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>And argle bargle, foofaraw, hey diddy hoe diddy no one knows

How long are elves fertile for?

>>96102351
Long enough for you to regret it.

Still looking for the fastest possible character build.

At this point a good AAA game or movie could bring back Shadowrun back. A new edition would potentially work only for those that stuck with the game using older editions while the rest moved on and found new systems to play, so we need new blood.

>>96103377
Neither are ever happening due to the rights issues, and besides that if you've looked the direction Shadowrun went in during 6e it's a nonstarter. The only way you're getting new blood is by running games yourself and recruiting your friends.

>>96102388
In that timespan you could've made a bunch of characters and figured out which one came easiest to you.

>>96102351
>Argle bargle...

>>96102388
In what edition? And in what respect - Ground speed? Reaction and Initiative dice?

>>96106207
5e, actual movement speed.

>>96106240
Digitigrade "Kid Stealth" cyberlegs or a liminal centaur body. Hydraulic jacks will also help. Make sure to pump up Strength and Agility and take Athletics or just Running as high as possible. To that last end, Life Module chargen can get you to a base skill of Running, or even the entirety of Athletics, at 7, though picking the necessary modules for that might distort whatever background you had in mind. If you didn't have anything in mind... free background, just add a bit of narrative connective tissue?

>>96106476
Needs some adept powers for even more dumb shit regarding speed

>>96108833
That'd be difficult with a cyber liminal body.

>>96108931
Nah, it works out. Back in the day when the SRG was a regular thing and people handed out over 9000pencils as well as explosive burner commlinks, somebody built it out. not sure if it had the centaur body but it had both cyberware and magic for some truly insane speed.

>>96109142
Some of that was of dubious rules legality. Like the time I saw a guy claim you could get Improved Ability to 6 in chargen.

I'm honestly not sure where I'm supposed to get a game going these days. I think my running days are behind me, chummers.

>>96110914
You need to GM yourself

I'll never not be mad that 6e not only killed the game but also killed this general from showing up consistently

>>96109325
Given the number of editions where that means something substantially different, confusion probably rules the day.

>>96112981
Time to take that Mr. Johnson or Fixer life module.

(Holy shit were some 5e life modules borked to hell. 6e managed better, but good luck convincing established SR fans on that.)

>>96112981
But doctor, I'm already the GM. It hasn't made a difference with so many brainlets. Burned me straight out. Even getting people on board feels like a buyer's market.

>>96116460
That wasn't directly 6e's fault. It was a combination of a hostile schizo who hated anime OPs and a general burnout from people who couldn't manage a game to save their life.

>>96117261
To be fair Shadowrun is one of the hardest fucking systems to manage in my opinion. I've been trying to run it and I still can't remember half the rule set. I'm doing a simple encounter Sunday to try and shake off the rust so maybe that'll help

>>96120881
You need to read, read, read the books for everything. Arguably more importantly is making sure your players have the right mindset. Absolutely never try to manage everything on your own, that's a one way ticket to burning out and failing. Shadowrun functions best when you have a table of GMs. Failing that, what you have to do is teach them to look up what they're doing instead of asking you to adjucate everything. Ask them to explain their own abilities. If they can't do that then they default to running, hiding, or shooting. The system is not that hard to run for once you've wrapped your head around it. The worst part is managing burnout from brainlets who refuse to learn.

Do we still have a mega with the source books?
Assume not but a man can ask

>>96130137
They're in the trove, at least.

>Titania's command in a long game to exile two players graveyards and recover 80 fucking health
I fucking love this card bros

>>96130802
... wrong thread but the sentiment stands

Would you almost argue that Shadowrun is post cyberpunk in a lot of ways? You still got the issue of SINless being second class citizens at best, zombie aids and low living high tech aesthetics, but with magic helping a few things along, it still seems a better setting for the average guy than cyberpunk

>>96130918
4e has shades of it because they stepped out of the 80s-envisioned future and everything was now wireless, with no more brick-like cyberdecks. But then everyone missed the 80s in it, so he brick-like cyberdecks came back.

Anything involving magic would have been there since day one, and it doesn't really make it post-cyberpunk. It just makes it weird, since the cyberpunk stuff just leaks over, except on metaplanes with metaphorical impositions like most of the sub-adventures in Harlequin's Back, like the one where all your cyberlimbs and wired reflexes turn into magical clockworks that you have to crank and have limited usage times.

is 6e any good

>>96103377
I have been trying to play it solo and getting started is so much harder than just, for example, playing PF2e or whatever other system.
For starters you need Chummer to get a character going. I hear that some people actually make characters without Chummer, with pen and paper, but I do not know how to unlock such forbidden knowledge.
The second issue I face is that, even when running a single encounter, I have to start whipping out one book after another and looking up rules for so many things, because so many things can happen. Maybe this is an issue I have due to the way I play my sessions, but a simple encounter can either go the smooth talk way, the gun blazing way (Including drones and vehicles here), the magic way, or the hacking way. If am just limiting myself to mundane, low-level, gun totting hood rats without bothering with any of the magic stuff, then why am I playing SR? Shouldn't I just play Cyberpunk?

I can play any other crunchy system solo just fine, but SR hits that crunch point where you have to keep track of so much, and need so many resources sprawled around you, that just starting a session becomes a daunting task and I end up thinking "Lemme just use the couple hours I have to finish a random ass quest in any other system I play instead".

Again, maybe it's just a skill issue from my part. Maybe I just need to learn how to make a character without needing Chummer for starters.

>>96136754
No

>>96136943
Shadowrun is a system where you really, really need a table of GMs. Players need to know what they're doing. Otherwise you get this problem where you overwhelm yourself.

>>96103377
>At this point a good AAA game or movie could bring back Shadowrun back.
Average /v/ermin doesn't see the difference between Shadowrun and Cyberpunk. And in >current year a good AAA game is basically oxymoron.

>>96143434
Tell them that it combines Cyberpunk 2077 with Baldur's Gate 3.

What happened to Leopold von Habsburg? He seemed like a cool character

>>96143905
That might set expectation for gay vampire romance, which is one of the things Shadowrun can't do very well, with the whole HMHVV situation...

>>96143434
To be honest a good SR game would be a massive hit with /v/.
Elf office ladies, the mandatory catgirl changeling, big orc/troll musclemommies, and if it's as moddable as Skyrim then you would see degeneracy the kinds of which mankind has never imagined.
It just has to be a good game with a budget done by someone competent, all are a far reach in modern day development, but still, this could be such a hit.
Sadly, Shadowrun isn't a name anyone is willing to invest a lot of money in.

>>96137582
why

>>96144828
The rules are bad

Oh God I haven't seen this general in a hot minute. Is the community still totally dead? Has 6e gotten any major improvements? Is there some discord bunker somewhere that all the 4e/5e kids ran off to?

>>96144501
You're not wrong, Troll musclemommies is why I played Dragonfall
>mfw couldn't climb the Eiger

>>96145061
the community is just smart enough to stay off 4chan for the most part

>>96145061
>Is the community still totally dead?
To me it died the instant the Chummer developer said he wasn't making the program for 6e
>Has 6e gotten any major improvements?
Fuck no
Is there some discord bunker somewhere that all the 4e/5e kids ran off to?
Maybe, thankfully I still just play with buddies and we only have one autistic min maxer that the gm has to play around

>>96145061
The 'community' still exists for whatever worth that is when so many of them proudly refuse to read. You find them scattered around different places. Nothing like a discord bunker.

>>96147292
Yekka hasn't even finished Chummer5, why would you waste any time on the shitpile of 6e?

>>96144257
Sure it can. It just costs a lot of nuyen to get back your Essence via aura therapy, if you're the one getting drained. Just make sure they stay away from the Ordo Maximus and don't drain other HMHVV-positive folks, because that'll get them taken over by whatever purple junk the OM is inviting into the world by feeding a cocktail of ghoul, vampire, nosferatu and other infected parts to ghouls.

But Astarion is only one of the characters that people are big into. Plenty of Shadowheart and Karlach-alikes. Want Lae'zel? Just go hopping the metaplanes. And no one cares if you look like you have a cephalopod for a head.

I'd say "don't look like an insect no matter what", but BG3 didn't have a thri-kreen in it, so it's probably not a big concern for them.