Shadowrun

When does an evil GM become truly evil?

2017-03-16

As a GM, its basically my job to be evil. Not in the traditional sense, but one of the tasks assigned to me is to throw some peril and hardship at my players. Step on their characters hopes and dreams at least a little. Make their stories fraught with bad guys and challenges. It’s my job to make sure that victory doesn’t come free and that at the end of the game they feel like they accomplished something.…

Writing for different types of games

2016-12-01

After a year of running a Dungeon World D&D themed game, I find myself with the exciting opportunity of running two completely different games. I’m running both a Shadowrun (SR) game and a Dresden Files game (DFRGP). These systems are incredibly different, and prepping for them seems to require a completely different set of skills. I love that cyberware addiction is a thing in 5e SR is a formulaic game, contacts call shadowrunners, shadowrunners meet Johnson, shadowrunners go into the mission with need-to-know only, shadowrunners get into trouble because of what they didn’t know, shadowrunners get out alive (barely) and yell at Johnson for not telling them everything, Johnson tries to not pay up.…

It's a Kind of Street Magic

2016-10-14

Shadowrun (SR) has always been a terribly dark and sexy setting for me. It’s also been incredibly intimidating, so I’m glad to be in a place where I’m trying to tackle that particular demon. My Friday night is taking a break from our Twelve Signs campaign. I’ve been running Twelve Signs for nearly 5 years now, so it’s a nice time for a break. We plan to come back to it next year sometime.…

Null Sweat, Chummer

2015-03-02

Never deal with a dragon. I’ve been fortunate enough to have someone running Shadowrun 5 for me occasionally over the last few months. The way this group works it probably works out to less than once a month, but it’s been nice to dip my toe back in. Shadowrun is such a fun setting, and for those crunch gamers it’s got lots and lots of toys. This week I was asked if I wouldn’t mind running some Shadowrun on off weeks.…

You must gather your party before venturing forth

2014-08-08

How often should gamers get together? Once a week? Twice a month? How much is too little or too much? It can be a tough balance between a regular game and a personal life. I am currently playing in a Shadowrun game. I think. The problem is that we only meet every other week, and we haven’t actually had a game in two months. There are all kinds of reasons for this, and mostly valid ones (probably).…

I jockey data better when I'm high

2014-07-14

*translated from Japanese Chichi, It seems that I’ve been pulled together with some other runners, and it’s turning into drek, fast. It should have been a milk run, and I guess you could say it was, but there were strings attached. The stiff we jacked really was stiff, and we wound up holding some paydata when we rolled his stash. Our Johnson was feeling loyal, generous, or possibly treacherous and keyed us in.…

Shadowrun Returns

2014-04-20

I recently finished the Dragonfall expansion of Shadowrun Returns . I haven’t enjoyed a roleplaying experience like that since the first Mass Effect game. The game was so deeply steeped in lore I just completely nerded out. The art was beautiful and the story was engaging and compelling. The combat and level system were good, not great. If you like cyberpunk, and especially if you like Shadowrun, I can’t recommend this game highly enough.…

Into the Shadows

2014-04-13

I am very happy to say that the bi-weekly Saturday game that I am a part of recently switched from Warhammer Fantasy 2e to Shadowrun 5e. I was having a good time with our WFG but I have been trying to get into a Shadowrun games for the better part of a decade. When our GM made the very casual comment that he recently picked up the SR5 book and “would totally be up for running a game sometime”.…

How do I ghost?

2014-04-13

rpgames.org I’ve had the rpgames.org domain for a long time, and I’ve had tons of plans for it from time to time. It’s hosted forums and other web software, but never for very long and never with much success. Recently though I’ve been really itching to get some projects running. So I fired up a VPS and I’m going to start on a project or two. Shadowrun I am going to be starting a project for a Shadowrun 5 character generator using node.…