Shadowrun

[Lotofsnow]

Anyone else here have the opportunity to play the tabletop game?

I played regularly starting last Fall, took a break to play D&D Next playtest, then Pathfinder. Luckily, I got a great fix playing 20 hours at Gen Con. Starting up the regular game again in 2 weeks with my mage/sniper. I'll be running a few missions in about four months.

It is a great game. Part of it is the people I play with really get into it, but the system and the world are incredibly rewarding. I think I might like it more than D&D (thought fantasy rpgs will always have a place in my heart).

[TheTick]

I've, technically speaking never played at an actual tabletop.  The next time I gather with my online buddies from the other forums I frequent I probably will, though.  I may have seen the SNES game at one point, but it didn't get my attention, really.

[Lotofsnow]

Yeah, the SNES game is a weak representation, from what I understand. The Xbox game barely resembles the real thing. You should definitely play the tabletop game if you get the opportunity.

[Lotofsnow]

Stuff like what happened last night is why Shadowrun is tough to make in video game form.

Our team got a job to bust into a mansion in Redmond and take out these paramilitary militia dudes. The creepy elf who hired us gave us a sort of magic calling card and wanted us to place it on the foreheads of each of the guys we kill. Apparently it magically attributes the job to him or something. Seemed like a simple wetwork type of job: bust in, shoot up the joint, leave, profit.

Problem was, based on attendance, we didn't really have the best team to perform a straight shootout. Our street samurai (combat specialist) had to duck out early, leaving us with my mage/sniper, our hacker, and our elf/dryad faceman. Luckily, we had a week to plan and prepare.

We checked out the joint. It was a large, brick mansion that had been turned into a fortress: sandbags, machine gun nests, the whole package. Not ideal for a frontal assault. The job was extremely well-paying though, so definitely merited some lateral thinking.

That's when our faceman remarked to our hacker: "It would be cool if you could just hack a jetliner and crash it into the building."

And that is what we did. After about 5 days of hacking and prep, our hacker was able to nab an empty jetliner from the Federated Boeing airfield in Seattle and instruct its pilot program to land it directly in the militia mansion. Granted, it wasn't quite as easy as it sounds. The hacker actually almost died in the process, but, overall, it went off without a hitch. As a bonus, we were even able to pin the accident on a biker gang that had been going out of its way to annoy the hell out of us.

After it was all said and done, I did my part in summoning a spirit of air to take the magic calling card down to the ruins and, as we were instructed, place it on whatever heads it could find. Mission accomplished.