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[-] Broadfern@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

Goddammit another game to go on my wishlist apparently.

Goodbye, money

[-] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 8 points 2 days ago

Like others have said, the rules are... bad. Especially the latest edition. A couple of the older editions are "favorites," but still mixed bags, and lots of people just take the setting and use it in another system entirely.

There's a Shadowrun actual play podcast called NeoScum that I loved (now concluded), and it began with "It's like D&D mixed with Bladerunner!" and ended with "Fuck this, fuck Shadowrun, the universe rearranges itself so we can play a different game." They even had a goofy recurring bit they would do whenever they had to stop play to look up rules or calculate something, which happened constantly. It's also not a player issue, since they've switched to Call of Cthulhu for another story (Gutter) and just don't have that problem.

[-] entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

I recommend Sprawlrunners, a Shadowrun/Cyberpunk ruleset for Savage Worlds. We had a game that had been Shadowrun that we converted to Sprawlrunners rules and it ran fantastically.

[-] zogrewaste_@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

Look at older editions. 6th is hot garbage published with criminally low quality material and he didn't pay the freelance writers that contributed to the game.

[-] Lianodel@ttrpg.network 2 points 2 days ago

Nobody hates Shadowrun more than the people who love Shadowrun. :P

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Also check out the video games Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Shadowrun: Hong Kong.

[-] deltapi@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Shadowrun Returns is part of that trilogy, and pretty decent too.

They can be played in any order - they're all standalone stories.

[-] VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Returns is extremely linear and lacks a party though, in addition to the later games having improved mechanics. Also, there's a mod for Hong Kong that remakes the Returns campaign.

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