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Title: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Reshy on <10-10-16/1719:15>: Hello, I wanted to ask a simple question, how well known are drakes in the Shadowrun universe? What they are, how they work, and other traits. I'm asking since I made a latent drake character recently and she got sprayed with ghoul blood during a run, and out of character the other players know she's probably a drake, but what about in-character? How likely are they able to link ghoul disease immunity to being a drake?
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Sendaz on <10-10-16/1740:40>: Not getting turned after exposure is not automatically a sign of drakehood.

A shifter doesn't become Infected and a person could become a carrier (Run Faster, pg 141) without actually turning, and if they are still being nosy try making up a backstory about how this wasn't your first ghoul rodeo and that yeah you may be HMHVV positive because of it which should shut them up.
Plus as a bonus, nobody will steal your half-eaten lunch outta the van's cooler. ;)
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Reshy on <10-10-16/1847:29>: Alright, but how well known are drakes in the shadowrun setting to begin with? How common is the knowledge that they exist, and how common is the details about them known?
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Dwagonzhan on <10-10-16/2125:17>: After the Dragon Civil War, more people know about Drakes than before, but I wager they're largely mysterious.
Dragon society is relatively speaking, quite tiny and (deliberately) secluded from metahumanity. Drakes have no incentive to reveal themselves publicly, and those in the great dragon's "employ" (read: enslaved) obviously aren't saying anything.
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Reaver on <10-11-16/0045:38>: Quote from: Reshy on <10-10-16/1847:29>
Alright, but how well known are drakes in the shadowrun setting to begin with? How common is the knowledge that they exist, and how common is the details about them known?

They are known about, but that doesn't mean they are common knowledge either.

kind of like the Edo of Japan. (the original inhabitants of the Japanese Islands). There are people who know a lot about them, and then there are people who look at you cross eyed when you bring them up...
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Senko on <10-11-16/0234:54>: Can't you get very lucky and not get infected even if you get hit by ghoul blood?
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Reaver on <10-11-16/0255:09>: Quote from: Senko on <10-11-16/0234:54>
Can't you get very lucky and not get infected even if you get hit by ghoul blood?

There is a test you make (can't remember the rules off hand), if you pass, you dodged the bullet..... but it is a VERY hard test...

Like: "I Permanently burn Edge to pass" hard...
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Rosa on <10-11-16/0541:54>: I suppose it is with Drakes as it is with most Things magicial and mystical in the 6th World, what most people know comes from the media and the matrix, like with magic. so most people are likely to have either very inaccurate or incorrect information.
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: dj-ork on <10-13-16/0218:49>: well personal in my game i would say that if you have magic training or have made a in depth study of dragons you would know that drakes exsit but anything more than that would require either a arcana or knowledge dragons check to she how much you know
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Senko on <10-13-16/0235:38>: There's also the question of how common they are since their traits can apparently breed true.
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: markc on <10-13-16/1310:46>: Is there a place where us new bee's can read about drakes?
MDC
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Reshy on <10-13-16/1511:42>: Quote from: markc on <10-13-16/1310:46>
Is there a place where us new bee's can read about drakes?
MDC

Running Wild has the 5e ruleset for using Drakes and some background. Clutch of Dragons and Dragons of the 6th World also has some information on Drakes.
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: dj-ork on <10-14-16/0308:26>: don't forget howling shadows witch has a great section in it on drakes as well as a more in depth way to handle drake powers
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: markc on <10-14-16/1658:33>: Thanks Reshey and dj-ork for the info I will see if my friend has those books.
MDC
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Senko on <10-15-16/1820:52>: Oh I thought it was only howling shadows I'll have to take a look at running wild and see if its woth getting.

EDIT
Drive thru RPG say's running wild is for 4th ed not 5th.
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: GunDrake on <10-15-16/1853:44>: Quote from: Senko on <10-15-16/1820:52>
Oh I thought it was only howling shadows I'll have to take a look at running wild and see if its woth getting.

EDIT
Drive thru RPG say's running wild is for 4th ed not 5th.

The 5th edition one is called Run Faster. http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/141788/Shadowrun-Run-Faster?hot60=0&src=hnum
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Reaver on <10-15-16/1941:01>: Run faster is the 5e Runners' Companion (the 4e version of expanded character options and rules).

Howling Shadows is the 5e version of Running Wild (4e critter book).
Title: Re: How well known are drakes?
Post by: Senko on <10-15-16/2240:59>: EDIT
Yep drakes are only in howling shadows so far as I can see.