#sorry shadowrun

[sluggybunny]

really big uh oh

[antisocialxconstruct]

Alright this turned into more of A Project than I expected lmao but I really wanted a clearer guide for Maksim's mods both for visual and lore references :v

Text under the cut in case you don't want to squint at the images. Also just for kicks, although I never expect to actually play him in a campaign, I crunched the numbers just to see how completely ruined his essence is

HAND RAZORS

First two joints of each digit replaced with carbon fiber, with tendons refitted to operate the modified claw mechanism

Fingertip casing with softer pad with temperature and pressure sensitivity

Claw mechanism based on cat claws; claw acts as fourth joint which swivels independently. Protracting/retracting controlled by flexing specific muscles in the fingers

Small raised inlays installed in knuckles for increased impact/damage when punching

EYE IMPLANT

Provides low-light vision and heightened motion tracking

Interfaces with wired reflex system via neural implant

MUSCLE REPLACEMENT - left arm

Left arm augmented with fiber optic mesh to accelerate electrical impulses from the brain, as well as surface-coated joints

Initially installed to correct for ligament damage from a previous injury

Provides smoother articulation and greater stability when aiming

MUSCLE TONER - right arm

Bioware; less extensive augment in order to balance reflex improvements from previous muscle replacement

MODIFIED SKILLWIRES

Rather than pairing with a skilljack, works in tandem with wired reflex system to provide smoother, more refined control over reflexes

WIRED REFLEXES + reflex trigger

Neural implant: accelerates processing of incoming sensory input (eyes and ears) and transferral of response impulses to the nervous system, provides wireless reflex trigger control

Spinal implant: accelerates impulse transfer through nervous system, especially between neural implant and skillwires, monitors adrenal amp production, increases articulation, houses subdermal reflex trigger that dampens effects outside combat, provides central access point for maintenance/troubleshooting

Adrenal amps: stimulate natural adrenaline production when triggered, further increasing situational awareness and response time

PAIN INHIBITOR

Bioware; edited nervous tissue that interrupts the body’s automatic responses to pain stimuli

Does not eliminate the sensory experience of pain, but allows it to be ignored/overcome with minimal effort

[mithryl-draws]

SHADOWVEMBER 3 - BUGS tfw your girlfriend is very easily spooked and so instead of cuddling you're on cup-and-paper duty

[seases]

i finally actually designed clothes for widow's partner guy + new pentagon ive been using for characters in my notes

[revindicatedbyhistory]

seeing the third shadowrun crpg is named hong kong

[catboy-beb0p]

Why does Lofwyr have shoujo legs and ylai hands

[axperjan]

I needed some dramatic lighting but with him this time

[mimicteruyo]

There's a non-zero chance I'm the only Shadowrun: Hong Kong player who took Duncan on every mission, which I did 25% because well, he IS my brother, and 75% because I gave him the Shiawase Loader Arm and oh you thought you could throw a grenade at my clustered units like when I was a poor struggling newbie playing Dragonfall ENJOY THE FASTBALL SPECIAL

[kiddphel]

[avibero]

I find it so funny that my perception of shadowrun is so incredibly skewed because the vast majority of my shadowrun exposure is Neoscum

[inkbeanjo]

[mithryl-draws]

kira's not used to being picked up in the SLIGHTEST but shes having a great time anyways. HAPPY BIRTHDAY @nyoxt!!

Wooo, I finished my open ych thingie!!!

So yeah you can draw your character being hugged! Orrrr if your character is not fond of bear hugs- than I also got a dance! :D (I think that the stick person from the hug thingie should be around 180cm, if it's important) Also here's a folder with clear pngs and psds for convenience . It's not perfect, but hey, I'm very proud of myself for not giving up on this idea!

[pigeonrocks]

if you see me posting about shadowrun. uhm. mind your business. very sorry its getting put on your dash.

[haveyouplayedthisttrpg]

400 polls summary

And now our 400th poll is over.

Here is a Summary of these 400 polls results (with some comparaisons to the 300th poll summary):

The 10 Most Known Games :

1 Pathfinder 2e (3,20% Never heard of)

2 Cyberpunk (3.60%) NEW

3 Shadowrun (8.30%)

4 Warhammer fantasy roleplaying (10.90%)

5 Dungeon World (13%) NEW

6 Fate Core (13.10%) NEW

7 Thirsty sword lesbian (13.50 %)

8 Exalted (14.10%) NEW

9 Apocalypse World (14,50%)

10 Mage The Ascension (14.80%)

4 new game in this top : Cyberpunk, Dungeon World, Fate COre and Exalted. This means Blades in the dark, Monster of the Week, lancer, Monsterhearts and Werewolf the Apocalypse are out of the Top 10

The 10 Most Played Games

1 Pathfinder 2e 42%

2 Monster of the Week 36.40 %

3 Chronicles of Darkness 34.70%

4 Fate Core 33.20% NEW

5 The Quiet Year 31.70%

Below this line, the played part was not the majority on the poll

6 Dungeon World 30.60% NEW

7 Shadowrun 30.40%

8 Blades in the Dark 28.60 %

8 Star Wars Edge of the Empire 28.60 % NEW

9 Lancer 26,10%

10 Mutants and Masterminds 25.60% NEW

Four new games in the top Most Played : Fate Core, Dungeon WOrld, Star Wars Edge of the Empire and Mutants and Masterminds

Paranoia, Masks a new generation and Dread are out the Top 10

The 10 Most Voted on Polls

1 Dallas The Television RPG 8013 votes

2 I'm sorry did you say street magic ? 1593 NEW

3 Wanderhome 1187

4 One HONK Before Midnight 1163

5 Fight Truck 1044

6 Chuubo's Marvelous Wish Granting Engine 1026

7 The Quiet Year 953

8 Dialect 893

9 Mork Borg 890

10 Pathfinder 2e 871

Only one new game on the most voted top : I'm sorry did you say street magic.

Thirsty sword lesbians is out of the top 10

Percentage of Games per Decade

2020s: 212 polls 158 polls (+54), 53% ↑

2010s : 100 polls (+25) polls, 25% =

2000s : 41 polls (+15), 10.25% ↑

1990s : 25 polls (+3), 6.25% ↓

1980s : 19 polls (+3), 4.75% ↓

1970s : 3 polls (+0), 0.75% ↓

Most Known Game from each Decade

1970s : Traveller 29.30% Never Heard of

1980s : Cyberpunk 3.60% NEW

1990s : Mage The Ascension 14.80%

2000s : Pathfinder 3.20%

2010s : Dungeon World 13% NEW

2020s : Thirsty Sword Lesbians 13.50%

Some games have been dethroned ! Mage felled Werewolf for the 1990s. Apocalypse World won the 2010s by lighting up Blades in the Dark. So it seems Cyberpunk is more known than Shadowrun. And Dungeon replaced Apocalypse for World.

Which country do most games comes from ? ( the arrows apply to the percentage, not the position)

1 USA : 246 polls (+ 60), 61.5% ↓

2 UK : 41 polls(+12), 10.25 % ↑

3 France : 18 polls (+3), 4.5 % ↓

4 Canada : 13 polls (+5) 3.25% ↑

5 Australia (+1 ↓ ), Italy(+3 ↑), Unknown (+2 ↓) : 9 polls, 2.25%

6 Sweden : 8 polls (+3), 2% ↑

7 Japan (+ 0) : 7 polls , 1.75% ↓

8 Finland (+1 ↓), New Zealand/Aotearoa (+5 ↑) : 5 polls, 1.25%

9 Spain (+0 ↓) , Scotland ( +2↑) : 4 polls, 1%

10 Germany (+1 ↓), Phillipines (+0 ↓): 3 polls, 0.75%

11 Brazil (+0 ↓), Denmark (+0 ↓) : 2 polls, 0.5%

12 Bandgladesh (+0 ↓), Ireland (+0 ↓), Malta, Malaysia (+0 ↓), Mexico (+0 ↓), Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Singapore (+0 ↓), Slovenia(+0 ↓), South Africa (+0 ↓) : 1 poll, 0.25%

We discovered game from 4 new countries : Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Russia

Please continue submitting games from other countries, and check the unknown ones to see if you know where they're from.

Most Known Game per Country

Australia : Mausritter 34.70% Never Heard of

Bandladesh : Midnight in a Perfect World 95.20%

Brasil : CBR+PNK 54.40%

Canada : Monsterhearts 16.90%

Denmark : Red Rook Revolt : 89.10%

Finland : Lamentations of the Flame Princess 44%

France : In Nomine 60.20%

Germany : The Dark Eye 62.40%

Ireland : The Laundry 66.10%

Italy : Fabula Ultima 43.10%

Japan : Ryuutama 52.30%

Malaysia : Lumen Ryder Core 79.20%

Malta : Flabbergasted 78.80% NEW

Mexico : Nahual 81%

Netherland : Foul Play 72.30% NEW

New Zealand / Aotearoa : Monster of the Week 15.20 %

Norway : Itras By 85.30% NEW

Phillipines : Gubat Banwa 36.80%

Russia : Horror Movie World 89.90% NEW

Scotland : Delve A Solo Map Drawing Game 46% NEW

Singapore : Hearts of Wulin 63.90%

Slovenia : Ultraviolet Grasslands 59.50%

South Africa : Nihilation 93.90%

Spain : Eyes on the Price 63.90%

Sweden : Tales from the Loop 18.70% NEW

United Kingdom : Warhammer fantasy 10.90%

USA : Pathfinder 2e 3.20%

Unknown : Fellowship 45% NEW

All the results and the submitted games can be found here

To submit a game, go here

[imsobadatnicknames2]

Sort of a Pet Peeve I tend to have with something that people in the indie TTRPG community do sometimes:

I LOVE one-page RPGs, but I often notice a lot of people tend to recommend them to folks who are just starting out with RPGs, or to folks with no TTRPG experience outside of D&D to convince them that branching out of D&D doesn’t have to be a massive investment of money and time, but honestly I think in msot cases one-page RPG are not a particularly good starting point to start exploring the medium. 

And like... I get the logic of recommending them because shorter = easier and less intimidating to get through, and the rhetorical utility of being able to take a D&D-only gamer who keeps insisting that playing another system would be too costly and take too long and be like “NO LOOK NOT EVERY RPG IS THREE BOOKS LONG AND COSTS 90 DOLLARS SOME LITERALLY FIT IN A SINGLE PAGE LOOK!”, but I think that one-page RPGs function best when all (or at least SOME) of the people participating are already familiar with the medium and have some prior experience with more mechanically complex systems, and the reason they are able to be that minimal and short in the first place is because they sorta piggyback off of a lot of intuitive knowledge that they assume from the players and gm (if there is one).

Gonna be speaking primarily from the point of view as a GM because that’s mainly what I am, so sorry if I sorta neglect GMless games or solo journaling games or stuff like that here. Most one page RPGs that follow the traditional format of “group of players + GM” tend to be like. A few short steps for character creation, a simple core resolution mechanic, a description of the flow of the game, and usually nothing (or very very little) in terms of GM tools (at best a few GM principles and a couple of random oracles/tables). And like. Yeah, that’s more than enough to run and play a game, but IMO it’s probably not enough FOR A GROUP OF NEWBIES to run and play a game, because this level of extreme abstraction and mechanical minimalism it’s not inherently more newbie-friendly than the other extreme of high-crunch mechanical density. 

The way I conceptualize mechanics, they are a tool to delegate decisions and rulings from the players and GM to the game system. Like, some games have HP so that the GM doesn’t have to decide and rule through pure narrative and logic how much violence everyone involved in a combat is able to withstand, etc. So like, obviously, less mechanics means the game takes less time to read, learn and remember, but there also comes a point where less mechanics means more specific, situational decisions piled onto the GM (or in case of GMless games, spread among the players) to attempt to rule fairly, consistently, and satisfyingly, and being able to make this kind of ruling is a skill that takes practice to develop. If you hand me a piece of paper that says the typical “The GM describes the situation, the players describe how they react and what actions they take, the GM describes how the situation changes in response. When the outcome of the players’ actions is uncertain or there are interesting consequences for failure, then [insert core resolution mechanic here]” I would probably be able to run a game off of that combined with my current GM skills, but if you had handed me that when I was just stating to dip my toe into RPGs, I would have probably be almost as intimidated as I’d have been if you handed me something dense and rules-heavy like Shadowrun.

Just some thoughts, idk. 

[nyoxt]

Look at em' goooooo! Everybody looks so good! Mutt on the first pic is like:

Artfight with Mutt (@nyoxt) and Stag (@wunjotheork-art). Green hair elf is my chaotic girl Oatmeal. Suddenly she and Stag became a weirdo ship, well....