Back into the shadows

[mikailborg]

We began prep on the new 2nd Ed. Shadowrun campaign last night. Looks like we'll have a core group of a detective, a freelance bodyguard, an ex-corporate enforcer, an Amerindian shaman, and a street mage; with decker and shaman 'guest stars'. This is subject to change as the characters all get fleshed out, but it looks good. The decker's player is moving in two weeks, and will only be able to attend by webcam, which I think is amusingly appropriate.

Two elves and three humans make up the racial mix, which is fairly standard for a new group; I don't know yet if the guest stars will be metahuman or not. We're off to a good start, though. I encourage weirdness in my campaigns, because I think it adds to roleplaying and tone; Jesse and Dwight have already surprised me with their character ideas. I love it.

I'm already planning to have old friends make a cameo or two. "Skid" Dersitaliantis and Mister Zeta will pop up, though I don't yet know if I want to get the GSSC involved. Hey, TeeFive players: did you know that next year is the game's 20th anniversary? Some of our original 'runners should be in their forties or fifties by now.

I'm sure we'll need at least one more character creation session, then we can get to adventuring. One thing I want to do this week is extract the old TeeFive custom character sheets from the OS 9-era PageMaker and make PDFs for the group. I have to say, from a design standpoint, that I love that I could lay out the core game mechanic in about 10 minutes last night! Naturally, I also recommended Blade Runner to everyone who hadn't yet seen it.

We're going to hold the game sessions at my new place. This will make my GM duties much easier, as I won't have to haul the library back and forth. I'm also considering making the game a bit meta: for example, setting up gmail accounts for the characters to use during downtime. I wonder if the players would get into that. The decker ought to get one, right?

Thank goodness this will only be twice a month, as I could really submerge myself into this if given a chance. :)

Comments

[shrewlet.livejournal.com]

Wow, it's been so long since I have played Shadowrun. Who knows, maybe I can come down once in a while and bring out my bodyguard :)

hugs

Shrew

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

I can always use more guest stars. Heck, maybe my players will need to hire Blue Racer for an evening or something :)

[zannyvix.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I miss tabletop RP. ;_;

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

I was so glad to find a regular group. I think it had been half a decade since I was able to do tabletop on a regular basis.

If you're in Hampton Roads on the right Monday, we can always cameo you in!

[krysturtle.livejournal.com]

You're lucky to have people nearby you can game with. I have been without a game group for several years now. The last group I played with fell apart in a fit of yelling. Was not a good group. I'm starting to miss the gaming interaction. I should look harder to find people around here.

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Any game night you're down this far, I'd be more than happy to work you in as a guest star. Just let me know :)

[trenn.livejournal.com]

Wish I were a bit closer. Sounds like fun.

If you want, I could dig though my own old stuff and send you stats from any of my own characters who might still be around. I do figure Kitsune might be, since I think she and her massive dice pool were about ready to retire from getting shot at, after findng her son, and if you wanted to use her or anyone else, I'm cool with it.

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

Kitsune is already part of the lore of this new group - I used her as an example of very unusual character creation, to encourage experimentation!

I think I have at least one datasheet on her, but I'll be doing prep this weekend, and if I can't find her I'll definitely let her know. Wonder if she'd be interested in a tour with Nebula? :)

[(Anonymous)]

Lucky dog! I'm jealous of the new Shadowrun campaign! 2E even makes it easy to access. Everyone from "those days" has 2E books!

[cynical-prophet.livejournal.com]

That last one was from me... I didn't notice I wasn't logged on. Sorry!

[mikailborg.livejournal.com]

No problem!

But yeah even the folks who don't have 2E have been finding them on eBay cheap. With that plus the 30-40 sourcebooks and modules I already have, I'm really thinking this was the right choice.

As I said to the others, if you're in town on game night, we'll set you up!