Shadowrun!

After deeply desiring to learning/becoming good at shadowrun and not seeing any available to join I'm jumping in head first and attempting to start one! It'll be under the "riders of tranquility base" title.

Hopefully very laid back playstyle since I'm both new to the system and the forum, (although I've lurked for quite awhile and am experienced with other RPGS.) maybe posting once or twice a day,

Players will be members of "the lunatics" an outlaw 1% motorcycle club in a very sons of anarchy style game. The activities will be primarily located south of Denver in the NAN with their clubhouse located in the town of Pueblo, which will serve as a stand in for Charming.

Is this 4th edition? If so, how is it different from the 5th?

I would actually prefer 5th edition but its not currently available here for character sheets. It's somewhat similar from what I've read in the core rulebook, but character creation is slightly different. I'll have to look and see if we can maybe use the 4th edition character sheet incorrectly formatted here and just change it when our beloved admin has a chance to add that option. I'd be content doing 4th edition but of course would prefer the more current edition.

Yah, I added 4th way back as that was the version I had on me. I keep meaning to add 5th...

No worries, I know you're a busy guy. It would be nice though, :-)

I would love to play a Shadowrun game. I have both editions, but my 4th edition books is packed down in the basement, but will be no problem to find them if needed :)

Awesome! It'd be easy enough to just go with a form fillable pdf for 5e until we can actually do them onsite, so let's do that.

Anyone have any character concepts? Is the MC appealing to you guys? Or would you rather go with more of a standard team of runners? I'm just deep into watching Sons of Anarchy on Netflix and the whole biker theme has really captured my imagination.

Biker gang works well for me. I was thinking of making a former professional combat biker who were just about to make it big time when he was involved in a match fixing scandal. He was forced to quit, and his ticket out of "thug life" was no more. Since then he's returned to his gang, though not happily.

I like it!

Bump in order to hopefully strike up some interest

Hey! Saw your game on the games list, and couldn't resist clicking apply. I'm a fan of Shadowrun and kickin a$$ in wolfskins and leathers sounds fun.

I'm not sure I'm familiar with what is, though I'm imagining something out of Running Man.

But some kind of bad-ass adept slashing people with a sword as he rides by sounds fun. Or being able to leap off the bike and have some kind of IC (sorry I'm rusty, I forget the specific kind of AI i'm looking for) to navigate the bike to safety without a rider.

Anyway, Thanks for diving in, looks like a fun time.

according to the shadowrun wiki; Combat Biker is an officially non-lethal sport where players, riding bikes, compete in an arena. Cyberware, armor and non-lethal weapons are permitted. (think rollerball, the James Caan version, not the crappy 2001 version)

what kinda biker are you thinking of? combat biker is not necessarily the only thing a member of the club can be,

as opposed to the more well known Denver, here is an article describing pueblo, (the home base of the club) as it exists in the shadowrun setting. while the setting says 2054, we will be playing in 2060. in the Mesa area on the East side.

enjoy reading through it, its a fun and well done read. I myself got quite a kick from seeing places from my old hometown
http://rpg.divnull.com/srun/pueblo/

Yeah I'm thinking an adept biker who would be considered a combat biker, though not necessarily a professional in that he didn't partake in the arena sport. His augmented abilities as an adept would lead him to reckless acts of acrobatics that would probably leave mundane types bleeding out on the pavement.
That article about Pueblo is pretty awesome. Makes me even more excited.

An adept would be awesome! Sorry I haven't responded yet, hadn't seen any response in awhile other than Furmyr and had started to lose heart. Lol.

Yeah I love that article. I was gonna base it out of Pueblo anyway so it'd be close to Denver and just make it myself, but then I googled it for shadowrun and lucked out!

Anyone else? One or two more players would be great but of be happy with a duo,

I'll keep pushing to get you players.

Thanks buddy.

a biker gang? My motorcycle club was almost a Hell's Angel affiliate. This sounds like fun.

I'll find the books, give it a read, and let you know, CC.

Hope I'm not too late on this, but is there still room? If so, any chance I could play a decker or technomancer (I'm not sure techies are still a thing in 5th, I remember them being way more fun than simple deckers in 4th where they were presumably introduced for the first time)?

Okay, I'm seeing a physical combatant (street samurai?) and Deus' Technomancer/Decker.

Is there another class that could round us out? That'll help me focus my reading/learning a little more

If we're good with me playing a tech/deck you could conceivably round us out with a Face or maybe a Rigger. Or a long-range combatant. There are still quite a few options available.

Leaning more towards a Decker than a Tech at the moment, if that's a viable option.

So is the current plan to go with 5e and make it work?

If Furmyr is still wanting in let me know what kind of combat biker your wanting to be, be it street Sam or whatever
Assuming Furmyr is still in, maybe you guys compete as a duo in the arena? Or maybe you compete individually and have a friendly rivalry? Maybe discuss it and see. At any rate, it looks like you two would be the combat focused types, so maybe one of you could e the club's sgt at arms?
Well, my MC and one percenter knowledge is limited to tv, so be patient with my ignorance. I've never ridden anything more than a Schwynn to be perfectly honest, lol. Unless you count equines. At any rate, welcome! Glad to have you!
Either one is perfectly fine. Go for Whichever turns you on :-)

Dunlop, a face would probably be useful, and could act as the club's VP, but there's also rigger, shaman or other magical type too, im not really going to stress over what everyone picks, as long as you all are happy with your PC's. At this point we probably won't be going up against anything too horrifically deadly. Immediately anyhow, mwah ha ha.

I'm pretty green having mostly done D&D or fate, so we can all just figure it out as we go along.
That is indeed the plan, yes.

So that will leave us with Furmyr, indeterminate combat biker, Grendelthebrave, adept combat biker, DeusMalum, Decker, and Dunlop, PC to be determined.

Let's tentatively close it down at 4 runners for now, with the option to include more later once the MC has a few more successful runs. saw that KennyGardnerIII applied, let me hear something from you and ill get you approved making a fivesome.

I will get a few threads going in the main games area, so we can brainstorm backgrounds, character goals, and that kinda stuff. also, go ahead and join the game Grendal and Dunlop.


Thanks for your interest folks, I'm very excited! and Welcome to the Lunatics!

I'll gladly supplement anything you like, but Sons of Anarchy should be helpful enough for the Role Playing. Seasons 1 and 2, mostly.

It sounds like we're pretty battle heavy, so would a Shaman round us out? Im thinking of an old Lakota/Apache caster. Thoughts?

Just don't play a Bug Shaman and we should be fine.

Toxic shaman might also be hard to pull off.

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Im still reading, dudes. I'll have it figured out ASAP.

If you need any help hit me up. I know character creation can be very confusing if you're not familiar with it. You can hit me up on Twitter (@cowboycentaur) or we can do it over Google hangouts if you need to

Making progress on putting my character together. Feel free to approve our application to join whenever you're ready.

Let's move all character chatter over to the Riders of Tranquility Base forum just so I don't miss something in checking in two places.

I can't apply. The game is full, for now

Oop, I'll fix that, sorry.