/srg/ - Shadowrun General

Hah! That's perfect. Thanks, chummer.

>No, omae, if your brains get fried, you're completely, permanently and irrevocably dead!
Not necessarily true. There's always the chance of him becoming an e-ghost.

Note that the decker needs to mark the owner's device/persona to use Spoof to do that.

A Technomancer has that option two ways (self or sprite) and Puppeteer.

So so if you are stunned unconscious you stay in VR as an targetable helpless target for any matrix opposition and you are now at the point where dumpshock switches to physical. All deckers should hire trolls to carry valkyrie drones around for them

If things go awry, you can always Jack Out, unless you're link-locked by some nasty IC.

If that happens, well, if you are a decker, there's a major chance your deck will get bricked first and dumpshock you when it goes. Nasty but you'll live. If you're a Technomancer, you're dead.

Looks like I Roved Out irovedout.com

The rest of Alexis Flower/Rupert Everton's comics; Bloodmajiq, LOVELYSS, and LOVESYCK, are also great.

>If things go awry, you can always Jack Out, unless you're link-locked by some nasty IC.
Even then, there will be a physical switch to jack out. Getting someone to flip it / cut it / other will get you out.

>physical switch to jack out

I'd consider this the exception rather than the rule: unless you have a cable that you can pull out, the control is going to be vulnerable to link-locking. Even today they don't make devices with a manual-override-tier "turn off the wifi" switch.

Also dumpshock if you get unplugged from VR.

Maybe you could rig up a wireless-disabled biomonitor to physically unplug your datajack when your stun track fills up? Still dangerous because dumpshock, but sometimes you might want that setting on.

Alright /srg/

I want to run a shadowrun game with a bit of a hotline miami feel

I kinda know the kind of places and enemies they'll face, but I'd like some tips and thoughts regardless

"no, just don't" is also welcome as long as you say why too

Check out the art I commissioned of my character:

If the Knights get a lucky shot through and I am gel rounded to dreamland I can't switch device modes (to avoid dumpshock), and I cant Jackout (because I'm unconscious and because dumpshock might kill me). If some drekhead yanks my wires or the opposition data spikes me I get booted, take dumpshock, and likely die (not to mention the aforementioned data spike bricking my deck) onward to troll servants and high priced armed medical response. Don't get hit my decking fellows

The names in LOVELYSS/SYCKare fantastic. Johnny Teflon, Psycho Venus, etc

Working for Triads, Mafia, etc. Just acting as hitmen.

There's a lot of opportunity for opponent variety in that, too:
>Other Gangs
>Magic users
>Shadowrunners
>Corporate

My unarmed adept was modeled after Tony.

BREDDY GUD, I take exception with:

>Heterochromia
>that fucking resolution in general
>that fucking resolution (as a png)

Oh, she doesn't have heterochromia! That's stupid. It's just because the blue of her goggles overrides the red of her eyes.

And yeah, the resolution is w/e.

The artificial depth of field is kinda poorly done and the coloring doesn't look so hot zoomed in, but its good overall. Artist is pretty good but seems to have lackluster Photoshop skills.

>commissioned character
>actually DOESN'T look like shit or some horrible doodle

i approve

How much Burgerbucks did you have to spend on this?

Looks lush, who'd ya commission?

14 bucks and this guy:

artistsnclients.com/people/larynth
nyaaati.tumblr.com/

It was supposed to be a $9 colored doodle, but he and I agreed that it was a lot of detail, so we agreed on bumping it up to $14, and I think Sonata looks amazing.

>What's the biggest fuck-up you had so far?
Woah boy.

>played a Techno with a Poor Self Control: Compulsive (File Tampering) NQ
>basically every time she was presented with an opportunity to slip in and read/steal files she shouldn't...
>sent to Lagos for some weird job I don't think we even learned the full details of
>led to a Nigerian princes' mansion
>just have to relax until dinner
>I go to my room, sit down, and look around
>camera RIGHT THERE
>ohh fuck
>fail whatever I was rolling to resist the urge
>stealth my way under the camera, just casually reach up to touch it
>try to be in and out as quick as possible so I go for multiple marks
>kinda minmaxed and I Edge it though so I'm still looking at a really good dicepool with explosions
>critical glitch
>on some like ~15 dice

>alarms start going off
>as security busts into my room and drags me off
>Rigger thinks now is a good time to try his lockpicking
>there's a cover on the door's lock, so he rolls Hardware to take it off...
>...and of course it's a ritzy as fuck maglock
>camera in his room picks up all of his tampering
>situation has now risen from something I may have been able to lie away/sacrifice my character for, to the whole party now under suspect

Needless to say we tried to fight our way out of a mansion complex swarming with well-equipped security (did I mention this was our second mission?) and most of us died horribly, the one or two survivors I think were captured so their aliveness is questionable.

14 dollarydoos? That's a fucking low price, especially considering the quality of the end-result.

Since we're showing off recent commissions though...

Eh, thats frigging cheap.
I'll bookmark this guy.

My Crew, commisioned, oh god, like 2 years ago I think?

Man, I miss my crew. BP, Temple, Chica, Prof, Boku; if you're out there, I hope you're doing well.

Lasers: For one reason or another, people just can't stop trying to weaponize light. Do these weapons show up in your campaigns? What have you used them for? Can they compete with bullet-firing weapons?

>Can they compete with bullet-firing weapons?
no

>no

but muh no recoil

To expensive to be used.
Could be a cool Gimmick, but the high availability are basically killing them.

I kind of like the idea that laser weapons in Shadowrun are still in the 'expensive novelty' phase of development, where outside of very specific niche-uses the primary buyers of laser weaponry are corporate bigwigs who want to outfit themselves and their personal security with the absolute latest tech, regardless of its practicality.

GM once threw a CFO's son at us wielding a cutting-edge prototype linear-accelerator pistol. He took two shots at us before it malfunctioned and glassed the soft parts of his own face off. Would've been great if we weren't supposed to kidnap him with as little harm as possible.

I equipped an Ares HTR Team with them in my game. The players were doing a run on an Ares Submersible Research base trying to steal the plans of an experimental dolphin-drone. Since Run Faster says matter in the air would disrupt the beam, lowering the DV, I figured the beam wouldn't work well once it hit water. I was able to create a really fun (at least they said do) mission where the players would swim between rooms that had pools or aquariums and try to spend as much time below water as possible. The moment they popped up they might alert a guard and get cut down by lasers, they couldn't stay underwater because not all the rooms were connected, and they couldn't wear heavy armour because that would drown them.

Haven't showed up yet, but after seeing the movie Spectral I kind of want to make one that has a number of combo heatsinks/batteries and it ejects one after each shot.

That is an... interesting pose.
Too expensive, too distinctive, without any unique advantages to offset them. I've seen people houserule that they ignore Immunity to Normal Weapons (Which explains a bit about why Ares is pushing for them so hard) and in my games Ares is like a patriotic Mr. Torgue so all their laser weapons fire three-round bursts of red white and blue ("No Doctor, I don't care if it's inefficient and an overall reduction in damage potential, I want it done!"), but they're generally not runner weapons.

Besides, Ares Alpha is already best grill.

What is the oddest character you've ever played?

I went for that pose just to show off as much of the character as possible.

And because in-character he's a total tryhard who poses unnecessarily

>in character he's a total tryhard
>he's a total tryhard
>he
Well, that caught me off-guard.

Didn't we do this one recently? What a waste of quints.

Caught me off guard too. Character creation is a confusing business, especially when you give your commissioner free license to tweak things as they see fit, hence the weird revolver and the cyberdeck displaying Java.

personally, i would have just put /srg/ or jackpoint on the deck. And used a gun we actually have pictures of. And not made him a trap. Just my two cents.

You might confuse this with "what's the dumbest thing you did". This is more about fucking up runs
Also:
>0000
>quints
Counting is not your strong suit, is it?

>jackpoint

Oh, I don't like it either, but if there's any way to increase faggotry that's it.

Speaking of comms, I did that one for a member of my group recently. I usually only do my characters when I play games but huh, he had money and I needed to buy food.

7's are wild.

Oh don't get me wrong, I'm completely satisfied with the end result. The artist was pretty bro-tier about the whole thing too, so there's that.

That's a very strange hold he has on that rifle. My commission from a local drawfriend.

>And not made him a trap
???

Why not? Is gender of a fictional character outside of Male and Female scary to you? Jesus christ.

Can't say I really care, but people who play characters with a gender aside from definitively male or definitively female tend to be fucking awful people to play tabletops with. If you're the exception, all the more power to you.

>assuming assumptions
>telling someone they should have changed the gender of their own character's drawn pic as if it matters to you

He's definitely a guy, he just sort of ended up looking more feminine than expected. Didn't think it would be any cause for concern or fuss.

>user makes personal, opinion-based remark
>YOU CANT TELL HIM WHAT TO DO WITH HIS CHARACTER
k then

It's not a bad kind of ambiguity, anyway.

The "just my 2 cents" bit makes it sound like a sassy dig. Also the way you. Type like this.

Just kinda comes off a bit asshole-ish.

What is with those eyes? Is she the potion-seller's daughter?

Do you guys prefer cyberware or bioware?

Alright, fair point.

I prefer cyberware for fluff reasons, but a lot of the more popular bioware just tends to be plain better than its cyber equivalent.

Cyberware for daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaays son.

In game both are very good but for the aesthetic it's cyber all the way.

Depends how much money I have and if being obvious augmented is going to be a problem.

Cyberware is a stop-gap for people who can't afford Bioware yet and weren't lucky enough to be born Awakened.

On personal preference goes cyberlimbs > Bioware > rest of cyberware
When it's about building characters, I try to avoid the first because I end up making the same builds, and I find bioware really cool with all the interesting options you end up having.

Bioware is better by-the-by, but cyberlimbs can put your effective attributes a lot higher than they should be, not to mention deflecting bullets and making your mundane meat body more durable.

Son, you can't rig with Bioware and lord knows I gotta go fast.

But, for serious though, if I'm just trying to up my stats I like to go Bioware, but I find cyber has a lot of great options bio just doesn't, so when I'm building a sammy I tend to go Cyber.

I don't get the reference.

youtube.com/watch?v=R_FQU4KzN7A

Got you covered senpai

...

You are clearly the weakest.

>How bad have you fucked up your last run? What's the biggest fuck-up you had so far?

First, you're going to take the classic run fuck up. You're hip deep in security forces on a 'stealth' job, the objective isn't complete and there's a big old ball of lead-spraying pain between you and the exits.

Next, you're going to need to critical glitch your grenade throw. You're all hurt, and hte objective system is trashed. Okay, now fast forward. Assume you managed to escape, only one fatality but everyone is pretty banged up. Roll to intimidate your Johnson for fucking you over when you break into his house. Critical glitch. Johnson hits the panicbutton and launches himself at you, screaming and flailing. His security goons break in and TPK you.

And that's how we ended our campaign.

So we're going to need more details than this because this sounds like a critical case of "10 ways to be a shit shadowrunners."

Bad rolls all around for the run lead to forces being alerted and the run ending in failure thanks to grenade tossing fuckups. Bad rolls when breaking in to the Johnson's house to try and get some money for medical expenses. That's about it.

>move mouse over "Embed"
>see warped guy with weird face
>scroll down

Why not recoup before trying to intimidate the Johnson ? I mean street docs are hella cheap and you should have one as a contact anyway.

Sure can't do anything about bad rolls, unless you have lots of edge.

Severe injuries, including one missing hand, and shit-broke.

Well in this case I think you deserve a gopnik award my friend.

What do you think the runners in the OP pic see?

Also nice quads

>someone doesn't know potion seller
>someone who visits Veeky Forums

>Severely injured
>trying to storm a fresh compound

you dumb. What could the Johnson have possibly done that wouldn't have waited a couple weeks to get patched up?

and the next time you're broke, rob a Red Lobster

>Red Lobster
Last time we did that, we had to fight Dervish in Heavy Milspec armor AND Lone Star Rangers.

Did you think the Johnson had a vault full of spare hands and healthcare?

But now I have been made aware. It's all good.

It was a run with no fixer, so, suicide mission in hindsight, raiding an 'automated facility with no onsite staff at night'. The man's house was just in Renton, shouldn't have been anything special.
Probably. I assume for jerking himself off with after he fucked over random street criminals. We would have settled for some easily disposed credsticks, or jewelry or something instead. Clonal hands are expensive.

The real question is, why did you confront him directly and not kidnap and torture him or something?

>We take grenades to automated facilities!
>But we leave most of our guns behind because it'll be a milk run.
>Our troll has a dwarf harness so he doesn't get left behind in case of running!
>the dwarf is actually a hacker who likes to think he's a face!
>The mage has a shock collar so he doesn't
keep turning into a miniature Irenicus when he fails his checks to compulsively perform for an audience, even one that wants to kill him!
>Our getaway driver is a Ganesh changeling with a burnout zen addiction, swears it helps him drive better, won't wear a disguise!

Look, do we sound like we think things through? We've been playing together for years now. Very rarely do we do anything but 'run with it'. The troll with the harness and the shock collar control was actually a welcome change, because having a straight man who was basically a 10 foot overtired single mother probably kept us going for as long as this campaign did. The reasoning was something like "Quick in, quick out, never see the fuck again".

Jesus fuck that's a runner group if I've ever heard one.

A dysfunctional group of people that think they're mercenaries with little to no capacity to plan? Yeah, that's a runner team alright.

Not sure if that's a dude or a gal though.

But would you still hit it ?

Who wouldn't?

what do you guys think of this guy's look for a death metal themed spellcaster

He seems very smol. Is he a pixie?

Wasn't especially designed to be a pixie but now that mention it, something is indeed odd about those proportions

So, I decided to do a little looking in the core and did some calculating. If you were to go for a gun that supports going max silence, used subsonic ammo, and the situational bonuses and negatives were balanced, how hearable is that gun shot?

To pretty much nobody's surprise, the lower PR thugs and leaders can't hear the thing without some big bonuses. Ratings 0 and 1 are at negative five dice, so they really aren't going to be hearing that shot.

PR 2 is only at negative 2 dice (4 for leader), so it's possible in the right circumstances with good gear.

PR 3 and 4 are only one die in the hole for the thugs, and the leaders have three dice. So the grunts can be brought to have a chance, and leaders to have an average one.

PR 5 starts with 3 dice (4 for leaders), so they can get to having a statistically average or better chance of noticing that shot.

PR 6 starts with 6 dice, so they're likely to notice, especially if they start getting bonuses.

Most animals tend to hold around three or four dice with a few outliers each way. Basilisks and horses have no reach chances (0 and neg 4 to start), while most dogs and especially barghests have a chance (4 and 6) but not hell hounds (2 dice, low).

The generic infected are at 4 dice, and dragons tend to have enough dice.