[19:04] <+piercefraser> Heya folks! I’m Pierce, I created the HC SVNT DRACONES tabletop rpg, and am currently working on its first major expansion
[19:05] <+sp3xsandmixt> Hello everyone!
[19:05] <+wollap69> good morning
[19:05] <+KaiaCougar> Super excited about the expansion part. Must say it’s starting to get crowded in here.
[19:05] <+nocara> Hiya piercefrase! thanks for making the game : )
[19:06] <+Kei_Kenobi> h, it’s another interview night
[19:06] <+Kei_Kenobi> welcome back, pierce.
[19:06] <+piercefraser> HSD is a post-human, local space sci-fi setting with an emphasis on espionage, investigation, horror and occasional bouts of spontaneous combustion
[19:06] <+piercefraser> done
[19:06] <+piercefraser> thankee
[19:06] <~Dan> Thanks, piercefraser!
[19:06] <~Dan> The floor is open to questions!
[19:07] <+sp3xsandmixt> whoooo, spontaneous combustion is the best
[19:07] <+Bobinator> May I start off with a question?
[19:07] <~Dan> Please do!
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[19:07] <~Dan> And welcome, Bobinator!
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[19:07] <~Dan> (Howdy, Silverlion!)
[19:08] <+wollap69> i drank too much lemonade
[19:08] <+Bobinator> OK, here’s my question: The Kickstarter had mentions of variant rules. Can you go into what those will be like? Also, will some of these rules help to make the game easier for some players? I had a recent game where some people didn’t quite get all the game’s rules, which is why I ask.
[19:09] <+piercefraser> Heh, well everything is always intended to make the game more enjoyable, so I guess the simple answer is “yes,” but without having a more specific example of the problem I can’t really address it
[19:10] <+piercefraser> The expanded rules do include FAQs for the first book and a few combat changes that will make it less punishing, though\
[19:10] <+Almaz> Sort of an aside question instead of one about HSD but have you collaborated with any other people on RPGs before? This is the first time I’m looking at the book and it seems oddly familiar.
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[19:11] <+piercefraser> Nope, HSD is my first publication. The familiarity might be theme, though. It’s designed to be a very open, very “familiar” scifi experiance, where you can basically latch on to the parts your most fond of and use them in your game
[19:11] <+KaiaCougar> I’ll throw in a stretch goal question. How much do you anticipate the 25k stretch goal speeding up the equipment book? It sounded like on the tumblr that the original timeline was sometime between now and adversaries.
[19:12] <+Almaz> Nah, it was specifically the anthropomorphic characters in a scifi setting with transhuman elements.
[19:12] <+Almaz> Or posthuman or whatevs.
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[19:13] <+piercefraser> Well that’s been done a few times, as far as I know. I think Albedo did something similar, though I haven’t played it
[19:13] <+Venn> Okay, sorry, mind if I interject here? I’ll keep it brief if I can.
[19:13] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, SilverBolt! Here for the Q&A?)
[19:13] <~Dan> Sure, Venn.
[19:13] <+nocara> hmm questions about the lore are okey?
[19:13] <+Venn> Aright. Most of you probably already know this, but one of Drivethrurpg’s servers just got hacked, and they think a lot of people’s credit card information might have been compromised. Happened throughout July and early August. If anyone here bought anything HSD-related within that time frame, might be a good idea to keep an eye on your account.
[19:13] <&Silverlion> I really like Here Be Dragons, I just need a print copy.
[19:13] <+Almaz> Albedo did but didn’t play with any themes of transhumanism because it somewhat predated the popularity of those themes.
[19:13] <+Venn> I, for one, am probably gonna replace my debit card too, just to be on the safe side.
[19:13] <~Dan> Actually, I’ll just mention that everyone is free to ask questions until I call for a question pause.
[19:14] <~Dan> Then you’ll need to wait for a (done) from our guest, and I’ll call for questions to resume.
[19:14] <+Bobinator> To elaborate on what I said, I think the GM who was playing in my game said he had trouble keeping track of all the combat elements. Will any of the variant rules deal with that?
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[19:16] <~Dan> (Welcome, Guest! You can set your name with the /nick command; e.g., /nick Dan 🙂 )
[19:16] <+piercefraser> Ill address the stretch goal question first. Core:extended is coming out about a year after the first book, which was possible because its advanced funding paid for the majority of its imagry, and that takes a lot of time to generate. Without advanced funding, imagery has to be commissioned AFTER fundraising. each picture can take a month or more to make, and
[19:17] <+piercefraser> the artist can only work on one at a time
[19:18] <+piercefraser> the 25k goal means i can commission most of the next book’s imagery immediately and have it building up as I write it. It’s difficult to really attach a “time saved” to that, but its easily months. The other situation, from a fund raising standpoint, is people dont contribute to kickstarters that dont have visible work to show
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[19:20] <+piercefraser> having most of the imagery completed makes the entire book more attractive to curious parties. prefunding is the difference between waiting 6 months to run an unsuccessful kickstarter for a book that will come out a year later, or waiting 6 months to run a successful kickstarter for a book that will come out 3 months after that
[19:21] <+Zeneth-Starr> Kaia’s really excited about that equipment book.
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[19:21] <+KaiaCougar> I’m really excited about every book.
[19:21] * +Zeneth-Starr smirks.
[19:21] <+Almaz> Why HC SVNT DRACONES as a name? And, while your DTRPG page is somewhat interesting, it includes a lot of words that I’ve seen in other scifi RPG/setting/etc. pitches. Why should I choose to spend my time reading Here Be Dragons over (insert scifi RPG here)?
[19:21] <+nocara> When you have a moment to answer about the lore: if I understood well, a vector is mostly a human brain with a new body, so intrisacally vectors are humans transformed or genetic descendants of humankind. So what is the general perception of the vectors about their own humanity? (dunno if I have expressed it correctly XP)
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[19:23] <+piercefraser> as to the question of combat, that’s tricky bobinator. Like any game, everyone runs into their own conflicts when running it. I’ve been monitering player responses on the forums since the game launched and have created a 1 page adaptation to make combat more enjoyable for everyone, which will be available to all players for free whether they buy C:E or not
[19:23] <+Zeneth-Starr> I really want to see the next book. Along the lines of what nocara is asking, will it have more answers about how the average vector views their galaxy? What their culture is like? Etc?
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[19:23] <+Bobinator> Ahhh, excellent! I’d love to see that as soon as it’s ready.
[19:23] <+piercefraser> whether its going to help the exact problem your guide was having, I really can’t say. Though I do plan to record a demo video, which might help them out
[19:23] <~Dan> (Question pause.)
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[19:24] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, Israaldun!)
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[19:26] <+piercefraser> Almaz, I suppose it depends on what draws you to a game to begin with. This one mixes many fun themes into one setting, which gives you the flexability to choose which one you’re most interested in. It’s also a 3 dollar .pdf for 300 pages of orginal lore and system, which it pretty attractive from a collectors standpoint. It raises some fun questions about ho
[19:26] <+Songtress> What are we talking about?
[19:26] <+consilium> piercefraser: you clipped at “questions about ho”.
[19:26] <+Songtress> Oh Here Be Dragons- its interesting
[19:27] <+Venn> Oh, I have those questions all the time.
[19:27] <+piercefraser> w we view ourselves as a species and what we might be like if many variables we take for granted suddently changed, and its a somewhat more optimistic post-apoc setting, which just isnt something you nessessarily see a lot. Depends on what you’re looking for really
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[19:28] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, AthenStripes, HarbingerLeo!)
[19:28] <+AthenStripes> hola
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[19:28] <+Almaz> For what it’s worth, I am probably the most receptive possible audience to the specific premise of the setting.
[19:28] <+piercefraser> I typically point to the variety as a go-to reason to check it out. Including core:extended, there are a hell of a lot of ways to progress in this universe, not all of which are identical, but all of which can play together
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[19:29] <+HarbingerLeo> Evening
[19:29] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, Zarpaulus!)
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[19:30] <+nocara> Buenas AthenStripes
[19:30] <+Almaz> I guess another way to phrase my question would have been “but what do the rules expect players to do in a typical session?” But, I am probably monopolizing time. Thank you for answering.
[19:30] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, jinx!)
[19:31] <+Zeneth-Starr> I really enjoy the HSD setting and the rules system can allow for a variety of game types. From purely combat to Purely investigation. Hello, you could play “The Office: Mars” if you wanted to.
[19:32] <+piercefraser> nocara, your question is the subject of extended conversation XD. It’s one of the major questions in the game, and a fun one to think about while youre trying to decide on your character’s behaviors. but the quick answer is, genetic identiy or not, humans were “them,” Vectors are “us.” “they” messed up and died. “we” need to try not to, because
[19:32] <+piercefraser> “we’re” a lot like “them.”
[19:32] <+jinx> (Thanks, Dan! I’ve meant to drop by here forever.)
[19:32] <~Dan> (jinx: I’ll PM you.)
[19:33] <+Songtress> I know in HSD I found that trying to read the book, there wasn’t a way for me jump around and ‘get it’
[19:33] <+piercefraser> there is a clear and distinct seperation between the actions and history of humanity and vectors. they consider them an entirely different race. but theres no denying many behavioral simularities
[19:34] <+nocara> hmm and is that an uniform point of view? Is something I wonder, because I can see in nowadays society that people still siding with their ancestors and identify themselves with them, or the oposite
[19:34] <+KaiaCougar> I might have to remember that “quick answer”, because I like how you said that.
[19:35] <+HarbingerLeo> Can’t really publish my own flavor of the PDF, but if you need to add bookmarks it, Songtress? Foxit PDF reader works well for it.
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[19:35] <+piercefraser> Well thats largely up to the taste of the player, but humanity isn’t really their ancestry. They didnt evolve from humans. They didnt evolve at all. As creations with no creator, you’re sort of left with a choice. you can dwell on the abstract ideals of a dead race, or you can find your own way. after 700 years, the vast majority have chosen the latter path
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[19:36] <~Dan> Remind me of the horror aspects of the setting? And does the expansion touch on these subjects?
[19:36] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, Guest81!)
[19:36] <+Zarpaulus> Aren’t Hemivectors descended from humans who modified themselves with gene therapy?
[19:37] <+nocara> Oh! By ancestors I meant poeple that lived 700 years ago (other humas), but maybe I am asking too many things ^^ Thanks for the answer
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[19:38] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, Fuyutsuki!)
[19:39] <+piercefraser> Dan, both the current adventure contracts have horror elements to them. the first is scientifc, the second is more on the astral-terror side (dont want to give too much away). in the lore, there is a third “element” to the fall of humanity that isnt very well understood by Vectors, but is manifesting itself continually in their space
[19:40] <~Dan> Aliens?
[19:41] <+Ampersand> Funny I can think of at least three more horror aspects if not four that I’m curious if they will show up in the contracts in the future?
[19:41] <+HarbingerLeo> Anything more on transcendent implants on the way in the new book, or would that be reserved for TTI’s theme?
[19:41] <+Fuyutsuki> So, as a general rule of thumb, will the overall structure of the game, long-term, be you guys releasing quests? Or will the focus shift eventually to custom quests?
[19:41] <+piercefraser> at the last days of the fall of earth, there was actually a point where humanity was going to save itself. they had stopped fighting and pulled back, and were tentivally reaching toward peace. An outside influence sealed their fate. various aspects of that influence have reappeared as inexplicable phenomina ever since in the history
[19:41] <+RosannaFoxfire> So… When will we be seeing more ship based stuff? The core book is a little lackluster, with only five weapons, and the rules are a little thin on the ground.
[19:42] <+Venn> Sorry, are we still on question pause?
[19:42] <~Dan> (Oh, there you are, RosannaFoxfire! Welcome to #rpgnet!)
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[19:42] <+RosannaFoxfire> Hi. ^.^
[19:42] <~Dan> Venn: Actually, I think piercefraser caught up, so no.
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[19:43] <+Venn> Perfect, thanks.
[19:43] <+Bobinator> May I ask another question? It’s kind of a long one, unfortunately…
[19:43] <+Almaz> Is there a character sheet for me to check out? … someone else can answer this one if it’s an easy to answer.
[19:43] <~Dan> Sure, Bobinator.
[19:43] <+piercefraser> yes, many of the other elements in the backstory wil be appereing and elaborated on in future contracts. the full exposition behind them all wont be printed until the Adversaries book comes out though. That will give people a lot of the “what is this, really?” questions
[19:43] <+Bobinator> All right, here’s my question. It looks that if the game somewhat expects a campaign to end with directly battling the Whispers, and dealing with getting rod of them for good. If the GM wants a different tone and theme, will there be more adversaries and situations of that threat that the players can deal with for the “endgame”? Basically, what do you do if y
[19:43] <+Venn> back of the core rulebook for the character sheet.
[19:43] <+Bobinator> Basically, what do you do if you aren’t as big on cosmic horror, and will future contracts focus on different themes?
[19:44] <+piercefraser> the equipment book will have many new ships and ship based material
[19:44] <+Almaz> That’s the only place for it? Hm.
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[19:44] <+piercefraser> no, its online too
[19:44] <+piercefraser> (Link: http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/utilities/)http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/utilities/
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[19:44] <+Venn> Ah, new news to me. Cool.
[19:44] <+Almaz> Cool, thank you.
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[19:45] <+piercefraser> new contracts will have all sorts of themes, not just cosmic horror. It just happens that the second one dabbled in that
[19:45] <+HarbingerLeo> Almaz, There are a few fan made versions of the character sheet floating around. I use fill-able PDF. There are some google spread sheets floating around too. I’ll see if I can dig deep enough in the forum archive to find them…
[19:46] <+piercefraser> i think some of them are on that page, actually
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[19:47] <+Zarpaulus> It seemed to me like both of the contracts were murder mysteries. What else can we expect to see in future contracts?
[19:47] <+HarbingerLeo> I stand corrected, the fillable PDF is on that page. I don’t see the google doc thing.
[19:47] <+nocara> A nerd question: I like much the lore, but when I saw how fast the Vector society recovered the humankind numbers, I was not able to be surprise! 3e9 souls? in 400 years? and in Mars! So this made me wonder: how do they reproduce? they still incubating them artifitially? how many kids a couple can have? is socially accepted to make a family between different
[19:47] <+nocara> races?
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[19:47] <+RosannaFoxfire> @nocara 700 years.
[19:48] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, Cole!)
[19:48] <+Cole> Good evening!
[19:48] <+piercefraser> Well, I toss a lot of ideas around depending on where Im going in projects at the time, but there is a Progenitus one planned that’s a rescue mission in an underwater facility, and a pulse one where you’re trying to stop an assasination during an event
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[19:49] <~Dan> (Cole: Here for the Q&A?)
[19:49] <+Zeneth-Starr> Also, remember, tduring those 700 years, for a good portion of them there haven’t been ANY fatal diseases that can cull the growth of the species…since mostly all diseases were cured.
[19:49] <+Bobinator> This is more of a rules question, but here’s something I don’t think was answered in the book: Do NPCs have all the same things as PCs do, in combat? Morphism traits, momentum bonuses, species bonuses, that sort of thing?
[19:49] <+piercefraser> They reproduce sexually, and it’s completely acceptable to mix races. Most families are fertile. Even Cogs can reproduce with Vectors
[19:50] <+nocara> ( @RosannaFoxfire I made my estimation based in page 23 and I assume an initial population of 10000 by page 20)
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[19:50] <+Zarpaulus> What I’ve read didn’t really explain much about how Cogs and Vectors can procreate.
[19:50] <+Cole> (Yes Dan, been supporting HSD since the beginning.)
[19:50] <+nocara> oh wow!
[19:50] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, Guest76!)
[19:50] <+Fuyutsuki> Wait, Cogs can reproduce w/Vectors!?
[19:50] <+Zeneth-Starr> On that note, if different species interbreed, what is the result? Does the offspring have an equal chance of being either species? Or is it based on the mother or the father’s dna?
[19:51] <+piercefraser> bob, technically, yes, they do. the templates in the book dont include them because it puts an often needless ammount of detail on the Guide’s mind, but for people who really like having all the granular aspects of their thugs, they’re all built out of the same stuff
[19:51] <~Dan> (Question pause in place, folks, Please wait for a (done) from piercefraser. 🙂 )
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[19:52] <+HarbingerLeo> Ok, there are about 3 different versions of a google spreadsheet. The players in my game use is this one: (Link: http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/forums/topic/editable-character-sheets/)http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/forums/topic/editable-character-sheets/
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[19:52] <+Fuyutsuki> Thanks HarbingerLeo, that is excellent!
[19:53] <+piercefraser> XD those details werent in the core book, zarpaulus. Thats one of the reasons Core:Extended exists. The core book costs 37 dollars to print, and another 5 or so to ship. it retails for 50. after drivethru takes its cut, I make about 6-7 bucks every time one of those books sells. If I had put the additional
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[19:53] <+piercefraser> cog rules (about 30 pages) into the core book, it would retail for 70-80 dollars, and it wouldnt be because im inflating the price
[19:54] <+piercefraser> alas, some things had to wait for book two
[19:54] <+nocara> (37 $ per book?! wow)
[19:55] <+KaiaCougar> Print on demand isn’t cheap, sadly.
[19:55] * +Zeneth-Starr nods in agreement with KaiaCougar.
[19:56] <+Cole> (Good quality printing is expensive until you get into massive bulk printing, which isn’t really an option for someone essentially lone-wolfing it.)
[19:56] <+piercefraser> but on that note, yes, cogs and vectors can have children. its not even a complicated process. Remember, this race has had the technology to digitally convert data into DNA since it was created. Cogs do much the same thing, analysing genetic material to extrapolate features, manorisms, posture and overall build, and converting that into useable data for the
[19:56] <+nocara> ( I have to agreed with the Good Quality, maybe it is one of the best books in my colection)
[19:56] <+piercefraser> assembly of a new cog that looks like a mix of its robotic mother and organic father
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[19:57] <+Zarpaulus> Or vice-versa I assume?
[19:57] <+piercefraser> the same works in reverse, its just synthasizing protiens. the tech has existed since vectors began
[19:57] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, Holy!)
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[19:58] <+Cole> So, basically like organic 3D printing.
[19:58] <+piercefraser> more or less
[19:58] <+piercefraser> and yes, print on demand isnt cheap ;.;
[19:59] <+piercefraser> neither are american printers. between distrbution markup and retail markup, i literally cant print this book in this country and sell it in stores. I would have to own my own print facitlity
[19:59] <+nocara> (so… having a Cogs kid is also print of demand…. talking about expensive fatherhood!! XD)
[19:59] <+piercefraser> (looking at you, WOTC and fantasy flight)
[19:59] * +Zeneth-Starr laughs.
[20:00] <+piercefraser> I think i touched the active questions?
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[20:00] <~Dan> If so, questions may resume!
[20:01] <+Venn> So, we’ve seen quite a bit of elaboration on weapons and armor–quite a few examples of both–but not much about shields other than that they exist, and some ground rules. Are we going to see any sort of “official” shield options, or is that more up to the Guide/players to make up as they go along? I’m thinking of submitting some designs/specs to the shared–
[20:01] <+Venn> —document, but don’t wanna take up too much of your space/time if it’s not going to be a factor anyways.
[20:01] <+KaiaCougar> Zeneth had one about children between differing vectors.
[20:01] <+Zarpaulus> I was wondering a bit about that novel mentioned in one of the stretch goals.
[20:01] <+AthenStripes> Sev, What is your opinion on PvP?
[20:01] <+RosannaFoxfire> My boyfriend is begging me to ask if Red Pandas are going to be a thing. So I’m assuming that they’ll fit under the “Blips” part, right?
[20:01] <+Fuyutsuki> Since Cogs existed for quite some time, and are fully-functional, sentient beings, why did the production of Vectors continue? Cogs are better in nearly every way…
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[20:01] <+piercefraser> Shields will be expanded in the equipment book, as will everything else involved with killing people and not being killed by people
[20:02] <+Bobinator> Would it be possible to have a game where the party doesn’t get involved with the corporations much, or at all, for whatever reason?
[20:02] <+Venn> perfect.
[20:02] <+Zarpaulus> Because Vectors are self-replicating.
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[20:02] <+RosannaFoxfire> Also, will the ‘fantasy’ races alluded to in the Core book be expanded on in C:E?
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[20:02] <+Venn> I’m guessing Ganymede might be a good place for that sort of non-corp campaign?
[20:02] <~Dan> (Question pause.)
[20:03] <+Venn> CLOSE THE FLOODGATES
[20:03] <+AthenStripes> lol
[20:03] <+piercefraser> zarp, it’s kinda random chance, in the same way human gender is kinda “random chance.” there are things you can do to slant the odds toward one species or the other, but for the most part its one of those coin-flips the parents wait eagerly to find out about
[20:03] <+Zarpaulus> Hold on, what’s that thing in the picture on page 276? A macro lateral?
[20:04] <+HarbingerLeo> I always thought so.
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[20:05] <+HarbingerLeo> (That or it’s a really small cart and lizard.)
[20:05] <+KaiaCougar> You made me go look and see what you were talking about 😛
[20:05] <+piercefraser> as for the novel, I too am wondering about it XD. its and exciting next step, Ill be hunting down establish authors with published material in the same genre and looking over their work
[20:06] <+piercefraser> It will likely (and i say that with trepidation, because nothing is certain yet) be a novel length narrative of Elysium’s story from before the SoL contract to after it
[20:06] <+piercefraser> includeing the actions within
[20:07] <+Ampersand> Yep.
[20:07] <+Ampersand> Took me ages to figure out how that could be too.
[20:07] <+Ampersand> Nice.
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[20:08] <+piercefraser> bob, yes, depending on how you’re defining it. These organizations are enormous, it’s very easy to stay under their radar if you just choose not to work with them. have private adventures or take jobs from individuals, that sort of thing. or run your own corp!
[20:10] <+piercefraser> the “production” of vectors stopped before cogs came into being, they were producing themselves by then, the good old fashioned way. but to answer your question, you’d just have to ask a vector. they’d probably look offended and ask what the hell you mean by “better in every way.”
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[20:12] <+piercefraser> rosanna, not specifically, though Blips do touch on that a bit as custom races. The specifically referenced station in the core book is going to be the sight for a campiegn in the distant future
[20:13] <+piercefraser> they’re doorways, basically. plotpoints so guides can snag the ones they want and play with them
[20:13] <+RosannaFoxfire> Awesome.
[20:13] <+piercefraser> XD the pic on 276 has a bit of a story behind it, actually
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[20:16] <+piercefraser> the pic on 212 was contributed by a fan who purchased the rights to the image when he commissioned it. Unfortunately, shortly after the order went up, the artist got in a car wreck and broke thier collar bone. we figured there was no way they were going to be able to complete the pic in time for publication, so an emergency replacement was ordered
[20:16] <+piercefraser> turns out, the artist powered through it and got the pic on 212 drawn. XD but I already had the replacement. so it ended up back there on 276
[20:16] <+piercefraser> but yes, its a macro lateral
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[20:17] <+piercefraser> done
[20:17] <+Gendo> wow, serious respect.
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[20:17] <+piercefraser> yeah, and it turned out great despite the injury
[20:17] <+Fuyutsuki> Can you elaborate on what Hardskin feels like, subjectively? How is your average day different wearing Hardskin? Does it require cleaning/maintenance? Can you still have fur/feathers/scales? What does a Hardskin Artist do?
[20:17] <~Dan> (Welcome to #rpgnet, Mykal!)
[20:17] <+nocara> Hmm you mentioned that the factor to Vector massive grow is the cure of most of deceases, but that only contributes to increasing the elders number and avoid infants death. The latter is quite low in a 1st world society. What really controls the population is how many kids people wants to have. So, do vectors families use to have a lot of siblings? (aka Shoul
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[20:18] <+nocara> (aka Should we make a lot of brothers and sisters for our PC?)
[20:18] <~Dan> Maybe I shouldn’t have greeted that person, but in the end, it was Mykal.
[20:18] <+AthenStripes> what is your opinion on PVP?
[20:18] <+piercefraser> ouch
[20:18] <+piercefraser> oh, sorry, i missed that oen
[20:19] <+Gendo> Anyway, what’s the situation regarding non-sentient species? Did any make it off Earth, or are they all the result of terraforming waste/etc.? Do people still keep pets at all? And is livestock still a facet of society, or is that essentially vestigial/unnecessary due to the ability to essentially synthesize food/biotic material?
[20:19] <+Zarpaulus> Well, the birth rate skyrockets after wars.
[20:20] <+KaiaCougar> Corporate incentives for birthrates, perhaps…
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[20:20] <+Ampersand> Nocara. Think of how many kids die each day to diseases and genetic oroblems that have been fixed in that world.
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[20:20] <+piercefraser> PvP is really up to the players. I didnt craft the system for it, but it can certanly be done. I’ll toss a caveot in there though. The new combat tweaks in C:E go to considerable lengths to make combat less immediately lethal, because it was hurting player fun. it does not make it tame. If players are engaging in pvp with actual guns in the game, it’s probab
[20:20] <+piercefraser> ly going to end in a death
[20:20] <+RosannaFoxfire> Oh. I’ve another. So the way I understand the rules, surgeries are really only supposed to go out at certain ‘reputation’ points with corporations. So where Transcendant Implants are concerned, it’s safest to get them to be Cuil 1, which can only be guaranteed by having Body:Pes and Mind:Pres at 4-5. Trouble is, Pulse requires that you be an employee to>
[20:21] <+HarbingerLeo> Hm. How crowed are Mars and Venus? The vector race didn’t start with more then a few hundred as I recall, and hasn’t had time for more then 10-12 generations?
[20:21] <+RosannaFoxfire> > get muscle enhancement surgery, and ASR requires the same for Voice.
[20:21] <+RosannaFoxfire> So how are vectors supposed to get both sets of surgeries, short of bargaining with the corps with a job?
[20:22] <+piercefraser> the other issue is the combat was crafted with the idea that guides would make NPCs behave realistically (ie, not trade life-for-life, even if its possible). players tend not to follow that restrction
[20:22] <+Zeneth-Starr> HarbingerLeo, I’m pretty sure the core book says there are about 5 billion vectors on Mars.
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[20:22] <+HarbingerLeo> Good to know, thank you.
[20:23] <+Fuyutsuki> So, the Hydra virus spread between pretty much any kind of hardware, “almost supernaturally” through anything that could transfer information. My question: why were living brains safe? Shouldn’t people have been infected? They can see and speak, after all, transferring information.
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[20:24] <+KaiaCougar> Fuyutsuki, good point. Maybe it did. After all, palemen are pretty mysterious.
[20:24] <+AthenStripes> suppose that could be what whispers are, living things that got infected
[20:24] <+Fuyutsuki> But it should have gotten *everyone*
[20:24] <+piercefraser> Most vector families have siblings, I’d say. its not a rule, but there isnt too much of a reason not to. the megacorps have basically found a way to make people into money generators just by existing, its part of the ledger system, it facilitates exchange. more people is more money. but C:E talks about some of the other details with that too, such as what ha
[20:24] <+piercefraser> ppens when youre below the “poverty line”
[20:25] <+Israaldun> There is such a thing as ‘natural immunity’.
[20:25] <+Fuyutsuki> Isralldun, to a computer virus that attacks everything dynamically?
[20:26] <+Bobinator> May I put up another question before the pause?
[20:26] <+piercefraser> Im afraid im losing questions in the side commentary
[20:26] <+nocara> hmm I think I will have to wait until the novels to understand it better
[20:26] <+Israaldun> To organic systems that are able to mutate to adapt the needs of their environment.
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[20:26] <~Dan> Bobinator: Okay, go ahead, then question pause.
[20:26] <+Zeneth-Starr> Perhaps the “sentience” of a cog made them immune to the dynamic virus.
[20:26] <+nocara> most of my questions come from my efforts to imagine the world were PC lives in your game : P
[20:27] <+Fuyutsuki> Ampersand, you are right, ~21,000 kids die each day from disease & starvation
[20:27] <+Bobinator> This is from another player in my group: “What have you learned from the process of developing your game? What other products in the genre do you feel you’ve built off of or learned from since your earlier work?”
[20:27] <~Dan> (Question pause. 🙂 )
[20:27] <+Zeneth-Starr> Same here nocara.
[20:27] <+Fuyutsuki> Zeneth-Starr I contend that even flesh-brains ought to be vulnerable
[20:27] <+nocara> (well about the Hydra it sounds like a Deux Ex, so we wil have to wait until the universe advances)
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[20:29] <+Israaldun> And more survive thanks to immunization and biological variation. Digital systems have fairly standardized formats and programming to allow for ease of access and transfer of information between them, but biological systems vary so widely that it’d be nearly impossible for a disease to prove fatal to every living thing.
[20:29] <+piercefraser> hardskin has most of the same sensory input normal skin has, thoguh its somewhat abstracted as it ablates pain (or it wouldnt be very useful as armor). It doesnt creak or hurt to wear, but it’s somewhat stiffer and less stretchy than actual skin would be. feels a bit like well oiled leather
[20:29] <+Zeneth-Starr> I don’t think you have to contend much on that, Fuyutsuki since, apparently, the owls were affected. But I think those questions may not be fully answered until the adversaries expansion.
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[20:30] <+AthenStripes> (gotta scaddadle, good hanging with you, sev)
[20:30] <+KaiaCougar> It’s hinted that the Hydra virus was a transcendant event. Perhaps it took time to advance to the next cuil and make the jump between mechanical systems to living things.
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[20:30] <~Dan> Take care, AthenStripes!
[20:30] <~Dan> Come by any time!
[20:30] <+nocara> (@Israaldun about digital system standarizes: HA!! I wish!)
[20:31] <+piercefraser> Pandas are a thing. Red pandas are something you can produce as a Blip
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[20:31] <+Fuyutsuki> Zeneth-Starr but it still doesn’t make that much sense, Owl brains, human brains, and non-owl Vector brains are probably close enough that if one could be infected they all could… even if it took lots of time, it is implied the virus is still out there. I’m imagining all of a sudden Mars gets a mysterious audio transmission and everyone goes Owl
[20:32] <~Dan> That would be a hoot!
[20:32] <+nocara> XD
[20:32] * +Zeneth-Starr laughs at Dan’s pun.
[20:32] <+piercefraser> there is a massive selection of slightly modified earth life on mars, and yes, people keep pets. Often custom ones. Venus is particularly known for the creation of one-off creatures, its ecosystem was tailor made to allow for it
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[20:33] <+Zeneth-Starr> That’s quite possible Fuyutsuki. KaiaCougar’s point could also be possible, that of it being a transcendant event that hasn’t quite made the jump.
[20:34] <+KaiaCougar> Also, Red Pandas are an offshoot of the Mustelid line, about the same level as Racoons and Skunks. So you might be able to re-flavor a Core:Extended Racoon.
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[20:35] <~Dan> wb, Ampersand, jinx!
[20:37] <&Silverlion> So is this a new book? Or a rewrite?
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[20:38] * &Silverlion is confused
[20:38] <+KaiaCougar> Core:Extended is the expansion that is on Kickstarter right now
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[20:38] <+nocara> (cough fund it! cough)
[20:38] <+HarbingerLeo> (Link: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1448273438/hsd-core-extended/)https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1448273438/hsd-core-extended/
[20:38] <&Silverlion> I can’t alas. I’m poor.
[20:39] <+HarbingerLeo> Hey look a link! How did that get there? 😛
[20:39] <+Zeneth-Starr> Is the book going to be called “Core:Extended”? Exactly like that, with the : and everything?
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[20:40] <+Gendo> WHOAH WHAT
[20:40] <~Dan> Netsplit.
[20:40] <+piercefraser> and allll the questions are gone…
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[20:40] <+HarbingerLeo> What was the last one you (wanted) to answer? Do people keep pets?
[20:40] <~Dan> piercefraser: Can you give us an overview of what this supplement offers?
[20:41] <+Zeneth-Starr> That was answered….they do.
[20:41] <+nocara> Have you consider to do a contract/novel/thing based in the same premise as Futurama?
[20:41] <+Songtress> Wow that was an insane netsplit
[20:41] <+piercefraser> Core:ex is a new book. it has one chapter dedicated to expanding previous rules and adding some addendums to clean up some issues with combat. beyond that, it’s entirely new material
[20:41] <+Zarpaulus> No, just above all the resets.
[20:42] * +Zeneth-Starr just got an imagine in hir head of an elderly weasel saying “Good NEWS everybody!”…thanks to nocara.
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[20:43] <+nocara> You are welcome!… damn! now I will have to make a Cog with a shinny back part and with mexican name
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[20:43] <+KaiaCougar> Good News Everybody. It’s a suppository.
[20:44] <+Ampersand> By the way kudos on the most original critter I’ve ever seen.
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[20:45] <+nocara> But I was refering to a human frozen for 1000 years found by the vectors. Specially if the popular opinion about the humans is similar than the actual german to their ancestors during WWII
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[20:45] <&Silverlion> Dear magicstar, What the heck?
[20:46] <+Zeneth-Starr> Well, a frozen human apperaring in modern vector society would be a hell of a disturbance, considering “Master’s Voice” Syndrome.
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[20:46] <+Gendo> oof.
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[20:46] <~Dan> Sheesh.
[20:47] <+Fuyutsuki> whoooa
[20:47] <+nocara> oh no! machines are revealing again! Bl**dy informatics!
[20:47] <+piercefraser> did i lose the chat?
[20:47] <~Dan> Just some of it.
[20:47] <+Fuyutsuki> Zeneth-Starr except for hemis
[20:47] <+Zeneth-Starr> It was another netsplit.
[20:47] <+nocara> @piercefrase what chat?
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[20:48] <+Gendo> this one
[20:48] <+nocara> oh! it is here
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[20:48] <+piercefraser> dan? anyone out there?
[20:48] <+KaiaCougar> Seems we’re all still here.
[20:49] <+Ampersand> Yep.
[20:49] <~Dan> I’m here!
[20:49] <+Zarpaulus> There is a fanfiction section on the forum (Link: http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/forums/forum/personnel-files/fiction/)http://hsdroleplayinggame.com/forums/forum/personnel-files/fiction/
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[20:49] <+nocara> Zarpaulus: wow it is surprisily small!
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[20:50] <+Almaz> Fanfiction for a niche roleplaying game? Having fanfiction is impressive, frankly.
[20:50] <+piercefraser> test
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[20:50] <+HarbingerLeo> I guess most of the other writers spend a lot of their time RPing instead.
[20:50] <+Gendo> seems to be working from our end
[20:50] <~Dan> piercefraser: In what remains of “regular time”, is there anything we haven’t covered that you’d like to bring up?
[20:50] <+KaiaCougar> We hear you peirce. Can you hear us?
[20:50] <+Almaz> We can see you!
[20:51] <+Gendo> We can smeeeeeeeell youuuuuuu
[20:51] <+piercefraser> well, i just got updated after about 7 minutes of lag, so uh
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[20:51] <+Fuyutsuki> Do vectors have modified teeth to be omnivorous? Many are based on animals with limited diets.
[20:51] <~Dan> Oh. Wow. O.o
[20:51] <+nocara> HarbingerLeo: tell that to Margaret Weis y Tracy Hickman
[20:51] <+piercefraser> Im not entirly sure where we’re at…
[20:52] <+nocara> hmm shall we repeat the questions? : )
[20:52] <+HarbingerLeo> Ah. Before the first nest split I think you’d just talked about (or were finishing talking about) vectors having pets, livestock, or the like.
[20:52] <+piercefraser> I’ve been posting for the past 7 minutes, Im guessing it didnt show up?
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[20:52] <+Ampersand> Nope
[20:52] <+Gendo> we covered pets, but hadn’t gotten to livestock.
[20:52] <+Fuyutsuki> Gendo I just dun PM’ed you can you see it
[20:53] <+Ampersand> I think a pause is in order with a recap?
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[20:53] <~Dan> Oh dear.
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[20:53] <~Dan> wb, piercefraser!
[20:53] <+nocara> livestock? what for? if they have organic 3d printers XD
[20:53] <+piercefraser> I think this chatroom has rejected my implant o.O
[20:53] <+piercefraser> alright, i think it’s all working now
[20:54] <+HarbingerLeo> I think Fuyutsuki asked about the Hydra infection, and I’d asked how crowed Mar or Venus was. I didn’t see any more questions in the log before the IRC chat went insane.
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[20:54] <+Gendo> Actually, livestock was my question, and I recall them talking about food production in Echoes. Never mind that one.
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[20:54] <+piercefraser> food is generally printed. livestock isnt really a thing
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[20:54] <+HarbingerLeo> I’ll scroll up, it’s still there, but don’t think there were anymore outstanding questions after the pet one.
[20:54] <+piercefraser> farms are factories, essentually
[20:54] <+Fuyutsuki> I *just a couple seconds ago* asked about if Vectors have modified teeth to be omnivorous. The original critters have limited diets after all.
[20:55] <+HarbingerLeo> I stand corrected.
[20:55] <+Israaldun> Writing in-universe
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[20:55] <+Zeneth-Starr> Oh! Ddon’t know if we’re taking new questions but, is Core:Extended going to tell anything about the sporting events they do? Like the events Pulse holds?
[20:55] <+piercefraser> yes, their teeth are different than the animal contempories, though they still look more like whatever they were than human. its a bit of a split
[20:56] <+nocara> oh! I asked “Have you consider to do a contract/novel/thing based in the same premise as Futurama? ” I meant that they found a human from 1000 years ago frozen and preserved
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[20:56] <+piercefraser> There are still plans to make corp based expansions. C:E focuses a bit more on everyday life than faction specific life
[20:57] <+Bobinator> Actually, that reminds me: Are Vectors herbivores and carnivores, or are they all omnivores?
[20:57] <+KaiaCougar> All omnivores. Simplifies logistics, which was crucial on early mars.
[20:57] <+Gendo> Out of curiosity, is C:E going to touch much more on lore and history–I’m pretty sure you mentioned that there’d been *at least* three race wars–or does it mostly regard current-day Sol?
[20:57] <+piercefraser> theyre all omnivores
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[20:57] <+HarbingerLeo> Questions unpaused?
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[20:58] <+piercefraser> It is very unlikely there will ever be a human expansion. I wont say “never,” because hey, things happen, but one of the fundamental goals in this game was to create a role play setting in which humans were not a factor
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[20:58] <+piercefraser> race selection, rather
[20:58] <~Dan> Actually, we should wrap up the official part of the chat, although everyone is absolutely welcome to continue to discuss the supplement as long as you like.
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[20:58] <+Fuyutsuki> piecefraser, is there even a need? Hemi’s are close enough right? They just look like humans with a few extra parts iirc
[20:59] <+Huli> So how long before they develop FTL?
[20:59] <+Ampersand> Was just wondering if whisper events will show up in a contract later or if they can infect non vector species like a pet?
[20:59] <+Zeneth-Starr> But nocara, that’s a good idea. If you GM at all, might be a good idea for a campaign or adventure…the discovery of a cryogenically frozen human. That wouldn’t certainly cause a stir as various megacorps try to control the human.
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[20:59] <~Dan> Thanks very much for hanging out with us, piercefraser!
[20:59] <+Zeneth-Starr> Fuyutsuki, the only point i would see would be introducing Master’s Voice in the mix.
[21:00] <+nocara> Zeneth-Starr, in fact my GM and the one that introduced me to this game is around here… listening… in the shadows
[21:00] <+Zeneth-Starr> Heheh…Hopefully he’s taking notes, nocara.
[21:00] <+Gendo> my guess is that Whispers could infect any animal–after all, they reside within the circulatory system, if I recall correctly.
[21:01] <~Dan> Give me just a minute or two here, and I’ll get the log posted and get you the link.
[21:01] <+HarbingerLeo> I’d figure a record of a human gene-gnome (or other life that didn’t make the exodus before humans died off) and other history making it off earth before then end would probably be more likely then a still function 700year old cryopod. 😛
[21:01] <+piercefraser> Huli, it technically exists. Transcendent technology can already pull it off. it’s just a matter of leveraging it that hasent really been nailed down yet
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[21:01] <+piercefraser> there is lore in place for it, though