Shadowrun
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Here's a topic where you can post anything awesome that has happened in your game, be it unexpected glitches or great moments of role playing.
I'll start.
We're in our second session of a new game and our group jumped a group of guys in a junkyard. We took down their mage and leader in the first 2 rounds of combat so the other 3 mooks started running. In the second pass, after turning the aforementioned mage into red mist, I thought we should probably take one of them alive to question, so I switched to stick-n-shocks and shot one of the runners. He critically glitched his soak so the GM had it fry his internal com-link which fried his brain. That going badly, I shot at another guy, who also critically glitched his soak... thus his grenade went off blowing him into pieces...
There needs to be a Grim Bringer of Death negative quality...
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Along those same lines I have one (well it has to do with grenades and chunky salsa at least)
A good friend of mine who I have roleplayed with for a long time had just lost a character to a fellow party member killing him with a stunbolt at the end of the session before (that is another story for another time) introduced his new shaman. Now this was back in 2nd edition so tings were a bit different, but anyhow. The team comes out of the meet and are barely out onto the street when they get ambushed. The team's troll decides to toss a grenade and says I'll toss it 3 meters from us. My friend whose mage is still in the enclosed alcove from the bar yells, "No that is too close you're going to kill me."
The other player replies, "No it won't we'll be fine. Yes I'm tossing it there."
I ask, "Are you sure?"
My friend "No, it's too close."
The other player, "No it will be fine yes there."
The grenade goes off before the shaman gets to move and it hits the shaman, rebounds off the door and hits the shaman, and we have shaman puree. Dead enough that the team's main mage couldn't even try to save him before he bled out.
Other player after it happened, "Oooops, I really thought you'd be fine."
My friend had lost two characters to two different players killing him in about 15 minutes of game time. He grabs his character sheet is about to crumple it up in frustration and then stops. He says, "Heck with that." pulls out an eraser and swaps his character's strength and body and says, "Here is my new character for approval it's my last character's sister."
This character lasted about a year until he moved away from the game and he had a blast playing it so all's well that ends well I guess.
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A short cool moment:
My players had to assassinate a target moving in a truck through Denver. Unfortunately for them, they didnt figure out he had warded decoy trucks taking alternate routes. Once they realized their mistake, the only team member who could reach him in time was the adept, because of his motorcycle's speed mod. He gets there (this is why I use chess timers in combat), realizes he cant take on the security alone, no time to think, so he lays his bike down, slides under the truck (edged that roll), puts an explosive on the undercarriage (he was also demo guy), and crashes spectacularly through an apartment building as the truck explodes. Their finesse, no witness plan didnt get used, the adept was in overflow, but it was cool.
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That is Drekin bad ass! xD^
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This happened during one of our early sessions with my current online group.
The party was tasked with assassinating the head of a local AA corporate HQ who was holed out in the top floor. They eventually got the elevator to the first floor, and we all greeted by a large security group that took them all into various rooms to be interrogated. One of my players was playing a female elf, and was going to be interrogated by this massive troll. Panicking, she decided to try and roll con(seduction) to try and seduce the troll. I decided to check to see if they troll was gay or not, which I would accomplish with what I call the "luck die" as it was purely chance. It's a D6, and the higher the roll, the luckier you are. I rolled a 1, and said that he seemed to have no interest in you. He then slammed his hands on the table and screamed "Tell me all you know." He rolled intimidate, and she rolled a critical glitch against it. So, she fell into a fit of tears onto the table and was completely broken down.
And the whole team had a laugh, because the big gay troll just made her piss her pants.
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This happened in the first Shadowrun game I ever played.
We were running one of the Denver Missions (the one where you have to deliver a package across borders on a short time span) and we'd just had an 'argument' with some Triad and Yaks who wanted to relieve us of the package, where the troll street sammy got a little careless with the grenades, and fragged the Face and my Combat Mage pretty badly. But we'd gotten out of it, at least. Later on, we've made it past the last border, and are on our way to the dropoff when a go-gang tries to waylay our van. We're running against time, and so my mage leans his head out the window and drops an ice slick behind the van, at as high a force as he can without overcasting. Drain knocks me out cold, but the bikers didn't fare that well. Three of them crashed in a pileup, one slid into a parked car, and one went flying into the window of a bar catering to trolls. Our hacker, thinking quickly, captured all the camera footage he could get of the wreck, erased the originals, and sold the footage to a blogger contact of his for an extra couple hundred nuyen each.
Needless to say, fun was had by all.
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Alright so my party and I had finally reached the end of our campaign all we had to do was kill a Tier 3 mob boss and blow up his factory (all set in Russia in winter). We had three groups chasing his getaway truck two in trucks and me on a snowmobile. After I spun the truck around one of the enemy mages cast Poltergeist to create a cover of snow. Immediately after our troll Sami jumps onto the truck from the cliff side and burns two edge to both make the 100ft jump and survive it. His actions cause the enemy truck to crash knocking out the mage and injuring the 4 other enemies inside. Unfortunately our troll was not lucky enough to survive and the boss decapitated him. We make quick work of the mob boss's personal guard but it took long enough for the boss to wake up from the crash. While I was messing up the boss's implants, my two mage allies pulled off one of the most awesome combinations I have ever seen. One burned his edge to temporarily banish all 30 spirits that were guarding the boss while the other burned two points to cast a force 12 lighting bolt and succeed on the drain. The lightning bolt ended up doing 31P damage to the boss insta-killing him. Our second mage was also incredibly lucky as he managed to barely survive the boss's Dead-Man's Trigger.
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Player A: A male human mage with gremlins.
Player B: A female troll mage with geas drunkeness.
Player C: A male dwarf gunbunny.
Me: A male elf infiltration specialist.
We were all asleep on a smuggler's plane headed into Vladivostok, when turbulence wakes us up. Upon investigation the plane's on autopilot, the actual pilot is gone alone with one of the emergency parachutes and none of us can fly the plane. Player A for some retarded reason starts messing around with the controls so his gremlins causes the engine to stall. Lacking options, we strap on parachutes and bail out. I was the only one with the parachute skill, so I landed fine. Player A opens his cute late and comes down way too fast, he got stuck in a tree and his velocity caused the chute harness to basically nutshot him and burst one of them. Player B lands hard, but being a troll she comes out unharmed. Player C also gets caught in a tree, but isn't hurt like Player A was. So I had to climb up slippery snow and ice covered trees to cut down Players A and C, it took me a while. Six or seven dice rolls and a few boxes of physical damage later, I get the twp down. Player A is in agonizing pain so the troll uses Heal by rubbing his nutsack. During the whole things we're angrily yelling at each other in game, and laugh at Player A out of game.
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A month ago, I was GMing my friday group. Player A is a 70 year old retired law enforcer from Texas with lots of ware to keep him relevant and player B is a wakiyambi from Kenya. Player B meets up with the team a day later so I gave him a quick blurb on what the mission was that he was hired to do. The team just had to retrieve an aquatic drone prototype and schematics. They went tot he marina late at night where they were checking out a lead. The B&E into the marina with no problems. There's a line of yachts two wikth lights on. They rolled amazing perception rolls however one they were not able to get a look inside from a far the other one they noticed was shaking and can see and ork couple doing their thing. They decide to go to that one to question them about if the drone was ever seen in public. They knock on the boat, a half nude ork comes out and is vexed, player B armed with a no-dachi puts the blade at the throat of the vexed ork. PLayer A asks the ork if they seen a sub-marine, player A got a response he did not like and with his shock glove on punches the ork in the groin, knocking him down. I informed him that they were looking for a drone, but they did not sink in and goes Christian Bale Batman all over him like he was the Joker. He asks the ork, but he was quite stun from the shock glove and gets punched in the groin with it again yelling, "Where's the Sub-marine!!"
Long story short, player B ties up the female ork in the bedroom along with the now unconscious male ork. They drive the boat ouit for some reason to look for this sub-marine and I inform them again it was not a sub-marine...it was an aquatic drone that they were looking for and they already knew that it was in the building because their Face did recon during the day and told them about it. So elven wine was needed for the orks, they got it from the Ancients but not without a side quest that i had to provide. We laughed hysterically at it all. Player B came to the team a session late so he followed player A from the start which was a bad idea.