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I wonder what is the general opinions on official game material pressented as in univers info.

I personally hate it to no end. Especially if there is actual game rules mixe in there.

But since it's almost always the case maybe i am am alone on that one.

What do you think ?

I have the Seattle and Berlin books and I can't find it in them. In the sixth world companion book it states you have to spend part of your 50 customization karma on your positive meta type qualities as well as pay the initial cost for that variant and if your meta type has negative qualities you get those bonus karma.

So my question is if you chose elf without six world companion you pay 0 customization karma but if using sixth world companion you would pay 6 karma for low light vision?

Edit: Answered below, thank you!

Attributes in 5E are subject to a maximum +4 augmentation bonus from all sources, including magical sources, unless the rules for the augmentation source specifically state otherwise. Magic is an attribute, albeit a special attribute. Does that mean a power focus, which temporarily increases your Magic rating, cannot increase your Magic rating more than +4 over your natural maximum Magic rating? Or is it different because Magic is special attribute? This is the only focus that increases an attribute and I didn’t read anything saying it’s exempt from the maximum +4 augmentation bonus.

I assume not many people have played with them, but whether you have or not, what is your opinion on special races having their own progression system?

If you do not know how it works, they both have a advancement system similar to initiation where with each Initiation they can select from a list of powers (Shifter are much more restricted than drakes to avoid double dipping into their own advancement system + magic initiation).

I don't know how it was for shifters, but drakes were famously underpowered in previous editions as their "one and done" package in no way justified the karma cost and story problems they have, and having an advancement system makes them much more playable.

On the other hand one can argue that them now being a toolbox robs them a bit of their identity as two shifter or drakes can differ widely from each other.

Do you think this system should be kept for very special races in future editions? Maybe even expanded to give infected a similar system?

Hi, Shadowrun rookie here [with 35 years experience in other RPGs], what are the main differences -- rulewise -- between Shadowrun e5 and e6? I'm more interested in facts than opinions. :) Thanks 🙏

Pegasus Spiele offers a discount of up to 50% for a lot of its German language Shadowrun supplements and adventures. I wonder why? Is there a new edtion in the Pipeline?

I was just watching Freejack which is a favorite cyberpunk movie of mine. So well done. Not many people know about it. Maybe it's better known in the Shadowrun community. What a great cast and concept. Rene Russo, Mick Jagger, Emilio Estevez, Anthony Hopkins, Frankie Faison. Amanda Plummer what a gangster she is. You can tell the writers of the film opened a few Shadowrun books. Grand Bush is definitely a Street Samurai.

And what a coincidence with one of our recent threads concerning immortality in the Shadowrun world. Does anyone else have any favorite cyberpunk movies that they know of? I'd like to know about ones I haven't heard of before. Johnny Mnemonic, Blade Runner come easily to mind, Escape from New York. Bright was a bit on the nose. Although I guess so is Shadowrun at times. Does anyone else have any cyberpunk movies or TV shows that they like?

So a little backstory. I am a huge Shadowrun fan. Don’t play the table top anymore but I play the Genesis game often. I play a lot of board games with my group and wanted to get a Shadowrun board game that would encompass the run aspect.

I bought the expanded edition of Sprawl Ops and my group played it once. It’s worker placement. It’s good, but not what I was looking for.

I bought Takedown because it seemed like what I was looking for and it is. I want to expand on it though. I started by adding the nuyen tokens and doc wagon tokens from Sprawl Ops to Takedown.

I want to also add a HeroQuest Board into the mix. Use the corridors as streets and the rooms as buildings. Use a room as a bar that you meet a Mr. Johnson at. Other rooms as merchants for equipment, weapons, etc. I want to have encounter rolls on each block you move as a team. Kind of like a shady guy trying to sell you something, Lone Star, gang encounter.

So my question would just be if anyone has any suggestions on this for improvement. I know playing the table top would be the easiest suggestion but my group isn’t into that. I love adding stuff from other games.

Mainly aimed at players, how often do you buy a Docwagon (Or equivalent) contract and trust them not to do any funny stuff with the bio sample you have to give them?

Thats probably especially relevant in 6E where Docwagon has been bought by the same company that owns Lone Star.

the group of players including mage has to face a group of opponents lets call them gargoyles who use improved invisibility. how do you treat this? invisibility does not protect against astral perception. but do you have the mage to roll test of astral perception against what? the sneaking skill of gargoyles?

what you as a DM? offer the player to roll this test as soon as he has chance to see the invisible opponent or the player has to guess himself when he has to roll this test?

if they fall to detect invisible enemy does they still have to make reaction+intuition test or they are considered ambushed automatically?

So, lets say some well-connected and informed mage with more hubris than sense (lets say a Black Lodge member or Aztlan board member) found out about immortal elves and said "well that ain't fair, I want to be immortal too". What sort of ways are available to achieve this, especially for someone with more power than morals (which I guess is your average corpo exec)?

I'm guessing one option is becoming a vampire, though the drawbacks are rather significant, and iirc free spirit pacts can make you immortal too (not sure if the spirit can break the pact later though). But are any other options available? Perhaps a blood magic ritual to absorb life force, or even steal immortality from an existing immortal? Similarly, could a Great Dragon make you immortal, if you could somehow convince/blackmail/threaten one into it?

I’m getting back into 5e after years away from the system but i remember Marks really was something that annoyed me. They try to sell hackers as hacking cybereyes in moments but marks prevent that.

Has anyone made rules to do away with marks or convert them somehow? How did it go?

1 - more marks = less penalties (0 marks = -5, 1 mark -3, 2 marks -1, 3 marks = 0)
2 - marks grants bonuses
3 - other?

Thank you in advance.

I recently bought Mean Streets, but so far only managed to skim through it without going it deeply.

My first opinion is quite good, with the caveat that it is very interwoven with the metaplot. Its more of an update on how the unawakening has affected certain gangs, instead of a full complete description of who the Halloweeners are for example, although the brief summary is usually enough to get the general idea of the gang.

There are also several new gangs, including two "do gooder" hooding gangs which might not be to everyones liking, but I don't mind.

You also get the same kind of update on organized crime.

Those two sections are imo rather good. Shadowrun needs more street level stuff.

My only two gripes is that the section about how to ingrain yourself into a squatting community feels a bit not Shadowrun enough. Its hard to explain, the things described like securing water access or stealing seeds for a community garden in times where most seeds are genetically modified to not produce more seeds are things I did not think of before. But it feels a bit too much like "happy community building" without the harshness I expect from Z zones in Shadowrun. Especially when just before you went through all those gangs and crime syndicates.

My other gripe is that around halfway in the book it imo loses focus. It has a miniature Threats section, ranging from street appropriate to might be the next metaplot and finishes with several big players that are imo above street level like yet another writeup of the Draco Foundation (They are really building that one up, aren't they?) and New Assets (A surprising amount of Drake content for a streets book. Which I actually like, please keep remembering that things like drakes, shifters, surged, metasapient, ect. exist and use them, sparringly, in general books instead of keeping them confined in their specific book).

The rules section about magic tattoos even references in its shadowtalk that it was included because it did not fit anywhere else. I did not look to closely at the actual rule Implementation, but honestly the jump from gang culture to special tats is not that big, so it is imo fitting.

So I've been looking at cfd and people living with it, eg the Ai overtaken the body, so leaving the problem of the cyberware clinics not allowing them in

Does a monad have a limit on the amount of cyberware/bioware it could have installed in its body, my thought on this is that it's not a metahuman soul being the limiting factor anymore as the body is controlled directly by the nanomachines

Does anyone have any experience with and/or opinions on the *Shadowrun: Takedown* board game? Catalyst has got it on their website.