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MC’d for the first time a few nights ago.

MC’d for the first time a few nights ago. The team legworked the f*** out of it and I hardly had a chance to use any moves. Seriously epic rolls that made me want to confiscate their dice.

We had to end the session quickly so I decided to use Conduct an Operation instead of action. The roll was another good one. Then came the roll for getting paid: Snake eyes with a +4 from legwork clock slots open means a 6.

Here’s my problem: none of the corporation clocks are above 15:00. I can’t think of what to do because hard moves don’t seem appropriate yet? It doesn’t seem right to have the payment meet go totally FUBAR…

Advice?

Hi, I’m in the process of putting together a campaign for The Sprawl and I have more than 4 applicants.

Hi, I’m in the process of putting together a campaign for The Sprawl and I have more than 4 applicants. I wouldn’t want to go higher than 5 players anyway, but is there any reason the game specifies 4 players as a limit? Looking through the rules, I think the only thing which would need to change would be the links/corporate clock economy. Is there anything else?

What was the main reason behind the 4 player limit? Is it just that bigger games can get messy, or is there something deeper to it.

Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks!

Is there an 8.5×11/letter version of the playbooks? The legal layout shrinks a lot on letter :(

Is there an 8.5×11/letter version of the playbooks? The legal layout shrinks a lot on letter 🙁

How would people handle Getting Paid twice?

So my players finished their first mission and I gave them an interesting dilemma concerning the handing over of the data they had to recover. Basically it was meant to go to a Corp but a hacktivist group offered to pay the group for it instead. It was essentially to give one of the players a chance to fire off one of his directives. However due to some established fiction there was no reason why they couldn’t just give them the data, get paid and then go to the original corp and get paid from them too.

Of course this could cause all sorts of trouble when the corp find out but for now how should I do it? For now they’ve rolled Get Paid once for the hacktivist group. Should I just do that again and they get effectively double cred? I’m not against letting my players have a bit of extra cash early on. I almost certainly won’t let them get XP for finishing the mission again though.

Secret Corporations

Secret Corporations

I’m prepping a session of The Sprawl but hacking the setting significantly — using Night’s Black Agents for a Jason Bourne meets Dracula story. Instead of megacorps as the Corporations, I’m anticipating various intelligence agencies and terrorist groups to be named for the Clocks. However, behind the scenes in NBA are these organizations:

* EDOM: the shadow agency that tried to recruit Dracula as a spy

* the Conspiracy: vampires, simply.

EDOM and the Conspiracy are not well known by the PCs or the players but may still make movements against them. Hence, my question: how do you handle secret or unknown corporations?

Hi, guys!

I would like to know how you are handling nanomachines/nanites on your missions.

I want to, slowly as possible, present this technology to the players, but I don’t want to create “the perfect” weapon, instead I want to show the dangers, destruction as well the cost x benefits.

Can you help me?

Hi, all.

Hi, all. New player here, gonna be in my first session this Saturday. Need something cleared up: s-harm. I understand how it works when a PC receives s-harm (just roll the harm move as normal), but how does it work when an NPC receives it?

I’ve looked through the book, and there’s doesn’t seem to be any guidance here. The Harm and NPCs section doesn’t make any reference to it, there’s nothing in the tag lists; if there’s any descriptor of how s-harm is supposed to behave, I’m not finding it. I mean, I can read it like any narrative tag and make assumptions, but considering how often ‘s-harm’ shows up in weapon statlines it would be really useful to know what the game’s baseline expectations for it are.

Edit: one more unrelated question, actually. If you grab one of the ‘take another piece of cyberware’ moves, particularly at character creation, are you restricted to your playbook’s list or can you take any piece you like?

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