/srg/ - Shadowrun General

>Uber tanky street sam that dresses/acts like a stereotypical mage to draw fire

Is this a viable character concept?

That's not a character concept. That's a strategy.

>shadowrun
>uber tanky

sure
put some pyrotech in there to really get "flashy git" across, dress in some armored robes and a pointy hat

Group is trying to figure out what our next campaign will be, a few players mentioned shadowrun, but I have no real experience or knowledge of the system, just some basic setting stuff. Anyone care to sell me on the it? And how well does the system do with non-combat oriented campaigns?

In theory, I think SR would work okay for non-combat. You'd just have to orientate it as more of a heist-style game, which shouldn't be too hard.

It has a detailed and robust system for computer systems and internet searching and whatnot.

The surveilance mechanics have a decent amount of depth to them, and legwork is a VERY big part of the game.

Strictly speaking, in non-PM games, combat is meant to be a last resort, and avoiding it is generally good practice.

However, it has a good system for it, and it's lethal as hell.

Cool

One final question. I can't imagine this is difficult to do, but am wondering if there is enough canon information to run a game where players work officially for a corporation. Not as shadowrunners, but as 'upstanding' citizens. Security, fixers, wetworkers, etc. I guess they would hire just as many runners as any illegal organisation, but is there information available as to how someone would climb the actual corporate ladder?

Yep, read through Run Faster.

Awesome, thanks

You know shadowrun is wonderful thing
You go into section that you haven't played before and wonder what is this bullshit
Because stunbolt+reagents is damage you have no way of dodging or resisting
Mages are cunts

It's really your own fault for trying to go up against the mage master-race.
I hope you've learned your place.

>mage supremacy is no longer contained to the World of Darkness
No memes about knots, please.

>Because stunbolt+reagents is damage you have no way of dodging or resisting
Kill something / scare someone - raise the background count.

Head to a low income tenement building to find an existing background count.

Get infected to gain Magical Guard.

Learn how to call spirits with mundane-accessible ritual spells and haggle for counterspelling protection.

Use physical cover, smoke, any physical living entity, etc to make targeting you difficult.

Use drones.

Et cetera. If you can't find a way to make life difficult for mages, then you're just not trying.

Mundanes these days, amirite?

Honestly, the best one is heavy cover. A mage that takes a penalty to see you, takes a penalty to cast on you. Even better, a mage that can't see you is one that can't cast (most) spells on you.

And what spells they can cast on you are almost all either touch ranged or alchemy based traps.

( Reposting since last thread closed. )

Two questions.

First:

> Writing campaign.
> Players start out taking a job from Vory.
> Vory thinks they're trustworthy after first job, sends them to fake an attempt on up-and-coming rapper to increase publicity.
>If that goes well, players will be sent to rescue a girl from a Bunraku parlor and fuck up said parlor in process.
> If all has gone well up to this point, they will get sent on the big mission: 100,000 nuyen to go to the UniOil facility, kill three people, and steal data from an offline host.

As it stands, this sequence of missions seems alright. It introduces a new group of players to the game fairly well, starting with an easy, low-paying job, then gradually getting more difficult, yet more rewarding.

By the time they finish the UniOil run, they'll have a big chunk of change, and a good amount of karma. They won't be considered new runners anymore, so the jobs from here on out will be genuinely tough and high-stakes, allowing me to take the kid gloves off.

What this sequence of missions DOESN'T do is provide an interesting narrative conflict. It's all mechanical challenges here.

What can I do to spice things up in this regard? I was dabbling with an internal rivalry in the Vory, but the missions themselves lack the controversy needed to represent an internal power struggle.

I dabbled with reminding the players that if they get too cozy with the Vory, the other syndicates won't want to work with them, but somehow I doubt the other syndicates of Seattle would care about the Vory outsourcing their work to runners.

I dabbled with UniOil attempting to make a counter-offer to the players during the last run. But, I somehow think that this wouldn't even be a moral dilemma to the players. This being Shadowrun, the players are more likely to think of it as a logic problem than a moral one.

What do?

Another member's got a legitimate hit out on the rapper.

Another one, unrelated to the first, sold the girl to the Bunraku parlor and wants to keep her there because reasons.

Both of them have their own teams dispatched to bump off the same trio as the PCs, turning it into a race.

With zero preparation and area knowledge, 100% cover is your best option, yes.

>Have the deckers cyberdeck icon in sight before he is even aware I'm a threat
Whats the best thing for me to do here? MARK, format and reboot?

That's good. If you can catch 'em in VR, then you might want to hammer with a Data Spike.

Or if you can get them into VR because you have/are a Technomancer, then definitely try and fry them and get the deck.

Just have a good hardware pool and some free Edge to make sure you don't fail. It's either an upgrade or a good sales piece.

Closest thing was a stupidly high circle spell for ED Wizards that was used in one of the SR Legends books. And that was basically just the psychomancy metamagic as a spell.

Running my game in the year 62, not long before the second crash. Any tips in regards to how tech works? Obviously the Matrix isn't wireless, but what else?

>get insulted walking down a street
>one thing leads to another
>a building collapses because of something you did with 77 casualties

Serious question /srg/

How outrageous would it be in the 2070's to go around wearing a transparent skirt and no panties?

No need- skirt and panties with complementary refractive indices are sold as a set, causing the latter to literally disappear beneath the former.

I would recommend reading up on the previous thread Basically, if you keep true to the decadency of a cyberpunk dystopia, it's not much. It's a world where you are a chip away from having any fetish you want and deriving true pleasure from it. Where you don't even need someone else to fill your fetishes since you can just plug your brain into porn. Clothes are to show off who you are, and while you will get bad looks depending on where you are, it's just bad taste in clothing, not really public indecency.

Unless you're working at a corp, in which case it's more about conformity and projecting an image of professionalism than covering up.

Thanks guys.

My GM can't draw for shit so he entrusted me with designing the appearance of his team of DMPCs in exchange for a few extra karma.

Unlucky for him, I plan on packing each of his characters (mostly girls) with little visual surprises to spice things up.

If any of you guys has ideas of cyberpunk trends or accessories that would be fun to use, I'm definitely open to suggestions

Living hair. Bio implant that causes hair to move of its own accord, can be programmed with different sorts of moods or conditioned responses.

I agree, but I doubt models/actors/fashion workers would fit be allowed to not look outlandish. It's their duty to show off the "quirky" side of the corps, in a totally safe and controlled manner.

The backstory for a PC-turned-NPC-because-im-forever-gm was a ex-model for Evo, running away after realizing every single person in her life (from her friends to her novacoke dealer) was chosen and hired by her manager, and realizing her entire life was and will be curated from the time she wakes up to the instant she will die.

Hit up attitude. It's a great book - SOTA2063/4, too - for 'culture'.

Synthetic limbs that are marred from bullet scrapes/shrapnel, revealing the metallic core of the otherwise human looking limb.

The catch for that run was that the Vory wanted to make the rapper seem controversial by staging a hit, but the rapper actually -was- controversial, and a runner team had already been hired by Humanis. The players would need to quietly dispatch the assassins, or otherwise prevent them from actually killing the rapper. But the idea that it was an inside job all along sounds pretty cool too.

The second one sounds cool. The Vory who sold her there hears there's a team being organised to rescue her, and so he gives the Yaks a heads-up, which means they're ready for the PCs.

And that sounds pretty cool too. An already tough run is made even more so by a race against the clock. But that could also lead to the players just letting the NPCs doing all the work for them, then mopping them up. Better for the Vory who sent the rival teams to show up and ambush the players once they're out of the facility, and demand the data. Or just ambush them.

Read SR3.

>How outrageous would it be in the 2070's to go around wearing a transparent skirt and no panties?
There's a clothing line just for it.

Dammit Aqua, this was not the fantasy world I wanted!

Which clothing line?

Second Skin.

InTheirFace - The clothing line for you, the hip counterculture youth of todaY! Made by other hip, counter culture youths, for hip, counter culture youths.

Owned by Aztechnology.

Second skin is an individual item, not a clothing line.

Is that really a thing? Its hilarious either way, but if it is in a book somewhere I'd love to know which.

Made straight from whole cloth, sorry. If you want, I think I recommended attitude to someone earlier. The whole book is "How you can use corporate products to get back at corporate people".

Fuck off.

>This is a sexy, sick, twisted version of body armor. Each piece of the Second Skin line is custom tailored for the user

Dude, that does not mean what you seem to think it means, every single 'Second Skin' is a full body unitard, no exceptions, the passage about tailoring is saying its made to size, not that it is custom designed.

Now I'm not saying that clothing to the effect of what you're talking about isnt possible, it quite clearly is, but Second Skin is not that, it is a singular item rather than a fashion line.

>Second Skin line

Stop. Do not let this thread become Trash and Whores mark II. This may be the the most pedantic, semantics driven dispute I've ever seen.

It should be phrased as "Each piece FROM the Second Skin line", as pieces of fashion lines are the entire outfit. Piece as in art piece, not piece as in modular component.

You seem to think these threads are ever not a waiting powder keg of pointlessly pedantic, semantics-driven, vitriolic arguments.

In any case, as written there are full-body unitards and possibly string bikinis.

The bikinis are also unitards. It's just that in that bit of fluff text, the unitard was displaying the skin with a string bikini on it. Then it was not displaying the string bikini.

I imagine the 2 capacity is so you can get trodes installed, despite not covering the head.

In the face of ambiguous text, you've both already decided your answer is correct, and will fight to the end of any conversation to ensure everyone else agrees - or at least that no one else wants to put up with your shit by replying.

Oh I know this, I'm just trying to dissuade those two from lighting the fuse.

I'm actually an entirely different person replying to the 'possible' string bikini comment, but if you want to be a tosspot and assume bad faith, sure, go for it.

Didn't need your permission to start, and I sure don't need it to continue believing vs the guy slinging cheap insults.

Sure thing, mate. Good luck with that.

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>eat
Don't mind if I do

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Too bad I don't know where to find quality shadowrun R34

Those elven chicks always strike my fancy

Well, those ones are from madebyflou.tumblr.com.

You just made my night, kind sir

YET NO ORK TIDDIES!

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Wait fuck that's a Troll my bad

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old and not in a colorful .gif form
>also thats a troll mang

She's a looker, user

Never apologise for thicc troll women.

Yeah I fucked up and misremembered the request as being for Trolls. Anyway here's another Troll because she's adorable.

Can anyone even dispute that orks are by far the lewdest race in Shadowrun?

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yes...yesssss this thread amuses me.

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I could have sworn I had more cute Orks. This'll be the last one, apparently. Have another Chica.

surely there is more. I know shadowrun is low on the drawanons totem pole, but there has to be more.

Do you have cute dwarfs or more trolls?

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The cutest of them all

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In ascending order of cuteness.

Wait shit fuck that's an Ork god damn it

Here's a dwarf lady from a semi-recent drawthread. I'm pretty lacking in short cuties, sadly.

Technically speaking, he's the most attractive dwarf in existence.

Thanks chummer.

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>Not having 53 soak dice.
Fraggin' casuals.

Can we all at least agree trolls are the best?