Shadowrun deserves better

[Thomas Shey]

The current approach seems to be for third parties to do things that evoke SR without actually being it. There were two of those that hit Kickstarter last year, but far as I know, they're still pretty obscure and I had distinctly mixed feelings about both.

 

[thullgrim]

About twice a year I get the urge to look at Shadowrun. I’ve got all of 4 and 5 and about a third of 6.

If I were going to run it I’d use Savage Worlds and the SR setting. Both Sprawlrunner and Interface 0 for Savage Worlds would do the job at least as well as anything Catalyst has done.

I will give CGL some credit. They still produce the Missions line for organized play and continue to do so and they keep moving the world along. They publish a bunch of ‘in world’ content that is fairly mechanically neutral.

 

[soviet]

All I ever knew of Shadowrun was i) the fantastic Larry Elmore cover that featured in every Dragon magazine at the time, and ii) the idea is a bit silly.

I played it once about 16 years ago and it was way too complicated, I don't know what the FASA editions were like. It also seemed to take itself silly way too seriously.