This grants them the ability to use magic (though different spells from the kind mages use,) which is mostly focused on buffs, debuffs, and battlefield control. Shaman (AKA a practitioner of 'true' magic): Shamans get their powers from a patron spirit, referred to as a totem. Doing stuff in the Matrix is, unforunately, a solo activity, but deckers can run programs called 'ESPs' which create cyberminions under their control. Doing this allows them to do things like open doors, diable security alarms, and steal information or plant false information. Deckers 'jack in' to the Matix (basically the game's equivalent of the internet) and create a 'persona' with which to manipulate data. Decker: Basically the game's thief archetype. They have spells that let them heal damage taken by themselves or an ally, boost their allies' accuracy, increase armor, and of course there's your assortment of offensive spells with which you can blow up your enemies, coat them in acid, of zap them with lightning or sheer magical force. Mage (AKA a practitioner of hermetic magic): Mages are versatile and powerful runners. Samurai are generally good with either guns or close combat (swords or unarmed,) and throwing weapons like knives and grenades. Street Samurai: The 'warrior' archetype. These are basically the 'classes' of the game. Right now I'm going to say updates will be roughly one per week. Otherwise I'd have just provided a summary, but this isn't really much more work.įinally, updates are going to be slow until I actually finish writing the LP. In the other thread people wanted to see all the dialogue, so I'm gonna do my best to remember to capture it all. There's a LOT of dialogue in this game, so sit down and get ready to read. though it should be noted that Shadowrun predates The Matrix by about ten years.Īnyway, the rest of this post is mostly going to be explaining the basic mechanics of the game, so you can have some idea of what I'm talking about later in the thread. In short, it's basically what you get when you mash up The Matrix with D&D. In this world, the players are Shadowrunners freelance operatives who take jobs that corporations, governments, and other entities prefer not to handle themselves - and occasionally, they handle the ones those entities can't. The real movers and shakers, though, are the megacorporations, who have achieved extraterritorial status and are now exempt from the majority of laws. The Native Americans were the first ones to use magic on a greater scale, and they used their newfound power to retake most of the western North American continent. Dragons and other mythic beasts awoke from eons-long slumber many humans gained magic and/or mutated into new, yet familiar species. It is set, depending on the edition, in the mid- or late 21st century, after magic returned on December 21, 2012, as it had more than once in the distant past. Shadowrun is a Tabletop Game from FASA straddling the Cyber Punk and Dungeon Punk genres. 'A standard mission is 20 minutes of objectives, three days of planning, and 600 seconds of mayhem.'

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