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Message: <blockquote data-quote="francisca" data-source="post: 5445390" data-attributes="member: 9734">Nope.  Never.Closest was during a GenCon Shadowrun event, when the hardcore deckjockeys rolled their eyes at me when i explained my RPG experience was 99% Old School D&D.  I was playing a Troll Merc with a minigun.They really hated my effing guts within 3 minutes of the event start.  the fact that I was 15 years older than the oldest of them made it worse in their eyes, I'm sure.  Here is some dumbass old AD&D grognard whose gonna get us killed, kind of thing.After sitting around watching these guys jerkoff for 3 out of the 4 hours of slot, trying to hack into the security system of the place we were supposed to perform a smash and grab, all while trying not to lose their precious Living Shadowrun (or whatever the network was called) Characters, I got fed up, put the mini-gun and frag grenades to use, and along with another Troll (a street samurai) we completed the mission objective, and saved the Network Characters.So, the mega shadowrun dweebs got the credit within the network for accomplishing the mission by not doing anything but being chickenshits, while me and My Buddy Eric did the actual dirty work with our non-network, created in 5 minutes before the game characters.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing    :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" />I got some sheepish thank-yous, and one "WOW I HAD NO IDEA SO MUCH FIREPOWER COULD BE BROUGHT TO BEAR!" comment by some guy who was a supposed hardcore SR expert.So, no, never been that guy, even with the deck (all pun intended) stacked against me.<sigh></blockquote>

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