Shadowrun!

[mouse]

So mostly just old men group keyboard stroking? Weird, but bravo I guess for them. Been playing about 6 years, nary encountered. Wouldn't be mad at Denver being a bit more I don't know....nailbiting?

[Thenomain]

@mouse said:

So mostly just old men

Ouch.

Wouldn't be mad at Denver being a bit more I don't know....nailbiting?

What does this mean?

[Hardwired]

Cyberpunk almost everyone mistakes cyberpunk for something else.
and most of the players i know who play cyberpunk totally forget the punk part.

SR5 rules for wired means a removal of noise, which is a large issue of wireless.
I played a character with Wireless decking capabilities back in 3rd it's possible doesn't make it better or worse.
But it does make you stand out.

[Jennkryst]

Any news here-abouts?

@Thenomain said:

@mouse said:

Wouldn't be mad at Denver being a bit more I don't know....nailbiting?

What does this mean?

More edge-of-your-seat, possibility of dying, unlike it's current formula, probably.

[mouse]

@Jennkryst Precisely.

[tragedyjones]

Every time i see this topic, I lament that there is not a Shadowrun game I can join.

[Misadventure]

There are usually big risks being taken on most or all sides of a conflict in cyberpunk type fiction. There is a lot of daring going on, and not just the corporations are betting with the lives of powerless citizens. Runs aren't supposed to be dungeon crawls for "more loot and xp".

[Cirno]

@Misadventure said:

There are usually big risks being taken on most or all sides of a conflict in cyberpunk type fiction.

...A Deep Risk?

[Jennkryst]

@tragedyjones said:

Every time i see this topic, I lament that there is not a Shadowrun game I can join.

As in, a MUSH, or skype, or table top, or or or???

@Misadventure said:

There are usually big risks being taken on most or all sides of a conflict in cyberpunk type fiction. There is a lot of daring going on, and not just the corporations are betting with the lives of powerless citizens. Runs aren't supposed to be dungeon crawls for "more loot and xp".

That's the gripe, though. On Denver, you have your KP bloat that makes death nigh impossible, and the various policies make it so that even lacking said bloat, it's unlikely you'll have something bad happen to you. Add on the fact that people sit in million nuYen houses, sipping tea and watching the poor have rocket-launcher fights in the warzone-level street (all the rockets never hitting their house, nope) and no one thinks to break in and rob them blind), and and and....

In short, this is why the talk of a new Shadowrun place happened.

[tragedyjones]

@Jennkryst - Damn near anything. MU, OTT, Skype, Play by smoke signal, etc.

[Thenomain]

@Jennkryst said:

KP bloat

Every game needs to prepare for this. If you don't, you will have it. If you do, you will have it but you'll have an idea of what to do about it. Tabletop games deal with it by upping the stakes, for example.

This is not to open up this discussion (again), but to stress that if this is one main reason you're looking for a new game, address it in the game's design.

[Jennkryst]

@Thenomain KP is not XP (although it scales with it). XP bloat happens. KP is a specific mechanic for Shadowrun 1-3 edition that lets you spend them to re-roll until you get a result you like. In SR 4-5, you have Edge, but this is capped like other attributes, rather than being potentially limitless like it was in previous editions. So a new game set in a different edition of rules would solve that particular issue. I think have mundane initiation type things would also go a long way towards fixing some of the XP stuff.

[mouse]

@Shayd I dont hate you, come back as Stitches on Denver it's all good.

[mouse]

Kardis? Or Norman around?

[tragedyjones]

Every time I see this thread crop up, my heart soars, before crashing and burning into a sad, sad wreck.

[Jennkryst]

@tragedyjones said:

Every time I see this thread crop up, my heart soars, before crashing and burning into a sad, sad wreck.

So very much.

[TMG]

I staffed on SR: Seattle for many many many years, from 92'ish until 2000. I truly do miss Shadowrun MU*s, some of the best RP I've had in the hobby since I started.

[tragedyjones]

And for the 2nd time today my heart breaks due to this place.

[Cobalt]

Wait, @EUBanana was around again and I missed him? SADNESS. Yes, we're apparently fossils now.

[juke]

Ehhhh. Since I'm less lurky now, apparently, and this thread keeps coming back to life, I guess I'll throw my hat in. I was on SR: Detroit ages ago. It was my very first MU*, and I was every bit as awful at RP as you would expect. Somehow wound up on staff anyway? Must have been a different era. It set the hooks, though. (Clearly!)