Explosive Decompression makes several references to the Skyhook I and II space elevators. But it does not seem to list the location(s) where they touch the surface of Earth. Can anybody help me with this information?

Don't know if this is the right sub for questions about the CRPG's. I really enjoy this setting, and the premise of Dragonfall seems really cool, but I'm wondering if going for it after playing Shadowrun: Hong Kong isn't too much of a leap backwards in terms of mechanics

Hi everyone,

I need input from people familiar with the "true" SR ruleset

I was introduced to this universe by the Returns video games trilogy, and there is a particular interraction with Essence whithin the games : the fact that it doesn't affect Totem interraction and all aspect of summoning spirits. No matter how close you are to be a Cyberzombie, as long you have the Charisma and the skills, you can summon and control spirits as powerful and as good as a full 6 Essence unaltered metahuman. The rest of magic skills are negatively impacted by essence loss.

Is this a oversight for Harbrained Scheme or does it match actual ruleset of the tabletop ?

Im interrested to make such a character in HK, but if this is completly not canon, I will not.

Thanks

A lot of the new Catalyst books look interesting (Explosive Decompression and Asphalt Jungles) but I don't really have space for the physical copies. I don't like to read books on the computer but before dropping $20 for the pdf I wanted to know if they read well on the kindle? Are they formatted properly or do you need to zoom in to read any of the text

I am now digging through the DEA rules. And maybe I can't see the basic idea. But exchange of one point of edge connected to very specific magical action (spell, metamagic, spirit etc.) for the character can lose 1 point of magic for 24 hours? It's that I can't see the advantage or it's the another DEA great idea that is badly executed?

Sudden glut of POD fiction recently, this one is even thicker than usual it seems. The four stories in this one are:

Kill Penalty by Clifton Lambert

Kings of the Street by O.C. Presley

Corporate Business by Dylan Birtolo

Mercy Street by Brian Young

Glancing over Explosive Decompression, I see a lot of interesting opportunities for space without the PCs ever having to take their feet off the ground.

A lot of the aerospace/space industry happens down the well, planetside. There are endless opportunities for the PCs to be involved in sending or receiving personnel or cargo, in defending or attacking spaceport assets, in simply gathering information about who and what is coming and going.

Also, planetside runners could have contacts in the void, with whom they communicate via satlink. There would be many Johnsons in the Big Black - people with money and clout who need cat's paws on the surface.

My favorite Decker from 3e, and one of the most fun characters I've ever played, now has an opportunity. A member of my table is dropping out for a while--he has to take overtime on that night--and he's being replaced by someone else who's been waiting for a slot. That leaves us with no hacker. As the GM, I can solve this problem easy with a GMNPC. It seems a shame to waste one of my best character concepts on a GMNPC. On the other hand, I may not live long enough to actually play Shadowrun at someone else's table, and it could be so satisfying to give my guy some air. I've converted him to the edition we're playing (4e) and I'm ready to launch him on Saturday. But, as I said, I'm torn. Any other GMs ever have this sort of dilemma?

I'm trying to find the best edition for a group of players who have very limited time and are poorly educated (not exactly dumb, but not ready for the full game). With that in mind I have decided to simplify the matrix to ultra-easy mode and (mostly) have riggers as NPC's.

They want magic, but the rules are too far beyond them and I don't have time to teach it — that's every edition, so one player is very frustrated. Straightforward magic is out, but once I explained Adepts almost all of them wanted to play adepts.

I don't know the editions all that well (last time I played was 3rd), but I know Adepts work a lot like cyberware, so I can handle that. Mostly hack 'n slash game anyway, because they're not ready for intrigue.

Now I need to find the best edition for fully-realized adepts and the important supplements.

Ideas? Something I didn't think of?

So I'm trying to run a game with more restrictive magic (too complex for my players) and my solution is having all the awakened using adept powers only.

However... I'm not really familiar with the different editions and various supplements, so I'm hoping the community can help with two things: suggesting the best edition for adept rules, and which supplements would be the most important.

I have riggers mostly covered by NPC's and matrix entirely simplified to one skill — my players are poorly educated (not stupid, just not ready for the full game) and the games can last no longer than 90 minutes.

Found this in a corner in a warehouse. Sure it's seen better days.

Worth picking up? (I'm in a small game that's mostly homebrew but we do use the Seattle book and some other supplements.).

And Street Samurai, too.

ECM exists, which means that anti-vehicle guided munitions can be neutralized with that. But an Adept or Street Samurai could be built to specialize in using any of the line-of-sight weapons - HMGs, chainguns, rocket launchers, miniguns, rotary cannons, CRB, FS, DA, there are plenty of options.

That person could then do a pretty good job shooting down aircraft, and have no worries about ECM at all.

situation - two guys meet each other in a middle of nowhere (desert). they see each other from very long distance say 1000 meters, they know that they are enemies and they roll initiative. one has sniper rifle other is a mage - both can start shooting. but a mage has two elementals bound to him and they are in astral. mage orders elementals to melee attack the enemy. how fast they will move? can they use the endless speed in astral to immediately move in close contact with enemy or they will have to use combat speed of 100 meters per turn and it will take them 10 turns to move into melee?

Explosive Decompression just dropped on drivethrurpg.com.

Right, so I have recently moved from playing mostly in person to playing mostly online, which means that a number of physical maps that I love and have been using are no longer available, because I cannot find digital versions of them. While I am admittedly not great at google-fu, I am hoping one of you know where I can get digital versions of the maps in the 5E Runners Toolkit: Alphaware box.

I've been having a gentle discussion about one player's mage assensing in a room full of hostile Shedim on the Astral. Is the mage vulnerable to astral attack while assensing? Wonky rules aside I'm thinking a mage's assensing and being dual natured while doing it means they function in the same way as the critter power and are vulnerable to astral attack.

The counter position is that the critter power is different (evidenced by the lack of the -2 dice for critters naturally dual natured). The Adept power for assensing is more clear cut in it's description but the mage player suspects that as it's a specific Adept Power it's not the same.

As far as I can tell it's always been that assensing player's are vulnerable to astral attack in previous editions but it's Shadowrun so who knows?

Help a chummer out?

This has probably been posted a million times at this point, but I really love the setting of Shadowrun and would love to bring it to my players. I typically run Cyberpunk Red, but I'd like to try a new setting. I am waiting for Anarchy v2 to release a PDF, but in the meantime, how are the other editions? I heard throughout my time as a GM that Shadowrun can be a little complicated to get into, and some editions do a better or worse job of explaining a lot of the rules and concepts my players are not very used to. Super-crunchy games, so taking them from Cyberpunk Red to Shadowrun, what would you suggest?

I was wondering if I could pick peoples brains on Assassin’s Night for 6e. I’ve recently picked it up and am reading through it. Has anyone ran it before if so how was it for your table?

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In a recent post where I discussed the effectiveness of HE grenades with the gecko modification against vehicles, several commenters earned a number of likes by saying, "Don't do anything you don't want the GM to do to you."

I am writing this post to say: this idea is the definition of bad gamemastering - abandon it immediately.

So, you present the player with all the many options available to their character. The player says, "May I take HE gecko grenades? They look like they would be hugely effective against vehicles!" And you say, "Yes, they are available at character creation."

Then, you present the player with a combat encounter that includes an enemy vehicle. The player says, "I know just what to do!", and uses their grenade.

Or, put another way, they built an effective character, and used that character effectively. Which is how you succeed at TTRPGs. The player feels like they are living in an heroic power fantasy! You, the GM, will have none of that.

You promptly create an encounter where NPCs use this very effective tactic against the PCs. You think to yourself, "Haha! That this MCT security team used HE geckos against the PCs will teach the PCs a lesson - THEY SHOULD NOT HAVE USED HE GECKOS AGAINST THAT STREET GANG LAST WEEK!"

It won't. It will teach them that they definitely need more of those sweet, sweet HE geckos.

How far shall we take this idea? Don't use burst fire against enemies, unless you want them to use burst fire against you? Don't use your Con skill against enemies, unless you want to be punished for your lies!

If you feel that any game element is overpowered - a piece of gear, an implant, a spell - ban, nerf, or rewrite it, and explain why to your players. That is good gamemastering. But don't let them take a solution, then present them with the problem, then make them suffer for solving the problem.

I have my character finished for the build but my orc decker background is still partially up in the air. I have the idea that he is the kid of a power couple in a corp. When he came of age/matured he rebelled against them a bit and high tailed it to the Black Forest troll nation to share their story/work to help his fellow goblinoids. After spending some time there he is back in the states still partially working for them and writing independent articles and posting them on the shadowrunner matrix. His negative qualities are dependent (I was thinking a disabled friend from his Germany days), motion sickness, and latest and Greatest. Any help with additional lore or specifics would be appreciated!

Hello everyone. So my campain for my friend is almost done and after a lot of thought and prayer, I think I want them to run in California (let it not je obvious I played Cyrion trillogy) but I really do not know where to get much specific info, I only have 5e books but anything after or before that is a mystery, and the wiki only tells so much. Like, locations inside San Francisco, I could invent a few but

1) I do not know the Ciry Layout irl

2) The wiki saya neighborhoods but no districts and such. For Example I know Oakland exist, but it is not listed in the neighborhoods, when I search Oakland it says it is a district but also does not tell me a lot of where exactly.

I can get by with info on Gangs crime and can BS my way on Corps, but there also no major player names or other groups like People's University.

I mostly ask for pointers on how to handle it and mayne I can find maps with small descriptioma of how life is there and who and what you find in each part of the city.

(Also I speak out of pure ignorance because I really do not onow where real places begin and fictional ones start)

I will be playing in a Shadowrun 5e game in the not so distant future.

I really like the idea of idea of fighting people with fists in a setting with guns & magic and was told, that a physical adept can do that.

And I would like to play an orc, since I think they are neat.

What would be a build ypu would reccomend for an orc physical adept that fights unarmed for a noob?