Shadowrun
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I'm new here (obviously,lol) and I was curious about everyone's first shadowrun experience. How'd you find out about Shadowrun? What was your very first run? What "class" did you use?
Mine was the Sega Genesis version for the game. After playing, I was VERY curious about the lore and grabbed the 3E book and read. My first run was when I made my brother play "On the Run" with me. I played a decker.
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I got into Shadowrun the day that the game was released and my roommate picked up the book. It looked interesting, so he grabbed it. I started out playing a former corp wage mage (illusionist specialty). The very first game was the very first published adventure: Food Fight.
My love for the game has spiraled out of control ever since.
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Played BattleTech for years now...started in the 80s. I saw the FASA catalog, saw the other games they sold, and promptly forgot about them.
Then I went up to GenCon, decided in 2000 to play the Shadowrun demo. Had fun, and promptly forgot about it.
Then I got to know Jason H. through his work with BattleTech. Picked up a copy of the 20th Edition and a few other print books, then kept an eye out for games being played in/around Chicago. It's been fun.
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Ahh, Larry Elmore, you sly devil. (http://cyber-library.co.cc/images/Larry_Elmore_-_Shadowrun.jpg)
An elf, a bikini-clad mage and a Native American dual-wielding uzis. Toss in the Secrets of Power trilogy and I was doomed in my teenage years. I spent the next two years buying everything that came out while hopelessly searching for a gaming group willing to play. It wasn't until one of my first gaming cons (LehiCon '93? '94? in Easton, Pa) that I actually got to sit down and play in the game I love. Ironically, that was the same convention when I first met Ed Greenwood of Forgotten Realms fame.
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Linky no worky.
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I played the game once when I was 13 or 14. A friend of mine picked one of the earlier books up (I can't recall which edition) and I made a butt-ugly, suped up troll sammie. I think I managed to get killed in the one and only game we played. It's a bit fuzzy. I always rather liked the game, but I never really had a chance to play it much and really get into it until 4th ed came out.
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I have been a fan of Battletech(MechWarrior) Since the mid 80's I heard about ShadowRun back then but wasn't interested in anything cyberpunk at the time. I was a Giant Robot junkie (even liked Johny Sokko). So I never played the game.
After the turn of the century (2000s) I became a FanPro Commando and picked up a 3rd edition master rules. Loved the writing but the game mechanics were still to cumbersome for my liking, but the setting had also gain a bit more grit and a bit less CyberPunk. Still didn't feel the urge to play.
Last year my daughter(Chaotic Insane)'s Boyfriend (The Doomed One) wanted to try 4th ed & I said sure! Hey I wasn't running it and I did have some experience with the Company so I figured why not ? We made our characters. Me a Minotaur (Usda Beph) and I had a ball once we worked out most of the rules. I want to play some more but logistics of not having a home to play in kinda puts a damper on that.
And the days of getting a hotel/motel room to game all night are long behind me.
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Oh, Lord! Johnny Socko!!
Crazy show!
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I want to play some more but logistics of not having a home to play in kinda puts a damper on that.
I've had that problem myself. For a while we all just sat on or around mine and my gf's bed to play. But that gets awkward, cramped, and uncomfortable quickly. We've also sat on the floor, sat on the floor around a coffee table, sat on boxes and end tables and crap around a card table, and a couple of other situations that just resulted in more crabbiness and back pain than fun. We're a stubborn bunch though. ;D
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Linky no worky.
It should work, just takes a while to load. Doesn't really matter, it's just a really good copy of the old 1E cover by Mr. Elmore.
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I got a 403 error.
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Oh, Lord! Johnny Socko!!
Crazy show!
Why Yes. Yes it was.
I've had that problem myself. For a while we all just sat on or around mine and my gf's bed to play. But that gets awkward, cramped, and uncomfortable quickly. We've also sat on the floor, sat on the floor around a coffee table, sat on boxes and end tables and crap around a card table, and a couple of other situations that just resulted in more crabbiness and back pain than fun. We're a stubborn bunch though.
Yeah it would be. My biggest problem is the house we're livin in isn't mine to hava a game at. The basement is big enough but I'd have two wive's and 5 kids to deal with. ANd my wife is hard enough to work with when it comes to gaming! ::)
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Yeah it would be. My biggest problem is the house we're livin in isn't mine to hava a game at. The basement is big enough but I'd have two wive's and 5 kids to deal with. ANd my wife is hard enough to work with when it comes to gaming! ::)
That does indeed suck. Ummm......crap. I got nothing.
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I got a 403 error.
I'll see if I can't get another copy up when I get home tonight.
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Best friend in high school showed me the 2nd Ed book in about...94. Read through it, seemed ok and had the added bonus of being something OTHER than DnD (which I had a MAD hate-on for at the time and everyone else LOVED). Got my hands on Street Sam Catalogue and later Fields of Fire...was game over, or more like GAME ON! Over a few weeks my brain started turning and a character concept of a futuristic gunslinger/solider came to mind. Did a few trial games, mainly to learn the mechanics, then had my first game about a month later playing a cybered merc. Played two more sessions but had to end it due to lack of interest. Did a few more sessions but nothing to write about. Things didnt REALLY pick up until Feb 96 when I met my soon-to-be runner team at the now defunct Tol-Con '96 playing a street gang. From 96 till about 2000, it was almost every weekend running the shadows...ah good times.
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Heh. Now you make me feel young*. I ran a free-form SR game about seven, or eight years ago for two guys whom I've played Earthdawn with. We're still playing ED together, but there was a small Shadowrun(2nd ed., as that's the one translated to Polish - unfortunately it died out, because CP was a lot more popular) intermission, where i was playing a teenage rastafarian rat shaman. Fun times.
A while ago i bought the SR4A rulebook. And that's probably how it started. Though my group issued an ultimatum, because i tend to be sidetracked and drop games i run for a new one. I'm still trying to find people with whom i can play Shadowrun. It's not easy though.
* Remember that games in Poland were 10 years behind the US, as almost everything till a few years back. We were a third world country. And it seems they want us to go back to those days.
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One of my friends in college learned to role play on his daddy's knee. Daddy was a Navy Seal, so they played a lot of Battletech and Shadowrun. So said friend introducted me.
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Ah the good old days. It all started in 19xx with the Neuromancer video game and the follow up graphic novel. I was hooked on this whole Cyberpunk thing. My friends and I played D&D, Battletech Car Wars and Marvel Super Heroes now and then. Then FASA, maker of the holy Battletech, came out with a cyberpunk game. . .only with elves and magic. Yeah, I scarfed that one right up. I didn't play too much because I always wound up running the games. With the relative lack of source material I was making up a lot of stuff on the fly. To this day the Grey Line is one of the main runner bars in any campaign I run. It made sense to my teenage mind, the thin grey line between good and evil and all that. The first character I remember playing regularly was in my college-ish years as a 3rd Ed Elven Otaku. I played almost exclusively human non-mages in the old days because being either one just sucked up too much good stuff from the other areas and we didn't have no steenkin' adepts.
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About a year or so ago, one of the guys in my circle of gaming friends offered to run a Shadowrun game. I liked the setting, and put together a badly designed character that didn't do hacking, rigging, or combat well, and looked like a freak in a game that was supposed to be a little more 'pro' appearance. First characters and all that, y'know.
First exposure was one of the novels in a public library back in the early '90's. Alas, I forget which one(s).
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I got my start with the war game Hero's Quest. After we exhausted it and our home-brewed adventures we naturally progressed into D&D. We eventually trickled into Darksword Adventures, Rifts, Cyberpunk, WEG Star Wars, World of Darkness, Battletech, SR, Ars Magica, and GURPS. DnD, WoD, and Star Wars were the most heavily played in my group. It was difficult to negotiate SR into the mix being the minority and all, meaning I GM'd most of the time, but SR was my favorite. I managed to collect every book up through 3rd, at one point, including a signed monogrammed hardcover 4ed book.
We home-brewed all of our adventures, so I couldn't tell ya what my first adventure was, but it was back in the 2e days. I usually played rigger combos. I had the cool cars, big guns, army of robots, and in one case my own personal antroform to ride in (think battle armor from Battletech with a Pilot rating, probably looked like something the A-Team built).
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Oh hell, if we're talking about the first time gaming...
I was a wee young lad of 10 when I went to a friends birthday party and two of my best buds were playing this new game. It came in a box with two red books, some sheets of paper and dice (that you had to color in the numbers with a white crayon). I remember falling in love with the game and about a month later running my little brother through Isle of Dread with his character (he didn't last long).
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Ah, Hero's Quest. Brings back some fond memories. We used to use the pieces from it in our D&D and MechWarrior games. I actually have the crappy old video game too.
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The price Heroes Quest is going for now a days blows my mind...
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A (at the moment new-found) friend of mine started a Shadowrun campaign back in.. 2003? Yeah, that would be it. I had never heard about the game before, but the pitch he gave totally sold it to me (still my favourite game setting). We played a few 3rd-ed-adventures, Food Fight being the first. I still have this picture in my head of our rigger-dwarf just keeping in a corner until one of the gangers got close enough for him to throw his steaming-hot take-away-soup in his face... *grin* And I know I was being busy summoning this hearth-spirit in the middle of the shop, it was just this animated (and angry) bunch of canned food and spilled soy-flour wreaking havoc on both gangers and Stuffer Shack.
Ah, those were the days...
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Played a few sessions of 1st ed waybackinnaday. Never really went anywhere with it, but I dug the setting and kept an eye on the game. Sometime around the early-mid 90s, I got in a local 2nd edition game through a friend and became addicted instantly. I got on the ShadowRN mailing lists and things just went out of control from there.
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My introduction to shadowrun was much like yours. Played the sega genesis version on some cable based video game thing com cast was trying out at the time. 2ed was still out, so those were the first books I had. I convinced my younger brother to play also, though I basically used runs from the video game as a template. My brother played a street Sam and I ran a Mage.
I'm new here (obviously,lol) and I was curious about everyone's first shadowrun experience. How'd you find out about Shadowrun? What was your very first run? What "class" did you use?
Mine was the Sega Genesis version for the game. After playing, I was VERY curious about the lore and grabbed the 3E book and read. My first run was when I made my brother play "On the Run" with me. I played a decker.
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we are using the templates in the core book for learning the 4th edition rules before we actually decide to make characters. I am playing the Combat Mage, there is also the Troll Street shaman, Street Samurai, Orc Decker, and the Weapon Specialist. I sat my character out of the the situation we ran across, so I could help our GM look rules up for other situations since I know a couple of our players do not read up on the rules between our game sessions. So this is more like an observation than an experience.
I would have to say the combat took a little long, but I know that once we all get a hang of the different combat situations, the game will go alot quicker as we are all learning the system together. I actually did have some fun looking up the rules and reading it to the rest of the players so they would be able to understand the rules as well. I think I might have found a new fun game to actually run from time to time and maybe even do some conversions of other games over to this system. I would like to see what Catalyst Game Labs has installed for Shadowrun and the future.
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My friends and I were playing a variety of games back when 1st ed came out. It was not unusual for one of us to buy a new game and give it a go. When I got to his place for our sunday afternoon gaming, instead of playing DND the other guys had decided to give this great new game a try. Cursing under my breath, having carried my full bag of dnd stuff, I sat down and took a look at the book.
The system was much different then any I had seen. The guys wanted to play quickly, so I just grabbed a template from the book, the ganger, and ran with it.
We played food fight, had a hell of a lot of fun, and I was hooked.
And so began my playing days of SR. By SR3 I was the group's fulltime GM, and have never looked back.