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How do you deal with the panopticon in sci-fi RPG ?

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In High technology setting, the hacking skill is incredibly powerful, and a shortcut in many investigation scenarios. By hacking the CCTV camera, I could see that Joe did it, by checkin [insert social media] I know were the evil gad guys live.

Either you go old shadowrun-style with a whole mini game where decker can be killed by AI but it’s pretty heavy and weird, or you end-up with 3 success on my roll and give a lot of info for just one roll.

What are your trick/house-rules to prevent that ? And how would you actually protect from panopticon. Especially looking how stupid people are in today’s real world

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Physical access is how Cyberpunk RED solves the problem. Sure, there are security cameras (etc) but if you want access, you need to do a dungeon crawl.

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