Recruiting for an online SR4 game, runs Thursdays, 9 PM till 2 AM EST, via OpenRPG. Options

[ShadowDragon8685]

Is anyone interested in a Run being run by a new DM with at least two new PCs?

[Guest_Anaro_*]

Could be fun, since I have a feeling that my days of tabletop gaming will be put on indefinite hiatus very soon. Anymore details?

[Unrest]

Itching hard to try out sr4 and all I can find are message board games, which I hate. Anymore information about this campaign? House rules? Special request?

[JonathanC]

Color me interested. :)

[Wandering_D]

I live in Arlington and would be interested in joining a game within an hour drive. I've got 3rd edition and will probably be ordering a copy of 4th shortly. I'm also not opposed to picking up a copy of another system to try.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Perhaps I should've given more details.

The game is played online. The program we're using is OpenRPG

No need to drive anywhere, Wandering D. :)

The game time projected is 9 PM Thursdays, EST. There might be some wiggle of the time possible, but not much. My schedule's kinda messed up.

The setting projected is Seattle, UCAS, North America, Earth, 2070. :)
The ruleset is SR4.
So far we have a Face, a gun-bunny, an Adept of the Magician's Way who literally can't summon to save his life.
Hacker is a role we vitally need filled, Rigger would be nice. Someone who can summon would be handy.

Please, AIM me if you have other questions.

[caramel frappucc...]

I'll cobble together a technomancer and drop it in your PM box by the end of the day.

Edit: Actually, it might take longer than that.

[Guest_Anaro_*]

Check. I'm all over the mage slot. :)

[JonathanC]

Ack...I just checked the gametime again...I won't be able to make that. Sorry.

[caramel frappucc...]

Eh, the time actually isn't that convenient for me either. Perhaps next time.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Oh, I forgot to add.

Character requirements. Besides the "filling the party roles" requirement, I do requite all players to play characters who are generally "good". Nobody who would murder or slaughter indiscriminately, nobody who would kill someone who didn't deserve it, and nobody who's a heartless mercenary. Shadowrunners get Karma, and in my Sixth World, Karma isen't only a measure of your experiance, it's also a measure of what you "have comin' to ya". Characters who're villians get a lot less Karma than characters who're heartless mercenaries, who in turn get a lot less Karma than people who do good deeds as much as is possible.

That's not to say that you're not allowed to be a criminal. Karma won't punish you for bisuness unless your bisuness is outright villiany. You can steal from corps and stuff all you want, and the universe won't bat an eyelid. If you make your living cracking knees for the mob, on the other hand, lady luck will frown upon you.

[Guest_Anaro_*]

Sure thing.

[DarkShadow]

I've got an Orc Hacker that I made awhile ago and never had a chance to use. I would love to join.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Okay. For the record guys, my email may not be the one listed in my profile.

For the record, it's ShadowDragon8685@gmail.com

[Guest_Anaro_*]

Character fired and awaiting commentary. :)

[ShadowDragon8685]

Anaro, I got the character. Do you have AIM, by any hopeful chance? I like him.


Also, the current cast of foo - errr - shadows.

JadeFox/Jax as William Johnson (Yes, his name really is Johnson), British ex-MI-5 PhysAd Face.
TyrantSabre: *As yet unnamed* Mundane Gun-Bunny, ex-Corpsec
Anaro as Profit, human Magician (Hermetic).
DarkShadow as Iggsby Oronle, Ork Hacker.

Additionally, to lighten the load on me considerably, everybody's Fixer contact is the same Ork:

Walter Mitchells, Connection rating 3.

Walter is an streetwise Amerindian ork who specializes in the information brokerage trade. His home is in the Ork Underground, but he makes many daily trips to the city above to conduct his everyday business. He has all the definitive traits of a good fixer: a fast tongue, a quick mind, and contacts up the wazoo. Walter's parents were killed by a violent mob during the Night of Rage and he possesses a special hatred for organizations that advocate racist ideals, such as the Humanis policlub, and will often subcontract runners on his short list to make hits on such organizations, paying for their work with money from his own wallet.

[Guest_Anaro_*]

[ShadowDragon8685]

We're not sure yet. Maybe this week, maybe next week. Maybe later, if something goes catastrophically wrong. Hopefully this week, if I have my crap together.

[ShadowDragon8685]

Another update.





JadeFox/Jax as William Johnson (Yes, his name really is Johnson), British ex-MI-5 PhysAd Face.
TyrantSabre: *As yet unnamed* Mundane Gun-Bunny, ex-Corpsec
Anaro as Profit, human Magician (Hermetic).
DarkShadow as Iggsby Oronle, Ork Hacker.
Who sent me the ork Magician's Way Adept who can't summon? Speak up so I know who you are. :)


Lastly, six is the most I'm willing to DM for. Whomever comes up next needs to be a rigger of some sort.

[Guest_Anaro_*]

I need to make a guy called Johnson Johnson one of these days. He'll be the ultimate corporate middleman for shadow ops.

[Unrest]

[ShadowDragon8685]

okay Unrest. I need your AIM and Email adress. :)

[ShadowDragon8685]

*Ahem.*

After carefully looking over everyone's characters, as-is...

Marcus Rosetti and Ezekiel Reed are not green-lighted.

Both of you have backgrounds as former Matrix kiddies, who Awakened in the aftermath of the crash...

But I'm not seeing any datajacks in your augment list. Ezekial has Essence 6, Marcus has declined to list an Essence rating. I'm not seeing any Otaku or Decker related background or knowledge skills in your lists.


Guys, do you think I was born yesterday? You're not going to use Scorched and a nice background to hoodwink me for some free points. If you'd just come to me with a good BG, I might have awarded bonus points, but this don't fly. You can do better than this.

Go back and fix it. Either fix the backgrounds, or add in the datajacks (or essence holes) you should rightly have, and put in some background skills that would be concomitant with the backgrounds you've wrote.

And remember that Essence and Magic are still connected, even if they're not equal. If you have 6 essence and 5 magic, and install cyber, your magic falls to 4, and your essence to 5.

[Guest_Anaro_*]

Er, if a 5 in Computers Background doesn't qualify as a decker related knowledge skill, I don't know what does. But you're right, I forgot to calculate the essence hole. Hell, it's been so long since I've played an otaku that I forgot that they even needed a datajack to work their stuff. Either way, I was planning on picking up some 'ware first thing in the game anyway, so it's not like it makes a difference.

Then again, if your first reaction to an anomaly is to accuse your players of trying to pull a fast one on you, then maybe this isn't the right game for me. It's been fun, but I'm going to withdraw my character. Good luck to everyone else...I hope you guys have a blast! :)

[ShadowDragon8685]

Well, if you feel that way, sorry to see ya go.

I'm not ranting or raving. I'm saying "caught ya." Yeah, I expect players to try to pull a fast one on me - hell, I try to pull a small fast one now and then, too. I wasen't upset, I was saying "Gotcha."

And I missed that 5 in computers. Oh well.

Looks like we have an opening for a full Magician again. Any more takers?