who are the Shadowrunners among us?

[Elf Witch]

Shadowrun is my favorite game. I really wish I could talk our old GM into running another game. When our Ad&d broke up and the group talked about running Shadowrun I was not impreesed. I normally do not like cyberpunk settings. I only played because I liked the group I played with.

After two sessions I was hooked. I have read all the fiction books I could find amd have most of the game books.

The game rules were a little hard to learn but the magic system worked the way I always pictured magic to work. The caster can cast magic as long as they can resist the drain it is taking on their body. I also liked the way the caster could choose what level to cast a spell at. And if you became to drained to cast spells well you could always pull your handy Ares Predator.

 

[Saeviomagy]

The rules...heh, that's what the GM is there for.

See, to me, that's a big part of what I pay my money for.

Incidentally, our group did a pretty big overhaul of... well... everything? Including a lot of the vehicle stuff (although the vehicle stuff was written up in a bit of a half-assed way... my fault).

 

[Vocenoctum]

I played SR for many eons, since Time (or at least the game) began. I had every book up until Shadows of Europe. I finally decided the new lack of quality and new direction of the ruleset and setting was just not to my liking, and have abandoned SR.

It's a shame, since was what got me through the Dark Days of late 2nd edition D&D, but SR is dead to me now.

The group is constantly looking for a new game to try, but nothing has really caught our eye yet.

 

[The Horror]

Have it. Love it. Play it.

 

[Teflon Billy]

In tjhe Nigel Findley-penned Shadowrun novel Lone Wolf, I am the Mob Boss "Ranger" who gets capped in the first act

That's my big Shadowrun claim to fame.

BOW BEFORE MY AWESOMENESS

 

[Geron Raveneye]

See, to me, that's a big part of what I pay my money for.

Incidentally, our group did a pretty big overhaul of... well... everything? Including a lot of the vehicle stuff (although the vehicle stuff was written up in a bit of a half-assed way... my fault).

Checked it out...looks impressive...just not usable to me, as I'm still playing by slightly modified 1E rules.
And you'd be surprised, the tweaks are not that many. Autofire was the biggest thing, followed by bringing in decking and magic use in line with the "roll dice equal to skill" rule to properly unify the SR mechanic. Oh, and streamlining the dice pools a little, and using point buy character creation and ads/disads from 2E SR Companion, that's about it. Really not that much.

 

[Geron Raveneye]

In tjhe Nigel Findley-penned Shadowrun novel Lone Wolf, I am the Mob Boss "Ranger" who gets capped in the first act

That's my big Shadowrun claim to fame.

BOW BEFORE MY AWESOMENESS

Hey, look...a dead gang boss...*pokes the corpse*...weren't that tough, huh, chummer?

 

[der_kluge]

So, who's running the Shadowrun game at Gen Con?


TB - I know how you feel. In one game, my physical adept was teamed up with a bunch of samurais with wired-3. In the first round of combat, he pulls out a grenade, and pulls out the pin - that was my action. When it was my turn the next time around, all the bad guys were dead, so I put the pin back in, and put it back on my belt!

 

[GlassJaw]

So, who's running the Shadowrun game at Gen Con?

Who's running "the" Shadowrun game or "a" Shadowrun game?

I started a thread on Dumpshock inquiring the same thing. From what I've gathered, there will be a strong SR presence there. Aside from one-shot and introductory games, I guess there is a big tournament: 12 tables, 6 players each. You stay together with your "team" through the whole tournament and play through like 2-3 sessions with different GM's. Each one grades you on each mission and then the tally the points at the end.

It also sounds like there are some superb GM's as well. This will probably be one of the first things I sign up for for GC.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

In tjhe Nigel Findley-penned Shadowrun novel Lone Wolf, I am the Mob Boss "Ranger" who gets capped in the first act

That's my big Shadowrun claim to fame.

BOW BEFORE MY AWESOMENESS

Look in your copy of Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets, page 34. I'm that Bradley Smith.

Brad