My Friend's Gonna Be Dming A D&d Game Over Irc

[Zero7]

*cries* ....






NASAL!  There... I feel much better now

[Uranium - 235]

I can run a Shadowrun game if you heathens know the rules

[Hida Tsuzua]

Shadowrun would be interesting with U-235 as a GM.  And yes, I'll send you D56 Shadowrun once I'm done.

[Grimm]

I know someone's going to get at least annoyed at me with asking, but what is Shadowrun?

[Hida Tsuzua]

Shadowrun is a cyberpunk/fantasy mix.  Think Bladerunner meets Tolkien for starters.  The basic idea is while the future become a near future dystopia, magic returned to the world.  You play as shadowrunner, criminials hired by corporations to do various illegal things.  It's a great setting if the rules have their problems.

Learn more here

It should be noted that the above link leads to a Shadowrun Duels site, a different game set in the same universe.

[Uranium - 235]

The rules in Shadowrun can be complex but house rules cover a lot - I prefer instead of 'overdone' to think of them as 'complete'. You can play the game how you want - Remove all magic from the game if you like. Make it a Deckerfest.

If you're up for a Shadowrun game of sorts, let me know... if you know shadowrun and you can GM let me know too since I vastly prefer playing to GMing (Some people prefer GMing to playing, like comming in NS)

Unfortunately the rules are far too complex to explain here. If we do do the game you need:

1) SR3
2) CC
3) SRComp
4) M&M
5) R3 - Not really necessary but nice to have.

[Dirty Harry Potter]

I'm in for Shadowrun Haven't played or read it in a while, so i'm rusty.
And about the books, i have:

SR3
CC
M&M
MitS(magic expansion)
SRComp
Matrix
Corperate Download(Corp sourcebook).

[Uranium - 235]

Won't be needing Matrix - It's a fun book to have but Decking can be really boring for other players :p

SRComp and SR3 are of course the big two you NEED. M&M and CC gimp you if you don't have em but I guess they're not mandatory...


BTW I'll be running this on the forums - In our FanFic section - this works rather well since I've seen it used on a forum before - it's organized and lets you plan out longer, though it does tend to be a bit slower paced.


Direct all inquiries to the FANFIC forum

[Dirty Harry Potter]

erh, i wouldn't say that CC is really needed, unless you want to make a gun yourself, if you just want the guns that are already made, then a gunlist can do it, and i think i made one such and sent it to RPG hoard i think, did it a long time ago, and it wasn't complete iirc, i think it had everything up to shotguns.

Oh an yes, Matrix probably isn't needed, i just brought it since...well i had money to burn :p, the times i've played we did it without Matrix, so well....

[Uranium - 235]

erh, i wouldn't say that CC is really needed, unless you want to make a gun yourself, if you just want the guns that are already made, then a gunlist can do it, and i think i made one such and sent it to RPG hoard i think, did it a long time ago, and it wasn't complete iirc, i think it had everything up to shotguns.

Oh an yes, Matrix probably isn't needed, i just brought it since...well i had money to burn :p, the times i've played we did it without Matrix, so well....

Yeah CC is less necessary but some of the rules in there are nice to know, and the massively expanded weaponry list is a godsend

[Dirty Harry Potter]

well yes the new weapons are nice, but you can just have a weap list, with a notice of which weapons has special rules, and BAM! you're settled, and btw, why qouting the post just above your own post :p

[Geminosity]

hmmm... RP on IRC?  I'd almost be tempted if it wasn't too late to join and I've got stuff to do =3

[Uranium - 235]

Holy crap it's Gem come back from the grave D:

[Geminosity]

lol, I've always been around silly; just been busy :p

[Cartman2b]

The shadowrun game on the SNES was great

[Uranium - 235]

lol, I've always been around silly; just been busy :p

You never call.... you never write... sometimes... I think you just *sob* don't care about us anymore!

[Athena]

Shadowrun was freaking awesome, though I only read some of the books a LONG long time ago.

I guess I'm more used to free-form no-rules, no-dice RP (textbased MUSH-style), but do you think it would be okay if I maybe just sit in and watch? ^^

[Uranium - 235]

I'm doing it over the forums (It's easier to coordinate, since it requires no coordination for timezones and such, and I can abuse your posts if you get out of hand )

[Hida Tsuzua]

The other rulebooks are nice, but really are needed for everyone.  I mean M&M has some nice cyberware and the even better counterpart bioware, MiTS has all sorts of magic junk, but they really aren't needed.  As for guns, The Shadowrun Gun Page.