Shadowrun 4th Ed. IRC/Vent. No longer recruiting. Backup applications always accepted.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Cheers, dudes.

We are actively running around in the shadows. Here's the skinny.

Game - Shadowrun 4th Ed. Official splat books are fine for the most part. Core book races only, however. 400bp

Format - Maptools 1.3.b86 and Vent

Players Wanted - None at the moment, but feel free to show interest. Never know when we'll need replacements.

Experience in system needed - None. Just as long as you have the sourcebook. I've never run a Shadowrun game, so new players will fit right in.

Time / Date - Sunday 5 or 5:30 CST



So there you have it. The base details. Now on to the more titchy stuff.

Roleplayers, apply inside. Power/meta gamers need not. It will very much be a story and player driven campaign. Be prepared to do more than just roll d6 and calculate damage.

I'm new at this, so be prepared for a few sessions worth of fumbling and bumbling.



Alright, let's see if this generates some interest. Feel free to ask questions or what have you.

Cythraul

Oh man, Shadowrun!

Mark me down as heavily interested, the only real issue I have is dedicating specific time. If this were pbp I'd be all over it. Will check and see if I'm able.

Vanguard

I have no ventrillo...

sad face

Cythraul

Vent client is a free download, no? It's only the bigger servers that are paid, at least back when I used to use it a lot.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Yep, free client.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Doot doot doot.

Still need a couple runners. Apply within.

piL

I missed this when it first came up. Shadowrun is one of my favorite RPGs if not my favorite RPG. I usually can't join game, because my schedule changes all of the time except--Sunday is my guaranteed day off as well! I am booked every Sunday between about 5:30 and 7pm, so that might affect things!

What kind of party makeup do you have so far so I can start brainstorming concepts. I'll get down a couple and post them tonight/tomorrow morning to just get some ideas.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Bruiser / Con-man and a shooter so far. I'd discourage a driver just because vehicles wont play a large part.

Captain Carrot

Oh, you already have a muscleman? Shame, I've been wanting to play a big hulky troll for a while. Guess the group still needs magic and hacking, though.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Muscle away, looking over the sheet again, he's actually a shooter with some unarmed backup.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Oh, so what's a good character sheet? I know mythweavers has one. Anything out there better than that?

cj iwakura

I'm not familiar with maptools, but I do have a 4e book to put to use, so tentative interest.


I could do a Face-ish character.

Hensler

I've use Vent before, but not maptools, but I'm interested. What is maptools?

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Maptools is a free virtual tabletop program. Download version 1.3.b87 here.

It handles dice rolls, tokens etc etc. The dm can upload maps, or, if he's a noob like me, he can sketch on it to show you layouts.


As for character sheets, it looks like I'll be using Myth Weavers. Having online, editable sheets means we can track things on the fly and it makes reference easy.

For those looking to make math a bit easier, Chummer's character generator is pretty decent and is very up to date. Download available here.

Hensler

Okay, I'm in . I've played Shadowrun before, but never 4E. Let me look over the player book, and I'll decide on a character.

Captain Carrot

Okay, I'm going to go with Jack, the burly troll, who went to college on a combined wrestling/weightlifting scholarship (because football is cliche) (also he doesn't like it), barely managing to get a degree in Psychology. When do you want character sheets, Thelonius?

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Before the weekend if you can swing it.

piL

Playing with mage and hacker concepts. Is there one you'd rather have between the two? Also curious about racial makeup of the party.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

I honestly don't have a preference. Whatever sounds like the most fun to you is the best option.

Party makeup looks like troll, human, ? so far.

cj iwakura

Elf or Human, tentatively.

Hensler

I'm going to go with a male human street samurai. Mostly based off the sample character in the 4E book, since I haven't played this addition before. Will post my sheet tonight.

Crimsondude

Hm. I may get in on this. I want to build up some RP experience with my Missions street sam in case I get to go to Gen Con.

The numbers won't carry over, but it should be fun considering the last time I played him I was surgical with an underbarrel grenade launcher.

Captain Carrot

Thelonius, can you get on #criticalfailures tomorrow at noon to help me finish up my character? I've done most of it, but I'm a little hazy on skills and equipment, and I have a hundred build points left.

Salvation122

Captain Carrot wrote: »

Thelonius, can you get on #criticalfailures tomorrow at noon to help me finish up my character? I've done most of it, but I'm a little hazy on skills and equipment, and I have a hundred build points left.

As someone with a fair amount of experience in SR4E, assuming you've got your stats, skills, and requisite gear already taken care of, there are a few things it's ALWAYS good to have that new players overlook:

1): Doc Wagon contract.
2): A couple of burner SINs.
3): MOAR CONTACTS.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Captain Carrot wrote: »

Thelonius, can you get on #criticalfailures tomorrow at noon to help me finish up my character? I've done most of it, but I'm a little hazy on skills and equipment, and I have a hundred build points left.

I'm at work until 3 cst. If you have steam or google chat I can pop on and off those around noonish.
Steam - talon valdez
Google shufflewriter@gmail

Captain Carrot

Mythweavers doesn't do Shadowrun 4E.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Ah, well that blows. Alright, well. I suppose we won't use that then. Heh.

Hmm, alright I guess just pop it up here for now.

Melding

Wait, who is the second person? i assume you meant me for the brawler no wait shooter slash con man, but who is the other one?

A Dabble Of Thelonius

That was a buddy of mine in the real physical world, but he has dropped out like a rat fink.

Melding

well, dang.

Crimsondude

If you have a PC, you could also try the Hero Lab demo (there are ways to print up the sheet with it). I've heard a lot of good things about Chummer.

OR toss it up here. I use a Mac, so I have to double-check everything by hand unless my filthy PC-using cohorts. But as far as I know, my characters haven't been broken except when I added up some adept powers incorrectly for Nadja Daviar (I should errata that) because I have to check every damn thing by hand. I spent eight hours straight running the numbers in Excel to get Hard Exit's stats done, for example, so I like to think I know a thing or two.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Chummer is nice, and free. It's like Hero Labs ugly brother. Very utilitarian. Hero Labs is amazing, but it costs actual money.


I'm pretty surprised mythweavers doesn't have a 4E sheet. I'd just like everyone's sheets to be in the same format so I can find things easily. Casting about for the best way to do that. All suggestions are welcome.

Captain Carrot

Well, for now, here are Jack's stats:

Spoiler:

troll

40 bp

7 bod
4 agi
6 rea
9 str
2 cha
2 int
2 log
4 will
7 ini

200 bp 12 knowledge points

Guts
High Pain Tolerance 2
Toughness
25 bp

Allergy to booze common mild 10
Gremlins
SINner 5
20 bp

Athletics 4
Unarmed Combat 6 (Martial Arts 2)
Influence 3
Clubs 2
First Aid 2

112 bp

Knowledge
Psychology 2
Individual analysis 2
Biology 1
Physiology 2
Whittling 2
Rock-climbing 2
Matrix games 3

12 bp (free)

Jumpsuit 6 ballistic 6 impact 500
Spiked gloves (str/2+2) 200
Middle lifestyle (5000/month)

9 bp 45,000

Coach Andrew Feldspar, C 3 L 5
Ms. Joann McGregor, occasional employer, C 5 L 2
Freddie, sparring partner, C 2 L 5
Pat Somers, trainer and physician, C 3 L 3
Kevin, father, C 2 L 6

36 bp

400 bp total

Background and such:

Spoiler:

Jack Demera is a powerfully-built man, not least because he's a troll. His high school had an active wrestling program, and he was feverishly recruited for it by the coach, who didn't have anyone in his weight class. Jack's immense strength made him quite successful, and though he wasn't too terribly quick on his feet to start with, a few months of training made him fairly agile. He's also not terribly bright, but he's not exactly a meathead, just not too clever. An upstate college offered him a full ride in exchange for being on the wrestling and weightlifting teams; given his smarts, his dad jumped at the chance. After talking with their coach, Andrew Feldspar, Jack decided to major in Psychology—after all, in order to defeat a wrestling opponent, you have to get into his head a bit, and read his body language. He was no star academically, as mentioned before, but he managed to scrape through, with some intervention from his coach to assign him projects suited to his talents, though no less challenging.

After graduating, he struggled for work a bit, the business world being less kind than academia. However, after his dad had a major accident, he pleaded with his coach for help, and Feldspar found an employer for him, who sometimes needed a bit of muscle, Ms. Joann McGregor. In exchange for his services, Ms. McGregor paid for all of his father's medical bills, and even hired Jack out to her friends so he could have some variety. Not all of these projects were above-board, and Jack became used to crossing the tracks occasionally, as it were.

In his spare time, Jack enjoys sparring at the local gym, whittling, rock-climbing, and Matrix games, particularly shooters—he doesn't use a gun on the job, but he likes to pretend every once in a while.

Crimsondude

The MW "Shadowrun" sheet is 4E.

Anyway, I'll take a look at your sheet in a while.

godmode

I am interested! What do I need to do?

Crimsondude

@Captain Carrot

Okay, quick rundown on Jack.

Attributes:
Jack has 215 BP worth. I assume it's because you forgot that sixth point of Agility costs 25 BP, not 10.

I'd recommend ditching the sixth point, and put those last 10 BP into Body since you're guy is clearly a bruiser. Or add it to Intuition to keep the 7 Initiative.

You didn't spend any BP on Edge, so you only have Edge 1.

Skills:
I count 88 BP spent on Active Skills, and 16 BP on Knowledge Skills. 104 Total. Unless the 12 free BP on Knowledge Skills hasn't been spent yet. Then I'm an idiot, but then the current BP cost rises to 116. Not 112.

Note whatever his Native language is.

Total BP:
The values you have add up to 402. Currently I have you at 384.

Att: 190
Skills: 104 (88+16)
Qualities: 5
Contacts: 36
Resources: 9
Meta: 40

A Dabble Of Thelonius

godmode wrote: »

I am interested! What do I need to do?

First take off your pants. Now send Keith a messa wait no that's wrong.

Make a runner!

If you're new to Shadowrun, I highly recommend downloading the demo version of Hero Lab, it makes character creation easy peasy.

I'm headed out the door to work, but I'll be on Steam this afternoon and we can chat over tea and buns.

godmode

Alright. I should be online ~4 EST and later. Steam name is in my profile.

SkyCaptain

Color me interested if there's still room or if applications are still open.

godmode

So, SkyCaptain.

We meet again.

A Dabble Of Thelonius

Applications are still open, always good to to have numbers.