Re: [OT][BNW] Shadowrun and stuff

[Soviet <rnieves@coqui.net>]

IMHO I love Shadowrun...I GMed it for almost 3 years...the only drawback is that
my players were throwing obscenely amounts of dice ( 14+) ...I'm considering
making using an alternate dice system or just making rules to deal with the lot
of dice...but last time I did that I made the game extra deadly ..so I'm cautious
now...

GMPax@aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 4/21/00 11:03:12 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
> mtrent@bigfoot.com writes:
>
> > Malcolm Knight wrote:
> >  >
> >  >     By the way, I consider Shadowrun to be the worst combination of poor
> >  > system, weak background, and mismatched style I have ever had the
> >  > missfortune to play. Somebody must like it though, it's got to third
> > edition
> >  > and there seem to be a lot of copies of it floating about.
>
> Whereas I consider it to be one of hte BEST ocmbinations of
> simple-yet-adaptable system, interesting background, and intriguing
> juxtaposition of style I have ever had the good fortune to play (and I've
> tried a LARGE number of systems in my 20+ years of gaming).
>
> System: what's simpler and easier than "roll a number of dice equal to your
> skill, tell the GM how many of htose dice equalled or exceeded a specific
> number" ... ?  Well, flipping a coin comes to mind, but that doesn't sound
> like fun for an RPG task-resolution mechanic.
>
> Setting: I fail to see what's weak about the setting, we're not that far from
> it.  The setting posits a couple improbable but NOT impossible "landmark
> cases" WRT corporate power and status among nations, and hte return,
> full-blown, of magic to the modern world.  Well, for real-world right-now
> corporations, you can look on Microsoft as a Second- or Third-Tier megacorp
> (sorry, it's just not *diverse* enough to be a AAA Mega).  GE, IIRC, is into
> enough pies to qualify as a A or AA first-tier Megacorporation, or "zaibatsu"
> ...
>
> And magic ... some of us believe it's real NOW, though of course not in the
> ridiculously showy style of most RPG's.  Magick IRL is a finesse thing, Magic
> in games (note the spelling change, it's there on purpose) is a
> thunder-and-pyrotechnics thing.  =o)  Mucho difference between the two.
>
> As for the juxtaposition of style, to be honest: you either love it or hate
> it.  I love it: it makes SR *different* from other games: it's not a
> D&D-esque fantasy game, yet it has wizards and elves and dwarves and
> sword-swinging Really-Big-Guy™ sorts; it's not a CP2020, hard-core SF
> setting, yet it has cybernetics, nanotechnology, and all the toys of a Blade
> Runner-esque game.
>
> All in one: the very paradox you call "mismatched" was in fact a conscious
> choice, and it is that mismatching that provides much of the energy to any
> given campaign, as magick and technology strive to coexist in the same world.
>
> =o)
>
> Sean
> GM Pax
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