And the winner of the 3rd Holostreets jam is Technogod by u/LoboVolkov

I'm about to start a shadowrun campaign and I want to do lower level start to introduce the setting, sort of an intro area with a few runs before opening out to a more sandbox campaign. The story reason is all the characters are going to be down on their luck in some way so I was weighing up reducing the gear available at the start, the book says availability of 12 and device rating of 6, has anyone had any experience reducing this to availability 8 or so? Was it good or is it a bad idea?

I will be allowing rarer gear to be purchased during the campaign of course, this is just for the start. Thanks in advance!

Es geht weiter mit der 48. Session unserer Shadowrun Runde. Stream und Aufzeichnungen gibt es auf:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/wretcheddicegoblin

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@WretchedDiceGoblin

Wir haben auch einen Discord: https://discord.gg/qX6P2TBheR

Hello, my name is notmerciless93. I would like to welcome you to our Shadowrun 5e LC, Greywing Logistics. We strive to be a roleplaying focused and canon grounded server.

What makes us special?

- Greywing Logistics has had over a hundred games run since January alone.

- Want a logically coherent world to play in? We are a black trenchcoat and mirror shades focused server built around a fictional collection of power brokers and fixers who provide logic and consistency.

- There is plenty of opportunity to live your character’s story through multiple RP rooms suited to different characters and situations along with optional Profiles, Character Journals, and run requests. We strive to allow players to inhabit their characters and have story arcs instead of merely rolling dice for nuyen.

- Our LC has excellent house rules designed for a fun and fair experience while having few banned items and reasonable character options. Greywing Logistics even has a grounded and balanced selection of 4e, 6e, and German imported qualities, ‘ware, and gear.

- Greywing Logistics has a functioning Seattle map with extensive canon locations and even more flavorful ones. Need some nightclubs in Touristville, a fancy restaurant in Downtown, or a shopping center in Renton? We have you covered. You can even post your Shadowrunner’s home on our map!

- We are a welcoming community. Greywing Logistics takes moderation seriously to ensure everyone has a comfortable experience but believes in spending the time trying to work through issues instead of just swinging a banhammer around. We also have a strict no real world politics rule. Greywing Logistics wants to be a place where people can get away from the crap of the real world and unlike most LC’s who claim the same, Greywing Logistics means it.

- Greywing Logistics offers a reasonable import system. We require you to have completed at least ten (10) games on the LC with a freshly created character to ensure you become part of the community first.

If you are interested in joining our server and getting right into the mix with a whole host of other players, our link is in the sidebar of the Subreddit and here: https://discord.gg/hMmgnRcn7q

Like, rules-wise I know how it works, but what exactly happens when a metahuman uses a cyberdeck, especially in the early editions (2050s)? What does the decker see after they plug in? Do they see through their avatar's eyes, or from some weird 2nd/3rd person perspective? Either way, what do they type in then? Do they use hotkeys to throw out pre-compiled programs, or do they control their avatars with WASD or something? The whole thing just feels very confusing.

Push the limit says no limits apply, my question is does this include matrix actions? Could I use a commlink and push the limit to use an attack or sleaze action?

Hello!

I am a master's student at Illinois State university, and I would like to invite you to participate in a research project that explores the interactions of table-top role-playing game (TTRPG) characters and their players. I am specifically looking for your experiences as you play your character, and how the other people in the group interact with both you and your character during sessions.

Research like this will help people understand the dynamics and impacts of player-character interactions and the nature of TTRPGs.

This study depends on the personal experiences of TTRPG players like you, and I would really appreciate hearing from you. Your responses are very valuable as they will allow us to understand how you have interacted with your character and the other players and characters in your group. 

https://qualtricsxm54skbgct3.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9NsnnF4wibc0nmm

The survey should take about 15 minutes to complete.

I hope you will consider assisting me with this exciting research project!

Thank you for your time!

Hey chummers,Some of you might remember my old fansite, Dreamsinger's Circle, from back in the day. While the original site has been dark for years, I never stopped tinkering.I actually still have a treasure trove of unreleased articles, customized totems, and campaign information that never made it onto the original website. Over the years, I’ve also quietly reworked and polished some of that classic material.I wanted to reach out and see if anyone is interested in looking through this campaign data, using it for their tables, or just sitting down to talk classic Shadowrun lore. Let me know what you'd like to see, and let's swap some stories!

If I don't misunderstand the rules, if I attach my MG to a tripod, I have to use a whole different skill entirely, which I believe is just is justified by the weight of a tripod?.

Here's the thing: I'm a massive troll with 12 Strength. I don't really care how heavy the tripod is.

Does it not make sense that I could use the same skill (heavy guns), maybe with some reduction, but also not entirely 0 unless I take Gunnery.

Can someone please clarify to me that "yes, this is indeed what RAW says" and/or "I would rule it like this..." if you disagree with RAW.

Please and thank you.

Reading the news about Star Wars: Zero Company (or Z-Com, for short) sales numbers is a big positive surprise to me. A game in a relatively niche genre until now, piercing its bubble and reaching a larger audience is something like Baldur's Gate 3 did. We know, both cases were boosted by a solid IP and high production value, but I can't shake of the feeling that's its success may show a light to the Squad-Based Tactics games to the public. The game surpassed Jedi Fallen Order in Steam sales, and even Ubisoft is joining in with Rainbow 6 Tactics, announced at Gamescon.

Speaking of Gamescon, we had some big announcements in the cyberpunk genre at large - mainly a new trailer for No Law (a cyberpunk ImSim, hell yeah chummers!) and a badass trailer SPINE that even gave us a new meme (intentionally, marketing is the soul of the biz).

With all of these, and now that I finnished my 2nd run of Shadowrun: Dragonfall and dipping into fan-made campaigns like the CalFree trilogy - I kinda yearn for a new and better produced Shadowrun game. And like I said in the title, yeah, the timing is absolutely perfect for it.

Be it a full-fledged Tactics game like X-Com or taking the more tradicional CRPG route from the HBS games I would be happy with either. I do think that Shadowrun should stick to the turn-based tactical combat formula though, leveraging the fact that it's still the only cyberpunk tabletop property that have games in the CRPG-Tactics genre, wich we know, capital C Cyberpunk doesn't.

The problem is the copyright hell the series finds itself in. But if the current holder of the IP (that being Microsoft) is paying attention to this, they should either give the task to one of its studios like InXile or license it to Harebrained again. The former would be better for production value, since Microsoft is the loop, but the latter would better represent the setting.

I know, counting on corps to do anything slightly risky is borderline delusional. But heh, a man can always dream, chummers.

Es geht weiter mit der 47. Session unserer Shadowrun Runde. Stream und Aufzeichnungen gibt es auf:

Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/wretcheddicegoblin

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@WretchedDiceGoblin

Wir haben auch einen Discord: https://discord.gg/qX6P2TBheR

Does anyone have a scan of the original ballot that people who bought the Super Tuesday! book could use to vote for president? Or does anyone know if the copy of the book on DrivethruPRG has it as part of the book? If it does I will by that.

I'm new to Shadowrun and am putting together a character that is very put together. I am looking for two kinds of fashion brands:

The name brands like Gucci, Prada, Saint Laurent, etc.

Custom tailors like Cifonelli and Huntsman & Sons.

Examples or the kind of books I'd find that information in would be great!

Today on (Not quite Doctor yet) https://www.twitch.tv/dr_robinton at 1pm EST

Welcome to live from the Shadowkeep, a new Living Community being built to house Shadowrun 5E gameplay!

In our last mission, the team of Doggie Bag, Bleach, Geodesic, and Delphi have made their way through the remains of the Lindsey Marie - the Draco Foundation's lost research vessel.

During their travels, they've learned some unfortunate truths - the Blood Panthers, Aztechnolgy's boogyman squad of Vampiric commandos, raided the ship and, worse, turned many of the remaining crew into strage housings for toxic hunger spirits. Now, they've battled through those spirits in ones and twos to the top of the ship only to find themselves surrounded by the horde of them - and on the other side of that horde, some kind of information on why the Azzies raided them.

With strange magic afoot, and an increasingly large Manastorm over the continent, can our band of shadowrunners unravel this conspiracy before the snows, or Aztechnology, claims them?

Find out today on "Bridge to Heaven", live from the Shadowkeep!

from gamefaqs

At least Dermal Plating level 1 and Muscle Replacement level 1-3 are still safe for them.

well, its darmal plating 1 and muscle replacement 3 the maximum? or it can randombly trigger the issue too?

Just noticed that the *Shadowrun: Hong Kong* songs on my playlist, which have been greyed out and unavailable for the past ~4 years, are now playable again! Same goes for the *Shadowrun: Dragonfall* soundtrack.

Hope this news makes your day just a little bit better. :) My playlists are going to feel so much more whole again with these back.

In case you have trouble finding them yourselves, here are the links:

SR:HK: https://open.spotify.com/album/0JNKWv9piMDbdiGW9pFkuw?si=niDt6sEnQY-J7Lbv6aedxQ&utm_source=copy-link

SR:Dragonfall: https://open.spotify.com/album/5eXv3ICWOJBZhIMNe6QkIe?si=qTtta-a8SmOsFsjllXO8jg&utm_source=copy-link

EDIT: Fixed Dragonfall link.

Thanks for replying to my last post. I've since done a little more reading to better understand SR3, and with more info come more questions. So, if you wouldn't mind humoring me for my first SR3 character, I'd appreciate it.

As a full shaman who can choose the owl totem, and really wants to, I've been looking into its severe disadvantage as written in the core rules: +2 to all magic target numbers during the daytime. That seems rather harsh compared to the totem's advantage. I just noticed reading today, actually, that the 'Totem Modifiers' section in the core book seems to contradict and clarify the owl totem's disadvantage by saying:

"A shaman gains bonus dice when using Sorcery or Conjuring according to the totem's ideals. Shaman may also lose dice when using magical skills outside the totem's realm. These bonuses and penalties......add or subtract from the final number of dice rolled for particular tests, but do not otherwise modify the shamans skill ratings."

I also see in the SR3 Condensed Reference Manual that the owl totem's advantages/disadvantages seem to be stated to support the above section:

OWL: +2 dice all spells or spirits at night, -2 in day.

I've read that the confusion comes from a 'legacy typo' copy-and-pasted from the 2nd edition when Target Number modifiers were more common, and yet I can't find any official errata correcting this.

My question is, for any GMs or players familiar with this totem, do you play it as it appears with the Target Number penalty, or as corrected to match the stated core mechanics for totem modifiers?

Thanks again for your replies!

I'm not looking for 100% optimized build help here. Much more a bit of a generalized advice, what are trap options and most importantly how or if technomancers differ from regular deckers in how you build and play them?

I know from reading the rules that technomancers are less reliant on Gear and more on karma investments due to having to learn complex forms instead of buying/making programs and on attributes instead of upgrading their deck. But is that about the only big difference?

Is a technomancer Rigger something you can actually pull off decently?

I noticed a whole bunch of these appearing on the Catalyst store. Does anyone know what scale they're supposed to be? 32mm "heroic?" 28mm? Somewhere in between?

Both of these spells have a dosclaimer saying "The drawback to this spell is that the spellcaster can not limit or control who is targeted by this spell, and it effects enemies and allies alike".

But this is the case with all AOE spells anyway, right? So what is this sentence meant to say?

So, I've been toying around with 4e Chummer making various concepts, one of which was a thrown+bow adept. However, looking at the damage figures for the boomerang and bow I equipped the character with the damage seemed off?

The character had STR 5, missile mastery and power throw 2. Doing the math that should give a damage value of 7 for the boomerang ((Str + 4) / 2 + 1 + 1 = 9 / 2 + 2 = 5 + 2 = 7) and same for the bow (str + 2 = 5 + 2 = 7).

However, Chummer indicated both weapons would do 9P. I've been looking through the 4e core book's combat rules but can't find anything that's adding the missing 2 DV. Is this a bug in Chummer or am I missing something?

I plan to play Arcology Shutdown and I am therefore looking for related game aids but I have not found anything substantial.