/srg/ - Shadowrun General

>Humans aren’t paranormal
>Even though they can be mages, techno manners and adepts

So can bears and dogs.

Then I guess my real question is: how would people in-setting prevent deckers from dominating every car chase? Plug a firewall-dongle into the dashboard? Keep the car running "silent" or just offline? Have a spider riding shotgun of every HTR van?

Do cars have program slots? That could help, I think.

>Magicians in critter form cannot perform other tasks requiring speech

Have fun

minus 1 is 5 quick maths

So running gives you a -2 to all checks but melee attacks gives you +4 for a total of +2. Lets say I wanted to cast a touch spell, can I cast it before I run so the spellcasting doesnt suffer then deliver it for the +2?

How do they prevent people from shooting places up with assault rifles? Restrict who can buy them. Or not. It just happens.

On a related topic, is there a martial art in 5E that improves my chances of delivering touch spells?

My mage drives an old junker with all of that fancy stuff pulled out and sold for beer. He also avoids the rich neighborhoods

What would usually be running silent in the matrix? It seems like it'd be annoying to my decker to make him do a perception test before he can hack literally anything. How should I handle the matrix perception rules?

Asking this again in the new thread.

>Play a neoteny loli
>Learn sign language
>Lead a double life as a mute milf

My gm is describing auras as having different colors that change based on their emotional state. Is this thing made up? I'm looking at assessing and auras on the CRB and I can't find it.

RUNNING MODIFIERS
Characters who are running take a –2 dice pool modi-
fier to all actions performed while running (except for
Sprinting). Characters charging into melee combat gain
a +4 dice pool modifier (making a net bonus of +2
when combined with the general penalty) when running
into melee combat. Characters making a ranged attack
against a running opponent suffer a –2 dice pool penalty
to their attack test. Characters making a ranged attack
against a sprinting opponent suffer a –4 dice pool mod-
ifier to their attack test.

BUUUUUUUUUT

ATTACKER MAKING
CHARGING ATTACK
Running towards a foe makes it a lot more compli-
cated to read just how your attack is going to land,
and it puts a little extra force behind any strikes you
do make. This bonus is gained on any melee attack
made while the attacking character is considered
running (see Movement, p. 161). Along with receiv-
ing this bonus, attackers can ignore the customary –2
penalty to skill checks made when running.

It's +4, you ignore the -2, not just compensate for it.

The bonus is for melee attacks, not spellcasting

>Along with receiving this bonus, attackers can ignore the customary –2 penalty to skill checks made when running.
This should apply to melee attacks only

Should, but not does.

I understand that part but the question was can I cast the spell before I run 'hold the charge' then deliver it after my short sprint to the bad?

Any advice on my character? It's the first one I've ever made so advice on the build/writing are welcome.

Anyone know a good Shadowrun Discord? I'm used to hitting up my hadowrun friends with help designing runs, but all of them are in my current campaign. I've got nobody to bounce ideas off, so I need new Runner-friends.

This is not D&D, nigger.

You don't actually "see" auras, as assensing is not linked to any physical organs. "Color" could be a thing if the assenser deludes themselves for it to be. Most magicians who aren't blind probably see "color" in the astral.

Can a low magic rating character do anything useful?

Been playing a street scum level campaign in the barrens. I've been playing a high edge face drug dealer character.

The GM has given me the option to awaken if I'm willing to pay the karma to get that sweet rating 1 magic rating. (Most likely aspected due to how expensive it is to awaken post CC). Can I do anything useful for this? The only real use I can see is I can now perception magical things and read people astral. No one else is awakened besides a blade adept troll. Any ideas /srg/?

>Changeling II makes your face into a drooling idiot with negatives
No.
It's inaccurate, but how else would you describe the ability to know someone's emotional state by reading their aura? Magic doesn't exactly do ARO tags.
Gotta love contradictory rules.
Shadowcasters Network is okay.

>What is Merlin from the "Seven Deadly Sins" Manga? for 500, alex

Top off healing after using a proper medkit. A point or two of damage off is a day or two out of traction.

>That OP
What's a .zdf file?

get some points in etiquette and sneaking so that you'll have at least 4 in both

>can I cast the spell before I run 'hold the charge' then deliver it after my short sprint to the bad?
I don't believe so.

it's the future version of pdf

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Has this been added to the op and/or pastebin, yet?
I kinda want to remove it from my mega soon-ish

I know what watching after Devilman: Crybaby now.

>Can a low magic rating character do anything useful?
Use reagents, git gud (i.e. train spellcasting), and it'll be kinda like you're a real mage only you take physical drain and need to pop like 100¥ of reagents to cast anything strong.

You mentioned assessing. Astral projection may also be an option.

You can also raise your magic rating with karma and training.

It's possible to summon wimpy spirits. They won't be taking anyone down, but they might still be helpful if you're creative.

>Devilman: Crybaby
huh
sounds nice from what I've read so far

>Tailor Switch
Not sure if intended, but it made me actually laugh.

The soundtrack is a nice choir techno blend.

youtube.com/watch?v=K_bobVii13w

I didn't even notice actually. What's the joke?

Taylor Swift

Hmm thanks for advice anons, I think being a mage is so powerful it might be worth taking it up, plus I have a ton of edge so I can always use that to push the limits.

Taylor Swift -> Taylor Switch

It was just a quick thought that this would be an awesome name for a sam or rigger with a sensibility for old mainstream pop music.

Kek, no I'm just bad at creating names. But now I want to create a pop star character who moonlights as a shadowrunner.

But on a serious note: Your build seems overall fine. I like that he uses used cyberware. It fits the character very well. Maybe a better commlink could have been an idea. The one thing I as a GM would have like to know is where this phobia comes from and some personal interests and goals. But that's cherry picking.

Personal items are usually not silent, unless you're committing crime. I think it may be illegal to run your commlink on silent, actually. If not illegal, it's suspicious.

Most devices in modern life will be running silent, but that's mostly to keep clutter out of AR. Security cameras will be silent, automatic doors will be silent, street lamps will be silent.

Anything that doesn't need constant communication with the matrix should just have wireless off completely. Cyberware in particular. The game tries to tempt you to keep it on for the tasty Wireless bonus, and you can get away with it often, but as soon as a decker shows up, a standard action to activate your skimmers wont sound so bad.

As for matrix perception: yes, it sucks. It's stupid and easily exploitable in RAW, with just 100 stealth tags. An user a thread or two ago mentioned that he house-ruled Matrix Perception to just hit everything under a threshold, and I was thinking of stealing that one.

>An user a thread or two ago mentioned that he house-ruled Matrix Perception to just hit everything under a threshold, and I was thinking of stealing that one.
Makes sense, I'm so stealing that.

Thanks for the advice. I had planned to include a story about a near death experience he had with ghouls as a kid when he and a friend went down into the sewers on a dare, he escape but his friend wasn't so lucky. I left it out because I was worried about how bloated the background was already. I hadn't thought about his goals beyond getting revenge though, I'll need to try and flesh out the character a little bit more I think.

>plus I have a ton of edge so I can always use that to push the limits.

Just don't get yourself killed on the drain though

What is this?

Shadowplans map pack 2 and the tileset

Dolphin porn.

Male Dolphin on female would actually be noice, had been looking for something like this for a time.

Thats also alright with me.
Thanks for uploading.

Somewhere at the beginning of Run Faster are twenty questions to answer about the runner's background. I did them a couple months ago with a bunch of new players and at the end, we had characters with more flair and depth than I saw from some seasoned players. They are simply wonderful.

The two most important questions for my runners are always:
>What is he running away from?
>What is he searching for?
Most the time in an abstract sense, but sometimes literally.

Spells don't require speech and communication in combat is best done by trodes

How about the fact that you can buy a toyota gopher, ad rotor propulsion and have a fully functional helicopter, which can also drive off-road, has 14 body, 10 Armor.
And all that for the cheap price of 67K Nuyen.

t. Chrysler-Nissan

While we are already on that topic,
Buying a Kingfisher and adding secondary propulsion (walker) and two mechanical arm (basic)
All that to paint it read and pretending to be a huge mecha crab.
Crazy awesome or just stupid ?

In my campaign the GM made Disney into an AA presence that uses Mouse House luxury resorts to establish its presence in every major metroplex. They're fully featured theme parks, megamalls, and hotels, like a small scale arcology, and are extremely secure to the point my runner uses them to stash his three kids while he's balls deep in Aztlan jungle.

Oh god damn it that was the wrong party number
What i get for phone posting

Awesomely stupid? I don't know, but it makes my pink mohawk tingly.

If someone 'dies' and comes back as a robocop type deal, would their SIN be deleted or turned off, or would they still have their SIN?

A cyberzombie? They would be property.

I mean like they got utterly wrecked, and got rebuilt by the mafia or something instead of dying. Just trying to figure out if my street samurai should buy the SINer trait at char gen.

Depends on just how dead he is. If he's dead enough to be officially dead, his SIN wouldn't be deleted, but it would be marked as deceased, and the SIN number itself would be designated for reassignment, probably. I've heard a story of a runner who got caught with a rating 1 fake SIN because the SIN data said he died 11 years ago.

If he was rebuilt by mafia, it's probably off the books, so he may have been labeled as 'missing' instead of 'dead,' unless there are witnesses to his would-be death. How much Essence does this fella have left?

Ban general threads

I've figured almost full robocop, everything but his skull and down to like .5 essence. We're using priority char gen from 5e and I maxed out my resource priority so I could trick this guy. Figure something like a car bomb blew his ass up, or something no person would reasonably survive.

>his SIN wouldn't be deleted, but it would be marked as deceased
This. No organization in its right mind would willingly delete a gold-mine of data like a SIN

So would he still come up on bio reader or something if some hair or dead skin cells showed up? Honestly, with damn near everything from his fingers to his eyes replaced I'm not sure what else they could read him on for his SIN. My lack of familiarity with the setting kind of hurts here.

>he still come up on bio reader or something if some hair or dead skin cells showed up?
Yeah, probably, but if your GM is picking hair and blood off a crime scene to track you, he's got it out for you. I remember being told the secret rule of Shadowrun is that technology that would make Shadowrunning impossible doesn't really exist.

It's almost as if it's impossible to stop crimes from occurring and only possible to punish people after the fact (if you can catch them)

Gotcha, thanks! I think I'll take the corporate SIN trait since it sounds like it would still be out there, but talk to my GM about how hard it would be to track him through it.

What's the best way to work trucks of peace into shadowrun campaigns? NPCs only or can Shadowrunners make use of them too?

>talk to my GM about how hard it would be to track him through it.
That's the correct answer. Everyone runs SINs differently. I usually don't bug my players about it unless they fuck up majorly, but I've seen a video where a GM burned their fake SINs after the second mission because they bled on the carpet.

Funny how a game about committing crime would favor the criminals, right?

I think that's just how life really works actually

Astral Perception is crazy useful. You kind of glossed over it, but that functionality makes it worth it by itself.
Summoning crappy spirits is useful too. Being able to simply magic up extra eyes and ears is great, and if nothing else they can be used as a distraction.
It opens up metamagic/foci potential. That shit can make you broken.
Basically even having only a magic of 1 opens up a hell of a lot of potential.

Don't forget to buy a tricone and stand on the ship while it charges into the corporate base.
Bonus points for blasting a electro music cover of a classical piece while doing so.

>Human_suddenly_SURGEing_Awakening_AND_Goblinizing_AT_THE_SAME_TIME.trid

Eh, seen worse. Could've turned ghoul too.

not really.
Numbers of unsolved crimes, big and small are still very high, even in developed countries.

I'm considering a technomancer at the moment but one thing's not mentioned in the core rulebook that I've noticed is whether registered sprites are locked to a single grid or if they have to be registered again if they're able to be moved to another grid.

Um, I'm the one saying that in real life crimes are impossible to prevent and difficult to solve, we agree laddie

It is 60 karma to be a magician . I think the toughest part is saving up enough karma to buy it. I've been looking into aspecting but you are giving up some major features for the discount.

Just go to a global grid like SK and register it there, most GMs I know just flat out ignore grids anyway and -2 to a test suck but should not cripple a noteworthy Sprite.
There is also semi official errata out for complex forms, just in case you don't want to lobotomize yourself while doing them.

Nah, you just take them across grids and into hosts by putting them in standby and resummoning them in the target grid/host. Costs a task, but it saves you the effort of reregistering it.

>impossible to run with records on file
The evidence isn't getting shared with other corps. At best it's one place knowing your blood type or whatever. Then you just need to be careful around that particular area until the heat dies down.

Could the 40 Elephants gang fit into the Shadowrun universe?

Like a glove.

Does the Shadowrun universe come in XXXXXXXL?

Yes

Ya know that trolls are a thing ?

Someone start posting synecdoche

Humans can develop independent of mana. metatypes can't.

Lets say a magic user with the bear mentor spirit was in a group melee for some reason and an ally shot a nearby enemy who rolled really well on their defense check, random chance putting the bullets into the friendly. Does mr magic user have to roll for berserk against his own friend?

Nah. If it happened again, sure.

You don't roll Berserk against anyone specific. The intent of the Bear disadvantage is to give you the whole angry-mommy-bear-thing. You're entering a state of mind, in which you know that recklessly destroying your enemy means to protect your friends(cubs). This also happens, when your character doesn't know who or where the enemy is. While in this state you're not allowed to use any kind Interrupt Actions because you don't give a fuck about your safety.

Yes, you have to roll for Berserk. No, you aren't going to attack your friend, but the enemies because in some way it's their fault.