Woot go HSD!

Also awesome art!

I haven't actually had a chance to play it myself, but some day I want to give it a try!
And danke :3

We've offered her to join us before but she doesn't have time. And sadly due to some issue's popping up both our HSD campaign's are on the shelf for now.

What is HSD? Like a furry D&D?

-nods- Yes, but no d20's just D12, D10, and D8 depending where you choose to put the dice stats.

And combat can be either really quick because you ran out into the street and tried to shoot out at the OK corral or more thought out because of your group's weapon choices.

Back when we played we ignored the rule changes to armor and weapons in the back of the core extended, that's the 1 thing that Serv kinda made suck. I know combat is only a secondary thing but to make it so a combat could last 3 hours for at the simplest level... No thank you.

heh

Hell yea, actually my group runs it old school too, because it adds weight the the whole going out and running and gunning.

For example on of my players decided to go out into an open street after hiding in a park's foliage for protection. He did this to pull out his pistol and have a shoot out with a guy using some grenade launcher. Fired all of 3 times hit twice and remembered "oh yeah... movement actions..." And was promptly picked off by said enemies friend who was sniping for him. (The player knew a snipers was in the area that was why they were hiding in the park.)

Like that is dramatic and quick and in keeping with "guns are dangerous!!!" Which the core rule book pointed out a bunch... I say people high jack this for their best HSD stories!

*throws his hand up for wanting to learn this game!* been wanting to learn this system for a while now actually

Yes, very true. In the other HSD campaign I was a part of the naga who wore the Leadarm armor was getting shot from all directions, including a Heavy Repeater mounted atop a police van. My sniper snake was able to take out the snipers then between the HE shotgun the naga had and the HE arrows I brought we were able to disable the truck. Then we fled, both my naga's ghost armor and the leadarm were destroyed, then the hard case player's armor was about half broken, only because he was on a roof sniping and had cover from most the fire.

But yes, the core has the combat quick, dangerous, and deadly if you don't pay attention.
Then in extended they made it more D&D 4e where everyone has really high armor without trying and super hp while slapping eachother with wet noodles.

But the system has that... some one with diamond weave hard skin in a lead arm using a Lan shield, They are litterally a moving tanks at that point. That being said they are moving tanks and slow as hell, which makes it all the more fun and allows your team to kinda screw with everything if you do it right like using some one like that to charge a defended position and then have the rest of the team do swat like tactics. (My group is a bunch of CE idiots [IG idiots just the way they wanted to go with it...]

You could also make a bunch of literal ghost who will walk through corridors and sneak up behind those defenses and just gun them in the back. They really did work hard to make it so you could do some insane combat strategies...

This sounds very interesting!
Something I'd maybe take a liking too

-giggles and nods- Yes, that's why my Sam has good speed, so shi can move in the Leadarm. Base speed of 6 so 4 in the suit, and had thought about getting Diamond weave but it says it removes your fur. And its nice for the extra armor for a front line PC but... Not pretty...

And my Snake had the ghost armor so unless get spotted I hide ^^ was fun even with the penalties on myself. Shooting arrows at snipers for headshots is always nice, and one time that GM let me shoot a AP arrow at a wall and kill the guy on other side of sed wall.

I think at this point there is like a groups worth of interested parties @.@

Fair enough, I think my story is only funny/amusing to those who were there to watch the dice rolls and rp that happened.

My apologies.

Huh? Oh no your stories are great! I meant from random people's who want to get into the game

Oh yes, very much so. During Arun's stream yesterday had 3 people ask me to join the not-active HSD sessions.
Then there's all the comments here and on my posts of the pictures.

Mmmhmm... should gather these people... and make a new chapter in the HSD interwebs table tops

-giggles- Would be an interesting group for sure ^^

I always know how it would start.

Before you stand the heroes of the new legends, Freelancers who bow to no vector, god or corporation but instead the all mighty credit. Along side them stand others, heroes of the Megacorps who have survived countless untold stories and hell scape helping to keep their corporation's secrets truly secret and to fluster those would would steal them each standing before assault teams and loyal glorious security forces of their own creation from corp funds and talant pools. They take their orders march onto transports and off into a sea of glory and infamy if not true heroics, some going to look for the inner secrets of the life that vectors now live, others to probe questions that should not perhaps be probes and others still looking to back stab the others and take their secrets for them selves.

Then there is you lot sitting on cargo crates in front of a 1/16th credit gangster who needs cheap expendable muscle to pull a job for him and we just happen to the ones, dumb enough, desperate enough, insane enough or just so self deluded that we decided to take up the cause of getting shot at for some one else's pay day... Yee fucken' ha.

-giggles- That's one way to intro a group for sure.

The ol grandeous and 'everything is bigger then you' start to a campaign. ^^

Well when you are starting a campaign it's one of the better ways to go I find, hmm though with HSD you could actually go with them already on the job in the middle of hell with all the heroic bad asses dying and leaving the group with the mcguffin to escape

-giggles- That's the best way to start a bad ass campaign or game.
Want to make your players feel like the true badass's, have them play the only ones who walked into hell and came out alive.

True, though not the best way to start off for new inexperienced players because with shit going to hell and you need to haul ass out or at least not the way I like to bring new unknown people into a game... until I know them a bit better @.@ never know when some one will want to suddenly lone gun it.

Ya, if they are brand new to PnP's then its the worst way to being them in. But also making the campaign a power fantasy basically ruins a campaign and players from the start.

True enough, it can be a weird line plus with people's natural tendency to go off rails for any adventure at this point I just make maps and a set goal in the work orders I offer my players. "rob this company, steal this priceless pre vector artifact, test this new equipment while doing a different job for one of the main companies."

Okay I admit the last one is because I play a bit too much paranoia...anyway I normally give work orders they can complete unless they Wana do something insane on their own. Like go fight pirates and Rob them or take a look at one of TTI'S satellite stations.

-giggles at the plot of the campaigns- That's perfectly fine honey, every GM has their own style.

True enough ^^ though in their case my case I have players who like to play as...not so bright CE gangsters @.@ which is pretty fun for me too heh.

Gotya, sounds a tad off to me, but my GM's usually have either forward or structured campaign starts. Like one of our D&D's started as we were all in a tavern but when the town suddenly was being attacked and set ablaze we were the only ones to not flee.
That's how we all got together that time, other times we usually start out knowing each other.

Uh this group started off in a club with various reasons for being there... it took until an npc Tazered a pc for them to act and even longer for them to really help their new comrade.... they started out CN and just kinda shimied toward a evil.

Hilariously the guy who got tazed also forgot to record some.... really vital information twice. He has also managed a new character every 3 months or so... due to getting them killed.

-giggles- That sounds like my group, the first part not the dying part. That'd be 4 of the members and a group of RL guys playing D&D 3.5, 1 of the member's keeps doing stupid stuff and dying every few months. I think in this year alone he's had to remake character's 4 or 5 times, even though 1 of those was while he was in hospital and GM was npc-ing him smart for once.

But ya, we've had many different starts. Where we're all strangers, where we happen to meet up and then go out, ones where we were all going to same place and didn't know until we got there and then decided to team up.
Currently we're doing my first ever evil D&D campaign, where we all started in a bar in a 'evil' town. Some paladin's come by hunting a necromancer who's one of the PC's, they find him and a fight breaks out. We kill or chase off the paladin's and knights, then the ogre PC who wasn't in the fighting ends up talking 3 Evil PC's and my CN PC into joining a warband. The Ogre's backstory was the knights killed his old warband and he wanted to rebuild it, my character refused to join the warband but was so bored she would tag along as long as she got a even share of the loot. The twist is we're using the deck of many transformations on fumbles or once per session we can draw from the deck, so a lot of chaotic events happen because of the deck. ^^

Heh I love doing Evil groups it can be rather cathartic to wander in a world and just not have to help people with their own stupid problems. "HELP HELP! The orcs are attacking! We stole their land and butchered them and then the came on our city and we need aid now!" 'Perhaps you shouldn't have attacked the monsters.. in fact I wonder if they need help.' There is a lot of fun that can be had with an evil campaign plus you no longer need to tip the serving wenches! MUHAHHAHAHA!

Well my group went to a new depth of... not quite thinking an attack through >.> ramming a standard truck into a company CEO's armoured limo after dodging his armoured SUV escort and just T boning him and unloading small arms into the limo and using a percussion hammer to try and tear it apart. As it stands one SUV crashed into their ruined truck smashing one of the players and the other player is now in the street next to the limo they were meant to be attacking. soo.. yea they deeeeaaaad didn't even take grenades or rockets or anything liek that with them.

this discussion's selling me on the game, yup.
core sounds the way to go, had my fill of "everything is fine until you spend 1 hr to calculate the first volley" games. Life is too short.

The extended adds a couple interesting thing like cog rules and a few other things like equine races and all sorts of stuff but yea the combat rules from the core are better

Mind if I were to join too?

Neat Taur Armor. ^^

Many thanks!~ It was a fun challenge

ummm... i can't help it but stealth suits/catsuits are always awesome to see. looks like quite the squad there.

Haha, I know right? Stealth suits are just plain fun

Love it honey <3

Still love how you did Sam ^^

Gladd you like! Sorry it took so darn long D:

It's perfectly fine love, was well worth the wait <3

hsd?

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that is was a weird name for a good game i read it though

Lol! Glad you got a chance to check it out at least :3

An armored taur! Awesome :D

There aren't enough of em! o3o

-giggles- <3 Yush they are ^^

Lol the dude at the foreground

"I swear, the Micro I accidentally crushed was THIS tall!"

Lol! That's great xD

And the alternative could be "I think I dropped a contact somewhere over here, nobody move!"

actually I love the taur with that chain gun

-giggles- I am heavy weapons woman ^^

I can see that

If anyone would gonna be able to wield one unmounted, it'd be a taur!

Yay HSD! Love the posing and how you went on the chars personalities; very nice image, especially sapphire:)

Haha, my BF walked in while I was sketching this, stared at the image for a moment, pointed at Sapphire and just said "Boobs."
I'm not sure if it was a compliment, a critique, or what, but it made me chuckle nonetheless :P

orcas tend to draw attention;)

Taurs make the best heavy weapon users. I wish I had a group of friends interested in a HSD. Would love to play it some time.

-giggles- Yes I loved the idea of just making a huge taur who uses heavy weapons so GM allowed me to do that. ^^

Agreed! It's totally fitting~

Oh man I really want to try this as well, just so hard to find people to play with.
Really nice work though!

Same here, plus I need to find the time to do it as well :P But thank ya~

Very cool. I just started playing this game. Sadly a new job forced me to quit the groups I was in but I'm going to gm my own session and I'm looking for players. Fair warning, I've never gm'ed before. Send a note if interested.

I want to play this game some time, but sadly my work and home life afford me little time to join a group, else I would be interested. I have very little free time D:

watch where you're pointing that minigun yo
looks good though!