/srg/ - Shadowrun General

If I ever need to describe a pair of cybergenitals, I just pull up a random page on Bad Dragon and then describe whatever monstrosity I see there.
Yes, even for women.

I wish my idea of 'standard stuff' was jobs like that. For us, 'standard stuff' is getting hired to clear out some property for a new owner that has a ghoul squatter colony living in it, without using copious incendiary explosive devices to just burn them out wholesale. No, property damage MUST be kept to a minimum while body could MUST be at maximum; no survivors, just don't make holes too large to spackle over.

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body count*

Does something like this could happen in Shadowrun?

""Recently acquired in a Fort Zancudo yard sale, all our APCs come direct from active service. Equipped with a turret-mounted cannon and portholes for small arms fire, they're able to carry up to four heavily armed mercenaries pretty much anywhere across land or water. And if you squint it's quite good-looking, in a merciless-occupation-of-your-homeland kind of way.""

So a Military decides to hold a yard sale selling several Milspec APCs to a military retailer. Runners could buy it for nuyen and some processing fees.

Militaries in shadowrun don't usually do yard sales, but there's no one saying that a fixer can't have a friend that sells old mil-spec items of interest. Basically, you have to know people. Use your contacts!

Sure
Just give the runners some military Fake SIN (or enough money for greasing palms) and off you go

Yes, but expect shady guys in black suits to buy all that stuff in bulk for their megacorp, outfit them with proprietary tech from their own subsidiaries, then sell them to various national powers at substantial markup, while Joe Snuffy gets to get outbid at every turn because no runner has fatter pockets than a Johnson from a megacorp. That's if you don't keep the sale on the super downlow, of course.

I think that megacorps either produce their own vehicles (which means they don't bid) or buy them in large quantities with long term contracts for support and supply
And even then, why should the J get such a big contingent?

They sold it to a military resaler who then sells it to the following: private security companies, paramilitary forces, rebel militias, hot housewife, radical insurgents, unhinged lottery winners, over-zealous neighborhood watch groups, or just a military hobbyists with a worrying amount of disposable income.

This run is actually a consequence of another run we did, where we were hired to assassinate the head of the Seattle housing department.
Basically, what happened was this:
>We get hired to kill this guy
>Previously my character had seen him at a humanis bar on a run that involved a cat, some mafia loans, and one orc having a really bad day
>Doing a bit of digging he's a pretty huge scumbag, so we don't feel too bad
>We get contacted by a third party about the job
>Go to meet them in Big D memorial park
>Turns out it's fucking Brakhaven who our GM plays as the biggest chad douchebag possible
>He wants us to, after we kill our mark, get his commlink to him before anyone else gets it
>Extra money, sure
>Already make plans to copy over data from the commlink (I've got data liberator and curiosity killed the cat)
>As we leave we end up getting pulled over by an unmarked police car
>Turns out it's not an unmarked police car
>It's UCAS FBI
>They also want the commlink
>Long story short we end up killing our mark after stealing his commlink in the chaos of a halloweener attack on the space needle
>Copy a bunch of data from the commlink, give it to the FBI, give the commlink to Brakhaven
>Also release all the humanis/corruption/bad shit I found on the matrix, which has proof of extreme embezzlement on Brakhaven's part from government and Brakhaven Industry funds for illegal humanis policlub support
>Due to a fuckup on my part, Brakhaven finds me after all this and while I'm getting treated by a street doc he busts in with a few of his badass humanis buddies
>Starts ranting and raving about random shit
>Sends a message from my commlink to the rest of the team telling them to get over here, thankfully our pixie rigger got enough hits to notice it was fishy
>Street sam gets his NEET hacker friend to hack cameras and doors and such to prepare for the rescue attempt
>hacker does it, but only for a "favor"
cont.

>Brakhaven is busy ranting about trogs, pixies, and niggers while interrogating us for information we don't have
>UCAS FBI ends up smashing the door down and saving our asses before the rest of the team can attempt rescue
>Brakhaven gets SnS'd to oblivion
>As a show of good faith, the FBI doesn't send us to the slammer, since we've been useful
>They even paid for our medical expenses, how nice
>Now there's an election going to be held soon, and everyone wants everyone else out of the running
>We've got like 6 smaller job offers and one big one to do over the course of a week
>One of them to steal the ring of a woman running for governor and replace it with a fake
>Others include stealing an armband from a bodyguard of the commie governor, protect some guys from the seattle independence party as they put up fliers, get one of the people running a perfect cup of coffee just before the debate, another is delivering a message face to face just before the debate, etc
>Our hacker friend texts the street sam and calls in his favor
>Turns out the woman whose ring we're going to be stealing has an orc wife and the NEET Veeky Forums hacker wants thicc orc pics
>with timestamp
And that's how our strictly 2D only weaboo infiltrator/streetsam was forced to drug to lesbians before stripping them and taking photos while a bunch of dogs barked at him.

To keep it out of others' hands, and it's gear they can 'upgrade' for cheap and sell off to groups they wouldn't normally associate with and not have the stuff tied directly to them that could jeopardize other arrangements. Megacorps don't think like normals, they're purely selfish and opportunistic, and as long as someone else has something then it means there's something they don't have, and that's an intolerable state of affairs.

Hell, they could go even shadier and slap some other mega's markings all over the stuff, fuck it all up deliberately, and sell it on the cheap to groups just to wreck the rep of the other mega and get their own product into circulation instead as a 'more reliable alternative'. That's worth the kind of bank to send with a Johnson or two.

Guys stop, please. Bioluminescent vaginas/nipples are my fetish. As is glowing semen.

>tfw no toxic adept bf to give you a radioactive facial

get em to blink in morse

That spoiler can go places if you need to write a message in a dark area.

Thanks for the advice, it's 5th edition. Another question, what is main movie inspiration to get yourself into the mood before writing an adventure and GMing ?

I freeing up some time to watch some old Noir movies, original Miami Vice series and rewatch Blade Runner.

Kek. That's some hilarious state of affairs.

And fuck Halloweeners. Past group had a run-in with them outside an Applebee's they'd turned into a shitty hangout/clubhouse, and after some words and them requesting in earnest all the credsticks and weapons we have on our persons, ended up ghosting six of them in the parking lot and chasing the rest off.

Next thing we know we've got a To-Kill order with the entire Halloweener chapter of Greater Sea-Tac and a bounty on all our heads and all of a sudden shit's gone from 'go meet the contact at x location, hand him this package, take what he gives you, and bring back to Mr. Johnson without tampering with it' to 'welcome to Purge Night: Seattle 2075. starring all of you'.

Spent the next eight hours having to footrace Halloweeners and opportunity bounty hunters because they blew up our fucking ride with an RPG and we didn't dare pause to boost a big-enough ride for our fat-ass mongo troll, and we weren't irresponsible enough to pile into public transportation and cause a minor holocaust if we got jumped. Oh, and considering the long trail of bodies left in our wake because we can't fucking do subtle for shit apparently, we also got to play hide-and-seek with Knight Errant the whole damn way.

So yeah, fuck Halloweeners.

Heat and Oceans 11 are good, "heist" movies are usually good for shadowrun inspiration.

>LED skirts

I didn't know this was a thing but I hope it picks up.

That never leads down a good road, though.

>That's some hilarious state of affairs
I didn't even get into the run where we infiltrated a humanis bar to hack the commlink of the guy who was performing there to get information on how to manipulate him into helping us break into a mansion where he was a guard during his day job. We found out he was a cat lover and our mage/infiltrator instantly wanted to threaten the cat when the rest of us wanted to get him on our side by clearing his debt.
The infiltrator mage went to go steal the cat but found out the mafia was already stealing the cat while the rest of us went to go take out a loan at a mafia front while I hacked the systems and removed his debt from their records (along with a far more high profile debt, to mask the disappearance of the smaller debt).
I swear to god we argued for almost an hour over that fucking cat which the mage/infiltrator ended up stealing from the mafia guys who were stealing it from the guard guy before returning it to gain his trust because she just saved his cat by stealing it from the guys who stole it before she could steal it. Which got her a "thanks I guess? What the fuck is happening"
And then we cleared his debt too which actually got him to help us out.
This was all fucking legwork.

I'd have shot that cat on general principle if it was the cause of an hour-long argument over its importance. More power to you for being patient with that shit.

It's a slippery slope. You add an LED skirt here, a glowing tampon there, and BAM! One day everyone is dressed up as a Christmas tree, shooting lightning and singing opera. Is that what you want?

I don't see why not

Police Auctions are a thing

Military Surplus Auctions are a thing

as long as you don't care that people will know you have it I don't see the problem

I wonder if Ron Jeremy's name still has any cachet in the future, of if it was lost in the Crash of 27.

Y-Yes?

Didn't get any bites last thread, so you removed the /v/ and tried again?

Ron Jeremy, the only unaugmented human competing in trog-porn.

Pastebin has quite a number of suggested, Shadowrun related books, movies and music.

Me, personally, I like to prepare missions while listning to a playlist comprising of Trevor Something, They Might Be Giants and Aquabats. You may also want to grab and read through 2D storytime, if that's your jam. I'm not an overly visual kind of person, so I can't help with movies and stuff.

Also, reading every /srg/ from start to finish helps. Whenever I need an oddball NPC in my game, I steal an idea from other anons.

Frankly, it was more amusing than annoying.

There's a movie list in the pastebin that's pretty good. Other than that, I like the TV series Leverage and Burn Notice. They're both on Netflix and have a hefty amount of content. Good place to steal run ideas.

Hey folks, would you mind reminding me what the 'core' books for 5e are? I've got a street-level mage to build for a game and haven't touched 5 in a long while

What cyberware is considered essential for a decker? And in 5E they still need a deck, right? Or is decking from a commlink the right way now?

Everyone the GM allows
Unless you are AR Adept Decker you need Datajack for Hot SIm VR and to connect your brain to your deck
>decking from a commlink
motherfucker this is 5e not 4e you are talking about
read your fucking books

datajack
cyberears with antennae x3

And yes, you need a Deck or modded Commlink (though that one is bigger cheese than cheddar)

How good is "revenge" as a character plotline?
Like, if I want to play a spurned broad hunting down the ex that screwed her, would most GMs be able to run with that?

I was talking more in terms of Arsenal, Augmentation, Runner's Companion, etc etc my man.

...I think there was also that loophole where every datajack installed reduced your noise, so you may want to grab more than one.

There is also cerebral booster, but it might be out of your financial reach, since decks are, like, super expensive.

Decking with commlinks is possible, although it tends to end poorly for deckers involved.

If you're clever, you get a 'deck AND a commlink, so that if one gets bricked you're not completely worthless.

I think it was base, Run Faster, Run & Gun, and the dedicated splat for your character, so Street Grimoire for mages. Chrome Flesh is pretty cool too.

Thanks pal!
Any advice for street-level mage-ing for a group of first timers? I'm more used to running sammy, but they need a mage and have never really played before

Forbidden Arcana for mages, too. Just came out.

What type of awakened are you wanting to play and what rules are you doing for street level?

They used "Street Level" Priority generation and aren't real runners yet, according to the GM, just people trying to break into the game.

They don't have a Mage, so I figured a good old fashioned Hermetic or Shamanic caster would be best?

Sauce for these gifs?

Street Shamans are a lot of fun. Go Aspected Conjurer or Sorcerer with the Dedicated Conjurer/Spellslinger with lots of CHA and INT, and not so much LOG. Take a Totem too.

Dedicated Qualities from Forbidden Arcana*

Can't aspected guys only do one kind of magic? That seems less good for helping out the party if I've only got the one magic?

John Wick 1 & 2, while not cyberpunk, have the secret society of connections thing down, and are fucking fantastic.

Conjuring and Sorcery are versatile on their own, so being locked into one isn't that bad. Of course, you can go full Magician and split between Summoning and Spellcasting.

There are multiple books mages could use, but they're not core.

The last night trailer
youtube.com/watch?v=AdrSpqmmyfk

Cheers man. Looks good

>the Tir slummer face and the Ancients muscle infiltrator argue for half an hour in Sperethiel on the nature of street justice
>the weeb catgirl decker and the rigger that operates through a creepy kid-drone play trid-games and look through a mark's dating profile
>the mage pieces himself back together after getting nearly geeked by an opportunistic ork ganger

What does your party do in your in-game breaks?

I am going to use this forever.

Damn you Microsoft and getting 1 cool exclusive. I don't want to buy a new console for a single indie game.

I don't know what the scrubs on my team do on their spare time, nor do I much care, but my decker likes to play community relations by teaching trog street kids basic computer skills out of a slum apartment building basement he technically "owns" that he's rigged up some desktops in, for free. If any of them stick around for the entirety of the two-year curriculum, he gives his graduates a Sony Emperor commlink he's personally modded to accept a module as a sort of starter kit for aspiring deckers, which he hopes whets their appetites enough to go seek out employment gainful enough to keep them out of the usual street life and advance themselves, though he's jaded enough to know the majority will most likely sell them off for creds.

All brothels are also taco bell.

Well, duh, 'restaurant' is just a synonym for 'bordello'. Even has menus.

I've been drawing inspiration from robocop for the last few adventures, and my players have enjoyed it. (In the sense that they keep on laughing while saying things like "Goddamit ")

hell yes

>but my decker likes to play community relations by teaching trog street kids basic computer skills
that's pretty cool chummer
good work

Our decker scriptkids on the matrix while hunting for exotic cookies (the baked kind not the data kind).

The street samurai day drinks.

The gun adept... Actually I have no clue what that guy does for fun aside from cannibalism.

The katana adept lezzes in Japanese when she isn't being a salty bitch.

The rigger functions as our Fixer and takes us to our jobs. He is retired and probably watches reruns of Matlock or something.

The mage is a freeloader a engages in recreational choking with the katana adept in her spare time.

What kind of runs would fit a group of:
>An EDGElord face
>A vory affilitated Sammy
>A druid mage and
>a decker
?
Because I honestly have no idea

Doesn't need to be concrete runs, just general types (Extermination, Distraction, Spywork, etc.)

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Anything really, what I do is make things that focus on their skills but also have things they can't do be important to success so they have to hire on another runner they don't know, adding some trust issues to the mix.

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>so they have to hire on another runner
see, this is probably me fucking up, but that decker? That's a NPC
And I don't really want to play two NPCs on the team.

So what kind of runs are doable for such a group?
A group of two sammies, an adept and a decker can't do all possible run types, just like two infiltrators, a face and a rigger can't. Their Fixer wouldn't give them runs of which he knows they are not suited for.

So I want to know: If you were the fixer, had this team and a lot of possible runs: What runs would you say that this team should be able to do?

The excentric gnome decker continues adding more elaborate layers to his plan to kidnap and replace Lofwyr. He bought a golden dragon custom ballistic mask, which I guess is progress.

The spacer ork street sam expands his collection of real-book literature, philosophy, and history. He can speed read and has photographic memory, and his academic skills are between 12-20. One day he hopes to return to space, maybe live on the moon.

The mage frolics naked with conjured spirits while yelling that no one understands him or his 'art'. Said art usually takes the form of kleptomaniac night time excursions where he steals anything shiny to fill his nest, surrounded by his chittering minions. Mentor spirit is magpie.

The face stays the hell away and spends his time perfecting his 'theme'. Think Johnny Spinrad, but grapple guns in each limb and the floor is lava.

Package escort comes to mind.

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My combat specialist elf gets drunk, does drugs and fucks anything with a dick and enough bravery to stick it in crazy.
My Minotaur combat specialist probably meditates, Cleans her weapons, and generally does boring stuff. She plays Arcadium Online but doesn't want anyone to know.

thanks. Any others that could fit?

youtube.com/watch?v=qs4mtbTsaL4
Really relevant to this thread.

I'm a white nationalist, but she'd have to carry at least one of my children.

My sniper girl watches action trids. Coming up with the names is the best part.

The dice pool and six sided die thing seems odd. Guess I'm just too used to d20.

25 Hours: Sequel to 24 Hours

really you kinda have all the bases covered, talkie shooter caster tech. Aside from a car race, I'm having difficulty imagining a run where there's a missing skillset.

Racemixing is love, racemixing is life.

Question for a new runner, what does the "capacity" for cyber ware mean? Does it work kinda like extra essence? Or does it mean physical space? How many upgrades can be jammed into an arm before you lose too much essence?

Ware installed into a cyberlimb's capacity does not cost Essence, just slot space.

Install Chummer and play around.

Capacity is how much room the cyberware part has for additional upgrades.

Capacity is how much stuff you can put into a cyberlimb or eyes, or ears, or how much of that capacity a thing takes up, depending on what you're looking at. (The tables are pretty good at not fucking this up.)

Now, in older editions (3e, possibly 2e), cyberlimbs and so on had a small amount of Essence worth of stuff you could stuff in there without taking up extra essence

But it was pretty small, and once you went over you were paying essence like usual.

>seems odd
chummer, before SR I also found it odd.
That goes away

Hmm, okay. Guess so. Thanks

capacity is a measure for how much stuff you can fit in there
Your cyberlimbs have a capacity. Cyberware has an essence and capacity cost. If you implant it in your normal body you lose essence, implant it in a cyberlimb and it takes capacity. Once the capacity is full you can't add anything.
Adding stuff to your meat body allows you to potentially get more at a higher essence cost.
Putting it in cyber limits you to the capacity, but the only essence you lose is for the limb.

Does it cost essence to get valuable metals carved into your skull?
It doesn't actually provide any mechanical difference from a normal skull, but you will look SICK when you become a skeleton.

The John Wick clone attempts to become a real player instead of a pawn in various ways.
the elf shaman attends conspiracy theory meetings with his lunatic contacts.
the decker is pretty new so he apparently sits quietly in a corner.

Well, bone lacing costs Essence, so maybe?