ORCACommander wrote:

if you stat it they will kill it :P

If you don't stat it, they'll assume it's so miserably weak that literally any damage whatsoever kills it. Then they will kill it and haul it into a habitat for a fry-up.

Kassil wrote:

I might follow that with a "Roll Moxie x10. Oh, you failed? Cool." And then the next time they egocast or resleeve from a post-fish-fry backup, "You've got this negative Trait now. That fish gave you a really novel prion disease that left permanent ego damage."

That would be a dick maneuver.

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Or just have the habitat give them hell for killing and cooking an endangered species.

Now that would be perfectly reasonable and fair. :)

If it lives, they will want to make a Pod out of it. Where is that in the big book of TTRPG rules?

ShadowDragon8685 wrote:

Kassil wrote:

I might follow that with a "Roll Moxie x10. Oh, you failed? Cool." And then the next time they egocast or resleeve from a post-fish-fry backup, "You've got this negative Trait now. That fish gave you a really novel prion disease that left permanent ego damage."

That would be a dick maneuver.

Sure. But there are occasionally times a dick maneuver is needed to remind players that the game world doesn't exist solely for them to shoot at. Not often, and I wouldn't use the above example unless the player(s) in question were making a habit of eating anything they came across. (And even then, the negative trait would likely be something minor.)

ShadowDragon8685 wrote:

Kassil wrote:

Or just have the habitat give them hell for killing and cooking an endangered species.

Now that would be perfectly reasonable and fair. :)

And, alas, totally lost on certain kinds of players, for whom there is a novel prion disease at some unknown point in their future. >.> (I don't /like/ to unfairly penalize a player, I swear.)

Europa is a parliamentary republic that is a major enclave of progressive technosocialism in the Jovian system. (The Jovians have tried, and failed, to prevent this.)

Europa is, relatively speaking, pretty resource-rich. Someone with a fusion reactor has a, for all intents and purposes, unlimited supply of fuel available, and the oceans can likely be sifted for organic materials if need be. Running a fusion reactor, of course, is not exactly something anyone can just do for giggles, though, so there's probably agglomerations of polities centred around a power source. These polities probably resemble Venusian habitats more than anything, since bubble warrens do best with larger amounts of living space. The only downside is that materials beyond basic necessities may be comparatively rarer. They would need to come from the ocean floor, and that's something worth considering the import of. You'd probably see cities founded above or around areas in the crust that are tectonically active, simply because it constantly shoots up new raw materials. This could make polities reasonably sparse, and you might even see them follow lines along areas of geothermal activity. This probably means Europan cities are reasonably independent of one another; they don't have much reliance on trade with each other but probably do have a rich relationship with each other academically and the same with foreign polities. There also is apparently a formalized government of sorts, which means that each city likely has standardized forms of government in the shape of representative democracy. The economy, therefore, is probably transitional; a mix of credits and rep, with the local governments providing basic resources to all, thanks to their relative abundance. Given the presence of Jovian terrorists and the relatively progressive mindset, I imagine weapon laws are probably reasonably strict by system standards; licensing, restriction on types of weapons owned, etc. Everyone remembers the Fall, though, so the idea of banning weapon ownership would likely seem foolish to most transhumans. That's my best estimate, there.