Tzig

If you're new to shadowrun and want to read some actual play storytime, you need to do yourself a favor and read this.

It's a very old text and it's from 4chan so yeah some parts (mostly in the first few chapters) have aged like milk. I do believe the text itself makes the wincing worth it, it's truly a masterpiece of hijinks and general shadowrun-ness.

You can read it either from the 4chan archive here or my personal pick, the PDF version here. It starts as a "That Guy" story (a complaint about a problematic player) but quickly gets into the good stuff.

Have fun!

!shadowrun@sh.itjust.works

If you love cyberpunk universes but also think most problems should be solved by fireballs you're bound to love Shadowrun, one of the oldest TTRPGs still kicking!

Whether you're a 2nd edition aficionado, you're already waiting for 7E, just interested by the universe or completely new to the party feel free to drop by our EN/FR community!

I'm already in the process of documenting my own campaigns and showing off my beautiful commissioned art and I would love to see what other people have done with that incredibly dense universe!

Salut à tous ! Je me suis rendu compte que l'ancienne communauté a été désactivé il y a quelques temps donc j'ai décidé de la récréer !

Je sais que la communauté des joueurs de Shadowrun n'est pas énorme, mais on a eu un subreddit assez actif donc j'espère qu'on pourra avoir quelque chose du même acabit ici ! Je voudrais faire de la communauté quelque chose d'assez proche du subreddit donc tout est le bienvenue ici: des questions sur les différentes éditions, des images et des histoires de vos parties, des morceaux de lore amusants... J'espère que tous les anciens et nouveaux fans se sentiront à l'aise dans ce nouveau chez nous !

Hey everyone! I noticed the old !shadowrun@sh.itjust.works had been down for sometime so I decided to recreate it, I feel like our community isn't the biggest out there but the subreddit had some traction so hopefully we can get that without having to deal with Reddit atrocious decisions. I'm planning for this community to be mainly based around said subreddit so basically anything goes here: questions about the game, images and stories from your campaigns, fun lore tidbits... I hope fans both old and new can feel included!

So, talking about Cutting Black, I was thinking about running an heavily modified version for my players, it would have been their first big run (they usually only ran for small actors in Eastern Berlin so obviously that was big.

Basically, the first few sessions were about how they came into Detroit, the atmosphere of it and them trying to find a way to have some semblance of matrix access so the two technos could breath a little. So since they managed to hack an Ares 'link and piggyback on its connection for a few days they felt like they could explore a little bit.

The specialist of the group ("Streit") had always been the kind of guy to shoot first and ask questions never, to the point where some members of the team would regularly express their discontent directly to his face. It's not too much of a surprise the group didn't try to hard to reason with him when he had the idea of exploring one of the No Go Zones.

He found an Ares military camp, he tried to just walk to it but he found himself with a red dot on the shirt and a sergeant shouting at him. He thought he could reason with the still-shook sergeant. He could not. The sergeant's wife (a low level combat mage) showed him her mojo, thinking it would make him think twice about doing something dumb... After a warning shot Streit took cover behind a car and used a Called Shot to pulverize the mage's brain into a fine mist.

After some shenanigans the rest of the group see Streit walking back, covered in blood (he killed ~10 Ares soldiers, including some that tried to stop him from exiting the NGZ) with some bad wounds, not exactly what they had in mind from a simple exploration mission.

The group was not amused, half the group called him a liability, saying he was on his last chance and he blew it. They decided since they were ill-prepared that run wasn't worth it and that they wouldn't run with Streit anymore. A single other PC stayed with Streit, the group's Black Mage/Face, Whitemane.

That was effectively the end of the entire campaign, after a mere 2 days in Detroit. Streit's player told me he was honestly kinda tired of Streit and told me to retire him so I wrote a 13 chapter novel to explain exactly what happened in Detroit and we continued from there.

Honestly, I'm glad things went that way. Sure, The campaign seemed really interesting but the 2.5h of drama-filled RP and the lasting consequences on their characters was so worth that price.

Made by s_beta on Fiverr, can't recommend enough! I basically just had to give her a basic idea, a few references and my character's concept and there he was!

River is my French Ogre Tarot Mage, his mentor is the Arcana, he tends to calls it "Destiny" or "Fate" though. He's convinced Fate exists and has learned to just go with the flow and to just go from event to event without letting the bad one weigh him down.

He has the Avenging Angel Code of Honor so the only Combat spell he knows is Stunbolt, he also has a revolver but only ever buys Stick n' Shock ammo. His team is on the exact opposite of the aggression scale so he tends to spend a lot of time healing dying opponents in fights.

He's pretty much a support mage, my goal is to be a master diviner and to use tarot summoning as much as possible (I just love the randomness of it). As of now he mostly has manipulation and illusion spells.

Okay so my players have spent most of their time in Eastern Berlin. After their latest run a big group of anarchists will approach them.

I think I played a bit too much with the "faceless evil" trope so I kinda want to have a proper bad guy on this few runs. The issue being that I don't really know what kind of bad guy would be a good fit. Even the obvious corpo exec I'm having a hard time finding a good motivation.

Do you guys have any idea for a cool bbeg that people would remember? Also even if it doesn't apply to my situation I'd love to hear about your bbeg!