The Excruciating Ecstasy of Jacking - Shadowrun Returns

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Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Danaru posted:

One of my favourite things about Jake's appearance is that he kept the glasses Also I'm pretty sure he's the only Decker/Shaman class character in the game(s) because that makes no drat sense if you're anyone who isn't Jake Armitage

Jake is awesome, though, because his game was real good.

# ¿ Apr 28, 2017 16:26

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 11:10

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

I appreciate that the murderin' was properly prefaced with a good one liner.

# ¿ May 9, 2017 20:29

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Someday I wanna see some middle eastern cyberpunk.

I mean Dubai is basically already an insane cyberpunk dystopia already.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 18:41

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Ze Pollack posted:

I have only ever read one thing along those lines, and it was set in Africa. The Eye, the Ear, and the Arm is so Shadowrun it hurts. It is also so young adult literature it hurts, but in my defense I was thirteen at the time.

Hey, I read that back in the day.

I've kinda gotten to like Shadowrun's setting from the games and stories I've heard, but good god is that a rules set I won't touch with a ten foot pole as a DM.

# ¿ May 11, 2017 18:45

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

mauman posted:

I might be given an evil eye here, but as I agree that Shadowrun rules tend to be a bit over complicated I tried something to make it simpler on a new group that I GM'ed

With a little bit of tweaking, D20 Modern does a fine job of simulating Shadowrun since D20 Modern has a slew of optional rules to implement mystical elements (basically porting D&D magic/psionics).

It worked very well. Almost too well annoyingly enough. Next time I played normal Shadowrun I almost thought I would have preferred the other system.

I'm just going to say I believe you, but also that 'This game works better in d20 Modern' is the most damning indictment of a game system I've ever read.

# ¿ May 25, 2017 13:35

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# ¿ May 5, 2024 11:10

Night10194: Feb 13, 2012; We'll start,
like many good things,
with a bear.

Hypocrisy posted:

It's just like modern life except one day an oddly dressed person comes up to you and tells you they're part of a security audit so you should totally help them by charging past security into the executive's elevator and you think this is kind of weird but they sound really official so you charge in since you can't get in trouble for following the audit procedure...

That'd be a fun origin for a PC. Someone who got roped into helping some Runners and did well enough that they stayed on afterwards.

Ex-Salaryman adrenaline junky!

# ¿ May 30, 2017 03:05

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