24 Views of Shadowrun

last updated Tue Dec 27 04:41:20 UTC 2011

There's something about Shadowrun that I like a lot, but it's not its mechanics. So here are various works-in-progress to adapt other mechanics to the Shadowrun-like setting I enjoy running, which is closer to "Ghost in the Shell with Shinto as written by Sean Stewart" than what FASA/Fanpro/Catalyst write about.

I enjoy hearing feedback, comments, suggestions, and questions so feel free to email any of that to cdr AT telemancy.com.

• Runners in the Shadows adapting Dogs in the Vineyard. Run twice with iffy results; I need to figure out what to do in Chargen to give the bias towards action that Dogs gets by having its PCs be the Hand of God.
• Don't Lose Your Edge adapting Don't Rest Your Head. Run twice very successfully.
• Umbra adapting Agon (needs a better title). First playtest 10/18, needs work.

Paul Strack was joking at the October 4 Endgame minicon that they should hold a minicon where ALL the games are Shadowrun, using different systems. In that spirit, here are my 24 Views of the Hokusai Run:

• Shadowrun 1e (I ran a lot of this, back in the day)
• Shadowrun 2e
• Shadowrun 3e
• Shadowrun 4e (with free quick start rules)
• Feng Shui (been there)
• Torg (done that)
• Shadowring (and this. very deadly) using Legend of the Five Rings.
• Runners in the Shadows (DitV)
• Don't Lose Your Edge
• Umbra (Shadowrun Agon)
• The Mountain Witch Run (run as The Fujiyama Run 2042 at GPNW 2009)
• Committee for the Explanation of How Our Shadowrun Went Down
• XXXtreme Street Run
• Sorceror
• Best Friends in the Shadows
• Burning Shadows (which I hear Kristin and Shaun of This Modern Death podcast are working on)
• Shadow Bliss Stage
• Prime Time Adventures
• Octane
• InSpectres
• Spirit of the Shadows (or some flavor of FATE)
• Cat
• The Shadowrun of Yesterday
• My Life with Mr Johnson (or MLWM where the Master is a Lifegamer in my Shadowrun setting and all the minions are butterflies)
• An E-Flower for Mara (I'm kidding. Maybe.)
• Breaking the Ice (don't ask)
• Montsegur 2044 (kidding I hope.)
• MSG™ - this might be ideal for the long-discussed Aztechnology Civil War
• Maid
• Shadowrun Fiasco, an RPG about "Powerful Ambition and Poor Impulse Control"
• Wilderness of Mirrors
• Mouse Guard adapted by John Harper
• Sixth World - Lester Ward's Shadowrun/Apocalypse World hack
• ....