Why do you it?, Shadowrunning that is? Options

[iPad]

It was my first serious serious role playing, but Ive played alot of systems and settings since then, I stay because it has a fantastic background and good rules.

Also what do you enjoy most about playing the game?

I love the actual roleplaying, interacting in the setting and fights and activities that use the setting or environment well, ie. good planning, good fight tactics and pulling the mission off in a clever way. Im so not interested in fight after fight just rolling dice against npcs.

[Fix-it]

The background, LOTS of source material, and yet plenty of room to improvise.

I have an evil mind.

And FASA rocked my socks.

[Wounded Ronin]

Because it's one of the few games where if you shoot someone they might actually die. Unlike that bullcrap D20 where you're almost impervious to bullets if you're "high level". It's like, WTF.

[iPad]

[Kagetenshi]

Background, background, background. A system I can wrap my brain around but that doesn't coddle the user. Just enough ability to be a super-character to feel badass, but not enough to actually be impervious. Background. The rules having resisted the urge to unify mechanics so that decking, rigging, magic, and combat all feel different instead of just being "well, they're really different but we treat them in exactly the same way but <handwave>they're still really different</handwave>".

~J

[Shrapnel]

Guns, guns, guns... Need I say more? 8)

[iPad]

Who voted :Its just ONE of the MANY games I play?

Smithers release the hounds!

[HMHVV Hunter]

[Thanos007]

Classles System. 'Nuf said!

Thanos

[akarenti]

My gaming group started with CCGs. Then we saw an ED rules primer in InQuest magazine, and thought it looked kinda neat. We played ED for about 6 years, and then we all kind of went our separate ways.

I started looking at SR after FASA stopped ED. (LRGames tries hard, but the products just aren't as appealing, for some reason). SR was awesome. It was like all the stuff ED had, but in a setting an actual person could relate to (moreso than ED, at least). Plus simple combat doesn't take 3 hrs! So I got the boys back together and we started Shadowrunning. The reactions varied, but were positive. Everything from "So, Your saying that racoons can give me magical power?" to "So You can just slice off your arms and replace them with machines? I would so do that in real life, as soon as the technology makes them as good as real arms..." to as simple as "I like how we don't just fight in combat; we actually do things."

Shadowrun=fun good times.

[Solstice]

It's not D20

oh and I'm a gun nut.. :grinbig:

[draco aardvark]

Shadowrun has a really amazing setting, and a nice system for chucking dice. It's not silly like d20. It's more exact than whitewolf, which is sometimes better and sometimes worse, but the setting is so different that there's plenty of room for both in my free time :-)

[Hero]

Guns, and the fact that your character actually has to fear something even when a fully seasoned runner, D20 tries to do that but it really does not work out. Besides, I like a game where you don't get penalized just for having quote "Evil" intentions, SR makes it quite relative to the person or organization.

[Bob the Ninja]

Cybernetic Troll Ninjas. 'Nuff said.

[Grinder]

Orks as characters. Classless.
The setting is just awesome - you could everything you want, from eco-terrorists to usual shadowrunners (sinless or ocean's eleven-style) to spec op-teams or even a completly magical group, hunting spirits.

And it's linked with EARTHDAWN (greates rpg ever). :)

[Sokei]

I love the background, and the fact that its NOT D20!

I personally hate the D20 "im a god" game play. Shadowruns system is much easier to run , the only complaint ive ever had in SR from someone who plays those "other games" was about the "magical" weapons not really being as badass as he thought they should be.

[Botch]

Err, its ONE of MANY games, but where else are trolls a decent classless PC race in an amazingly rich game world? :)

[Bigity]

Magical weapons kick ass. They just don't kick so much ass against mundanes as opposed to spirits or astral things.

FASA rocked my socks. Renegade Legion, BattleTech, Shadowrun...come on.

[draco aardvark]

[Fortune]

[Whizbang]

Though I play just about any game I can find a GM for (I've only found one Shadowrun game online yet, and that only lasted 3 sessions), I do love the background of Shadowrun. It gives you a bit more information to build character backgrounds off of, rather than just having a bunch of stats that alot of my D&D characters wind up being.

For a change you actually get 'experience' for not killing stuff, taking the diplomatic route out. Which is good, as in the circle I play with (I wish Shadowrun was easier to teach others who don't have the books...), I wind up being the party diplomat and voice of reason. I prefer to take the stealthy or diplomatic approach.

Unless you're using crazy build rules, you shouldn't be able to create a character to take on an entire army...even if it's just made of goblins, by yourself. Having a party that just mowed down my army of goblins kinda soured me on GMing D&D.

[Kagetenshi]

Where else do you have trolls as a decent PC race, no classes, exploding six-sided dice, two publishers whose commonly-used names have both started with "fa", have a guy named Mulvihill, and have a community named Dumpshock containing the irresistably sexy Adam?

~J

[Whizbang]

[Fortune]

Well, I can't say it's my least favorite WW game (that would be Wraith), but it runs a close second.

[iPad]

Im still the only person who voted "Its Earthdawn meets the Jetsons" :( I play both regulary and they both compliment each other, one for hack and slash the other for guns and modern jokes.