hated football b4 it was coolRecently started listening to @PinkFohawk and now I am in the mood for some #shadowrun again. I wonder if I could manage to get a game together. Maybe with 2nd Ed rules. Which I first have to get from somewhere.
@PinkFohawk I still have the prep work from my last aborted try at a 2050 campaign.
@PinkFohawk by the way, did you know that Dave Arneson, the sorta inventor of #ttrpgs (well, one of the originators at least) wrote the first official Shadowrun adventure?
DNA/DOA is from him.
It's... not very good, even as an early Shadowrun scenario. It does have some of the trademark elements of SR, but it feels weirdly unfinished and mired in DnDthink.
@PinkFohawk one of the main issues I have with it is the railroading it tries. PCs are thrown into the scenario with no prep. And one character is supposed to be forced to be a mole for racists.
And... actually the whole thing is on rails, despite being basically a dungeon. PCs are supposed to get friendly with an orc community and breach the same Aztechnology compound twice. I never played it but I can't see that going as Arneson planned it out.
mhd@kyonshi @PinkFohawk To be fair, "unfinished and mired in D&D-think" was basically the motto of early SR 1E ;)
@mhd @PinkFohawk the problem is that there was a better scenario already: Silver Angel, the pack in scenario for the DM screen, was basically the platonic ideal of a SR scenario. And even the other scenarios for 1st ed were not as DnDish as DNA/DOA. He even has a random encounter chart for the sewers in there were you can just meet a bunch of orcs.
Pink Fohawk 🏆 2022 ENnie NomHey thanks for listening and for the shoutout chummer!! We’re so stoked to hear you’re enjoying it 🦾🤘🏻
We actually also have a 2e Bookclub over on our YouTube Channel where we’ve been talking with Tom Dowd (co-creator of Shadowrun, designer of 2nd Edition, and author of Silver Angel among other Shadowrun modules and novels). He actually discussed DNA/DOA as their attempt to pull D&D players over to Shadowrun (probably also the reason they got Arneson to write it. Silver Angel is much more “Shadowrun” in tone and feel, and then Mercurial really nailed down the formula from there.
For anyone curious, here’s our podcast on Spotify, we’re also everywhere else you get podcasts:
https://open.spotify.com/show/5fKd0STUvxIlaqOdPu7ejE?si=-9O6iGeoTcy6v7-a07QtYA
And here is the 2e Bookclub:
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL5owiP06DaBadJj9tre-grI8UvkhczvUZ
Pink Fohawk
Listen to Pink Fohawk on Spotify. Pink Fohawk is an ENnie-Nominated actual play podcast set in the Shadowrun universe, following two rad shadowrunners making names for themselves in the streets of Seattle in the year 2053. Content Warning: Pink Fohawk is a crass, vulgar, violent, and raunchy podcast full of 80s edginess that is meant for immature adult audiences only.