who are the Shadowrunners among us?

[Jeff Wilder]

I try to play at least one SR game a year at GenCon. I GMed a very successful 2nd edition Shadowrun game for five years.

I love the setting. The rules? Well, once someone knows the rules, they're reasonably fast, but the reason I'm not running an SR game currently is that I have no interest in tackling that learning curve with my D20 players (and they don't have interest in learning such a complex system, either).

But if I could find four players I liked who know the rules well, I'd love to run it again.

 

[Nikodemos]

Life to you, Glass Jaw. And everlasting glory.

I have played SR1 and SR2, in my time and always like to play if a game comes up.


Yours Niko

 

[Jeff Wilder]

I've got virtually all the rule-related books with only a few holes. I *think* I bought Blackhand's firearms guide but loaned it to someone. Not sure anymore....

Blackhand's Guide is CP2020, actually.

I own every 3rd edition Shadowrun rulebook published. I've owned every rulebook published (started playing with the horribly broken 1st edition, back in '89), but I've discarded obsolete books as they were replaced.

 

[kigmatzomat]

Nope, Didn't buy Blackhand's then. There was a design-your-own-gun book for SR2/3 that I'm pretty sure I had in my possession for all of a week before I lent it to someone, never to see it again. So much so that apparently I've forgotten the title!

 

[obsidianelf]

My gaming group played Shadowrun alot in the early 90's and in fact the longest running campaign I've been in (2 years) was a Shadowrun campaign. I credit that 2 year campaign for getting me to be more of a roleplayer then a roll-player. A friend of mine is gearing up to run a 3E Shadowrun game sometime this month or next and I can't wait. I finally get to break out my Dwarf catburgler/raccoon shaman again. I love the setting and I really like the open ended rolls.

 

[DethStryke]

I digs me some ShadowRun, but I enjoy Cyberpunk 2020 better. Both are good depending on the mood really. I like a grittier more realistic PA-type game, and CP2020 delivers that better than SR, in my opinion.

Of course, I may just be chasing the Fallout Ghost... *sniff*

 

[Neo]

I digs me some ShadowRun, but I enjoy Cyberpunk 2020 better. Both a good depending on the mood really.

Of course, I may just be chasing the Fallout Ghost... *sniff*

I'd echo the above sentiments really, though I have run both in the past and like them both a lot. The "bucket of dice" aspect of Shadowrun puts me off a little but the system otherwise works very well and the setting is very creative and enticing. R Talsorians CP 2020 is great stuff, love the system (though automatic weapon fire rules are pretty sucky), character generation is excellent and the setting is a nice grim and gritty dark near futuristic one. both have heaps of gear and source.. both have good Netrunning systems (though using such systems in play when in most instances you only have one netrunner in a party meaning the rest are sat around taskless while netrunning occurs can be problematic).

 

[Aris Dragonborn]

Hoi Chummers!

I have the 3E book, and some 3E and 2E SB's (including 2e Seattle), but I haven't been able to convince (read:coerce) my group into playing yet . I've read a few of the novels (Wolf and Raven, Preying for Keeps, Headhunters, Steel Rain, the Dragonheart Trilogy), and I would absolutley love to either run or play in an SR campaign.

By the by, do any of you know if anyone has ever tried to convert SR to the d20 system?

 

[Hawklord]

Been playing and GM-ing since 2nd Edition came out - 3rd edition fixed most of the rules problems.

Love the game, love the setting and love the metaplot! Gotta love Harlequin!

After playing D&D (which I also love) with its obsession with balance it's nice to play a game where balance means nothing !

Of course if you have to pull a gun the Run has gone wrong, but when did a Shadowrun ever go to plan? certainly not any of ours ! My favourite character ever Stumpy the Dwarf Physical Adept (he was short even for a Dwarf) got shot in a totally pointless random encounter with a border guard after surviving five years of Running.
But hey , that's life on the street chummer !

 

[painandgreed]

About every five years, friends of mine convince me to run a campaign and I have to go out and buy the new books. now that I actually live in Seattle, I find things like the placement of the Aztechnology pyramid and orcs in the underground humorous and then usually have to change them to something more plausable. During the last game, I was also running V:tM so I made a conversion of Vampire and Werewolf to SR and had the players working for Vampires (unknown to them; the typical SR vampires are just what has leaked through the Masquerade and is mostly false info) looking for Werewolves, some of which were Black Spiral Dancers (toxic shamens).