r/Shadowrun

Snake Oil salesman’s and pseudo science are no rarity today. In the sixth world where magic exists it’s probably ten times worse.

I’ve done a bit of the more wild esoteric beliefs in my previous campaign. Such as a cult which promises awaking if you believe three BS hard enough or selling basic self help books for exorbitant prices.

What kind of quackery have you implemented in your games ?

Useless curiosity for sure, but, title.

I wonder if dragons were just locked into their human forms for millenia and suddenly could turn into giant lizards again on sixth world mana spikes, if they just "hybernated" on the astral plane, or something else.

If you have some references on that, please share!

Not to add to the "which edition should I play" pile of posts but this one is slightly different. Hopefully someone will recall what I am talking about.

Several years ago (around when Berlin edition came out for 6e. I had found a website that did a rules breakdown by edition for Shadowrun. I THINK it covered magic and matrix as well, but I know for a fact it did compare the skill/combat rules.

Specifically it was almost spreadsheet like so you could see how each edition handled the rules and compare quickly.

Now my question... in switching PCs during that time, I have lost the website and several days of searching has not given me much luck in finding it again. So I was hoping that someone else recalls the site and can help me find it again.

Thank you for your help!

So shadowrun is a cyberpunk game with magic, but its ALOT bigger then say cyberpunk RED. DND has plenty of plots of big wars that effect the main story progression, and I was wondering if Shadowrun had any that players can be apart of. Im aware 6E had the Disian Shadow war (which looks pretty cool actually). Any other events similar that had book releases or missions that let the players be apart of said big event?

Again, plenty of DND and other fantasy games where the party goes from taking down the local bandit boss to suddenly being in the frontline in a cosmic war.

Could someone make a list current members of the Big Ten but from lesser evil to like gonna end the world evil? AZT from what I hear would probably top the list but would like the clarity.

https://preview.redd.it/hu53qj27pdwg1.png?width=900&format=png&auto=webp&s=bb158134d49d3b5bf471bff6650ef17ecaa63847

https://legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/564216/Alexis-Mystery-Box?src=hottest_filtered

In Shadowrun Genesis, I'm currently at Renraku looking to get the map from the safe on the 6th floor. I've downloaded every hint from Ito's matrix system. I've checked the safe that every walkthrough says has the map multiple times but either only receive random items or nothing at all. I've done everything in the quest upto this point and I've also finished Owlfeather's quest.

I did some research and apparently others are able to get the map just fine without downloading the hints.

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/366854-shadowrun/75309581

The guy in the forum above did some testing and got it after getting a hint from the system.

I'd like to know if I missed something. I even went through the entirely of Renraku's matrix system to get the hints there and returned to the safe, but still nothing.

Hello chummers,

its my pleasure to announce [posh frog meme here] that i had my first 2 gigs as aspect mage in 5e. First of all i wanted to thank everyone for the help on my thread regarding mobcontrol/control actions. It really gave me some overview and i could finally gather enough karma to get some new spells. I already have some ideas in what direction i want to go with my mage but again i have questions regarding spells i want to pick ^^

Homunculus

so i like the idea of using a homunculus ritual on a statue as a bodyguard (regardless of the efficiency) but im confused how the spell behaves in case of different weight. I know the object resistance defines how tough the minion is and the spellforce sets the offensive capabilities (aswell as attributes) but in what way does weight change this? Would a 500kg Statue i animate be as strong as an action figure of the same material? Sounds illogical if i build a 500kg stone golem (3 OR i guess?) and its weaker than a processed monowire with object resistance of 15.
If i levitate that statue above enemies and just let the statue fall how would the incoming combat section be calculated? I saw the spell fling but it gets limited per kilogram=force while levitate is kilogram=500/200=Force Hits. Levitate gives unwilling targets a way to resist the spell. Is my Homunculus unwilling? Or does he love getting levitated around? Also if i decide to use fling does my Homunculus also get damaged by the fling?

Could i give a Homunculus a meele weapon like a club?

Fireball/Ballightning/Icestorm

So 1 thing about the radius of the spells confuses me. Lets say i have Magic 7 and i decide to go yolo all in and cast a fireball Forcepower 14 (Magic x 2 if i recall correctly as max) I want to throw the fireball through an opened door into the center of a dark room. The Radius of the spell would be 14m. so here are my questions :

Lets say i dont see the center of the room can i just say i throw my fireball through the door as target and wait and hope it explodes on impact of a wall it hits (So basically throw it at an unknown target)? or would it explode in the middle of the frame of the door since it was technically my last thing i could see? (ignore scatter)

In case i see the center of the room and i throw the fireball at that point and the room itself is smaller than the 14m radius: Would behavior of the fireball change based on having a smaller room like grenades and chunky salsa?

How can enemies evade the fireball if the explosion is bigger than room itself. I mean the fireball explosion is a hemisphere correct? So if he can't evade because of logic he shouldnt be able to? Or is the evasion just the technicality of the process and is explained like "he evades the impact on him w/e"

Permanent spells and Quickening (Metamagic)

If a permanent spell (like increase Attribute) gets dispelled by enemies even though i spend karma on it. Is the karma gone or do i get it back? The reason im asking is that the rulebook doesnt clarfiy that and the Shadowrun 5e wiki tells me i only lose the karma while sustaining it
while many reddit threads stated that you permantly lose the karma.

"You can manipulate your sustained spells into a sort of loop, so that they sustain themselves instead of relying on you to do it for them. To quicken a spell, take a Complex Action and spend karma while you’re sustaining the spell. You must spend at least 1 Karma but may spend up to the Force of the spell. The spell becomes permanent and gets a dice pool bonus against dispelling (p. 295) equal to the amount of Karma you spent on it."

Spellshaping and Fireball

"You can reshape your area spells at the cost of making casting them harder. For every –1 dice pool penalty you take to your Spellcasting Test, you may either increase an area spell’s radius by 1 meter, decrease it by 1 meter, or create a 1-meter-radius spherical “bubble” within the area of your spell that remains unaffected by it. You must declare the use of this metamagic when you cast the area spell. You may not take more dice worth of penalty than your Magic Rating."

So i cast fireball 10m radius and chose to take 1 penalty to protect 1m wide area where a friend of mine stands. In case the spell scatters does the protection also scatter away from the original position or does it stay even if the spell scatters?

Could i cast a fireball with targetpoint on the exact point im standing but protect the 1m area around myself and basically create a fire explosion around myself?

thats it. I hope you can answer my questions if you have the time. Man im so thrilled about this game and im really upset i didnt get to play it earlier :D

I’ve been running rpg for many years and still have a copy of 1st and 2nd edition shadowrun. Back then I just used npc for decking as I thought it just seemed too separate to rest of characters. just about to start 6th edition campaign and think matrix use a lot more integrated but rules still bit of a head scratcher. does this sound about right?

target is a security host behind the public host.

1. Decker access public host, no roll required.

2. He makes a matrix perception test to locate the security host (as host lacks willpower it just resists with sleaze?)

3. decker probes security host (rating 3)

4. decker back doors security host Gaining admin access to security host

5. decker makes a matrix perception roll to say find a security camera in main hall

6. the active patrol IC makes a matrix perception roll (dice pool?), it succeeds and host launches blaster

7. decker makes a control device roll to loop the feed on the security camera

8. the blaster attacks the decker attack rating 3, dice pool 6

9. decker attacks blaster using data spike. Decker wins

10. Meanwhile rest of party in firefight

11. decker makes control device roll against heavy machine gun being used by one of guards. Defence is security host firewall plus ?

12. decker ejects ammo belt from gun

Looking to pick up some adventure books for any edition. Do you have a favorite? What do you recommend?

I have been thinking the tech transition would have been gradual and would have needed microchip wafers, and since ASML has a near monopoly on producing the machines required to build them, it would stand to reason that ASML survived independently so long as they stayed ahead of the technological curve all though yes the black flood might have slowed them down I doubt the dutch goverment would let such a powerfull ally be lost,

What are your thoughts?

Getting into Gargoyles again and wonder can you make a build fore cyborgs like Post Upgrade Jackal and Hyena? Like can you do her bouncing ball thing or their jetpacks from the Amazon episode?

I am currently running TH for my group of five players. Now I sometimes ask myself, in which order the adventures are supposed to be run. I see how some are building on the others, then again it simply starts out with the runners already on Horizons bad side in Self Preservation. Any advice?

Who are the best special forces groups in the sixth world from the megacorps to the nation states to even independent teams?