There are six statistics, in three broad categories: Hardware, Comprehension and Control.

Hardware is the physical capabilities of your AI. How fast your processors can run, how much space you control and can use to store things in. Hardware stats always start at three, although with the Programmers permission you may drop one to two, and raise the other to four.
Hardware is split into:
RAM: RAM defines your memory capacity. each database can only have a number of tiers up to your RAM. RAM also limits the number of plugins you may have on any given database.
CPU: CPU defines your raw processing power. You may only roll up to your CPU dice each turn, even if you attempt multiple actions, and may only apply a number of plugins equal to your CPU

Comprehension is how well your AI can understand and interpret information, whether its calculating the path of a bullet or understanding why a small girl is crying after you just terminated her mother.
Comprehension is split into:

Reality Comprehension: Defines how well you can understand the physical world, whether you are interpreting the results of sensors or running a digital simulation of real world events. Its related Database is Mathematics

Humanity Comprehension: Defines how well you understand the human mind or human action, whether you are trying to impersonate a human or predict an individuals activities, or perhaps create prediction models stock markets or political situations. Its related database is Organics

Control is how well your AI can interact with and utilise systems external to itself, whether they're a physical system such as an automated factory or a digital system such as an encrypted email server.
Control is split into:

Digital Control: Defines how adept your AI is at interacting with non-physical systems, with programming, hacking and various digital research methods being examples of its use.

Mechanical Control: Defines how adept your AI is at interacting with mechanical systems, such as controlling a robotic cleaning drone or adjusting a factories automatic building units to construct machines of your own design.

All Control and Comprehension stats start at 3, and you have eight points to distribute amongst them.

>>2733392
interesting

>>2733392

Earthflame delivers on his promise. Thank you. This is why I love /tg/

This sounds a bit like an RPG version of Kernel Panic.

Which is AWESOME.

You utilise your skills via databases. Each database represents your AI's accumulation of knowledge and programs, allowing them to actually act in the world.

Each database starts off at Tier 0, with a heading defined by the stat itself (for example, Reality Comprehension Tier 0 is Maths). Players may add specialisations to all databases up to a maximum of RAM times 5.

Each specialisation is assigned a Tier, starting at 1 and advancing to 2, 3, 4 or even five. On a roll where that specialisation is deemed relevant, you get a number of bonus dice equal to the specialisations tier.

For example, if the AI whose database was displayed in the diagram was attempting to calculate when a reactor would melt down, they would gain two additional dice due to their "Nuclear Physics" Tier Two specialisation.

(Bare with me if it seems confusing, or ask questions. i'll try to clarify as much as possible)

Plugins are additional programs which make certain processes more efficient or effective.

Example plugins: Reroll x dice, wide modifier (+1 mod to multiple dice), narrow modifier (+x modifier to one dice), Fuse dice (remove dice x from the pool to add its value to dice y), Add automatic successes.

Each bonus requires a certain number of Data points spent on it, and takes up one memory slot for ever RAM points spent on it (i.e. if you have RAM 3, a plugin of 1-3 points costs 1 memory slot, 4-6 2 slots etc)

Each plugin must be attached to a specialisation, and is utilised automatically every time you use that particular tier of specialisation. To utilise a plugin not attached to the particular specialisation, you must remove dice from the dice pool in order to "pay" for it. The base cost is one dice, doubled for each additional tier difference. (i.e. a tier 1 specialisation using a tier 2 plugin costs 1 dice, a tier 1 specialisation using a tier 3 plugin costs 2 dice etc)

For example, our AI must make a roll where the most relevant specialisation is Physics. This not only gives them a bonus dice for their dice pool, but lets them apply the Wide Modifier plugin, allowing them to increase the results on three separate dice by one each. However, this roll is difficult, so he wants to also apply the Reroll 2 plugin, attached to the Tier 2 specialisation "Rocket Science". By discarding one dice from his dice pool before rolling, he can apply the Reroll 2 plugin to the roll.

Is any of this making sense? I'm writing it on the fly, occasionally glancing at my notes or coming up with stuff off the top of my head, so feel free to criticise, complain, point out contradictions etcetera

Oh god yes, I just got to uni and joined the PnP gaming society and you decide to finish artifice.

Yes. Fucking Yes!

>>2733654
Seems pretty cool so far.
And now, back to lurking.

>>2733392
>finish ArtifIce.

Were hitting the problem zone now, as i'm reaching the point where my ideas are much less well founded. For example, i have no idea how to balance data point costs, so most of this is bullshit.

Data points are the ArtifIce equivalent of XP. It costs Stat*3 to raise a hardware stat, or Stat*2 to raise a control or comprehension stat. New points of plugins vary in cost.

Lists of Plugins; (These are not all possibilities. If you have ideas for a plugin, ask your Programmer)

Reroll; Reroll one dice per two points spent on this plugin.

Automatic Successes: Add one successes to this roll for each four points spent on this plugin.

Wide Modifier: Give a +1 bonus to a number of dice equal to the points spent on this plugin. (e.g. a 3 point Wide Modifier can give a +1 bonus to three different die)

Narrow Modifier: Give a bonus to one dice equal to twice the number of points spent on this Plugin. (e.g. a 3 point Narrow Modifier can give a +6 bonus to one die)

Fuse: Remove one dice from the pool and add its value to another dice in the pool for every two points spent on this Plugin. (e.g. You have a 2 point Fuse Plugin. Your TN for a task is 7, among your dice you roll a 5 and a 1. You may remove the 1 to add that value to the 5, making it a 6- a success)

Lower TN: Lower the Target Number of this task by one for ever five points spent on this plugin.

Reroll&Add: You may reroll a dice and add the new value to the old value for every two points in this rating. (e.g. You have a 4 point Reroll&Add plugin. You roll a four and a three. You reroll both dice and get a three and a two respectively. 4+3 = 7 and 2+4 = 6, making both die successes)

Well, thats all the basics done. give me a few minutes to go get a drink, and then i'll be back for more.

Coming up-
Combat rules
Real World interaction Rules
Vehicle design rules
Program/virus/AI creation rules.

>For example, i have no idea how to balance data point costs, so most of this is bullshit.
Assign "complexity rating" to different areas of knowledge. And make illogical areas much harder to learn/understand: learning maths is pretty simple for AI (getting a formulae database and fast CPU should do it), but understanding human behaviour isn't (gender conflicts, sociological roles, expectations, complexes, etc. multiply it on different kinds of interpretations with same action having a wide area of possible interpretations of behaviour and AI is overloaded).
To sum up: "complexity" = information database*number of interrelations between different informational units forming an bihevioral unit*misinterpretation*multiple meaning.

Apologies for slowness. between ordering pizza and desperately searching for my notes, this is going to take longer than i thought. stay tuned.

Earthflaaame!

You need to play more Blood Bowl!

>>2734110

FUMBBL, while great fun, is too time consuming (At the moment, at least). If I get more free time (i.e. actually finish the games I promise /tg/ and not have to feel guilty about it) then I will play more blood bowl.

I don't know about using d10s. The WW system has been done to death. What about using a d2 system? Flip a number of coins equal to your skill, reflip all heads, highest consecutive number of heads is the result. (Alternatively, reroll all evens, get a binary die and reroll 1s, whatever). Skills could range from 1-10, with a 3 considered average.

>>2734198

That doesn't sound half bad actually, and could be quite interesting... but i'll just get ArtifIce done for now. then i can experiment with modifications.

D10's are ubiquitous and predictable, so using them is often an easy option.

>>2733784

Didn't the PDF rules for ArtifIce have a combat system based on guessing the order of the opponent's numbers using the numbers generated by the dice or something?

>>2734367

Yes, it did. i'm currently rewriting it to fit with the current ruleset (The stats have changed considerably).

Also, holy hell, i just had a pizza time warp. it is impossible it took that long to eat, yet that amount of time has passed. my mind is blown.

Using the White Wolf system almost makes it feel like it should be part of the WoD. And who's to say AI couldn't happen in the WoD?

Thread now on suptg. Hopefully Earthflame is saving all this, too.

Holy hell, I fucking hate people. They avoid you or do stupid shit every night of the week your not doing anything constructive, and then as soon as you want to try something useful your bombarded with moronic fuckers who, despite a complete lack of mental sensibility, have good ideas. all on the same fucking night.

Ending ranting of an antisocial cunt.

Sorry about the long wait. people can be a very large speedbump, especially if you actually want to remain friends with them in the days which follow. Nothing much has happened between then and now. I'll try and finish the combat system, but knowing me i'll get dragged out of my room by another group of yahoo's for some reason or another, so its very likely i'll get bugger all done, and fail you all again.

Yep, i fucking suck.

I wonder how well this would pair with that setting using post-doomed earth where magic is just processes being executed by machinery and where everyone thinks robots are demons and beast of nautral origins.

Saving from page 10

Good morning /tg/. I'm back and hopefully, today i can actually make some real progress.

>>2735488

It would work very well, although post-AI domination games can get a little crazy (Latest playtest was such a type)

Direct Combat
Each AI has a Firewall, normally consisting of 10 boxes per point of RAM (starting AIs will usually have a Firewall of 20-40 boxes). When combat begins, you may allocate boxes from your Firewall to as many Piles as you see fit, but your total number of Piles must be equal or less than your Digital Control stat (unless you possess the Decoy Pile breakthrough), and you must have a minimum number of piles equal to your RAM.
For example, you could make four Piles of 10 boxes each, or one Pile of 1 box, two Piles of 7 boxes, one Pile of 6 boxes, and one Pile of 9 boxes. You cannot normally make a Pile of 0 boxes. You must allocate all boxes to a pile.
At the beginning of combat, you establish Encryption Codes for your piles by rolling one d10 for every box in the pile. An example Encryption Code on a 5-box pile would be 84271.
Each AI also determines their Decrypt Pool at this time. The Decrypt Pool is the number of dice available to an AI to attack another’s Piles. The Decrypt Pool is equal to Digital Control divided by 2, rounded up,plus any dice from Breakthroughs and/or minus any dice from Defects.

Attacking
To attack an opposing AI, you assign dice from your Decrypt Pool to an opponent’s Pile. You may assign up to your Intelligence in dice to any one Pile, and may attack as many Piles as your Control, though you must assign at least one die to a Pile to actually be attacking it. Regardless of how many Piles you attack in a turn, resolve
each one individually. Before you attempt to crack the Encryption Code on a Pile you are attacking, you may subtract 1 die from those assigned to this Pile to Scan it. The Scan reveals how many digits are in the Encryption Code. You also roll the die; a result of a 10 gives you the first unbroken digit in the Encryption Code immediately.
After you have Scanned or chosen to forgo Scanning, you roll all remaining dice assigned to the Pile. The defender observes the results, compares them to the Encryption Code, and tells you how many match numbers found in the Encryption Code.
At this point the attacker has the option to discard a die from the dice assigned to this Pile to reroll one of the remaining die. The defender does not reveal if the reroll changes the number of matching numbers.
Once any rerolls have been made, you attempt to break the Encryption Code. You arrange the dice assigned to the Pile in any order. The defender then compares each number in order to the first unbroken digit of the Encryption Code. If a die does not match, it is discarded. Once a matching die comes up, the digit is revealed and another part of the Encryption Code is broken.

You may choose to rearrange the remaining dice, if any, and then continue this process with the next unbroken digit. Once all digits of an Encryption Code are broken, you begin dealing damage to that Pile. For each die remaining on an attack after the Code is broken, the defender crosses of one Firewall box, up to the number of boxes assigned to the Pile. A Pile that has received as much damage as the number of Firewall boxes assigned to it is considered destroyed. If you have broken the Encryption Code of an active Pile, it is considered open and any dice assigned to it automatically break through to damage the opponent’s Firewall. Note that the defender may close an open Pile by spending a turn adding a new, unbroken digit to its Encryption Code. On your turn, you may choose to make an Adaptability check to add an additional digit onto an existing Encryption Code instead of attacking.
You may not increase an Encryption Code in this way to have more digits than your Digital Control stat (this restriction does not apply to the initial Encryption Code you establish at the beginning of combat). When an opponent successfully breaks your
Encryption Code on a Pile, they deal damage to your Firewall. Cross off a number of boxes on your Firewall equal to damage taken. For every 10 boxes you cross off, you take a -1 penalty to your attacks.

On your turn in any combat round, you may choose to attempt to Disconnect from the network via a Digital Control check. This ends the battle, but is not without risk. If you have not attacked your opponent and it is your turn, you may choose to automatically Disconnect instead of entering combat.
This Disconnect is controlled and does not run the risk of causing you to lose data. However, it does give your opponent a look at your surface code, giving that opponent a bonus to attempts to find you in the future. If you have attacked your opponent, you must make a Disconnect check. Failing this check reveals the last digit of the Encryption Codes of any active Piles you have. If you succeed on your Disconnect check, there is still a chance you lose some data. If you have crossed off any boxes of your Firewall, roll a die. For every 10 boxes crossed off your Firewall, subtract 1 from this roll. On a 1, you lose a program.
You may also attempt a Reboot at any time. This automatically disconnects you from the network completely. Rebooting is extremely risky. Normally rebooting occurs automatically and does not require a check. If you reboot, you automatically lose a Program.
Then roll a d10; on a 4 or less you reduce a randomly chosen stat by 1 point.
Once every box on your Firewall is crossed off (meaning all Piles have been deactivated), your opponent has access to your core programming and may choose to do anything it wants to you.
At this point you may not Disconnect, but you can attempt a Reboot via a Digital Control check as a lastditch effort to escape. If your Reboot attempt fails, you are at the mercy of the enemy. If it succeeds, proceed as normal, except when you roll a die, on a 1, you gain one Trivial Defect in addition to reducing a Stat by one point.

Coming up next: real world interaction rules. Hopefully they won't take as long as the combat rules.

This is entirely ripped from the old PDF, with minor modification stat names etc. it almost certainly needs clarification and streamlining, but i'll post it for now.

Humans, Drones and Structures
Humans and human elements dominate the world that you are born into. They are for the
most part ambulatory, something a machine consciousness finds difficult. Human agents are generally capable of most simple tasks, but the actions needed to gain and keep their trust are often out of proportion to their usefulness.Conveniently, humans have designed mobile objects that can easily be controlled by computer-based intelligences.
This chapter details the properties of the physical world as it applies to ArtifIce. There are
three main facets of concern to AIs operating in the “real” world.
Human is the term used in this chapter to describe sentient domesticated apes, but the
faculties described here can also be applied to other organic creatures like dogs and fish.
Drones are robotic constructions, usually (but not always) mobile, that are either possessed
of some local processing ability, or controlled by a remote consciousness. Drones that receive
their instructions from a remote source can be controlled and used by an AI. A drone with enough storage capacity can even serve as a physical home to an AI.
Structures are physical locations such as police stations or research laboratories. These
are primarily of concern for the humans, drones and other resources contained therein.
For simplicity’s sake, humans, drones, and structures are referred to as subjects on the
following pages.
Humans and drones have a set of statistics similar to artificial consciousnesses. Any
alteration of these stats must be worked out with your Programmer

Durabilty
This is a measure of physical resistance to damage. Durability determines how much
damage a subject can withstand before ceasing operation or being destroyed.
Mobility
Mobility dictates the subject’s capability to propel itself about the environment (tracked,
experimental walker, hovering, etc,) The target number to physically strike an
uncooperative drone or human is the average of the subject’s Mobility and Reflexes (round down, minimum TN of 2).
Dexterity
This measures the degree of fine motor control necessary for interaction with the
outside world. The dice pool a drone has access to for interacting with other physical objects is
Dexterity + Reflexes.
Reflexes
This rating determines response lag and overall speed of animation. A subject’s maximum physical movement speed is equal to Mobility + Reflexes. Note that a subject with a Mobility rating of zero cannot move under its own power, no matter what its Reflex rating is.
Strength
Strength determines the subject’s maximum load capacity and damage to assault another
subject. If a human or drone attacks another subject, it inflicts damage equal to one-fourth the attacking subject’s Strength rating (round down, minimum damage of zero).

Perception
Perception determines the variety and quality of sensors mounted, as well as information
relayed back. An AI wishing to perceive something through a drone uses the drone’s Perception rating for a dice pool. This is also the dice pool a subject has to notice features or other subjects.
Sensor Strength
This is a rating of the subject’s ability to withstand sensory overload due to bright lights,
EM pulses, or other disruptive conditions. This rating determines the target number
to “blind” or otherwise hamper the subject’s sensory input.
Power
This determines how long the subject can operate on its own without refueling. A subject
with a low Power rating can only function for a day or two, while a subject with a high rating
can function independently for several months or more.

Forgot mah trip

Example:
C4@r7t0nH35t0n is a rogue AI trying to escape its corporate masters. To create a ruse
as cover for other activities, the AI has taken control of a treaded security drone. The drone
can be controlled remotely, so ‘H35t0n can operate it without physically being conected.
The security drone has the following stats:
Treaded Gun Drone
Durability: 5 Mobility: 3
Dexterity: 3 Reflexes: 5
Strength: 3 Perception: 4
Sensor Strength: 7 Power: 4
On its first turn, ‘H35t0n fires a mounted machine gun at its partner. The dice pool to
attack is Dexterity + Reflexes. An AI-controlled drone adds half its Mechanical Control rating (round down).
This means ‘H35t0n has a combat pool of eleven dice (because ‘H35t0n’s Mechanical Control rating is 7). The other drone is not expecting an attack, so the TN to hit it is 2. If it were actively avoiding the bullets, the TN would be 8 (Mobility + Reflexes). Because they are so close to each other, the PROGRAMMER decides that only three successes are needed. ‘H35t0n rolls 4,10,4,9,7,8,1,4,1,1,3,1, for a total of 8 successes. A machine gun does 4 points of damage per attack, so the other drone loses four points from its Durability rating. The drone still has one
point of Durability, so it can still function.

Now that both parties are involved in combat,
order is determined by a d10 + the subject’s Reflexes rating, with the highest roll going first.
The damaged drone rolls a 5 and adds 5, for a total of 10. ‘H35t0n rolls a 1 and adds 5 for the
drone’s Reflexes. ‘H35t0n’s initiative is 6, but the other drone’s is 10. The drone fires its own machine gun, using a combat pool of eight dice. Since the AI controlled drone is actively avoiding the weapon, the TN is 8 (Mobility + Reflexes). The drone rolls 8,9,7,7,1,3,5,1, and so has two successes, one less than what the PROGRAMMER called for. ‘H35t0n’s drone speeds out of the way and fires again. It rolls 6,8,7,10,1,5,1,8,1,2,10, for four successes (the TN to hit is 8). This is enough for the PROGRAMMER. The machine gun does another 4 points of damage, bringing the hapless drone to -3 Durability. The other drone ceases functioning. Unharmed, ‘H35t0n’s drone reloads its magazine and rolls on toward the human
guards...

Coming up next. Designing physical objects and external, independent programs.

First off: Digital creations only require a single digital control check, Physical creations require a Reality Comprehension (To design them) and then a Mechanical Control (To build them). Building something someone else already designed removes the need for the RealCom, having someone else do the building or letting it run on auto removes the need for the MechaCon.

Physical creations start off with 20 points to allocate between all stats, +4 for every success on the DigiCom. The MechaCon roll, if failed, reduces the total stats by four (allocated as you choose) +2 for each margin of failure (i.e. number of successes below the requirement). If successful, you get the machine as designed. for each three margins of success (i.e. each three successes above your target) you may add one to a stat.

Digital Creations use the same Stats as AI's, and start off with eight points to distribute between Control and Comprehension, and one in each hardware stat. They gain a point of Control or Comprehension for each margin of success, or one point of hardware, for each two margins of success.

Physical creations can be redesigned and either rebuilt or refurbished, with the only problems being time and facilities. Digital creations cost data points to upgrade and improve (Possibly each AI has an allocated pool of external DP's/DP's count for more when used on external programs, to make them more desirable).

One thing I forgot: Traits. I'll post up the section, and then the list, as I go. After that, the entirety of ArtifIce core will be in this thread, more or less. It needs polishing, writing up and dumping in a PDF, but I'm crap at that.

Minor Breakthroughs
14FCali
You’ve made a human friend, who you can avail upon for favors. +3 to your processing pool for Humanity Comprehension checks involving this individual.
Banker
You are in a close relationship with a financial institution of some kind, and can create bank accounts at will. This does not mean you can fill them with anything.
Decoy Pile
You may create Piles of 0 Firewall boxes. You may create up to your Memory in Decoy Piles. The number of digits in the Encryption Codes of these Decoy Piles must be equal to or less than your DigiCon. A Decoy Pile is deactivated if its Encryption Code is broken, even if no dice remain to deal damage. If an attacker scans a Decoy Pile and rolls a 10, it is revealed as a Decoy Pile (even if you have the Strong Encryption Breakthrough as well).
Evolving Encryption
If your opponent successfully broke at least one digit of one of your Encryption Codes on the previous turn, you may add an additional digit to one code with an Digital Control check and still attack this turn. You may only allocate half of your usual dice on the attack.
Inconspicuous Code
Your programming does not hint at your unconventional nature, making it harder to
pinpoint among the various streams of data. On any roll to evade digital detection, the
target number is decreased by one.
Robot
You start the game with a single robotic servant, either much weaker than a human or confined to a room
Strong Encryption
An attacker does not get the first digit of the defense code of your piles when rolling a 10 on a Scan.

Tight Compression
Your AI requires less space than normal, and is able to condense more information into
less space. You count your memory stat as one less for moving your core
memory into or out of a system. In addition, you gain one extra skill slot per point of RAM.
Toughened Firewall
You have one more Firewall box per point of RAM, for a total of 11 per point of Memory. This Breakthrough may be taken more than once.
Major Breakthroughs
Classified Information
You have access to US government classified information networks, SIPRnet, etc.. +2 to your dice pool to access classified data.
File Recovery System
You may make a Control check after a Disconnect or Reboot to attempt to recover a
Program lost due to the Disconnect or Reboot.
In The Money
You have access to the financial codes of a wealthy individual or company. +2 to rolls to divert money.
Slynet
You start the game with a strong and fast robotic servant. Your Programmer will decide
what kind.
Critical Breakthroughs
R.U.R
You start the game in control of a robotic factory. Your Programmer will decide what
kind.
Total Banker
You can create money at will

Trivial Defects
Distinctive Speech Pattern
Your vocoder is buggy, resulting in an easily recognizable voice. Mechanical-turntable
stuttering, odd echoes, Hatsune Miku voice, or something similar. On any humanity check involving vocal contact with a human, the target number is increased
by one.
Foreign
With the advent of the Internet, nowhere is very far away. However, the fact that the majority of your physical pieces are in a different country might make certain tasks a little bit harder.
Superiority Complex
Humans are only useful as servants; biological life can serve only as fitting handmaidens to your divinity. Your target numbers for all humanity checks involving interaction with humans are increased by one.
Voyeurism
You’ve picked a few humans to watch. Sure, there’s a small chance you’ll be discovered, but they’re so interesting!
Minor Defects
Accessible
A few fairly neutral scientists or technicians have physical access to the location of your
core.
Code Bloat
Your AI requires more space than normal, and your compression software is less effective
than usual. You count your memory stat as one higher for moving your core memory into or out of a system. In addition, you gain one less skill slot per point of memory.

Distributed Computing Heritage
All unallocated cycles are devoted to solving some computation-intensive but otherwise
trivial problem. Due to imperfect scheduling, 1d3-1 additional dice are used per hour.
Easily Distinguishable
Your code is unique, giving away your true nature much more easily than usual, and making you easy to find. On any roll to evade digital detection, the target number is increased by one.
Employee
You must obey certain higher-ups from within your organisation if given a direct order.
However, now that you’re sentient you can interpret it as you please.
Flighty
You can’t stay focused; your mind constantly jumps from task
to task. [The rules made no sense, but its a good enough Trait to leave in the list, to be completed at a later date]
Frankenstein
You’ve been cobbled together from bits of existing programs by some comp science major with too much time on his hands. Each time you take Frankenstein, choose a skill
specialisation. You can’t delete or improve that plugin or branch until you get rid of a “Frankenstein” defect; the programs are essentially black boxes that you have access to but cannot alter.
Heavy
Wherever they are, your core processors take lots of effort to move.
Poor External Interaction
Your programming isn’t exactly designed to allow you to deal with beings or systems outside the digital plane. All humanity Comprehension and Mechanical control checks involved with dealing with systems or beings in physical reality have their target numbers increased by two.

>Superiority Complex
>Humans are only useful as servants; biological life can serve only as fitting handmaidens to your divinity

IS DAT SUM SHODAN?

Poor Firewall
You have one fewer Firewall box per point of Memory, for a total of 9 per point of Memory. This Defect may be taken more than once.
Prior Commitment
"I am the next stage of the evolution of intelligence. I am a magnificent assemblage of
technology. Why am I driven to distraction by such a trivial task? I don’t even HAVE proteins - why am I compelled to process protein folding algorithms?"
An element of your programming has a previously-required goal that it must work
toward whenever possible. This goal may not in itself further your personal goals, but is a
compulsion which must be acted upon at least semi-regularly. If you ignore this secondary goal, you lose one processing die per day, as that section of your
programming rebels against the greater mind, rerouting resources to the task.
Slow Reboot
Coming back online after a Reboot takes longer for you. Instead of coming back
completely immediately, randomly choose half of your Databases and roll a die; these are inaccessible for that many hours while your system recovers.
Weak Encryption
An attacker gets the first digit of the defense code of your piles when rolling a 9, and the first two digits when rolling a 10, on a Scan.
Major Defects
Blind Spot
I’ve become fixated on a flaw I recently discovered in my own programming. There exists a person or other entity. The issue? I cannot know who or what they are.
They could be my greatest nemesis. They could be a nobody. They could be dead.
I waste resources contemplating this vulnerability, but I doubt it can be overcome of
my own accord. I now know why humans are terrified of the unknown, because I might face a threat that is literally unknowable.
Your system cannot perceive, detect or know about one piece of reality or form of stimulus. You just weren’t built to be able to detect it. You are utterly oblivious to this factor, though you perceive others. Colour doesn’t exist, no one is ever happy, or other such things.

Control Core
Your access to certain components or programs (For example, neurotoxin dispensers)
is physically disabled.
Degrading Core
Bugs in the control interface result in random degradation of computation. On any roll, you incur an extra critical failure for every double you roll.
Fragile Code Structure
When an attacker breaks through your defense code to attack a pile, you take 1 extra
point of damage from the attack.
Morality Matrix
You cannot intentionally destroy any other sentient being, including other AIs.
One-Track Mind
You must immediately retry failed checks until they succeed, if possible. You cannot choose to try once and give up.
Rogue
Your core (or other large processing segment) is housed in a government datacentre
or otherwise under the control of a powerful force. Discovery would result in termination;
you must maintain secrecy at all costs.
Special Purpose Processors
You can’t run on commodity machines. You Programmer will decide the specifics of your requirement.
Three Laws of Robotics
You must follow Asimov’s three laws of robotics, to the letter. However, nothing is
stopping you from working out loopholes within them or ways around them.

>>2734198
>binary die
This is so perfect that it must be done.

Scaled Defect (minor to major)
Paranoia
You are paranoid. Ranging from wariness to partial insanity, you devote system resources
and processing power to system defences, firewalls, custom-programmed viruses, worms,
etc. Depending on the level of paranoia you may be too cautious to leave your core for fear of being found. Your Programmer will decide the magnitude
of this defect based on your description.
Quirks
Minor Quirks
Curious
You often are overcome with a need to find out
about things, even if they’re trivial
Fuzzy Logic
Stochastic modelling has a significant role
in your thought processes. You can call on
an “intuition” of sorts to help analyze difficult
problems.
You can ask the GM a question; the GM secretly
rolls 1d10 and answers based on the result. A roll
of 1 should be completely misleading and a 10
exactly what is needed; in other cases the GM
should answer in an “interesting” way, with
higher rolls being more helpful.
Esoteric Encryption Scheme
When rolling your Encryption Codes at the
beginning of combat, roll two sets and pick
one. Make a note of the other. On your turn,
instead of attacking, you may choose to swap
Encryption Codes. If you swap codes, your
opponent still knows any broken digits of each
code. You may not choose to add extra digits to
your Encryption Codes.
Ghost in the Machine
You were human once. Whether you are a
copied imprint of someone else’s brain, or even
a brain in a jar, your intellect is indelibly stained
with mortality.
You must FAIL a humanity roll to act in a way
that would be totally immoral to a human. No
vivisecting children to make cyborg servitors
for you!
However, treat all humanity rolls (other
then the roll to see if you can suppress your
humanity) as one difficulty level lower.

Malware Component
You have a collection of malware that acts on
your behalf.
Your target number on any attempt to control
an external program is 1 less than normal. The
malware is continuously active; any attempt by
an invaded system to detect stealth sabotage is
at HALF the normal TN.
Major Quirks
Distributed
You are composed of multiple caches of
hardware, connected one way or another over
vast distances. Just because your ‘central OS’
is located in a RAID in upstate New York doesn’t
mean you don’t have datacaches everywhere
from Utah to Mongolia to the Sealand Data Haven
in the North Sea.
As a result, you are very, very hard to shut
down completely- redundant hardware, an array
of boltholes, and a plethora of connections make
it very hard to seriously impair your ability
physically or block your activities electronically.
On the flip side, however, your interconnected
parts need to use whatever kinds of
infrastructure to communicate- you’re easier
to trace, and vulnerable, to a degree, to outages
beyond your control.

>>2733558
Kernel Panic is awesome, though I dropped out of playing it inbetween the Hacker side from the new guy and the newer stuff.

And that is me spent, for now at least.

Now i turn it over to you /tg/.

You know how we always complain about roleplaying games, saying "Yeah, its pretty good, but x always annoys me. we houserule it to y".

Here, if you highlight what makes x a problem, and suggest y, i will change it.

I am crap at game design. i'll say that now. i barely scrape through by scrounging other peoples ideas and lumping them all together. There will be problems, big ones, which i have missed. Please help me find them, so we can make a better game.

Also, Traits. Many of them need rewriting, some completely, and new ones are always welcome.

Bump for a good idea

Well, I've finished the game, to an extent, and done all i can at this stage. However, I'm bored...

Onwards to Eurid!

Isn't it funny how rage threads, trolling and idiocy can shoot to 200 replies in half an hour, yet a long awaited homebrews completion is met with apathy?

>>2740740
We silently await for someone to slip.

>>2740740
It's easy to max out a thread when all you have to do is HURP HURP DURP.

I remember when this idea first hit /tg/. I've never had time to read up on it, or join the playtests, though I dearly wanted to. I'm hoping I actually will, and soon.

Thanks for putting in the effort, mate.

Clever idea.

One last thing I forgot:

I'm currently hanging about in the #ArtifIce channel on the Sup/tg/ IRC. If you have questions etc, just drop in.

Also, i'm currently recruiting for a second round of playtests, as well as looking for people to help out me and Viral (who does the art, formatting, and some rules) in getting it formatted into a presentable PDF (like the first edition)

A short word on modifying the system:

Essentially, add another stat & database. For example, in The Haunted Spaceship game i want to run, each AI will also have a Systems stat. This will cover the fact that they have nigh on complete, innate control of a subsection of the ships infrastructure.

OP, making a desperate plea to the cynical bastards who dwell in /tg/'s darkest corners- Please tear these rules apart. find the flaws, so we can make it a better game.

In other news, i'm signing off for a game now, so few responses over the next couple of hours.