Depends on the friend group, honestly. I can see scenarios where people aren't ready to have guests half an hour earlier than expected.
Though, this is why communication is important; if you ask the host if 30 minutes early is preferable to 15 minutes late, you'll get the answer that works for them.
Art imitates life, and sometimes, life looks at art and says "hold my beer"
Let me clarify; there's nothing wrong with mixing and matching settings and rulesets. But I wouldn't say I'm running Shadowrun if I'm just running a D&D5e ruleset in a Shadowrun setting.
I think at this point we have to agree to disagree, because we clearly have different ways of looking at this. I'm of the opinion that communicating the ruleset you're running is important because if I go to a D&D5e game with a PF3e character, nobody is going to enjoy that. Specifying the setting is important too, but the rules aren't an unimportant thing you don't need to specify.
Regardless, when I say "Shadowrun is not an entry-level TTRPG", I am referring to the ruleset and not the setting. There is nothing wrong with the setting. I guess you'd parse it better if I said that the Shadowrun ruleset isn't an entry-level ruleset?
I think at this point I need to ask you to take a step back and remember where this conversation started.
I opened by saying that Shadowrun is not an entry-level system because the rules are hard to understand. What it seems you did was take me saying "Shadowrun is not an entry-level TTRPG" and append "setting" to that, which is ironic given this post.
I never meant to imply that the setting was hard to understand. It's the rules that were the problem, and I apologize if that wasn't clear enough. But from my perspective, I said "The rules are hard for a new player to understand" and - again, from my perspective - your response was more or less "The rules are fine if you change all the rules". So you can imagine why I was blunt in my responses. This whole thing has been in the context of the rules system from the start, so yes, I am focused on the rules at the moment.
But I do stand by the fact that Shadowrun's setting with different rules is not "running Shadowrun" the same way running a D&D5e ruleset in a modern setting is still "Running 5e". It's the rules that matter in the context of statements like these, not the setting. You don't say "I'm running Forgotten Realms" You say "I'm running D&D." Sure, sometimes you specify modules but those modules are known to exist in a specific system so saying "I'm running Rime of the Frostmaiden 5e" is redundant. What you're doing is "Running [system] with Shadowrun's setting" or perhaps "Running Shadowrun's setting with another system." The distinction is still important, and anyone who reads "I'm running Shadowrun but I changed all the rules" will likely interpret that in their heads to mean "Shadowrun['s setting] with different rules" anyway.
Or TL:DR; you "Run" rulesets, and your campaign takes place in a setting.
If you "run Shadowrun" by "replacing the rules entirely" you aren't running Shadowrun. You're running a different system with Shadowrun's setting.
Oh yeah, the setting is fine, but the rules of the RPG itself are tough to get into.
Ehh... it's definitely not an entry-level TTRPG. I've tried playing it once and bounced hard, though it was partially the fault of the GM...
It's very crunchy, and complicated, and the rules aren't laid out very well. Maybe now that I'm more experienced with TTRPGs in general I might have more fun with it. I remember doing some silly stuff that was a lot of fun, it was just bogged down by mistakes and misunderstandings and rules, and the way things are set up can often divide the party in a way that isn't fun (the net, for example. Anyone not net-capable basically gets a lunch break whenever you're doing anything in the net).
I've only heard one statement about the Tom Cruise reboot; "The most interesting thing about that movie was the trailer they mistakenly released without any audio"
So... not glowing reviews.
Fool of a Tiefling!
Why would you use ChatGPT to emulate a word processor? You get all the functionality you need without ever hitting enter.
Just make sure to watch out for the potted petunias that follow.
And both are equally cool in their own way