GURPS Shadowrun

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Originally Posted by Godogma

*shrug* Look at it how you like, but personally I would say "next setting" if the GM brought up a setting that's essentially SR4 but with even more weird technobabble like being able to wirelessly rewrite someone's brain unless they installed a "firewall" and datajack. Or opt out if everyone else was enthused with playing it.

Meh, I'd generally say "next setting" if it was ye olde skoole cyberpunke at all, and SR in particular. The entire VR netrunning concept makes absolutely no sense, combining it with some Snow Crash-esque namshub hacking doesn't seem any worse. YMMV.

If you want to be realistic about it, you should make "deckers" less effective than traditional intrusion, since they are running everything through their resource intensive VR interface.

EDIT: Neural interfaces aren't actually all that scifi, and its only a step or two to saying Virtual World via the net here I come! Granted those are some pretty giant steps, but the neural interface technology already exists in rudimentary form. One of my roommate's aunts has some sort of neurological disorder and her doctor gave her a computer with clamps and electrodes that basically was operated via brainwaves and neural activity - nearly impossible to play Starcraft with, but it worked for the games it was designed for... Neat toy for the time, now its probably a hell of a lot more advanced.

Why waste resources on the VR at all? Wouldn't a hacker who eschewed the pretty VR-GUI be more effective? Aren't there AI in the setting? Wouldn't an AI hacker be logically much more effective than a human (elf/orc/whatever) running a VR emulation?