Shadowrun: Anyone Up For It?

Vendetta · Aug 12, 2004

I'm liking the sum to ten thing. I'd not heard of it before. I'm thinking of doing something simple, like a dwarf investigator type with some cyber stuff. Nothing too complicated.

Gramcrackered · Aug 12, 2004

Andrew D. Gable said:
Time to start seriously coming up with a plot... any preferences on where the game would be? Preferably somewhere in North America, with maybe occasional forays to outside regions. Or for that matter, any preferences on what it's about? Would you prefer a high-magic romp with immortal elves and dragons, or a more down to earth game?

I prefer my Shadowrun games gritty and urban-based. Suppose that qualifies as a "down to earth game." Then again, I've never really done a high-magic game, so that might be an interesting change.
*shrug*

So. Looks like there's some suggestions for non-standard character creation systems. What way would you be using? And how many people are damn well interested in playing so far anyway? Lotta posts in this thread already for something that didn't seem like it would pan out.

Andrew D. Gable · Aug 12, 2004

Gramcrackered said:
And how many people are damn well interested in playing so far anyway? Lotta posts in this thread already for something that didn't seem like it would pan out.

I know, really. More fans of the old Shadowrun system on here than I thought.

DrZombie said:
Do you have the shadowrun companion? If so, do you allow alternate races, and do you use the point buy (my favorite char creation method for shadowrun)

No, although I aim to get it someday. I'm not really all that familiar with any of the alternate ways of creation, but I did download the BeCKS creation system off dumpshock.com, and that looks to be alright. It's a sort of point-buy system.

As to alternate races, I assume you mean the sub-metatypes? The things like Wakyambi and Oni and such? If so, yes, I'll let you be those. What I'd consider off-limits are ghouls and any of the HMHVV races. Even a Sasquatch would be alright. And *no* Otaku!

Equipment from the Cannon Companion (and SOTA '63, if anyone has it), is OK as is magical goodness from Magic in the Shadows and the additional cyber in Man and Machine.

I also have the SR2 main book, but I figure it doesn't really count. I really only keep it 'cause it has more critter stats than SR3, which only has dragons and spirits.

Yeah, you could say "let's go with SR2" but I like 3 better.

A formal game-launching thread will hopefully be up in the next few days.

No Way · Aug 12, 2004

Nice. Also, for any one making their Runners, I highly recomened NSRCG. I cant remember where I downloaded it from, but its quite nice for a char gen program. Im sure google would find it for you. The SR magic system always confuses me though, so I stick to mundanes.

Thanee · Aug 12, 2004

Critters: You could always pick up one of the Paranormal Animals of North America/Europe books, if they are still in print, or have been replaced by something else.

And there was a SR3 Critters booklet coming with the Gamemaster's Screen, I believe.

Bye
Thanee

Shalimar · Aug 12, 2004

Here is the NSCRG, the best character Generator out there. It includes all the official options for Character Generation: The Priority Method From SR3 Core, Sum to 10 and Point Buy from the Cannon Companion, and the BECKs system (The Karma Option)

http://matrix.dumpshock.com/mcmackie/nsrcg.zip

They are set up in tabs so you can switch back and forth easily, and once one of them is selected and filled out, the rest of the generation is autocalculated based on that.

Thanee · Aug 13, 2004

"The Karma Option" kinda sounds like the system I had done some years ago, where you just have an amount of karma points and everything is raised from 0, even attributes, for the same cost as during the game, while options you cannot obtain later, i.e. race or magic level just have a fixed cost attached to them.

That worked fairly well and discouraged min/maxing, which almost automatically happens, if the costs during character creation are completely different than during play.

Bye
Thanee

Velmont · Aug 13, 2004

I want to know. Do you have access to Rigger 3. I am really thinking to play arigger, as there is many person taling about magicians. I would not be the usual rigger, was thinking more to play an ex-biker coming from an Urban brawl team (or maybe, even still in a league). Well, will depend if it's fit the the game, but could be fun.

Gramcrackered · Aug 13, 2004

...Which brings us back to the player issue. No Way, DrZombie, Vendetta, Valmont, Shalmir, Thanee (and of course I) have all shown outright interest, plus who else I missed. Which makes for a very large group.
How're you plannin' on pickin' who gets to play, eh? First come, first serve? Pick and choose from the character backgrounds?
If you're going to decide through backgrounds and have decided on a rough idea of what sort of setting you're gonna use, can you tell us about is so we (I) can have something to start working with?