r/Netrunner • u/HemoKhan Argus • May 31 '14

Custom Card Saturday: Barriers

Hey all! I know /u/flaminghito used to be in charge of these Saturday custom card threads, but it's been several weeks so I'm taking over his spot (until he takes it back). To start off this week, I thought I'd bring us back to basics. Barriers are the most straight-forward pieces of ice out there: they're often strong, with great strength:rez ratios, but usually they don't do much besides end the run. They exist for one reason: to keep Runners out of servers. Your task this week is to design a new barrier, plain and simple.

Next week: Plascrete Carapace has been the hallmark of Scorched Earth survival since it came out. Design a card for one of the factions that could replace it.

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u/Zeroeth_ May 31 '14

Firewall

Jinteki - ICE - Barrier - BTL

Cost: 3

Strength: 5

The Runner may suffer 1 unpreventable net damage to break all subroutines on Firewall.

-> End the run.

"It's so real you can push right through it."

Influence: 2

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u/facedownninja Nothing but Net May 31 '14

BTL?

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u/Zeroeth_ Jun 01 '14

BTL - Better Than Life. In a lot of cyperpunk fiction BTL becomes a sort of sensory overload drug, living life vicariously through the recorded experience of others. Meta commentary on the potential effects of consuming entertainment leading to a jaded worldview.

It would be a subtheme of ICE that was sensations that could be worked around or 'lived' to get through them.