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Shadowrun 5th Ed
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Shadowrun 5th Ed
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Re: Shadowrun 5th Ed
I'm going to run a game having never played it myself. I am sure it will be a colossal failure.
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Re: Shadowrun 5th Ed
Played it a few times with my group. I played a cybered up blatant ripoff of the punisher, god damn it was fun.
My advice? Learn the fucking matrix and spectral realm bullshit rules inside and out as well as planning ahead how you are going to use them. Shadowrun makes the questionable decision to have two whole very necessary systems take place in a complete subsystem seperate from the real world and it is pretty complex. If you do not incorporate these systems well your decker/mage will feel jilted and gameplay will get really bogged down.
My advice? Learn the fucking matrix and spectral realm bullshit rules inside and out as well as planning ahead how you are going to use them. Shadowrun makes the questionable decision to have two whole very necessary systems take place in a complete subsystem seperate from the real world and it is pretty complex. If you do not incorporate these systems well your decker/mage will feel jilted and gameplay will get really bogged down.
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Re: Shadowrun 5th Ed
In 5th ed every archetype has its own dedicated ruleset anyone playing it should know inside and out.
StreetSams should know everything about all the different kinds of called shots and how best to use them in a firefight. They should know what the different called shots martial arts styles get do and how to use them in melee combat to the best effect. Know your guns, know your gear, know your ware.
Deckers (and to a pretty decent extent, Riggers also) need to know cybercombat and matrix actions inside and out. You should know what Technomancers are and what they can do even if you aren't playing what. Learn what Sprites and Agents are and what they can do for you. Study your programs.
Riggers need to know the rules for vehicle combat and what skills are appropriate to what particular feats of mechanical manslaughter you're trying to cause. Know what drones do what and what they can do for you even if you just want to be the wheelman. Know how high-speed chases and stunts you can pull off even if you aren't the team's driver. Understand enough of cybercombat to know how to prevent someone else from cutting in and stealing control of your shit. Be even better and learn how to cut in and steal other people's shit.
Mages have a lot on their plate but each individual thing is pretty simple compared to what a Decker has to go through. Spellcasting, Conjuring, and hanging out on the astral plane are each different things but are often pretty straightforward. What people often forget to pay attention to are the rules for things like Counterspelling and Banishing. If you have a mage in your party and you get blasted by a random spell out of the blue without any kind of spell defense dice from them they're not paying attention. If you're watching a mage battle a spirit by throwing spells at it instead of attempting to banish it either they have a really gimped build, are some kind of adept, or some kind of moron.
Shadowrun is complicated as fuck as a whole and GM'ing it is a mental circus because you need to know how to do all of these things at once. You will wind up at some point GM'ing a scene in which the runners are hauling ass down a dirt road in the jungle firing guns out of the bed of a pickup truck at a giant insect spirit while someone is hacking into a UV-grade security orbital defense platform to call in a strike on the nearby hive.
GM'ing Shadowrun is the pinnacle of crunch artistry. Taking all this ridiculousness and making it into a cohesive, awesome, fun thing that flows well requires talent.
StreetSams should know everything about all the different kinds of called shots and how best to use them in a firefight. They should know what the different called shots martial arts styles get do and how to use them in melee combat to the best effect. Know your guns, know your gear, know your ware.
Deckers (and to a pretty decent extent, Riggers also) need to know cybercombat and matrix actions inside and out. You should know what Technomancers are and what they can do even if you aren't playing what. Learn what Sprites and Agents are and what they can do for you. Study your programs.
Riggers need to know the rules for vehicle combat and what skills are appropriate to what particular feats of mechanical manslaughter you're trying to cause. Know what drones do what and what they can do for you even if you just want to be the wheelman. Know how high-speed chases and stunts you can pull off even if you aren't the team's driver. Understand enough of cybercombat to know how to prevent someone else from cutting in and stealing control of your shit. Be even better and learn how to cut in and steal other people's shit.
Mages have a lot on their plate but each individual thing is pretty simple compared to what a Decker has to go through. Spellcasting, Conjuring, and hanging out on the astral plane are each different things but are often pretty straightforward. What people often forget to pay attention to are the rules for things like Counterspelling and Banishing. If you have a mage in your party and you get blasted by a random spell out of the blue without any kind of spell defense dice from them they're not paying attention. If you're watching a mage battle a spirit by throwing spells at it instead of attempting to banish it either they have a really gimped build, are some kind of adept, or some kind of moron.
Shadowrun is complicated as fuck as a whole and GM'ing it is a mental circus because you need to know how to do all of these things at once. You will wind up at some point GM'ing a scene in which the runners are hauling ass down a dirt road in the jungle firing guns out of the bed of a pickup truck at a giant insect spirit while someone is hacking into a UV-grade security orbital defense platform to call in a strike on the nearby hive.
GM'ing Shadowrun is the pinnacle of crunch artistry. Taking all this ridiculousness and making it into a cohesive, awesome, fun thing that flows well requires talent.
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Re: Shadowrun 5th Ed
We tried this a while back and it fell the fuck apart, would anyone [coughanon3cough] be willing to run a /tg/station Shadowrun campaign?
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Re: Shadowrun 5th Ed
Nah, I wouldn't want to run anything here again. Too many failures, both mine and others I've witnessed.
Conveniently I have a bunch of real-life games in progress to occupy my time, but even if I didn't (and I don't mean this as any personal offense to you) I wouldn't try again. It just never works out, no matter what game anyone tries to run.
It sucks but I look at every other game and it's just an endurance contest to see how long they can go before burning out. On average it seems to be about what a single night of playing around a table would get. Maybe three combats or roughly 4-5 scenes total.
Then it dies.
I would like to be able to just blame myself for being a poor GM but it happens whether I'm running it, playing it, or not involved at all.
I would highly recommend you check out https://www.digg.com/r/RunnerHub/ if you want a fun way to play Shadowrun online with random folks. It works! I may or may not be mixed in there in some capacity. You never know!
Conveniently I have a bunch of real-life games in progress to occupy my time, but even if I didn't (and I don't mean this as any personal offense to you) I wouldn't try again. It just never works out, no matter what game anyone tries to run.
It sucks but I look at every other game and it's just an endurance contest to see how long they can go before burning out. On average it seems to be about what a single night of playing around a table would get. Maybe three combats or roughly 4-5 scenes total.
Then it dies.
I would like to be able to just blame myself for being a poor GM but it happens whether I'm running it, playing it, or not involved at all.
I would highly recommend you check out https://www.digg.com/r/RunnerHub/ if you want a fun way to play Shadowrun online with random folks. It works! I may or may not be mixed in there in some capacity. You never know!
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