Well I guesss we should just run'em down
THE PATH OFTHE SAMURAI
Restriction: May not kill anyone from surprise or via
treachery. May not break his word once given.
This should work fine in missions, no surprise combat and must keep your word, seems missions applicable to me
OMERTA, THE CODE OF SILENCE
Restriction: Cannot kill police officers. Cannot oppose
a superior in the family. Must not give information to
legal authorities.
Cannot kill police holds, but you won't superior in the family, and I only ever recall one interview with a detective on a mission.
So not very applicable.
THUG LIFE, THE CODE OF THE STREETS
Restriction: Must always wear gang colors, must donate
half of all earnings beyond lifestyle to the gang,
Other then I'm sure no one will actually ever take it, this can work fine for missions, 50% donation is SUPER rough.
HARMONY WITH NATURE, THE SHAMAN’S CODE
Restriction: May only Bind spirits after agreeing to a
fair exchange of services (see below) Must always treat
spirits with respect. Must honor deals made with spirits.
Tragically this probably to out of scope for missions. Just don't think we can handle the fair exchange caluase at your average table.
WHITE HATS, THE CODE OF THE HACKER
Restriction: Cannot destroy/erase information. May
edit if, and only if, a copy is kept safe and easy to return.
In many ways this should work fine in missions, we generally don't see a lot will challenge this. So I doubt we can do it.
THE CODE OF WUXIA
Restriction: May not harm the innocent. May never
accept bribes or misuse authority. May not serve the
corrupt.
So Never harm the innocent holds fine for missions. may never accept bribes or misuses authority is kinda sticky. Character aren't really bribed, and they don't have authority so I have hard time on that one. May not Serve the Corrupt. So that becomes a question of is Tanaka-San Corrupt? I think this could work for missions, but that is only 2 of 3. I really like Wuxia, and I think the idea of Neo-Meji restoration can work well with a Wuja Concept, but I can see it going ether way.
THE PALADIN’S CODE (A.K.A. ELVEN CHIVALRY)
Restriction: Cannot break one’s word. Cannot harm the
innocent. Must not allow art or beauty to come to harm.
Cannot break one's word, always applicable in the shadows, Cannot harm the innocent also relevant to missions. Which bring us to three.
Must not allow art or beauty to come to harm, this easily applicable but it does require some GM participation to trigger it. Odds are that any team will have at-least one person on it whom will fit Beauty (The Face), so it's not actually like you have to dig deep for possible target. I really think this should go in as is.
THE HIPPOCRATIC OATH
Restriction: Must provide medical aid if able. Must not
use lethal medicine. Must keep a patient’s confidence.
Tragically this is probably to table disruptive, in the sense that medical aid to the enemy is almost certainly gonna draw wraith. As much as I personally like the code.
THE SOLDIER’S CODE
Restriction: Must obey orders from superiors. Must not
loot the dead or allow them to be looted. Must not lie to
superiors. Must maintain honorable conduct and obey
the rules of war. May never torture or harm prisoners.
In generally I think is fairly applicable. Never torture/harm prisoners, act Honerably, is a little vague, but i think it's doable. Must not lie to Superior I guess means no lieing to your Mr.Johnson, Must not loot that dead or allow them to be looted, is the problem child. While offically there is a no loot policy in place, strictly speaking it happens a lot and this would certain draw some interplay fire.
So I'm neutral on this guy.
THE AKICHITA CODE
Restriction: Never show fear. Challenge your strength
against worthy foes. Do not allow yourself or your
loved ones to fall into decadence or slothful behavior.
Never harm the weak or innocent.
Love the concept, but really not sure how to put it into missions practice. Never Show Fear? Do not allow yourself or your loved on to fall into decadence or slothful behavior? Does that mean your team? Does that mean no drugs? It's to many question marks, I'm not sure how to make super applicable.
BUSHIDO 2.0
Restriction: Must always follow the commands of
one’s superiors, no matter the personal cost.
If we call one superior mr.Johnson this one really should work fine. It's one condition and it's always active.
I think this should work as written.
THE CODE OF THE WHITE HAT
Restriction: Must not take advantage of law-abiding
Matrix users. May not use lethal code against fellow
deckers
While Decking isn't super common, this is basicly always applicable. But i guess it's just a question of does decking happen enough to matter?
I think it's would work.
THE CODE OF THE GOOD COP
Restriction: To serve as an officer of the law, without
fear, favor, or discrimination. To protect those in need
and, if necessary, to lay down your life in the service of
duty. To hold your personal conduct beyond reproach
and bring no shame upon your organization.
Again love the concept, but really isn't applicable, characters aren't going to be active police.
THE HERMETIC CODE
Restriction: Never destroy information, especially
magical knowledge. Always speak the truth and denounce
falsehood. Capture rare things intact rather
than destroy the unknown.
This one is interesting, never destroy information is applicable. Always speak the truth and denounce lies, super trouble but applicable, (this maybe far to dangerous, where things like False ids are involved.) Capture rare things intact rather than destory the unknown, this is a little hard just b/c what constitutes a rare thing? I do think that's probubly dealable, but middle one maybe just too dangerous. So i'm not gonna rock that boat.
Assassin’s Creed: A character never kills anyone
that they are not paid to kill. Being precise as an
assassin, not leaving collateral damage, and be-
ing invisible are important hallmarks of those
who believe in the Assassin’s Creed.
I think this one the legal ones, and for good reason, it's basicly always applicable and it's easy enough to trigger with listed consqunces.
Warrior’s Code: character will not kill an unarmed person, take lethal action
against an opponent who is unaware or unprepared
for an attack (i.e., a guard who doesn’t
know the runner is there), or knowingly take an
action that could kill someone who is defenseless
(i.e., from a stray bullet or allow someone to
be killed from a sniper shot). The character loses
1 Karma per unarmed or defenseless person that
they kill or allow to be killed through their actions.
Not sure if this legal or not, it's easily applicable imo so I hope it is
Two more after this,
Like a Boss, which I think is legal it's always applicable and kinda serious pain.
Big negatives on roll that is tough enough.
Then the other assassin one which i'm pretty is not legal it costs weird and it's pretty well already covered by the assassin's code.
So that's all the codes I'm aware of. What do ya'll think? Am I way off base? Super Rose tented glasses?