This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using Maxthon or Brave as a browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, you should know that these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse.The most common causes of this issue are: Corps mostly need magic to protect themselves against magic.Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. To all these things, there is a good counter: magic. Do it enough and all sorts of malicious spirits will turn up, manipulate everything and everyone and all the nonmage can do is carpet bomb the area. Good Feng Shui can significantly benefit any endeavor, but the fun part is when you ruin other people's Feng Shui. But a good combat spell wont care for him being a walking tank - and illusions and manipulation spells open even more interesting options.Īnd finally, there is geomancy. So military and security: you can send in a troll with a heavy mil spec armor, a riot shield and even heavy weapons will hardly stop this behemoth. Espionage is similar: good luck spying on a place with your drones if your mark uses a jammer. Also, good luck solving a murder by mundane means if the assassination if carried out by a spirit.
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Filthy places are full of false leads and even if you have a cleaner environment, some knowledge in chemistry (or professional cleaning) and you can wipe evidence away. Criticizing the rule set for the inclusion of magic just ruins the experience for other players at the table.įooling a forensics team isn't actually that hard. Now, OOC, tell your fellow player that if he doesn't think Magic is important in a rule set whose main distinguishing characteristic from other post-apocalypic / near-future games is the inclusion of magic (contrast Cyberpunk vs Shadowrun, for example), then he shouldn't be playing the game. Set off an EMP and see how well his cybered up body works when technology turns off.Īnd then challenge him to recover a kidnapping victim when the only witness is a spirit. If he doesn't see the utility of magic, then invite him as a street sam to an arcology where weapons are forbidden, then task him to assassinate a target on a balcony six flights up before security drones can pick off the rogue climber. But very simply put there are some things where magic is invaluable. And there are things Technology can do that magic cannot (like space flight). There are things they both do, one better than the other. Your player is woefully ignorant if he doesn't think there are things Magic can do that Technology cannot. *it should come as no surprise that this player has never played anything other than a Street Sam in his life And I have also found precious little fluff or narrative reasons for it beyond "mages are rare, and corps want rare things."Ĭan you guys help to analyze this situation? In any case, I found it interesting that how a game as high-tech as Shadowrun still has a place for magic, as in mages are some of the most prized metahuman resources that everybody wants.
Sometimes it's a situation like Onward where tech phased out magic altogether. His questions got me thinking of how many different types of media handle magic and tech together. He says that magical forensics is useless when "our modern forensics can already find so much, what about 2070s forensics then?" So one of my fellow players claims that "Shadowrun is not realistic" because in a "realistic" world, if magic had suddenly been introduced, it would have fallen flat since "technology can already do everything that magic does.*" He cites how there is no point to cast manabolt or light when guns, flashlights and cybereyes exist.
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