Just joined Lemmy today and found this community. Any Shadowrun players/GMs here? Been playing SR5 on and off for quite a few years, and just started a new campaign. Very excited to get it off the ground.
I absolutely love the setting of Shadowrun, but have never had the opportunity to play. As for running a game myself, I’ve heard a lot of horror stories about how crunchy and complicated the system is, and that has been enough to keep me from trying to run a game myself. :P
I’m a fan of running the world in another system, myself :p
Same. I’ve gone so far as to buy sources (5th edition) and tried running it once, but holy damn that crunch will break your teeth. I did support & enjoy the Shadowrun Returns trilogy of video games that came out a while back, and highly recommend it.
I’ve toyed with the idea of converting Shadowrun to Monte Cook’s Cypher System. Wonder how that might work… strokes beard
Same, but with d20 rules. The 3x rules etc, with its nuanced armor system and more sane magic resistance would work out well, I think.
@Emberleaf @Uniquitous I’m looking at #CWN #CitiesWithoutNumber to do the same thing.
Ooh, nice! You’ll have to let me know how it works out!
It funny, the system has never really felt very crunchy to me but as I was riding your comment I was thinking about it and yes it does have a bit of crunch to it. That said, it’s always smoothly for me and I quite like it as a system.
Hands down my favorite setting and I really like the dice pool system (at least the SR4 version I mostly played).
I’ve played a fair bit of SR3 and SR5. It’s such a bonkers setting and yet when you’re in it, it all makes sense. Hope your campaign goes well!
