In the setting, there's a place called "The Marches", which is basically where abandoned gods and spirits go to retire.
And thus, the question of "Why should we care?" never really got answered.Įven In Nomine, where you literally can play a judeo-christian angel or demon and report to an archangel and have actually had angels called to the golden throne before God is willing to go there. They aren't even the same as the people you remember because they have modern experiences and ideas.īut to really do the Mummy story, you have to go all out with the idea that people really are reincarnating and thus Christianity and the like are at least not fully "true." As we'll get to in the later bits, none of these Mummy books had the balls to go there. You're powerful and possibly rich, you could force yourself into the lives of the people you pine for. As a Mummy, you have great attachment to people who don't know you and would think you are a creep if they did. And was fairly well-received, for what became an unofficial product.įrankTrollman wrote:You could really go places with Mummies and ex-girlfriends/unrequited love. It's not a perfect system - for example, none of my PACKS profiles are optimized with max starting skills - but it's workable. So when we say PACKS, we're basically saying a system that preserves the granularity and customizability of the huge-point-pool systems for those players that want it, but which offers a much more high-level pick-and-play alternative for new players or Mister Caverns trying to build NPCs quickly. Naturally, when I cancelled my contracts and withdrew PACKS, they got somebody else to do their own versions of PACKS and they decided it would be much more effective to put the attributes in and leave the line item numbers out. The only thing I didn't include was Attributes (because the way attribute costs and racial limits work in SR4 chargen is wonky) and I gave the BP/nuyen cost of each item in a profile/kit so that they were easily customizable. You've got pre-calculated profiles for generic roles like "Hacker" and "Joygirl" (which are totally compatible and you can buy both to play a Hacker Joyboy or whatever), and Kits which are lumped groups of equipment for different purposes. with which to speed up character generation - PACKS is what I came up with. So to hasten the process, I was contracted to write a "tier" system - compatible with BP, but pre-calculated packages of skills, equipment, etc. The thing is that in Shadowrun 4th edition you were given a big pile of points, and some guidelines for spending them, but it was still a complicated mess, particularly because you could seriously start off with half a million nuyen to buy equipment, and there were items as small as one nuyen in the equipment tables. PACKS stands for Pregenerated Auxilary Character and Kit System.