The Green Man
First Post
I used to play Shadowrun. Still would (the setting hasn't lost any interest to me), but I have to concur with so many others...the Deluge of d6 system just had to go. So much so, that when I ran a group during home room in 10th grade, one of our friends (the resident computer/math geek) made a program for one of those old TI-81 computer/calculators to roll the dice and count the successes. 'Course, two years later I got hooked up to the Internet and found that you could get those programs for free...
But anyway, final say: setting's great, system's not. And of course, most DnD-reared people other than me didn't like it as "it was too easy to die".
On a somewhat unrelated note, I'll say that there was one thing I didn't really like about how health was handled in SR: while it was great that most humans were on the same playing field, it was just unrealistic that there was no scaling system - i.e., it was as easy to bring down a Behemoth (elephant-size reptile) as it was to kill Joe Blow Cyberhead from down the street.
But anyway, final say: setting's great, system's not. And of course, most DnD-reared people other than me didn't like it as "it was too easy to die".
On a somewhat unrelated note, I'll say that there was one thing I didn't really like about how health was handled in SR: while it was great that most humans were on the same playing field, it was just unrealistic that there was no scaling system - i.e., it was as easy to bring down a Behemoth (elephant-size reptile) as it was to kill Joe Blow Cyberhead from down the street.