/srg/ - Shadowrun General

>Sox still suck
Beautiful. It really is the natural order of things.

Oh god, that means the Leafs still haven't won a Stanley Cup either.

>Laffs
it's like pottery

Perfectly fine.

He was more upset when I told him that the Lockdown means the Sox are out of the running this season as well, due to about half the team being stuck in the walls.

for his birthday the party will be offered a run by the Red Sox Nation to go rescue them

Wait, does this mean the Cubs didn't end their drought either?

Probably.

Man, why is baseball so poorly organized that franchises go a full century without winning a title? Is the organizational structure that off that teams can keep their advantage through generations and generations of players?

It just keeps getting worse.

>worse
I couldn't be happier. Based setting.

To actually answer your question it's about general management. Some teams just have a better understanding of what is needed to make a good team. Considering that the marginal dollar really doesn't get you much in terms of wins above replacement and teams revenue share quite a bit the thing that keeps good teams on top is consistently great general management.

All great teams go through bad years and slumps, but teams with great general management break out of those slumps after a year or two of rebuilding.

I should add that the draft in baseball just doesn't mean as much as the draft in other sports, so having a shit season doesn't guarantee good players. You have to actually have a farm system and coach the guys up from the lower leagues or be amazing at multiway trades to get the players that you want.

But how is the management of teams like the Cubs so consistently poor? Over the decades, how have they not managed to poach a quality manager from someone else, if they couldn't find a decent guy on their own?

>You have to actually have a farm system
What, you mean beyond just having a few lower leagues where the youngbloods can cut their teeth on serious competition and be spotted by talent scouts? Because that alone has worked out pretty well for the NHL except for the Leafs god fucking damn it.

There are usually a few reasons for this. First to look for, and overwhelmingly the most common issue, is ownership being retarded. Second is that some fan bases are so hard on GMs that want to firesale and rebuild that they can't actually keep their position long enough to go through with it. Third factor is that there just aren't that many high level GMs.

Just look at Theo Epstein, the same guy turned around BOTH the Sox and the Cubs and broke their curses. He's just so much better at understanding how to get good players that he's worth whatever they can pay him. I'm not a Sox or a Cubs fan, but Eptstein is the most valuable asset in baseball.

Most of the best players don't bother to go to college, they go directly to play for some low A ball team. From there they might play in the development leagues for 5 or 6 years before they get a real shot at a real ballgame.

This is why the draft doesn't really mean anything in baseball, since all the superstar players who know they'll go pro just go directly to low A ball out of high school.

your choice as an 18 year old is either
A) sign with a team and play up through their farm system, skipping the draft entirely.
B) play college ball against a bunch of guys who won't go pro and go to the draft after you graduate.

Sure, some great players do go to college and get degrees, but really if you know you're going to be a pro player there's not much point unless you really want to go to college.

>Sure, some great players do go to college and get degrees, but really if you know you're going to be a pro player there's not much point unless you really want to go to college.

Unless you've got a parent who is able to keep a dumb 16-year-old from doing something stupid like betting everything on getting a rare position in major league sports because they're sure they'll make it, and insists they have a backup plan like a degree in some worthwhile field.

No junior leagues that catch them before they get out of high school, huh?

Honestly, if you're playing sports all the way through college you're not going to be getting good grades or a reasonably useful degree. If I thought that my kid could hack an STEM or business-useful degree I would make them go. If I thought they'd end up majoring in "sports management" I wouldn't both.

There are tons of year round leagues for hs kids to play in, but they aren't owned by the mlb teams, so you can't work your way up through them.

/srg/ - Baseball General

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Here. Baseball Adept.

Well I don't think ownership by the teams has anything to do with it, or at least it logically shouldn't. Up here in Canada we've got all kinds of junior hockey teams in smaller towns (and by junior I mean 16-21, if it wasn't clear to you). Nobody in the NHL owns them, but you know what? Over half the players currently in the NHL made their start in those junior leagues; in fact, 1 in 5 come from just the OHL. So why aren't we seeing MLB picking guys up from junior leagues? Are they just not sending their talent scouts?

I dunno, the baseball recruiting system seems weird. The entire sport seems weird to me, because it and cricket are the only 2 ball-sports I know of that aren't some variant of "PUT BALL IN SCORING ZONE TO SCORE".

>Urban Explorer Jumpsuit ("Armored Track Suit")
>not the Armored Jersey from Cutting Aces
Oooooh, so close, but no cigar.

It's an older character, I pulled it off Runnerhub. There's a lot of stuff that could be tightened up, honestly.

>Ichiro
youtube.com/watch?v=DNpqSQDNXt8

IDK about the junior leagues, but one would think that if there were money to be made there some team would go do it. These megacorps don't leave money on the table.

Nono, I'm talking real life here. Why bother going through all the trouble of minor league affiliations when the NHL has shown that junior leagues are better for talent farms? I guess we'll never know.

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Speaking of sports, has your runner ever thought to themselves "maybe I should've gotten into major league Urban Brawl or Combat Biking instead of this drek"?

>Why bother going through all the trouble of minor league affiliations when the NHL has shown that junior leagues are better for talent farms?
Oh, well this I can answer, because my actual job is as an economist. Markets and industries have large costs to form, so even if an organizational structure is more ideal if the benefits, discounted by time (since you won't get the payoff now), don't exceed the costs then you don't switch. This is called path dependence. Right now, even if junior leagues are better, we can presume that the mlb isn't doing it because the improved talent of the players isn't worth the immense costs of scuttling the minor leagues, reevaluating current contracts, selling or reorganizing all of the physical assets. reorganizing structures is really expensive and they probably just don't want to do it.

Do they allow drug use in sports?

I know cyberware and bioware is all the rage and legal in pretty much every league, but can you get an autoinjector of Jazz to make the Play of the Game?

Sorry, forgot to actually type.

Considering the disconnect between magic and technology in shadowrun (e.g. wearing a helmet that uses cameras instead of holes basically stops you casting spells at anyone, etc.), is it unrealistic to incorporate magic/spirit/totem/etc-related motifs and aesthetics into high-tech gear? Or is there a sufficient population of people who just think that shit looks cool that things like that are available?

In a world run by corps, how hard is it to find someone who'll build a really customized piece of advanced gear for you?

It's actually quite easy when you have money to throw at the problem.

I wonder how much he paid for that machete prop. I know a guy who got a used-looking machete in africa for like $1 when he needed to cut through jungle.

These things are available in all possible styles. There are even breakfast cereals marketed to awakened. So yes, you can buy a smartgun covered with Indian mythology references.

You might even get someone to pimp out your gear. For instance, you might make your RCC to look like a bible, scroll, or similar so it looks like you're preaching the word of the machine-god to your horde of anthrodrones. Is it cool? yes. Is it absolutely bugfuck crazy? also yes.

>tfw writing a campaign you're proud of

Sucks to be a forever GM, but I will challenge my players not to have fun while I run this.

There's much less disconnect in shadowrun between technology and magic if you're willing to merge flesh and machine.

Magical tradition inspired gear is definitely a thing. Shiawase has a set of high-fashion clothing for the wizard who carries sacks of reagents and foci. Plus different people like the Sioux or the Aztlaners would like to express their people's faith, even if they can't throw lightning bolts. Plus selling Sioux-themed gear is a great way for a Corp to make a profit.

Customized 'ware is covered under Casemods from Chrome Flesh. It mentions that some corps offer to produce custom-built cyberware, from basics like painting and gold plating to engraving to custom one-offs manufactured using nanoprinters, which you can get from megacorps.

And magic motifs are canonically a thing that exists. See the aztechnology eagle warriors.

>the lure is thrown out, Bob, and it is decently baited
>Quite right, Jim. Let's see who bites and gives user a chance to fellate himself

Oh, I see. Too long a payback to justify a retooling.

What? Am I not allowed to be excited about my campaign? I understand you were trying to do something clever, but I can't decipher what the hell you're trying to say.

I know this feel. The excitement about how your players will play the fuck out of your story, about how their characters develop...
>tfw campaign dies after two sessions

You were lucky to have a group at all. I've only started writing because the past three million gamefinders have been fruitless, and roll20 is a joke - a bad one at that.

>the past three million gamefinders have been fruitless, and roll20 is a joke - a bad one at that.
Oh man, I cannot tell you how great it feels to have a GM I meet in the flesh at a boardgame cafe every other week to play under.

Online gaming may be more convenient but nothing beats playing with someone face-to-face.

>baseball adept

Crack open a copy of Attitude and Shadowbeat, chummer. Educate yourself.

Some mineral. I forget. It's in the adventure where Horizon is fucking around with burning man.
Well, if it helps, he taught it to them in 1800s not realising it wouldn't work for them. They remembered.

Small town, no FLGS, no colleges. Life is suffering.

> nothing beats playing with someone face-to-face
A roleplay is fine, too.

Looked it up. Page 78 of Twilight Horizon. They anchored three spells - a control actions spell, a spirit barrier spell and a spirit zapper spell that is apparently moving. The actions stops it demanifesting, the barrier keeps it stuck in a tiny area, and the zappe ris apparently moving around as a torture method.

>previous session, had to snatch some wetsuits to get off a boat real quick
>GM tells us that it's an artificial gill-mask thing instead of scuba tanks
>home the next day
>can't find any reference to such gear in a 5e sourcebook
>reading Arsenal 4 today
>find "OXSYS Artificial Gill"
>it's exactly what my GM described
>still can't find it as gear in 5e, but there is the OXSYS cybergill implant in Chrome Flesh
So, did my GM give me a piece of technology which could no longer be manufactured after that nanobot incident or did CGL just goof up again?

He's 92 years old, and recently underwent Leonization.
He became a mage during the original Awakening, and goblinised into a Fomorian during that event as well.

Unfortunate combo really, since he's hermetic. He's constantly pissed about his reduced LOG/WIL, and Arcane Arrester messing up his self-buffs.

He, like a lot of the other people here, are likely a little jaded at not having an active game. I've been looking, and I cannot for the fucking life of me find a text-based Shadowrun game. Voice games out the ass, but I've had bad luck with GMs over voice.

Why not both? CGL fucked up getting the tech level a bit down, and thus it can't be manufactured anymore

Keep an eye on gamefinder chummer, and get your character ready for a rock show. You seem to have won some tickets.

Hey, anybody got a screencap of a Wolf mentor spirit initiation or quest for an amerind giant?
I recall the spirit was a biker in some bar in the middle of nowhere. He and the giant were playing pool and then a fight started. I need that story for reasons.

I have a table as player and the other players are relly nice and we get along well and when i DM they really like my style, i like theirs and we have fun.

But at this point i'm almost sure that our regular DM has some mild form of autism.

He's pointing out that you're not excited in the sense of 'let me tell you about this cool idea I had.'

is a contentless humblebrag about how good you are, begging someone to ask you about your cool campaign.

I reserve the right to give away my pleasure about creating content without giving away said content to potential players.

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>Single Shot weapons include bolt-action rifles, single-action revolvers, pump-action shotguns, lever-action rifles, and some large weapons that need extra time to chamber a fresh round due to the cartridge’s size.

Does this mean the Ruger Super Warhawk is a single-action revolver?

Probably, but what does it matter?

I'm not complaining, just that it's a little unusual for a popular revolver in the 2070s to be single-action.

It's SS for balance purposes, but it has the nasty side effect of implying it's a single shot revolver. It triggers my gun autism a lot.

Single action*

how do i azteccore?

Crazy... or crazy AWESOME?

maybe the recoil is just too intense for SA fire

I want to be hopeful, but I can't help but think this is a ruse.

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>this troll is still at it
Fuck off, cunt. You tricked me last month into thinking it was happening "Soon" and I plain gave up.

Also, karmagen a shit.

>What connection does your runner have to the fifth world? Or is he a child of the awakened age?

It's been more than 60 years since the Awakening. Orks usually kick the bucket around age 40, trolls around 50.

Runners from the fifth world are exclusively going to be Elves, Dwarves, and humans that are entering their sunset years. You're already chucking a huge chunk out of the eligible population, then narrowing it down to Runners, who work an extremely dangerous job.

I'd imagine there's less than one runner in ten thousand that remembers the old world.

>karmagen a shit.
Whoah now, let's not go saying things we'll regret.

>Runners from the fifth world
chummer, that's not what I wrote
>What connection
does not mean that you yourself have lived there, just that you have nothing that has to do with the fifth world

AAND I fucked up that sentence
last sentence was supposed to be
>just that you have something that has to do with the fifth world

Step 1: Prepare to fork over a lot of cash to Aztechnology and its subsidiaries.
Step 2: Fork over a lot of cash to Aztechnology and its subsidiaries.

No fucking regrets. Karmagen a shit in 5e.
Are we clear?
Karmagen.
A
SHIT.

is right yknow

What's wrong with Karmagen?

There really is no difference DA and SA revolvers besides how the hammer gets pulled back.

I play 4e, and Karmagen is straight-up better than BPgen in that edition.

I have no opinions on 5e karmagen.

>4rry
Just shut the fuck up, you people are an insufferable minority. 5e should always be taken as a given when questions and statements are given, it is only 4e that must be qualified.

/srg/ I am new to Shadowrun is it possible to make a sneaky mage type? My group is just using the 5e core book.

>KarmaGen
>better than BPGen
?????

JEsus christ you're spergy

Yeah. Just take your average spellslinging Shadowrunner, who should know Improved Invisibility, add a high Stealth dice pool, and perhaps a few spells like Silence.

I've seen talk about target dicepools for what your character's job is, but what about things like hobbies? Do you take a lot of ranks in something that may never come up in game?

Lots of ranks no. But take a few. You'd be surprised how often they actually do come up in runs and help.

BPgen has that old problem where it's easier to build peaks of ability at chargen than in play, so it encourages players to dump all their points into a few laser-focused categories. Karmagen builds a more rounded character with lower overall dice pools, but more general utility.

chummer, the advancement path forces you to broaden your skills, so starting out as a specialist is fine
better to be good at your skill and grow wider (the sammy getting better at planning, the decker getting more athletic, the mage learning to shoot) than stay mediocre in your field and just getting more fields to be mediocre in