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Gort posted:It is a shame the human/elf katana-wielders all over the artwork are mechanically bad, though. Not very newbie-friendly. Newbies unintentionally are the most punk if you think about it...
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Turtlicious posted:Yeah had them pull up to an illegal street race because people shot down a Lonestar drone in the area, and immediately open fire into the crowd. Going quiet after going loud shouldn't be that far fetched. If they have no contingencies, this might be a good start for building some. If they have no resources they can also pay with favors (to the local underground, crime orgs, other runners etc), good role-playing and plot hooks opportunity.
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OB_Juan posted:A variant a friend came up with when most of the group was new was to have them meet in a coffeehouse. During the meeting, the coffeehouse get stuck up. Similar idea. You mean a Stuffer Shack 
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Turtlicious posted:Were any shadowrun novels worthwhile? Any you could recommend? 2XS is the defining shadowrun novel for me. It's got noir, cyberpunk, and horror in just the right mix.
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Turtlicious posted:Well, I didn't realize so much of our IRL government actually stems from organized crime. dude Obama is from Chicago, coincidence????
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Shadowrun morality and and adult themes really depend on the group that is playing. It might be wise to separate those into different books, so each group can chose the level, basically. A third way to Mirror Shades and Pink Mohawks? Although this might backfire horribly, like D&Ds Book of Vile Darkness.
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LuiCypher posted:My runners need something physical to toss around so we can say "loadsamoney" and pretend that we're engaging in what should be the inevitable Killing Floor 2/PayDay 2 crossover. the better loadsamoney vid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=op-LBp4sH7w
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Social adepts and all the boosting to social skills is so un-shadowrun-like it actually makes me sick thinking about running such a game. I ban that poo poo every time.
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I always toyed with the idea of Ares being subverted not by Bug spirits but by Spider spirits
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Crasical posted:A while back I ran into someone who 100% believed that to the world at large, Shadowrunners Did Not Exist. That they where disavowed by all media, not acknowledged by the megas, ect. it's a valid alternate world mod imo for example Horizon imc can't use social adepts, changes that part of the setting completely
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Liquid Communism posted:I don't honestly care what way they're having fun, I just tend to respect the constraints of the setting. Cirno does have a point though: the return of magic makes this cyberpunk dystopia different. The setting is a fight of hope against despair, nothing says (in the rules!) that mega corps are unkillable. This whole Kane situation is just the wrong way to go about that, and to be honest sounds literally retarded.
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Arkangelus posted:Anyone watching the new SyFy show Incorporated? wouldn't that make it, you know, regular Punk?
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ProfessorCirno posted:Yeah, because of the fuckin' bizarro way that Shadowrun is developed these days, the sample characters were all made before the actual rules were finalized - and at different points then, at that - so many of them break rules in weird ways. iirc this has been true since SR1, I remember impossible equipment for the Mercenary (LMG and military grade armor) and I think the Street Samurai had not enough money to buy his stuff
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The Lone Badger posted:Phoenix Command? Advanced Squad Leader
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I ride bikes all day posted:Unless you're going for a kind of wacky theme, I guess.
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Cuntellectual posted:What's Blades in the Dark? a p good game system/line imo: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3713405
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sometimes I forget why go-gangs are a thing (and not hunted to extinction by the feds), then that posts reminds me they care more about the literal and metaphorical truckbombs I guess
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I don't get the problem with street level mages, just say "no, you can only have level 3 spells because anything higher needs a special and expensive library" or something similar. All other characters are restricted by the nuyen amount, mages then are too. SR character creation is "balanced" around non-street, so you need to change the formula.
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there is obviously another, more heretical approach: make magic depend on rescources priority, and delete the magic priority rescource then means the might/power of the institution that taught you magic, because everyone can learn magic with enough practice and teachers (and street level literally means you taught yourself and suck at magic) mages and adepts then also would have convenient backstory hooks like streetsams, deckers and riggers: instead of the question "Who built you and your tech? And how did you get away with a million nuyen worth of killer ware?" you just ask how all that magic mojo came to be
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ProfessorCirno posted:A single gun in Dragonfall had more character then basically every other gun in Shadowrun combined. Then again, it also had two absolutely hilarious mechanical niches. SSC guns were cool and good
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Goa Tse-tung posted:SSC guns were cool and good alright, I rescind my comment after going through it after nostalgia hit me, 12 year old me thought they were cool and good they're bland trash
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Trizzdog posted:Too bad they didn't introduce healing as an option for Alter Ballistics in Forbidden Arcana so you can have a truly sadistic sniper alchemist runner. sounds like they would have made a better clean up unit "alright we hosed up and now it looks like KE is to blame for this break in, to cover this up I want you to deal as much damage to this lab. no, no it's cool, we have this made up character, Kane, we just blame it on him as usual, our media guys are top notch"
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Mr. Tambo posted:Or they could buy Shadowrun and give it to White Wolf. aaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
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ProfessorCirno posted:What Shadowrun needs isn't a 6th edition - what it needs is a reboot. And a new owner. 
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it makes sense when you think of compatibility, wireless means you tell everyone to use the proven matrix code in a PAN, wired means everyone can and will cook their own soup think you buy a Renraku Smartlink as a starter, you do some runs and upgrade your gun arm with a Shiawase Silver Series or whatever; it makes sense that Renraku for example will want to have some sort of lag or sabotage or whatever to competitor arms than their own product (this assumes some sort of competition and therefore marketing in the same models of cybernetics)
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jagadaishio posted:that's a diagram with a vanishingly small combined intersection of people. we used to call 'em Prime Runners...
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Ronwayne posted:10,000 nuyen each pc, for milkrun, 12-18 for stuff involving serious thread of someone trying to kill them. 20,000 ea for messing with a serious power player on a high thread run. Karma as appropriate for how dickish the run is. Allow Work For the People/Work For the Man to lessen the tech user vs magic user dichotomy. alright, milkruns forever it is
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BurntCornMuffin posted:I tried running a one-shot last night for what was intended to be a smash and grab. The party spent the entire session chasing every single lead they could, and we had to schedule another session. Food Fight has leads? 
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Liquid Communism posted:If it were a SF universe, that poo poo would fit, but Literally Matrix Magic is hilariously lazy writing with no place in the setting. it would make sense were they to introduce it as a new totem, and therefore shamanistic tradition it kinda makes sense, the matrix is used by billions of humans, there should be the equivalent of hearth spirits for it I never bought anything beyond 2nd ed, but when I first heard about technomancers I thought they would go that way (imagine an adventure arc around the emergence of a new totem and the ramifications for the astral and so forth)
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Cooked Auto posted:https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/259492/ that actually sounds good? and im interested in the location too? 
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Dhalsim is real, and strong, and the back-up Long Gun of the team
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Gort posted:I'd love to see a rewrite of Shadowrun from the ground up with a few design goals: just want to point out that trying solve this is one of the best ways of falling asleep when you have trouble sleeping
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Liquid Communism posted:
for example being born a mage doesn't mean you can cast spells you need to learn from teachers, and that incurs debt (similar how you should have a debt with Rescources A), and the player's job is to come up with a cool story what that debt means
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Ronwayne posted:I dunno I disagree entirely. At some point, being faithful to whatever the old setting's themes that were written down several decades ago just doesn't matter all that much to me, and one of Eclipse Phase's problems is Psi users suck for the most part, magic transhumans is what I'm shooting for as the setting evolves. A strong magic tradition boosted by a more progressive post-cyberpunk thing is absolutely what I want to see in Shadowrun. so, like, what if Shadowrun, but there are 100 times more mages, with magic cutting through the old Cyberpunk cliches, instead of enhancing them?
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Ronwayne posted:No, you need to think bigger (and not just in circumference), goatse isn't limited to one man, he's an ideal (specifically, The Adversary). man the way the world is going he's more like The Constant or Nirvana
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If they reboot Deus et al. they should ditch the implicit body snatcher route. Make the AI more animal like, driven by instinct and self preservation. It doesn't experience its hosts, but it doesn accumulate everything they sense. If one is in danger, it can't formulate a threat, it only has an emergent sense of dread . It can't see through their eyes, so it relies on others to protect them. One day the Shadowrunners get a matrix drop for Shadowland Quick Runs, it says a Person is in danger, the fake Johnson doesn't know their name, only their SIN...
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Mulva posted:That's Mirage. Deus is Samaritan. ooo I like it
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"I tell you, Bright is turning more and more into a documentary!" "Shut the gently caress up you dorc."
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I think I said it earlier that having a debt mechanic for roleplaying and worldbuilding would be workable, but not this way 
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yeah all the monsters from folklore came back i.e. were real before and then I just now remember the Juggernaut, what a cute lil dinosaur that was 
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