilst the GM is away working) I haven't got all the cyberware I'd quite
like yet, but I've got quite a bit and I haven't lost much emp yet :) (This is
CP 2020). To start with the vampiric fangs are a must! Get the poison
injecting ones if ya can. Give yourself a high bod, and then boost it a bit
(go for the muscle and bone lace...grafted muscle is too unsubtle). So you
now have the fangs and the strength of the undead. Next step for me was eyes.
You could use cyberware...but I got some special contacts made which simple
grab all the available light and amplify it (makes you look more natural).
Course its a real pisser when you go out in the sunlight at all without your
superdark sunnies and find that you're blinded...but you ain't supposed to be
out there anyway! Thats as far as I've got...but next will be ref boosting and
then maybe some hearing, touch and smell boost. But the main thing is to just
play it! I.e. The metal bands snap around the party pinning them to their
seats. 'Ok strength feat!' 'Ok I got a 32...do I break out *grin*' (Rob was
quite annoyed that I broke out I think). As I break out I notice everyone
including two NPCs have failed there saves and joined the ranks of the
sleeping (we were being gassed.) 'I think I feel hungry....*cackle*'
In another scenario the rest of the party carried me in a coffin into a high
class fashion shop in the upper class part of town :) Quite a good publicity
stunt...and shocked the attendants a bit too ;)

>It's a worthwhile supplement.  One of my problems with ShadowRun is that
>magic and the occult is taken for granted.  It doesn't scare players.
>Sure, that mega-powerful mage might be able to blow them away, but he
>doesn't SCARE them.  Night's Edge gives you that chance in Cyberpunk.
>The world is just the same...except, of course, that Mikey's looking
>awful pale lately.

How does the supplement deal with vampires? I try and play mine along the
style of the vampires in the Anne Rice books. Are the cyberpunk ones more
along the lines of your classic vampire with the bat and gaseous form stuff
and the flying? Or are they merely biologically altered humanoids? Does it
allow for vampires to be cybered? (Ouch...a walking tank who also happens
to be immortal. You ever tried staking someone through the heart when they
have torso plating? And that garlic doesn't bother them so much now that
they've got nasal filters... They could theoretically cyber to the point
where no skin would be exposed to the sun, which could make it very ugly when
you flee from them during the day thinking 'Hey I'm safe till dark...')

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