This series has been one of my most favourite i dream of making a full fledged live action series and star in it myself 
letās see what the conclusion will be like canāt wait!!
all the best @Schliemannsghost love you and your work will definitely meet someday for my dream project 
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Hello old friends!
In case anyoneās curious, I put up a Tumblr post with some details about my next project, my first post-Relics choicescript endeavor, Shadowrun: Neon Fire. You can find the deets here, chummers:
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high-pitched squeal
Iām not sure how much the dice roll mechanics will find fans (if Talon City is any example, the answer is āeehhhhhhhhhhhā), but wheeeeeeee!!! More Shadowrun for meeeeeeeee!!!
And coming from you, itāll probably have puzzles! And investigations! Wheeeee!
Can I rig? Please tell me I can rig! tosses A into Resources Wait, how is chargen?
Tell me stufffffffff!!!
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Iāll be putting up more game-specific info in a separate post. But yes, you can rig. Youāll be able to play as a rigger, a decker, a street samurai, a mage, a shaman or a physical adept. (Iām not doing technomancers, partly because I think the story is going to be set before they became a Thing in the Shadowrun timeline, but mainly because theyāre just a headache in a jar and I donāt want to have to code them!)
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Teeheeheehee.
I canāt get my group to play Shadowrun to save my life, so Iāll be MILKING this like a dairy cow.
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What is Shadowrun?
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Itās a long-running tabletop RPG setting set in a dystopian sci-fi near future with magic and fantasy races. Itās as nuts (and brilliant) as it sounds!
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First, thatās an absolutely fucked up combo; second, Iām hooked. As for juggling, the mechanics and story, breach, the archangel job is an example of how itās been done successfully before, obviously, different mechanics, but the idea of adding a complicated stat system, while still juggling everything else does work.
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Yes, I agree! I also really like Holy Ordos, a choicescript wip based on a Warhammer 40K tabletop roleplaying game. These games show that it is possible to write fun IFs with rpg mechanics, including dice rolls. It clearly can be done, but itās a lot of work!
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He did it he shadowrun game. Awesome! I was pulling for it.
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As another example, though, Breach: The Archangel Job is very dice-heavy but generally handles it well. I was probably the harshest critic of the RNG in Talon City, but I donāt mind it in Breach because itās essentially using a variant of the d20 system where you can mitigate it. You can increase your skills, you can buy better gear, you can influence the outcome and build around the choices you want to make. This sounds more like that, since he said heās using a a variation of the Shaadowtun rule set.
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Did CoG sign a licensing deal for Shadowrun? Very exciting if so!
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This is from the reveal Tumblr post:
I do agree that it would be a great license to secure.
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All ive heard is shadowrun and im hooked. Binged all 3 games in a week. Time to recreate my favorite build.
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Shadowrun?! Holy shit I played the trilogy and loved it! Cant wait to play this without the complicated rules of the tabletop rpg lol
Edit: A question tho, when it comes to story and theme, what will the game be similar to in the trilogy?
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So itās going to copy the Dragonfall / Hong Kong structure of having a long middle act where you take on a variety of different runs while the main plot advances. Itās also going to have a hub area, like Kreuzbasar / Heoi, with its own secrets, persistent stories and side quests. Itāll be set mostly in Neo-Tokyo, which is quite a different setting in this universe from either Berlin or Hong Kong (though a couple of runs will send you overseas, so youāll see other parts of the world too), so I definitely hope that it will have its own feel, flair and themes, while obviously still owing something to the games.
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This is completely unrelated to your game or really anything in this thread at all, but I just want to share my absolute favorite thing about Shadowrun Hong Kong.
Thatās all.
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So living in one of the most racist cities in Shadowrun? Sign me up!
Iāve played the Antumbra Saga ugc enough to know how worst those japs are when it comes to metahumans.
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I think JIS is an interesting setting for Shadowrun, but it can also create issues down the line due to how their Yamato act handles metahumans. IIRC, out of all the races, only humans are accepted while the others are outcasts. I think the orks and trolls are quarantined on basically leper colonies.
Will we be able to play as the other races outside of humans? If it is possible, Iād love to see how things are handled!
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