Welcome aboard Titus, Ghostmaker and tifunkalicious.

Sorry it took awhile for me to revisit this thread. Real life an all that.

My first post! I have played all versions of Shadowrun all the way from 1st through to 3rd edition, then a long break. I have just recently purchased 4th edition, and convinced my poor players to try it. Getting a DnD freak to understand that a .45 can actually hurt (or should that be kill) a mage has been immensely pleasurable!

Dude . . you have to be . . like . . old O.o
Welcome aboard, have fun tormenting players who think mages are the end all be all ^^

That I may be! But I've got a lot of carbon stored in some very old books!

Conspiracy X: Welcome to Dumpshock! Please see my PM.

Obligatory newb post:

It was on a Boy Scout camping trip circa 1990. Not really "camping", as we, my troop and another, were all staying in a cabin. All we knew of the other troop was that they also Primarily used scouts as a method for organized D&D playing in the wilderness. All of those merit badges were secondary compared to my elven fighter/thief leveling up.

But this night, we would not play D&D. Our senior scout (Eagle Scout, and usual DM) had this one new game with him, and wanted to run it: Shadowrun. And I know exactly what hooked me; it was looking over all of the archetype's pictures, and realizing that they were awesome.

I played the decker that night -- named him Lotus after the spreadsheet program. It was my first exposure to the cyberpunk genre as a whole, and it took some adjusting ("the Attack utility doesn't work when I'm not jacked in?"), but it became our game.

I can remember the milestones: when the Street Samurai Catalog came out, and we were forbidden from buying things from section 3. When they updated the rules for autofire so that you didn't have to make a separate roll for every single bullet you fired (was that in the Rigger Black Book?). Jumping on the bioware bandwagon when Shadowtech came out -- everyone had a suprathyroid gland from there on out.

And so on.

By the time 4th edition came out, my SR group had dispersed and my attempts to get pbem versions running were futile. Bought the main book and Runner Havens, but have had to curtail my purchases until I find another group...

Welcome to the fold, wilver. If you haven't checked out the GM/Player Registry section, you should give it a look. You might have some luck finding people in your area.

Ah, probationary status. That's why all the limitedness is about-- I should pay more attention to things. So newb question, once again because I don't read enough-- is there a section outlining how one gets involved/creates a character/signs up for the IC portion of the site?

Just post in the recruiting or ooc thread.

Muchos gracias, senor administrator. Would you like to purchase some Viagra?

Here is the real question though: What should I do if I'm a spambot that has gained sentience? Is it specist (specie-ist?) if you're not really a biological species?

Inquiring minds* want to know.


* And by "Inquiring minds" I mean "I just like being a smart-ass."

I'm still trying to figure out if you're all just figments of my imagination or not.

Yo Toloran! Welcome.

i am a spam bot.


eeep, ark, ork, uh ah!

Goodday chummers- Naga-nuyen here in west Seattle. Spent about 8 years in the Army and was medically retired about two years ago. We use game mostly D&D in the sand box, and i did allot of play in Korea. I loved shadowrun back in the early 90's but lost track of it over the years....But needed to jump into some hobbies to help get healthy again so i a turning back to gaming.

At the moment i play a naga street shaman, who is corp raised and decided to split when they passed the recent laws about sapient rights, and am excited to learn the rules and do some runs. After awhile i will create my own campaign and play a large plot line that includes some materials from when i gamed in earthdawn in high school. I will link this through some corps, different secret organizations, and tap in several shadowrun groups and individual NPC that i am creating now. I like games that are heavy plot oriented, using combat to move the game along.

Interested in any GM's plans on zero zones, Corp security, boarder security, FRT teams...and how you run them. I have some insight in small unit tactics, and i am afraid that i may make things to lethal for any runners. So before i have fully detailed floor plans, individual guards with background stories, and generally build off that level of detail i need an idea of what is too much for Corp/individual security price tags to handle?

Oh man, I wish I'd seen this sooner. I've been lurking and lurking and struggling to find places where I have anything useful at all to say, when really all I have to say is...


PANTS!


Anyway, I'm very new to both Shadowrun and this style of gaming. I'm currently in a run being GMed by Doc Chase, and since everyone in the run is talking about 'blah blah this thing I read on Dumpshock' I signed up, but I don't usually have much to say. If any of the mods were at the GenCon "Whose Run" event, I am the camo-wearing lady from the front row and totally responsible for "Space octopus!"

See? Not a spambot.

That's Eclipse Phase, not Shadowrun.

Minor details.

I'm not selling Viagra, I'm selling BTL chips.....any takers? Its real wiz stuff, Chummer.

I know, and it only came to mind because I'd played Eclipse Phase just the day before and was unable to think up something appropriately Shadowrun that wasn't also very specific to our campaign. *shrug*

What's your discount?

First times free, ya know. I'll let you know how much the next time you come back.

Ohter spambots offer me at leat 90% off, you know?

They are not selling the wiz stuff, chummer... I am.

You better watch what you get off the spambots, last time I checked they carry trip tracers.

Oh I do wish I'd spotted this earlier! I did look for an introduce yourself thread, I swear, but now I've found it:

I'm Thad, mostly known as codemonkey_uk online. I'm a long time RPGer, starting with Heroquest in my teens, Warhammer, ADnD, more recently Delta Green and Dragon Warriors. I've just started SR4 (with the DG/DW group) and it's my turn to GM. I've GM'd in the past, but it's been a while, and the whole group is green to Shadowrun.

So far I'm enjoying the game, it seems quite rules-heavy and has what feels like a pretty horrendous learning curve.

I found Dumpshock looking for source materials and advice for SR4 noobies, so far I'm very impressed by the active and friendly community you've got here.

Anyway. I am not a spam bot.

Might as well introduce myself

I've been drooling over my shadowrun books for the last couple years but have not got any real play out of them yet.

The only other thing for me to report is that I am a socio-linguist and as will consider all posts as data.

The Shuhite

How much discount are you offering?

No discounts, just free samples for first time customers ...

Hey, Drekface, are you trying to muscle in on my customers?

Grymjack, codemonkey_uk, both off probation

So first dose from grymjack, second from codemonkey and then the rest from the other sellers who offer the good discount(min 90%)

Why would you go to a Eurotrash Fixer, when you can come to a Southern Good ole Boy? I have everything you need. My BTLs come from all across the globe. I even have this one where a hot latina does this crazy thing with her........well mi amigo, you'll just have to try it out.

Hey everyone, I'm Shecky. Still trying to learn the SR4 system a bit. I'm running a game in Northern IL. Got a chance to meet some of you all at Gencon!

New to SR, but I am jumping in with both feet. It looks like you have a good group of people on this board and look forward to learning a great game.

Welcome to dumpshock.

And welcome The Shuhite.

(DR must have missed you... )

I have bad aim.

Hello, my name is Garvel and I am not a spambot.

I hope that was convincing enough.

I play SR since the 3rd Editon

Hey folks. Not a spam bot. Hoping to reach a chummer on here who runs games on thursdays. Hoping to be verified as not some malware before then.

Hello All,
I'm John, i've been playing and GMing Shadowrun since 1E. Just got back into it as one of my players wants to run it as an alternate to our D&D game. I've never played 4E and haven't picked up the books yet, but they're on my list.

Garvel, Almost Normal and rock N roll, welcome to DS.

psst... wait till they give out discounts!

Hello, I'm Paul Kauphart (and no, this is not my real name), and I know SR since the 3rd Ed, though I never had the opportunity to try that edition. Played the 4th a couple of time until my group scattered all throughout France at the end of our studies.

Have to say I'm impressed by the dumpshock community, hiding a flood topic under the excuse of introducing new members... I like it

Hey Folks,

Been purusing these boards for a long time now, and get alot of use out of them - great resource. I've just kicked off an SR3 campaign after about four years on other stuff and decided to spark up my old account. Oddly enough the log in had forgotten my previous account but remembered my email address, making it a real pain to reregister (wonder if there's someone I can talk to about fixing that?).

Anyway, as I said, I'm running a metaplot-heavy, character-driven SR3 game with only 2 players, but it's been working out pretty well so far!

Oh! And I'm not a spambot! Nice to meet you folks!

Askani'son

Welcome back Askani'son. Send me a PM with your old account name and I'll see if there's anything to be done.

proof!

Wah, I'm no SpamBot, honest! But the Computer is my friend. (Paranoia, anyone?)

Anyway, hello and all that shiz, I'm looking for runners for a game I want to run online - see my post in the GM/Players Registry..

Cool runnings.

Hello, I'm not a spambot, I played a little SR4 in college a few years ago, but only oneshots. Last origins me and some friends did SR Missions and it was really fun.

So far I've only played stealth/shooter characters as I have yet to attempt the Matrix or Magical rules. I've played plenty of D&D, HERO and other game systems.

I didn't even realize there was a probation until I read this thread.

I am not a spambot.

I am the only member of the 2007 GenCon Shadowrun Tournament team to show up and receive our prize!