[Torg] The GodNet

[Steve Crow]

> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:55:47 -0600
> From: ksjim at sdc.org
> To: torg at justintimeadventures.com
> Subject: Re: [Torg] The GodNet
> 
> Aside from the GodNet book itself, the only other example I can think of
> is in the module "When Axioms Collide", there's a scene where the party
> has to infiltrate the main bad guy's facility and shut down its external
> security.
> 

I'd have to reread the When Axioms Collide. As I recall from the last time I ran it, the writer played pretty loose with GodNet rules, and it wasn't that thrilling and adventure. Is that the one with the girl running in terror from a single 1st gen Gospog?

> What I did in later games with the GodNet was treat it more like The
> Matrix than Neuromancer. It basically worked like the real world only
> the VX personas had different physical attributes and programs could
> be used to manipulate 'reality'. I also borrowed the idea of the decker
> being the person who didn't enter the GodNet, he's the one who sat out
> in the real world monitoring the computers and operating the programs
> that the other characters requested. This way it also avoided the old
> cyberpunk problem of the decker acting by himself while all the other
> players sat there waiting for him to finish, everyone was able to get
> involved now.
> 
> -- 

It's a possibility, although it sounds like more of a Tharkold thing to me. And in the GodNet, VX personas do have different "physical" attributes (they're based on PER and MIN). And the programs add to their skills/damage, which is about as complicated and reality-altering as I'd want.

Scattershot rules aside, my main problem is this: the rules are supposed to allow deckers to more or less go simultaneously with players in the outside world, making coordinated virtual-and-reality intrusions. The real-life people fight, the decker hacks. But the hacking process is rarely combat (the PC decker probably doesn't want it to be!). He moves, he sneaks, he scans, he downloads data, he tries to manipulate/control a system. The real-world people fight and move. There doesn't seem to be much to connect the two.

I'm running such a multi-tiered GodNet iontrusion session next week, after wading through the rules another time or two. Will see hot it goes.

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Steve Crow

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