I've been considering putting Urubia into the game I'm GMing. Gathered as much information on her as possible already; but overall, what's the main/core/significant differences between an western dragon like her and her Greater counterparts, other than status among them?
Urubia, the queen of Redmond Barrens. The idea of a dragon dealing with the "low-life" as a resource seems interesting to me - and possibly a background to my ongoing game. What information so far we have in Urubia and her Funhouse, other than her wiki page and mostly into the Sixth Edition? What's her metahuman form like? Any new developments regarding the independence of Seattle and her interests?
EDIT: Do we have any info on The Funhouse itself?
Cutting Black starts with a somewhat cool scene and chat among Jackpointers, among which Polaris and Orbital-DK.
Do we have any info on these 2 Jackpointers, other than both being tech-savvy (probably deckers)?
You can easily find a plethora of printable maps, terrains, (paper and stl) miniatures and assets to make your own fantasy, DnD-ish battlemaps.
Is there any such resource for Shadowrun-ish scenario?
I've been messing with chat gpt to make mine, but it's been kind of a struggle.
Edit - I mean print on paper, not 3D
I'm GMing an extraction for my next run. Now, I've never been to Seattle, and for the sake of authenticity, I'd like the name of place that could host this scene. I've put together it's general idea on chat gpt, below.
Any chummer who actually knows Seattle could suggest me a cool location, before I hover the entirety of Seattle on Google earth looking for it?
In our upcoming game next weekend, I'm planning the classical "waves" stress test: while the decker does his thing, the team will keep coming guards at bay. I plan on making it possible for them to just back off at any point (so their success will be relative to how long they could keep the decker getting paydata).
My question here is how to make it better integrated, so it doesn't feel like it's "two games" intertwined. My first idea was to have some system (traps, turrets, cameras telling where enemies are coming from etc) so that the decker himself must split actions between controlling the environment and actually downloading stuff.
But I'd love to hear your suggestions or alternatives to have a cool, tense and challenging final scene in that vein. For what's worth, the team is decker, Sam, shaman (classic!) and a Rigger NPC just to drive them out.
The past two weekends we had a blast with SRA2.0 with a very cool, 2-sessions run. While most things went smooth rules-wise, some questions did rise among our group:
1 - does edge gained (through Amps, RP, glitches etc) can go through the starting (maximum?) Edge of the character? (we assumed not)
2 - Edge gained in action scenes through initiative Amps (such as Wired Reflexes) "vanish" when the scene is over?
3 - Glitches canceled due Risk Reduction still grants an Edge?
4 - during our sessions, players often hoped for a non-disaster glitch, to get an extra Edge; it was fairly hard (the "final encounter" pitched our 3 runners against a Shiawase Cyber-Tiger) and Edge was used often, but they never got to zero. Is that how it's supposed to be? Or did we do something wrong?
EDIT: we did the small mistake of awarding Edge on Minor Glitches as well, that's why they got away with some extra, unintended Edge; but it was nothing game breaking (in fact for our first game as a group, it was actually a Good Thing™) and overall it was a great gaming night.
What system has your favorite, most helpful and stylish GM Screen? Official or fan made, just tell me (and post pics if possible!)
I personally Love Mork Borg's gm screen, killer visuals and good information. Vampire 5th edition is cool looking and also serves a lot of useful information.
What else is well done? I'm planning in making a custom version and would love references from killed layouts. Send them in, hive mind!
I got a small question regarding legwork and would like my fellow chummers' inputs and ideas. To illustrate my doubt, let's consider the following run:
> Runner must enter a facility for a datasteal. Runners can go cowboy and force way in through security; or they can discover that security is prone to bribes; or they can find a contact who knows of an undercover stealth route in; or they may impersonate official staff.
In SR6, runners would run through their contacts, getting the proper tips accordingly and then make the decision of how to go in.
For SRA2.0, would we make runners roll for their Networks THEN roll for legwork phase once the route is decided? Or getting to know of these alternate routes could simply be result of spending Legwork Edge? Or even a mix of both?