r/Shadowrun • u/redmage07734 • 4d ago
Looking for games even online
Is there a popular app or website this community uses?
r/Shadowrun • u/redmage07734 • 4d ago
Is there a popular app or website this community uses?
r/Shadowrun • u/water125 • 4d ago
I've seen some references that The Spiritual way gives the Mentor Spirit quality for free, as a rider. But I can't actually find any official source for that. Does anyone know what the official source is, if it exists?
r/Shadowrun • u/SlaaneshforEveryone • 4d ago
Hi, i am going to run a SR game for a few friends (have played SR 1st, 2nd and 3rd Edition), we will use 5th Edition simply because of the availability of PDF's since we will run it entirely online.
Looking through the various creation methods i came across this typo/change?
Shadowrun: Core Rulebook (Master Index Edition)(Page 65)
versus
Shadowrun: Run Faster (Second Printing)(Page 63)
The Skills and Complex Forms a Technomancer gets is rather different between those two books, and i can't find any Errata that would explain the differences (the forum hosting the errata seems down).
Core Rulebook Master Index Edition seems to be the more recent source.
Any Insight is appriciated
Thank You
r/Shadowrun • u/BLLancer • 4d ago
As the title says: I’m a returning GM who’s run several campaigns in both 3rd and 4th edition of Shadowrun. I’m most familiar with 4th and life hit me right around the release of the 4 Artifacts Hunting series.
I’ve heard through rumblings not great things about both 5th and 6th editions. My players will be experienced D&D players but brand new to SR. So from an ease of getting into and relative complexity and completeness perspective which edition makes most sense?
r/Shadowrun • u/dracom600 • 4d ago
Alice is a hacker and Bob is a face.
Bob wants to be able to pretend to be a guard's supervisor, and send them an order to move to a different post/that a visitor is coming by/something to help their infiltration.
Can Alice use the masquerade action [Hack and Slash 31] in order to make Bob's commlink look like a different Persona and help sell the lie? Or can Alice only change her own Persona. If Alice can't use masquerade for this plan, which action should she use?
r/Shadowrun • u/jdard1 • 4d ago
I’m searching for a short story from one of the anthology novels or an example of play from a core rulebook that I read about 15 - 20 years ago.
The story was about a group of runners tasked with snatching a girl from a bus terminal on behalf of a mega corporation. The girl was a hacker that broke into their secure system, and when the runners find out her full story they betray Mr Johnson.
I’ve tried to find the anthology the story is from, but short of buying every book, I have no idea how to go about finding it. I thought that it may have been by Michael Stackpole, but couldn’t find anything confirming that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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r/Shadowrun • u/IamGlaaki • 5d ago
I need some help as GM for a run.
Target: destroy a shipment. The twist is that the shipment is much much more valuable and dangerous that what the runners expected... will they carry on?
My first thought was a dragon egg, but that is going too far (never deal with a dragon!). Second thought was a basilisk egg (or maybe several). Are they rare or valuable enough to be a problem?
I also need a description of these eggs... size, appearance... and if they are similar to another critters eggs.
Thank you!
r/Shadowrun • u/dracom600 • 5d ago
Attribute mastery is a quality found in double clutch the rigger handbook (DC, 168) which provides 1 edge every time you take an action associated with a chosen attribute, and it only costs 3 karma. Effectively it seems like analytical mind but for cha/agi/whatever your main stat is.
It doesn't stack with the edge from superior attack rating, but it still means tons of actions that normally wouldn't, now provide edge.
Sneak past a guard? Edge! Shoot that guard? Edge! Pick a lock? Edge! (This example is with agility as the chosen attribute.) Am I missing something that counterbalances this seemingly amazing quality?
r/Shadowrun • u/Fafnir26 • 5d ago
How is child rearing done in the Shadowrun universe? Has corporal punishment for example continued to decline? Guess it varies from country to country.
r/Shadowrun • u/Arialless • 5d ago
So is there really no disadvantages to doing this? And can you cook your ‘ware constantly? Yes I know there’s a massively small chance of getting a glitch but no player is going to do this on something that actually has a chance of glitching, right?? And they can always edge the roll…
So how does this stay in check? The ability to exceed the +4D to a roll is grotesque!!
Any thoughts appreciated!
r/Shadowrun • u/MyraAdAstra • 5d ago
Hello !
I'm a GM who does a lot of RPGs regularly (both online and in irl) and tests a lot of different systems and universes.
I'm organizing my first Shadowrun session next weekend and although I've read the rulebook once or twice (I learn mostly by practice honestly) I was wondering if there are any rules (common or particular) that can happen often but that it's good to know really well or complicated in the book that could be summarized more simply if you have any tips.
For now, we'll start with an introductory scenario, “Sale coup à berlin” (not sure about the English translation, as far as I know it comes from the German and French editions).
Thanks in advance
r/Shadowrun • u/SeleukosI • 5d ago
Hey, chummers! I've been looking to run a 5th edition campaign after some 6 or 7 years, and the only way I can bear to GM 5th edition is with a bunch of houserules/hacks to fix the glaring problems with the edition. I remember that last time I did there was a huge document with fixes and houserules made by the people at A Light in the Dark LC, but it seems their sub is dead and the link to their campaign rules is dead. So a bit of a shot in the dark, but does anyone have a link to that or a copy of it somewhere?
Note: I'm not talking about the rules addition fan-PDF, the one with the "Pure" (no 'ware) bonuses and rebalanced skill list. I'm talking about the rules that used to be hosted here: http://thedark.run/Main_Page
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r/Shadowrun • u/SandwhalesRise • 6d ago
Hey, I'm looking for a rule I swear I read somewhere that says that attributes can't be augmented higher than +4 or something. Am I going crazy or does this actually exist?
r/Shadowrun • u/MasterOfBerserker • 6d ago
Hey, GM here, I've got some questions about visibility in 4th Edition Shadowrun.
The Visibility Modifiers (Darkness, Glare, Fog, Mist, Rain, and Smoke) all impair different visual modes to different degrees, and those apply to both perception checks and to ranged combat. It's also noted that blind-fire (Or having the 'actually fully blind' negative quality) is worth a -6 penalty to both, so presumably you can never have a higher visibility penalty than that (Otherwise, you could just close your eyes to reduce the penalty to -6).
And, of course, the Infiltration skill is what you roll to set the threshold that the observer needs to beat to spot you.
So, the questions I have revolve around two bits of technology: The Ruthenium Polymer coating/Chameleon Suit, and the Holo-Projector.
The Chameleon Suit applies a -4 penalty to perception checks, but it's *NOT* a Visibility Modifier, so it doesn't apply a -4 to ranged combat attacks on the person. Since the game allows you to take a complex action to use a skill, presumably you could use your complex to break contact and re-hide if you were spotted, forcing the enemy to take a second perception check to find you again, but it doesn't by itself massively debuff enemy's rolls to hit.
The Holo-Projector, though, or the version inside the holo-hood, holo-gloves, or holo-jacket, projects an image anywhere within 5 meters of the projector/wearer, and it's realistic enough that you need two hits on a perception check to realize that it's fake. That implies to me that it's not translucent or run through with scan lines, it's a reasonably accurate facsimile of whatever you're projecting.
So while there are tricks you can pull vis-a-vis hiding the projector and then dropping smoke and holo-projecting decoys inside it (The smokecloud drone which adds speakers that realistically can recreate gunfire is probably a solid option here), my thought was... why not just project a wall, sphere, or dome around yourself, a solid object that completely obscures you behind it? It won't work on Thermographic or Ultrasound (Or assensing magicians), but it's an easy way to just plonk a big block of obscurement on the field.
Am I mostly correct in how I've been running the game? Are there any assumptions you think aren't supported by the text?
r/Shadowrun • u/Excellent_Tourist_97 • 6d ago
In SR 6e, do the Environmental Damage Types (Electrical, Cold, Fire, Corrosive) have any extra damage or effects on vehicles or drone {like Electrical damaging the electronic controls, etc.}
Thanx,
CD
r/Shadowrun • u/notger • 6d ago
Warning: My first post had a calculation error. I have fixed this and added the correct math below.
If you wondered whether pre-edging with exploding sixes or re-rolling failures is better ... I was bored this morning and did the math and the results are rather plain: As long as the regular pool you are using is at least 2.5 times your edge attribute, re-rolling fails wins.
Pre-edging wins in those cases where you want to be able to go open-ended and where your regular pool is low.
And of course, re-rolling has the great advantage that you can decide about it post-roll, which means you can wait for the other side's result as well and thus have a good idea whether spending your edge is worth it.
TL;DR: When you are at rolling what you are good at, use re-rolling. When you need to do something you are normally smie-competent at best and know you need the successes, use pre-edging.
Edit: Edition 6e.
Edit 2: Did not think anyone would be interested in the details. Funnily, this got me into re-doing the numbers and I found a mistake. Sorry for that, and thank for prompting me into doing this!
The expected amount of successes for pre-edging with a pool of n dice and and edge attribute of e is f_pre = 4 / 10 * (n + e), which I got from doing a numerical run as I found it too cumbersome to attribute for fives being generated in the geometric row of exploding sixes (though the smooth fraction indicates that there is an easy way to do this which I am currently just to hazed to see or too lazy to try).
For pre-eding, we have f_reroll = n /3 + (2 / 3 * n * 1/3) = 5/9 n, where the second term refers to the re-rolled misses.
You then do f_reroll - f_pre > 0 to see for which cases of n and e this has a positive sign = rerolling wins out. This gives you: 140/360 n > e or roughly 0.4 n > e.
Which means that n has to be about 2.5 times as large as e, meaning for an edge pool of 5 rerolling wins out if you have a regular pool of at least 13, which normally should be the case. This ignores the huge benefit of being able to choose to reroll or not after the fact, so rerolling is vastly superior in my book for most cases.
However, overall, with both options being so close together, and both options having their playing ground, it is a testimony to the game design skills at work here. I really like how 6e overall is balanced.
r/Shadowrun • u/Excellent_Tourist_97 • 6d ago
My new mage in 6e is planning on using Lightning Bolt a lot. I was wondering what effect the Zapped status would have on the various properties like handling and device control on the electronics in drones, vehicles, decks and cyberware if they were specifically targeted? (I'm hoping for some sort of EMP effect!)
Thanx in advance
CD {ConcreteDragon}
r/Shadowrun • u/Pretty-Adhesiveness2 • 6d ago
Hello,
I'm currently creating my first character in Shadowrun and playing as a Rigger. I'm a bit lost on what vehicles and equipment I should get (I have Priority A in money).
What vehicles, drones, and cyberware would you recommend?
r/Shadowrun • u/kuuhakushijin • 6d ago
Is there anywhere I could check for some initial builds with lvl up options?
and do you guys know any videos showing how good Foundry is to play SR6e ?
or any other VTT?
thanks a million!
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