[Totes]

I've known about Shadowrun since I got into table top RPGs in 2000, but I started with Werewolf and never had anyone that wanted to play SR.

It wasn't until the end of last year that I decided to spash out on the core book and a lot of the add on books, and I haven't really played much else since.

[CanRay]

Try hunting for a good since 1992.

[Prime Mover]

Finishing up a 4 yr Greyhawk campaign and attempting to layout my own game S.O.D. I was leafing thru my summer copy of the wargames west catalog and spotted cover and blurb for a new game Shadowrun.  Right place right time and 21 years of running the Shadows. 

[Ranger]

1989 I was in the bookstore about 40 miles from home (I live in rural South Dakota) looking for probably a source book for one of the games I was playing at the time when I came across Shadowrun.  I had enough money to almost get it so I had to beg my mom for the rest of the money.  I spent the rest of the shopping trip and the ride home reading it and have been playing or more accurately GMing it ever since.

[usefulidiot]

I was introduced to shadowrun around when I was in the 5th grade. Its was 2nd addition. One of my friends intoduced it to me because I was always into RPG games and war games, it was the first time I ever played a pen and paper game. We started getting some of our other friends to play and I also spent some time playing with the group that got him into Shadowrun. They also introduced me to a few other pen and paper games, but Shadowrun has stuck around the longest. My friend who got me into it stopped playing after a few years into it and gave me all of his books. It wasn't many, but they were a few 2nd addition books. Still have them and the core book is in very rough condition from being passed around and borrowed so much. It has duct tape on the binding keeping it together, but I will never get rid of it. After he stopped playing I took over the GM role and introduced some of my other friends to it. Now after many years of playing, everyone growing up, and life happening we are down to a group of 3 1/2. I say 1/2 because my cousin has been a part of our group the longest next to me as a player and sometimes a GM, but he is in the Army and spends a lot of time over seas. So he only gets to play on rare occasions.

[Bane]

Played very little DnD with friends, then someone had Shadowrun books somehow, we started with that. That was maybe 6 years ago?

It took me a few playthroughs to learn that you could make your own characters, then longer to figure that out...

[entropy]

My then-boyfriend brought me along to a game when I was 16. It was my first tabletop game, too - I'd been interested in tabletop RPGs for quite a while but had never known anyone who played, given that most of my school "friends" thought role playing was uncool, so you can imagine my excitement when he asked if I wanted to come.
It was pretty fun, too, I was a decker and my ex was a troll shaman. A drunk, Russian troll shaman wearing a dirty, ex-blue bathrobe. Good times... Too bad that group died of the GM not feeling up to it after one or two sessions.

[Star Debut]

I started in the early 90s, I was young, money was easier to spend, because it was my parents money theoretically, and whilst I was in a weekly Roleplaying Group, I brought the 2nd edition core rule book and enjoyed the setting. It can be a nose dive into an unfamilar setting as I quickly found out. Some years later in my early twenties I brought the 3rd edition book, found it much the same but did not get to play it. I am onto the 4th edition, and will be looking to get a game running in the near future with my current roleplaying buddies! Just needs some careful planning, some of them only know the D&D 4ed rules and need to ease them in slowly and gently as not to upset the Shadowrun atmosphere.

[Mason]

ARC introduced me to it not long after I met him on a bus. I got his email and we continued our bus chat online, then he invited me to come play a game of SR at his house. I looked over the rules and made my first attempt at a combat mage, which was kinda suck compared to some powergamed characters in the group, made a better character for the next game (my account's namesake), and the rest, as they say, is history.

Credit where credit is due: The street name of Mason was Arc's idea when i described him as a wall-building mage specialized in Manipulations. Although I shot down the extended version of the name Free Mason.

[CanRay]

After he gets nicked and spends some time in prison, and busts loose, we can call him Free Mason. 

[ARC]

After he gets nicked and spends some time in prison, and busts loose, we can call him Free Mason. 

LOLZ!  At least that is what the media will call him, I'll just call him a flying brick, that SOB is harder to kill than a cockroach.  Him and One of our other players is ridiculous to try to take down.  Believe me, I've tried, and no I don't specifically target a players character unless there is a good reason storywise for it.

[Mason]

Geek the mage. That is all. Remember the Noticing Magic rules? Most of Mason's spells are Force 8, so that is Threshold -2 for people to notice he is the source .

Just...good luck actually geeking the mage.

[CanRay]

Two Words:  Drop Bears.

[ARC]

Yeah, but you have seen his signature, yeah that really happened.  Right now, as it stands, Mason ic a slippery git.

[Mason]

DM: "Mason, dodge 3!"
Mason: "4"
"Now dodge 5!"
"3"
"Soak 10!"
"Edging. soked 11."
DM facepalms.

Mason has only been hurt by a mundane opponent once. He took 2 stun from a bullet. The only other time he was injured was fighting an insect spirit, or from Drain. It doesn't hurt that the DM has terrible dice luck