Reminds me of that anthro episode of Batman Beyond ("Splicers"). "Splicing is like establishing myself as an individual, you know. Just like all my friends!"
Not me, I'd be too worried about a GM deliberately targeting me with essence stripping attacks if I threw half of it away on fancy cosmetic surgeries. But I did know someone who bragged about his canine shadowrunner back in the '90s, justified in the same way.
I've never really appreciated the whole essence-shredding conundrum of Shadowrun. You figure you're already operating an unwieldy zombie made of sinew and guts, I see no reason why there's something un-magical about silicon and chrome synthetics that makes them somehow less soul-receptive than bones made of calcium. It makes sense from a gameplay balance perspective, but less so from an epistemological one. For all you know, by similar reasoning, the very act of 'eating' is soul-shredding because you're introducing foreign entities into you to sustain what you were initially conceived as... it somewhat makes the whole contrivance a touch nonsensical. But then, this is the realm of nerd-dom from which we got the concept of lawful stupid paladins, so what do I know.
I carelessly mis-read a word balloon as saying ``it's as if I'd been living in cow definition up until now'' and I think that accidentally invented a different tf sequence.
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Alby
Reminds me of that anthro episode of Batman Beyond ("Splicers"). "Splicing is like establishing myself as an individual, you know. Just like all my friends!"
neolycanthro
I could see a Shadowrun character doing this. I could PLAY a Shadowrun character doing this.
Selden
Not me, I'd be too worried about a GM deliberately targeting me with essence stripping attacks if I threw half of it away on fancy cosmetic surgeries. But I did know someone who bragged about his canine shadowrunner back in the '90s, justified in the same way.
sachichroma
I've never really appreciated the whole essence-shredding conundrum of Shadowrun. You figure you're already operating an unwieldy zombie made of sinew and guts, I see no reason why there's something un-magical about silicon and chrome synthetics that makes them somehow less soul-receptive than bones made of calcium. It makes sense from a gameplay balance perspective, but less so from an epistemological one. For all you know, by similar reasoning, the very act of 'eating' is soul-shredding because you're introducing foreign entities into you to sustain what you were initially conceived as... it somewhat makes the whole contrivance a touch nonsensical. But then, this is the realm of nerd-dom from which we got the concept of lawful stupid paladins, so what do I know.
Arthas972
Biomods? Like in Invisible War? I prefer the stuff in Human Revolution and Mankind Divided, personally :P
AustinDern
I carelessly mis-read a word balloon as saying ``it's as if I'd been living in cow definition up until now'' and I think that accidentally invented a different tf sequence.
Transfurent
Your Cs and Ls kinda look the same, it took me a moment to realize she said "low definition" and not "cow definition".
sachichroma
Zoo-augs. The best kind of augs.
davidcat2401
I could easily see plastic surgery advancing to this level in the next few decades, and I wouldn't at all be opposed to it lol. Nice work!