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[gobogen]

Hello everyone,

I've been playing on these boards for quite a while, then I've stopped, and now I'm back again. (I missed the community)

I have played SR quite a bit, but never as a GM, even though I have been GM'ing f2f in other role-playing games. Now I feel like I'm slightly behind regarding the new rules and the new story, and I will be spending some time re-reading the SR4 Rulebook (I don't have any other source books btw). Nevertheless, I want to try my hand at running an SR game/campaign.

What I want to know is if there would be interest for players to join in a friendly game with a newbie gamemaster like myself.

I would make it the theme of the game: newbies. We'd be playing a few short runs so that I get used to being on this side of running things. To incorporate that, I'd require all runners to be newbies (the players don't have to be, obviously, since more experienced players and GMs would actually be of help). So runners with no running experience whatsoever.

They would be running their first run for a fixer named Sonic, an ex-runner jack-of-all-trades who has just retired and thinks that he can hold his own in the shadow buziness; i.e. a fixer who's a newbie as well. They probably just answered to an ad on the matrix shadowland, met once or twice with Sonic (who will be a free contact), and then received their first call for a job.

Special Rules for Character Concept/Background:
- No running experience, although other experience is just fine of course.
- Limited knowledge of shadowrunning; no fixer, johnson or runner contacts will be allowed for instance.
- No restrictions on the "power-level" of the characters though, just consider that the runners are starting their career in this game.
- Make it very clear how and why you're trying to find work as a shadowrunner.

Character creation will likely be something along the lines of 380 BP.

I expect the game to start the week of February 5, to give me the time I need to refresh my knowledge and think some more about the game. I'll pick the players based on concepts alone (full backgrounds also welcome) and I do not want to receive character sheets (!!). I'll probably take 5 players given enough interest. You can submit in this thread and PMs are fine too. It's not going to be on a first come basis and you have until next Monday to submit character concepts. We will then proceed to the character creation process.

So who wants in?