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Seven-7
post Sep 6 2007, 01:59 AM
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I recently started the free Missions PDF series on Shadowrun4.com, using the SR3 set but GMing it with SR4 rules (Online its beautiful but...well keep reading). I had four players, mostly D&D'ers with heavy emphasis on RPing. 1 with knowledge of SR3 mechanics (Not as much as myself), 1 with Shadowrun theme knowledge, and 2 with very little. The person with SR3 knowledge (Refered here as 'my wife'), helped one of the 2 with no knowledge (Refered here after as 'WTF'). 2 magicians, 1 street sam, 1 decker/sam. Things were going pretty damn good! The street sam managed to get a higher up-front cost, 1200/runner, but at the cost of a lower at end (2,000/runner). Recon was pretty efficent. It escalated to combat when the street sam got agressive with intimidation. My wife cocked a Stunbolt at Roland, ect. The Spirits popped in to drag roland off, leaving Becky and Besty...And then WTF decided it was awesome time to drop a Neuro-Stun grenade. I warned her heavily that it would A.) Draw unnessacery attention, and B.) Disable her team mates! Her response was that I was preventing her from playing her character and telling her to do, that RP was more important than GM or fun!

I called it a fubar at that point, and I realize that the group probably wont play SR again.


Suggestions my fellow DSers?
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- Seven-7   Straight from the start   Sep 6 2007, 01:59 AM
- - Cthulhudreams   WTF? Take them aside and have a chat about 'co...   Sep 6 2007, 02:06 AM
- - Whipstitch   The issue you have here transcends game systems; i...   Sep 6 2007, 02:07 AM
- - Seven-7   What makes me really mad (Other than the fact that...   Sep 6 2007, 02:11 AM
- - Fortune   It might be that there are other, non-gaming issue...   Sep 6 2007, 02:14 AM
- - It trolls!   Seconding Fortune's statement here. It almost ...   Sep 6 2007, 02:20 AM
- - fistandantilus3.0   I've seen players sabotage games just for shit...   Sep 6 2007, 02:21 AM
- - Doctor Funkenstein   Yeah. There's issues there that have absolute...   Sep 6 2007, 02:22 AM
- - eidolon   Gotta agree with Fortune here. I gamed with a gro...   Sep 6 2007, 02:22 AM
- - Nikoli   I've had this happen. The fire ball aspect tha...   Sep 6 2007, 02:25 AM
- - laughingowl   QUOTE I warned her heavily that it would A.) Draw ...   Sep 6 2007, 02:26 AM
- - Mercer   There's something a friend of mine called the ...   Sep 6 2007, 03:23 AM
- - Aaron   One of the things that sets Shadowrun apart from t...   Sep 6 2007, 11:47 AM
- - Zen Shooter01   The problem isn't Shadowrun, the problem is th...   Sep 6 2007, 01:24 PM
- - deek   If I was GMing this encounter, I would have certai...   Sep 6 2007, 03:52 PM
- - DireRadiant   It's the player, not the game.   Sep 6 2007, 04:03 PM
- - deek   And if the player is just trying to get attention,...   Sep 6 2007, 04:11 PM
- - DireRadiant   QUOTE (Seven-7) I called it a fubar at that point,...   Sep 6 2007, 04:13 PM
- - Moon-Hawk   QUOTE (Nikoli) I've had this happen. The fire ...   Sep 6 2007, 05:38 PM
- - klinktastic   What I would suggest, and Dashifen will agree, bec...   Sep 6 2007, 07:23 PM
- - Buster   You could just go with the Gaming Prime Directive:...   Sep 6 2007, 07:26 PM
- - James McMurray   QUOTE (Buster) You could just go with the Gaming P...   Sep 6 2007, 07:36 PM
- - JBlades   "RP experience" doesn't always mean ...   Sep 7 2007, 08:53 AM
- - Draconis   It sounds like the group IRL needs a neurostun gre...   Sep 7 2007, 09:36 AM
- - AngelisStorm   I'm basically adding more of what almost every...   Sep 7 2007, 10:07 AM
- - Mercer   I'm a pretty solid "Let the dice fall whe...   Sep 7 2007, 11:09 AM
- - Buster   QUOTE (AngelisStorm) I'm basically adding more...   Sep 7 2007, 12:19 PM
- - deek   Well, if she was smiling about it the whole time a...   Sep 7 2007, 02:21 PM
- - nathanross   QUOTE (deek @ Posted on Sep 7 2007, 09:21 AM...   Sep 7 2007, 06:53 PM
- - deek   I've played with good GMs that let the powerga...   Sep 7 2007, 07:15 PM


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