Pen and Paper

[SodaKan]

So anyone here have personal experience or stories with the pen and paper version of shadowrun?

[Pinky]

Old Fart here.

I played PnP Shadowrun way back in the late 80s (or early 90s). Only recall playing it for one campaign and I don't remember any specific stories, but I remember a few odds and ends about it. ...

Many corporations were in space, and one was using 'mass drivers' to rain meteorites onto their earth bound competitors. (I think they were the big-bad corp we had to infiltrate.)

The peons left on earth were referred to as 'mud-boys' and 'dirt-girls'.

People still went to arcades.

[SodaKan]

I still go to arcades lol

[3Stan]

I try to get a couple sessions in every year when I go to a local tabletop convention. The only particualrly amusing moment I remember ('cuz my memory is spit-poor) is that I rolled up a decker/driver and had enough start money to buy an armored van with some neat weapons, a med station, a decking/hacking rig, and still had enough seats to accomodate everyone in the party. Being a jokster, though, I decided to go the faux creepy route and paint the exterior white, cover the rear windows, and then get "The Fun Bus" decalled on the side along with a bunch of candy grafitti. Convinced our hacker to set up a false business ID for it and everything. It was a good joke until we found out that the mission was to kidnap a child. Then I regretted everything. The mission was a roaring success, but we took a really big hit with our standing in the runner community when they saw some surveilance footage of us carrying a young girl into the car. I try to roll a little more seriously these days.

[innu_anok_rising]

I remember playing it in the late 80's as well. we moved onto cthulu, superhero's unlimited and stormbringer. i cant remember why we stopped playing it. it didnt become memorable for me until i played the sega version at a friends house in 92' ish. I'm going to try this game and all its dlc I got for a couple of bucks!