/srg/ - Shadowrun General

We tried. We'll prob just shit on him for the whole session.

This brings up a wonderful talking point; things like elves, trolls and dwarves are supposed to be a minority.
Why can't people just play humans?
Why does it always have to be some sort of elf or monster? Heck there's this one guy I know who has always wanted to play a Bigfoot shaman.

Imagine a toddler-sized Tinkerbelle, because that's what a pixie is.

Keep said image foremost in your mind, then try and fail to take the character seriously whatever happens.

>Why does it always have to be some sort of elf or monster?

Because where the fuck do you expect monsters on the fringe of society, with hard to legally capitalize on talents find work exactly, if not shadowrunning or other shady business?

>What is your character doing to help his fellow meta?
Neighbourhood watch.
And I don't mean the 'you don't belong here' kind. If you are a pusher of bad chips? You go down. Abusive husband? You go down. Racist fucktard? You go down. Preying on the homeless? You go down. In return I have free room and food pretty much wherever.

Pretty much a protection racket, but without the racket part. It counts as my dayjob drawback actually

>Forming a guardian gang
>Not extorting the locals with it
Fucking pathetic, user.

Fuck off Keeb.

They're still outnumbered by humans even in the slums.

Are you saying that more people should play as humans to make the statistics come out right?

It wouldn't be the first time an RPG recommended that sort of thing.

A little bit; I tire of being like... the sole human anytime my group plays shadowrun. And it isn't like the other's backstories are race specific; anyone can be a down on their luck mage. You don't have to be a troll as well.

And then there are just the really weird things; like as I said the one fellow who has always wanted to play a Bigfoot. I was in a game and one of the PCs was a Satyr! FOR NO REASON. And there was an island of Cyclops as well.

Humans don't have skin that's basically small arms proof.

Humans also have an easier time getting work, even in the slums.

Pretty large minority in Shadowrun though. Metahumans as a whole are not uncommon.

>Humans also have an easier time getting work, even in the slums.

Not really? I mean, it's a huge part of the humanis retoric that metahumans are much better at getting jobs.

Elves are incredibly charismatic, dwarves are industrius, orks and trolls are strong and tough. There isn't too many jobs where one of those wouldn't be an upside trying to get.

Are you literally falling for the "they are taking our jerbs!" rhetoric of an imaginary, openly racist (speciest?) caricature organization?

Really?

Think of how small his dick would be and go from there.

No but it is stated that it's not really wrong. Elves ARE better than humans at getting jobs as they are just as smart and much more charismatic.

>Elves ARE better than humans at getting jobs
Some jobs. Elves have higher charisma on average but that isn't always an asset for a job.

What job is not being more social/intimidating/self controlled an asset?

>Implying that's not the truth when they are very very clear physical and mental differences between races
That's wiggity wiggity wack yo.

Any job where your skill level trumps everything else.
The example that jumps to mind is the classic autistic kid who is the best computer programmer in the western hemisphere at age 13 but is a *tad* socially awkward.

Also, for elves, you need to remember that it's roughly analogous to having French people get hired more often because there were some ancient Gauls still around and they preferred to hire people that lived in roughly the same area as they did back in the day.

Eh, I like to play non-horrible shadowrunners.
I am aware that I am, at least in the local community, am very much an outlier with that.

Any cool guns you guys used lately?

I'm sick of ballistic masks. What else you got?

Elves are not exactly any worse in that area. It's not like orks where they are actively less capable at the high ends of intelligence.

Sounds like you're some kind of commie. You know what we do to commies around here?

>commie
What is this? World War 1?

>Commie
>World War 1
You what?

Red is dead, you filthy commie bastard! It has been for over a half century!

My 11 accuracy Yamaha Raiden.

Thing about Shadowrun is that the weird folks are more likely to become shadowrunners. No-one is going to give a SIN to a louisiana swamp french pixie, but that's OK because said swamp pixie has seven edge and six magic, and can thus probably get a nice job summoning fire spirits to devour people.

You guys do realize that Nam in Shadowrun is still communist, right?
I actually really love what they're doing, they declared themselves to be a megacorp, and they became AA because of their influence in Laos. Now they're just annexing neighboring nations by buying land there.

What said basically. While in the general population, 'wierd shit' is a definite hefty minority, in the shadow population everyone is a freak of some sort, more or less--some of them just happen to be freaks that can turn into tiny dragons, or are pixies, or whatever. Metavariants, sapient critters, drakes, metatypes, the heavily 'wared and the powerfully magic are all outliers when it come sto general population, but in the shadows they're normal, for lack of a better word.

Question: Run Faster says Pixies are common in france.
Is this like how Irish people were more likely to become elves, even if they weren't in ireland? Are places with significant french populations like Quebec and some of the louisiana swamps full of pixies?
Same reason every shadowrun group has a mage even though mages are really rare in shadowrun: because such people are more likely to become shadowrunners.

The Communist revolution in Russia was during WW1, and communist parties were openly operating all over the place during WW1.

In fact the German Emperor had an explicitly amicable attitude towards socialists, which pissed off Bismarck a great deal. (He wanted to kill them)

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So... China?

Likely.
The Scandinavian diaspora also does giants, the Greek diaspora does minotaurs.

>So... China?
Basically, except there's still no private enterprise (what self respecting megacorp would let you run a private business on their soil?) and their expansionism is both perfectly legal and unlikely to cause WW3.

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Replying from the previous thread:
Does anyone know how much DocWagon HTR costs?

It should be in the corebook.

5000 nuyen just to get there, 5000 nuyen for the medical aid and up to 20000 nuyen compensation for each Docwagon employee getting hurt/killed saving your retarded ass.

Hi chummers,

Is there somewhere pdf compilation of monsters / NPCs for SR5 avaliable?

Helps and Hinderances, Street Grimoire, Howling Shadows all have some goodies

The fuck is an espatier? Some kinda psychic meter maid?

You forgot Run Faster and Plots and Paydata.

Nooice.

Speak for yourself. I always play humans. Not a chance I'm wasting a priority on being a special snowflake.

Gayyyyy

Thanks a lot! I didn't know Howling Shadows was out and other books looks goot too,

What would be the one out-of-game invention you'd most want for Shadowrun?

I want a real, excellent virtual tabletop that is built for SR, where it auto-calculates speed and grenade yields and ammo in the mag. Just a bit of vidya, so I can play the game once with all the rules instead of making up half the shit each session until the final round is 90% kludge.

Personally, I like non-humans because I get enough racist shit IRL that I want a real reason for it in game. And being non-human is fun, makes you think differently about physicality[\spoiler]

Roll20 may get there some day, I hope.

I was thinking of bringing it back up to my friends, but I've had one player say it gameifys things too much to make it feel like a real tabletop game

A version of chummer where I can remotely access all of my player's sheets, and see/update them in real time.

That makes sense, though. Fon't know context, but 'American units should probably be mostly American' is straightforward. Unless you're playing American Foreign Legion.

good editing

Why would anyone WANT to be a shadowrunner?
I mean you have no job safety, no steady income and you are lucky if you can trust your contacts not to turn you in if things go south.

If you have a marketable skill (and let's face it most player characters will eventually develop them in time) why wouldn't they get an invite to join... I dunno a corporate/government gig if the chance came?

Woah let's not go too crazy here bud.

A lot of them have neo-anarchist leanings, or just don't like the 9-5 reporting to a suit. Some prefer the shadows to avoid enemies. Some like it hot.

Now that I think about it, my Shadowrun characters typically have the shortest backstories. Like, maybe a paragraph that isn't just fluffing up qualities.

>Louisiana swamps full of magical pixies
I'm now envisioning a coven of pixie voodooists, Bayou oreads and their pet rougarou.

Loup garou are a HMHVV type iirc

>Why would anyone WANT to be a shadowrunner?
No-one with a legit job wants to become a Shadowrunner, that's the thing. However, if you're a weirdass critter no-one is going to issue a sin to, then you're limited to criminal activities as far as jobs go, and Shadowrunning is better than being a go-ganger or whatever.

That's some variant of the Ghoul/Vampire disease right?

Unit is synonymous with "party" in that game, in the same way that Shadowrun sometimes refers to the party as "Runners."

>Why would anyone WANT to be a shadowrunner?
Probably the same reason as 50% of the people who join a national military, or about 90% become mercenaries.

In the case of Pixies, it's not. Pixies are not Metahuman, they are Non-Metahuman Sapient. They are not related to humans in any way. They just started to be seen one day and no one is entirely sure if they arrived from somewhere else or if they came into existence due to high mana.

Well, you forgot 'Sticking it to the man' as a reason people with legit SINs go runner. It IS a cyberpunk game.

>Sticking it to the man
>While primarily doing jobs for the man

>jobs which are primarily sticking it to the other man

You're still helping the man. You can't win.

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Welcome to Cyberpunk. Here's your goggles and net jack.

Yo chummers.
Anyone have any pics of African-American PMCs? Female

Posting misc art in the meantime

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In the last thred some user mentioned turning standard weapons into drones. Is that actuality a thing in sr5?

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I suppose any small drone with a weapon mount and sensor array would work.

Anyone ever played a NAN shadowrunner?
I could use some pointers so I don't end up.... Offending everyone.

>Why would anyone WANT to be a shadowrunner?

Because fuck The Man. Because you're a goddamn genius and being a goddamn genius doesn't suit the nine-to-five too well. Because it's better than getting the shit kicked out of you by the cops for being a ganger. Because some asshole up the chain had what you did to him coming to him.

>Because some Asshole up the corporate chain had what you did to him coming
>Playing a Corp SINner
No Runner, you ARE the man.

Drink lots of alcohol, speak with a lisp, complain about how every problem you have is because of the white man, call everyone you see "Son," and refer to anyone else who is a native, regardless of if they are or not, "Cousin."

Source: I live in Canada

>Because fuck The Man
See