 How did you find your Shadowrun group? |
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 Jun 30 2010, 07:52 PM
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Target  Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 30-June 10 Member No.: 18,771  |
So I'm desperately searching for a Shadowrun group, and I figured you guys would have some good suggestions about where to find one. It seems like most people are playing DnD or WoD instead of running the shadows and that, my friends, is a crime. So here it is; how did you get your group together, and what advice can you give me in getting one together myself?
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Jun 30 2010, 08:06 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 515 Joined: 27-May 10 From: Helios Space Station, L3 solar LaGrange Point Member No.: 18,624 |
All I did was tell my old high school D&D group a couple of shadowrun stories from the game I played in. Once the usual GMs moved for new jobs, I was the only one left with any GMing experience, and SR is the only system that fits with my GMing style thus far.
Check out your local game store, and see if there are any games there or other people looking to play SR. Or, you could convert a group. |
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Jun 30 2010, 08:15 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,000 Joined: 30-May 09 From: Germany Member No.: 17,225 |
When i moved i needed another roleplaying group. So i went online to a rpg-player index. Made an account and quickly found a Vampire group. played there a bit. But then it fell apart. looked up the index again and joined a D&D one (Yeah i know... but i would play nearly ANYTHING). In that group someone bought the 4th edition stuff and another began to open a round for it. He moved away... now i am the GM.
So: Online index. |
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Jun 30 2010, 08:18 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 7 Joined: 30-June 10 Member No.: 18,771 |
QUOTE (Summerstorm @ Jun 30 2010, 12:15 PM)  When i moved i needed another roleplaying group. So i went online to a rpg-player index. Made an account and quickly found a Vampire group. played there a bit. But then it fell apart. looked up the index again and joined a D&D one (Yeah i know... but i would play nearly ANYTHING). In that group someone bought the 4th edition stuff and another began to open a round for it. He moved away... now i am the GM. So: Online index. Where did you find the online index? |
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Jun 30 2010, 08:21 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: 28-November 09 From: In ur ba5e, killin' ur d00dz. Member No.: 17,910 |
My first group was one that I chanced across. Long story. But in short, "Oh thank heaven, for 7-11."
That groups is probably still together, but I moved away. I'm making a full on poster for my local game store. Should be able to attract some players this way. |
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Jun 30 2010, 08:22 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 165 Joined: 3-March 09 From: A top-secret federal party facility. Member No.: 16,929 |
This should have been a "check all that apply" poll. My regular gaming group has 2-3 original members who have played RPG's since 1997, and we started on SR2... however, I had to pitch SR4(a) to them and the new guys so that we could get away from the D&D.
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Jun 30 2010, 08:29 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,748 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Good ol' Germany Member No.: 7,015 |
I'm playing SR for about 20 Years ,so I guess a Group has been there all the Time.If one Group dissolves,I'll start another One.I'm lucky to live in Düsseldorf(Ruhrgebiet,close to Cologne)
which is kinda the Center of RPG in Germany.I have a Pool of about 20 Roleplayers in different Groups (2 x SR4A,Deadlands,Traveller,D&D3.x ) He who dances with a lot of Fellow Players Medicineman |
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Jun 30 2010, 08:31 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 515 Joined: 27-May 10 From: Helios Space Station, L3 solar LaGrange Point Member No.: 18,624 |
Even if you can't find a whole group right away, go ahead and try to find one or two people who like/play SR. They'll probably know others that are interested, or they'll be able to convert their friends.
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Jun 30 2010, 09:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 359 Joined: 10-June 10 From: Renton--metas keep out Member No.: 18,684 |
When I was in high school I would spend my lunch periods in a sympathetic teacher's classroom so I could read in peace and not be bothered with anything dumb like "socializing" or "not being a loner." One day a fellow student came to talk to the teacher while I was reading, noticed me reading one of the SR novels, and struck up a conversation because he had been a fan of the Secrets of Power trilogy. I had a bunch of books but no group; he had a group but none of the books.
With our powers combined...! |
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Jun 30 2010, 09:37 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 125 Joined: 21-March 10 From: Denver, CO Member No.: 18,325 |
You could start by searching the GM/Player Registry forum for something in your area. Don't forget that by default only stuff 30 days old or less is shown (there's a drop down at the bottom to change that).
As for me, I was in my local game store when a few guys were talking about starting another SR group. I threw my hat in and rolled up a character. |
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Jun 30 2010, 09:47 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 325 Joined: 18-January 09 From: Middle of Nowhere Member No.: 16,788 |
hi hi
I didn't, it found me. |
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Jun 30 2010, 09:57 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 45 Joined: 6-March 10 From: San Fernando Valley, PCC Member No.: 18,250 |
My D&D group was getting burnt out on playing every weekend, but didn't want to only play twice a month. So we decided to each suggest a new RPG game.
I went with Call of Cthulhu, other games were Mutants and Masterminds, Arduin and Shadowrun. We finally ended up playing a different game each weekend, with one game "on hiatus". Grexul |
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Jun 30 2010, 11:18 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 19-May 10 From: Melbourne, Australia Member No.: 18,592 |
I saw one of my friends on face book announcing he was reading up on the rules for Star Wars anniversary edition. I wanted to get into RPGing and offered my services as a player. I joined the group and we ended up going from Star Wars, to D&D4, now to Shadowrun 4, and we're about to start Savage Worlds in a steampunk genre.
I also tried a couple of web sites like http://www.meetup.com/. I've had numerous offers from this site, but after I found my group. |
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Jul 1 2010, 09:43 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 5 Joined: 11-August 09 Member No.: 17,496 |
My Ex startd playing as he had played years before. The only reason I joind was to make up the numbers and now i'm hooked. When we broke up a year later he got the books but I got the team now three years on I still play, me and my current partnr take turns to GM campaigns.
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Jul 1 2010, 10:15 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 372 Joined: 2-March 10 Member No.: 18,227 |
My group plays games.
We play Shadowrun 4e, Warhammer 3e, D&D 4e, Exalted 2e, C&C, and we're looking forward to playing Eclipse Phase, Savage Worlds EE, and Paranoia. It's not "my shadowrun group", but it is my group, and we do play shadowrun (sometimes). |
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Jul 1 2010, 10:15 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 332 Joined: 15-February 10 From: CMU Member No.: 18,163 |
Started a D&D 3.5 group when I got to college, wanted to try something new so I convinced them to switch to SR.
Getting a good group is more important than what game you play. |
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Jul 1 2010, 10:25 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,026 Joined: 23-November 05 From: Seattle (Really!) Member No.: 7,996 |
QUOTE (kjones @ Jul 1 2010, 02:15 PM) Getting a good group is more important than what game you play. Agree totally, we play Shadowrun, Eclipse Phase, Fengshui, and very occasionally cancer causing d20 Games. Sometimes we don't end up playing at all and just get together and eat pizza and drink beer Most of the group I've know a very long time, one member I connceted with on this very forum, and we have one member one of the original players pulled out of another group he plays in. In the time we've been playing we've had people come and go and rejoin (sometimes multiple times) but it keeps on rolling |
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Jul 1 2010, 10:54 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,095 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Seattle Wa, USA Member No.: 1,139 |
Its a mix, my current group is part my old Vampire group part people we found online.
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Jul 1 2010, 11:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 427 Joined: 24-June 09 From: Earth...I hope... Member No.: 17,317 |
I play a lot of different games with my friends...so whenever someone wants to try something new like Dark Heresy or CthulhuTech everyone usually climbs on board. In my experience, if you have a group of players for a different game, just try and convince them to play a test run with premade characters to see if they like it or not. And I say premade characters because if they are new to the game, they would probably rather see how it plays rather than get into the nuances of player creation.
If that doesn't work, go hire some hobos... |
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Jul 1 2010, 11:33 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 17-August 09 Member No.: 17,514 |
I found them.
I trained them. I built them from the ground up. |
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Jul 2 2010, 12:04 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,263 Joined: 4-March 08 From: Blighty Member No.: 15,736 |
It's simple. I moved in with them.
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Jul 2 2010, 01:49 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 20-June 06 Member No.: 8,753 |
I talked my group of AD&D players into giving it a shot. They seem to really like it so far. Only one pc death thus far.
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Jul 2 2010, 02:35 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 411 Joined: 10-June 09 From: Minneapolis, MN Member No.: 17,268 |
Pressed null vote on accident. Oops. I got a bunch of my college buddies to play. Only three, my best friend from high school (only other male in the group), one of our mutual friends from back then, and a linguistics classmate, had ever done tabletop before, but the others, an English major girl from the anime club and her art student roommate, and another linguist chick, all were totally new. Which was a bit of a learning curve, but I think it was good because they had pretty fresh conceptions and ideas of the whole thing.
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Jul 2 2010, 02:46 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 748 Joined: 22-April 07 From: Vermont Member No.: 11,507 |
A guy I've known since Cub Scouts and I started playing AD&D in Middle School. In 1989 we were at the same college and started a group that rotated through AD&D 2nd Ed., Star Wars d6, and Shadowrun. Four of us from that college group still game regularly.
My other weekly group is guys I met at the local gaming store after college. |
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Jul 2 2010, 02:58 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,290 Joined: 23-January 07 From: Seattle, USA Member No.: 10,749 |
My friends started playing D&D back when people were fighting over what was better, 1st or second edition. around '06 we started experimenting with other systems, Shadowrun was one of the first we tried. Still one of the best
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