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.

  • Emberleaf
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    31 year ago

    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

    • @5too
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      11 year ago

      I’m a fan of running the world in another system, myself :p

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    Hands down my favorite setting and I really like the dice pool system (at least the SR4 version I mostly played).

  • @INeedMana
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    11 year ago

    Oh hey, Chummer! Fellow Shadowrun GM here.

    We started in SR5, moved to Karma in the Dark and now we’re using Savage Worlds. But apart from a small retcon to play in our country, I try to be as close to what I know about the SR lore as I can.

  • @[email protected]
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    11 year ago

    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!