/srg/ Shadowrun General - H.E.R.O. edition

What's the point of heroism if nobody sees it? It's why LA is the best place for 'runners in the world! Regular income from media deals, cheap equipment from advertising tie ins, being invited to all the best parties... It's the fucking life, man.

And you get all sorts of cool shit. I'm doing a promo for Ares and netting myself a prototype electrolaser. Just gotta pose and flash the logo to the camera a couple of times a run, no biggy.

I picked the wrong bloody city... From Essen to the Tijuana Metroplex, why didn't i just skip the Aztlan bullshit and go to LA? Bugger my crew, I'm going to be on the trid!

Why did you leave the glorious Ruhrplex, my chummer?
Pissed off the golden wyrm?
We out of the Pott stand together!

What are you going to do with some prissy
blonde bimbos in LA anyway?

I want to buttfuck a gnome.

Somebody may have set up an SK trust fund. SK trusted their humble head of Accounting, and the Head of Accounting acquired funds.

Ahem.

>prissy blonde bimbos
Well the hope is that they're troll blonde bimbos, and the answer to that question is hopefully be adorable enough for them to pity fuck me

So glad I'm not the only relentless shitposter this morning.

Break into the biz in LA, and you'll have girls of every shape and size lining up to get your attention. They might be as shallow as a puddle, but when you get bored of one you can just move on to the next. And it's equally true of the guys, for ladies or mens men.

Then again, a romance with a teammate is great for trid views. The drama inherent in it really hooks in an audience. And if you can set up a love triangle, well, you might as well be printing money.

If this massive beautiful angry troll sammy doesn't work out, you can bet my sweet yamatetsu polymer ass I'm dragging my gorgeous heartbroken self up north to trid city.
okay but please let it work out i think i'm in love with you gunnr

Couldn't you buy a nicer face with
half of that dragon's hoard in your pockets?

Your money management skills are abysmal, I gather.
Your taste in women, though, is excellent.

But why run half a world away?
Lofwyr's reach in the Troll Kingdom is laughable
and there are all the Troll, Giant and Fomori
women you could ever wish for.

Some cute ones aren't even that picky, if you catch my drift...

Come back to the ADL, we've got the better troll chicks!

Blegh. A shadowrunner soap opera, don't make me barf.

>nicer face
You cannot improve upon perfection, luv

Well, let's hope they don't get to rough with you there, beanstalk.
If push comes to err shove with a troll lady in the sheets?
Oh boy, you better have some bone-lacing or you'll end up like pic related.

Alright, I'm done shitposting for the night/morning. Thank you for putting up with my insufferable ass, /srg, you're the best.
maybe if I ever go to sleep I'll wake up this afternoon and show my gratitude by sketching more runners

But user, I'm your mentor spirit

At least you have a toilet. You know how long it took me to get enough cred to afford to move out of a squatter camp and into a real apartment without bankrupting myself? I had to run a gang of organleggers out of the sewers just to get my neighbors to trust me enough to share some of their food. I had to burn off my skin in an acid bath just to get the stench of raw sewage off of me. And forget about ever wearing those clothes again.

>Are you a hero or a villain, chummers?
>needing to even ask the question

The 2050's are dead.

>Still don't understand which side everyone is supposed to be on

>what did she mean by this?

>Are you a hero or a villain, chummers?
Our hacker was the sysadmin for a BTL server farm.

You're dead

...

I've been interested in shadowrun for a long time but I don't know anyone who plays. I want to rp a lawyer.

Dammit, I'm starting to see things. Fucking dementia. Where did I put my meds?

Alright, so we've got a rigger, right? And that rigger jumps into a drone that is equipped with a drone arm with a melee weapon strapped to it (basis being the rigger uses his drones on par to what other people use BTLs for; live in some sort of fantasy life).

Question is: would this still run off of Gunnery+Agility (plus all the other bonuses) if he's jumped in, or would it use whatever skill the weapon is considered (such as Blades+Agility if he's using the claymore)

I really wish the life module system worked in chummer.

The worst part of generation system like that is the paperwork, so a generator that does it for you would be great... but it's the one part that doesn't even slightly work.

r8 my runner hair

Me I havent built the datajack yet, but its coming

Can structure/reinforce spell in 5th e be used on armor like lined coat?
I can only see it being used to table, door or something like that

I'll help you drill the hole. For science.

>no pink hair
>no fiberoptic strands woven in
>tattoos are not LEDs

retroposer/10. At least it looks nice

Theoretically, nothing saying you can't, but it's clearly implied to only apply to buildings or other similar objects

I hot lavender coming in the post so i can cosplay my character [spoilers]helleb0re[/spoilers] at gencon

Bugger! I'm a faggot who forgot how to spoiler tag apparently

Not a good showing for a decker. have you built the arm yet

10/10 would fight the corps with
take pics pls, you've spontaniously given me a thing for elves

I'm waiting on the latex for the underglove so I can start heatforming craft foam and fitting the plates together! i'm really amped. I'll post progress throughout the year here in my favorite board, /srg.

Alright i've had 4 hours of sleep. Who wants drawings of their runnners.

A-user, desu.... Im sorry i made you gay

You're a pretty cute fuckboy aside form your hideous water removable tattoos.

Hermetic native dwarf mage, with earring foci (several different materials and types of earrings per ear).

I just want to see if you can draw something without cheekbones like razors

>without cheekbones like razors
My only weakness! I will try for you, user

Edgy.

While trying to shitscribble my group using the Draw Your Group Template this question popped into my head.

Do any of the sourcebooks really go into detail about how the stuff you wear looks?

The armor vest and lined coat gets two vague descriptions that let you picture them but what clothes and stuff? Whats in vogue for the face?

I got all of 4e so just name a book if you wish.

would Shadowrun give a shit about a Brexit event?

do megacorps give a fuck if some countries stop being polito-buddies?

Tthis actually raises an interesting question. Is there anything that's off limits for your runners? Because both of the two characters I play would probably cap any runner if he actually went to kill a kid, teammate or not. Well, one definitely would, while the other probably just would refuse to act.

You see, they are there to survive in a shitty world, not make it worse. By being shadowrunners, they retain what little independence there is left in the fifth world, and that includes being able to turn down missions. Without principles, men are nothing.

As long as there is trade and the countries don't turn against the corps then no. But if they suddenly get more isolationist (foreign corps getting discriminated) or stop the trade then they will quickly decide to do something (see Aztlan)

Any or all (a small groupshot) of those will make me thankful as shit.

- Balding human male rigger in a trenchcoat, with a steaming mug of soykaf in hand patting a car with an obvious rocket launcher attached

- Dwarf male Jackie Chan

- An obviously corp, "expensive" redheaded elf gal with a cyberarm

- Ripped as fuck orc sammy with an AK in hands. Lots of internal cyber (muscle replacement et al) which slightly shows.

- Dwarf wolf shaman, ugly as sin.

I think the only kind of event Corps would care about is the kind that limits their extraterritoriality. Imagine if UK decided that Corps now answer directly to the government; shit would go down pretty fast there.

In the fluff, that couldn't happen, because corp court would magically prevent that from happening. In actuality, a government could easily make that decision, although there would be little for them to gain from it. However, this would be the kind of a principal question that the Brexit is about - are you willing to risk fucking up your economy to retain your sovereignity?

>Is there anything that's off limits for your runners?
They're morally bankrupt to the point that the kind of jobs that they would turn down probably wouldn't be offered to them.

Give me a few hours! I've still got an art trade I'm working on for more shameful troll ladies but I'll be working on these intermittently. They'll be shitty half- sketches, as a warning.

Our runners would get along very poorly. In fact, I think they would feel uncomfortable with running with morally bankrupt people in the first place.

Thanks!

I'd post some troll dick hand-picked for you, but y'know blue board and all.

How good or bad is it working right now? I never use it. Did you fill any bugreports about the stuff tat doesn't work?

Attitude talks about fashion trends, and you can glean stuff here and there in various books. Shadowrunner chic (trenchcoats and mirrorshades) was the height of fashion in 2050, but it's dipped since then, and people are more likely to think 'runner' than 'trendy' if they see you on the town in your lined coat and deckbag.

You've got casual wear, which goes from regular 2016 clothing to stuff with with tribal and Japanese influences (fringe jackets belted with silk, beaded kimonos for indoor wear, etc).

Steampunk is back in fashion, as is post-apoc wear, so you can find someone in an updated 3-piece with brass accents and a derby hat (with trodes inside) working in marketing, or kids going clubbing with ripped pants held up by chains with AR skulls on their belts. There's more suble variations (cog-shaped buttons, bullet-shaped berets woven into the hair), obviously.

And that's not getting into holowear, Awakened clothing, corp styles, and all that. Whole bunch of stuff out there.

Can't really afford being picky right now. Either our DM is master and escalating shit or we're completely retarted - it all started with a small datasteal, followed by a countersteal, then we were hired by other side to capture Johnson ordering the 'steal, then we kinda fucked up, and had to blow our way through police blockades with rocket launcher. Now we're desperatly doing jobs for a guy that our face believes is Sylvestran (which I seriously doubt) in hopes of getting in touch with a legendary personality creator. Also, I'm convinced that SK officials had been helping us along the way, which makes me even more nervous.

My character would shoot anybody to get out of this mess.

>Either our DM is master and escalating shit or we're completely retarted
>retarted
Well, I wonder which it is.

Neat.

And hot.

Well, that's settled then.

Don't worry. It was anime that made me gay, you had nothing to do with it.

>I think they would feel uncomfortable with running with morally bankrupt people in the first place.
Wouldn't the shadows be filled with morally bankrupt people?

Gangers are after all often the guys who go into it.

Probably, as the european union allowing essentially free trade between member states is a big deal to corps.

...
so should we start a /aco/ thread or...

>beaded kimonos for indoor wear,
That's my fetish.

Nah, runners can be anything. Maybe they're gangers who have no place on the right side of the law, or maybe ex-mil who got discharged for some reason and you can't otherwise sell your skillset, maybe the guy's been laid off by a corp and has no other option left, or possibly people who value independence and refuse to sign up as a wage slave, or maybe they feel that the profits are higher when you don't have to care about taxes.

In my case, it's independence that drove them to the shadows.

Please do. There is a shocking lack of Shadowrun porn out there, especially considering all the waifus and husbandos the games introduced to us.

Most gangers are not 'murder children' sort of people. They're petty criminals who like the camaraderie of the gang. It's one thing to claim a neighbourhood and rough up some other punks for stepping on your turf, it's another to take cash in return for shooting a child in the head.

Besides, there's plenty of reasons to end up in the shadows other than 'gang activity'. Does anyone else remember the Neo-Anarchists, the eco-warriors, the people who saw the sickness in society and were determined to cut it out, or at least shine a light on it and convince the rest of metahumanity that they had been made slaves by dragons and corporations, but that they could not be kept slaves except by their own will? O Captain my Captain Chaos, I stand with you.

oh god please

>Does anyone else remember the Neo-Anarchists, the eco-warriors, the people who saw the sickness in society and were determined to cut it out, or at least shine a light on it and convince the rest of metahumanity that they had been made slaves by dragons and corporations, but that they could not be kept slaves except by their own will
Weren't those guys repeatedly fucked up?

>go looking for a site with a lot of SR fashion pics
>find a recommendation on a forum from a 3 year-old-thread
>the tumblr they linked to has since turned to ponies

...let's do it, folks. Post whatever you've got.

I now realized I don't really have anything gay due to, ya know, not finding men attractive.

Here's a table from Attitude, with a few different lines that are common; wageslave 'fashion' for those without the money or the daring to do any better.

Fuck

And of course, I forgot the table.

>Animal patterned print one piece suits
Jesus Christ.

*i tried

I imagine you'd have a lot of terrorists/freedom fighters using shadowrunning to raise money. Also possibly the CIA now that gun running doesn't have the profit margins it used to.
>Weren't those guys repeatedly fucked up?
Sure, but so are normal runners.

Better than I expected, 2bh

>The Ares Victory line provides Gear Access

...

>native dwarf doesn't have a beard

das racist

Darkbeast Paarl does not want me to draw your shadowrunners, or do absolutely anything for that matter.
While he repeatedly digs his claws into my arms and face, please tell me about runs gone absolutely bad so I can laugh through the agony.

He's been told directly in the thread about the stuff that doesn't work.

It doesn't work at all, if there is anything that gives you any kind of choice it doesn't work period.

Where can I find some stat blocks for Ghouls and a vampire?

Got a plot I want to run. Should I just bullshit them?

Can you just draw something funny with mentor spirits?

Like Dragonslayer hitting on Spider or Adversary being mocked by others for his edgy followers?

>playing first campaign as technomancer, make character who Fades at the drop of a hat, but we have a real decker so it's fine
>run is simple- infiltrate manor of mid-level UO exec, steal an artifact from his vault (some magic globe he says is a fifth world relic)
>exec is hosting an 'open doors' party, where people lower on the UO chain could come to his house for a while and gawp at his stuff
>perfect- we get fake UO SINs, sneak in, grab it, and get gone
>team decides to enter in a couple different groups, to avoid attention
>mageface, decker, and adept all fail to get in due to shit rolls with their credentials, have to leg it before the security grabs them as gatecrashers/spies
>only myself and the troll sammy somehow get inside
>after much subvocal chatter, we decide to go ahead with a modified version of the plan
>with the services of a spirit, the decker operating remotely, and coaching from the physad, we manage to get through the crowd, make small talk, and sneak through the library to the vault
>vault is in a separate wired grid, so the decker can't help, but this should be easy for me. I can't fuck up a simple Puppeteer that badly
>Sammy stands guard
>6 seconds later I drop unconscious, vault door stays shut, alarm rings
>~12 seconds later, sammy comes hurtling out the bay window overlooking the front drive, with me wrapped up like a baby in one of the library curtains and tied over his shoulder
>deploys cyberskates, magna-grips to the side of the van as it comes screeching around the corner, and we blaze off into the Snohomish sunset

Fortunately, the mark decided to move the goods to a more secure location, so we were able to intercept the convoy and complete the job, but I learned some important lessons that day: If your plan for Willpower is "I'll increase it during gameplay" you are dumb and deserve everything you get, and that despite your opinions on sprite rights you need to register some of them, because compiling mid-run is not smart

Core book, dummy.

What are you looking for chummer? I've been collecting drek for a while now for my campaign. Might have something you need.

Nothing in particular, just something I could link to in this thread to show the variety of Sixth World fashion

>First game of shadowrun ever
>Kid mage (me) with his german 0.05 essence friend (my friend)
>Human elf poser decker (GM's (now ex) wife)
>First roll of game is German street sam trying to speak english
>Critically glitches.
This sets the tone for our adventures.
>Sneaky beaky all like through this elf facility that still makes books; stealing some lineage book or something.
>Scout the place, get good, then head on it.
>We hear dogs. Hellhounds or whatever had paralyzing howl. German Streetsam dude took a shot at the trainer, nicked him, then failed the save against the paraylze howl, then drops down while I deploy an emergency force wall to keep us from being eaten by
>Decker has to brick his comm to prevent him from calling the cops. He gets trapped in an elevator. Problem solved.
>Meanwhile in the garage basement, paraylze howl finally wears off.
>We beat down the dogs and continue inside the building.

>Lotta searching, nothing interesting. GM is doing some side shit with the decker while we sneaky beaky through.
>Finally get to the safe we need to crack.
>Mage acid spell to eat through it.
>Finally get the goods when we hear the vans pull up and KE boots hitting the ground.
>Decker fucked up and tripped alarms and didn't even tell us.
>Decker flees as soon as the run goes pear shaped.
>Queue me and my street sam friend at the top floor of this building collectively shitting ourselves while a pair of swat team rolls up the stairs.
>Summon a guardian elemental, hand him a ton of grenades, have him surprise the swat team.
>Chunky salsa means its just now 2v6 instead of 3v12 (Spirit lived, don't worry)
>Stairs ruined, so we go to the elevator. One of which has the man from earlier still trapped inside.
>We take the other by virtue of the street sam using his ware and ripping the elevator doors apart.
>We're about to hop down when we hear guns behind us.
>Turn around, its a 3rd SWAT team.
cont

>Apparently they had a mage making them invisible on the way up.
>German friend threatens them with a grenade for mutually assured destruction
>They shoot into him.
>Lives through virtue of having a fuckload of armor, but his low will means he racks up stun pretty quickly.
>We hop down the elevator, I force wall to prevent following
Good thing too, as they threw grenades down at us.

>Fall in the elevator shaft from third to second floor
>Run down stairs
>Run into a single guy, alone, who panics and pulls out a grenade threatening Mutually assured destruction
>Street sam shoots him.
>I grab his riot shield, he grabs me, I levitate myself and we haul ass out of there to our escape van like an overgrown man with a mage/riot shield balloon
>Rest of the first floor swat team shooting at us, GM allows for the shield to protect me and the street sam.
>Turn corner, almost home free
>One officer remains, who stayed with the vans.
>Street sam nearly filled up on stun, decide not to risk it
>Hit him with mind control
>Force him to twerk
>We run past him as he madly twerks in front of the dash cam of the swat vans that showed up.

And that's how our first run went. With a video of a large man with cyberwear wearing a Dunkelzahn dragon mask dragging a floating kid around who held a riot shield, a book, and was wearing a Lowfyr dragon mask while an officer twerked his little heart out.

Fuck that decker for abandoning us without even a warning, though.

You should put it on tg booru.

It's anemic when it comes to good cyberpunk.

what do you guys do when writing out descriptions for your runners? do you just focus on what they look like and what their wearing with maybe an item or two that's important to them like a particle gun or sword?

I ask because im of writing one up and for the longest time I couldn't start despite having it all in my head. then a day or two ago I was able to get started and was able to write up a few small things like some of his face, his hair and his cloths but im sort of stuck here on what else to do or how to elaborate on what iv written.

any one got any advice or inspiration for a writers block riddle chummer.

I usually start with a couple personality traits, allow that to build a backstory, and allow the backstory to influence the design. FE Helleb0re, flippant excitesble rich kid, got the idea to run the shadows from trids. His corporate background influences some of his dress choices but he also strives to go Shadowrunner Chic a'la Horizon Group media. He's a decker so very into bleeding edge tech, has a top of the line deck and yamatetsu cutting edge cyberware. Demeanor takes precedence over physical attributes, because demeanor kind of influences physical attributes.