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[–] 15 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Goddammit another game to go on my wishlist apparently.

Goodbye, money

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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

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

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