ShadowDragon8685 wrote:

Trappedinwikipedia wrote:

For close combat I think that the morph should be more important than the SOM score, someone on this forum made a house rules about adding DUR/10 to damage, which I really like. A 40 SOM ego in a neotenic or scurrier or similar won't be exceptional (though likely much stronger than most people today) while even a pretty weak ego in a Bruiser or Reaper should be able to break human bodies apart.

Hrm. Make melee damage d10 + + [SOM/10] + [DUR/10]? Hrm... Let me do some quick number crunching on that. Snip Damage analysis

That rule wasn't made to make close combat competitive with ranged, that would require a ton more work. It's just made to graduate melee damage in ways beyond +SOM, as that doesn't allow for a big range, and large size, as that's really binary. I use full DUR minus 1 per wound (with wound penalty resistance applying) Close combat often ends up using the grappling rules in my game, with damage enough to cause a wound having all kinds of interesting narrative effects. The amount of maiming allowed in EP without being that GM makes for plenty of missing and crippled limbs and senses. That said, you're really best served by forking a bunch and and teleoperating swarms of armed drones, or multi-wielding SMGs with hollowpoints, as they're powerful and don't have a dual-wield penalty. Per cost though, rail weapons are pretty competitive though (ambidextrous isn't that cheap!)

Ego Proxy wrote:

Would it be easier to do normal chargen, or use the package system in transhuman?

Package system is easier, but I recommend using doing some final changes with normal CP, as the package system tends to give fewer skills at high ratings, and I find more skills at lower ratings (and using the complementary skills bonus to make up for some of the loss). Just make sure active and knowledge skills stay the same type when messing with them. Life paths are nice because they help a lot with making the background of the character, but aren't made so all characters are mechanically or socially equal, so if that's a problem, you might want to skip it.

ORCACommander wrote:

when it comes to environment descriptions be sure to include once in a while include structural of life support weakness. Particularly in combat zones where yo can rule wide margin of failure misses hitting something important. Deadly machinery is also a very nice cliche.

So, aside from things falling on them, or activating and shredding them, having them shoot a pipe/vent/what have you, and causing an explosion, fire, pressure drop, or oxygen drain?[/quote] There are a lot of new dangers to choose from in a small living space, like a fire eating all the oxygen, or various 0-g hazards, like spinning out into open space during a firefight, or "falling" off the center of a rotating hab. (You drift slowly towards the "ground", and the ground is moving sideways freeway speeds or higher sideways, it's like being hit by a very fast train) Fire suppression systems would likely be pretty uncaring in most space stations, as fire in space is scary, and resleeving a few people is better than the fire destroying something critical. There's also the omnipresent hacking effects, like messing with AR, or tasking the local cleaning/repair bots to flush the enemy out of cover, to in certain rare situations with smart matter (fighting on the hull of a modern LOTV) could be used to trap opponents by sticking them to the surface, or slip them off.