Jargon confusing, possible spoiler

[lowercase_donkey]

So after chasing down a genuine creep, he mentions that he was in the perfect position to make "b******," I can't remember the word. It's pretty clear later what he was talking about; just wondering as a newcomer if that was something he had totally made up or just another part of the seediness of the universe.

Also, funny day to have shadowrun out when they just figured out how to force memories to pop up in mice. :)

[›Kolanaki]

There are a lot of words in the SR universe that are used liberally throughout the game, and I've only put 2.8 hours into it so far.

Nuyen = Money.

Runner = What you are.

Drek = ♥♥♥♥ (rhymes with "spit")

Chummer = Fellow

Shaman = Magic user

Ganger = Gang member

Sawbones = Doctor

Wiz = Right on/Great.

The only good resource I know of that you could get a glossary of all the slang used in the Sixth World (Modern day Earth) would be the actual Shadowrun rule books.

[lowercase_donkey]

http://pl.shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Slang
http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Slang
These helped a lot, didn't happen to see that idea though. It was really fun learning slang as I went, hope I don't start saying "Wiz" tomorrow.

[lowercase_donkey]

Bunraku! That was it. A personafix thing I guess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunraku

[Karmadive]

Shadowrun has a fair amount of slang like chummer, drek, slot, screamer, vatjob, sarariman, etc.

http://www.shadowruntabletop.com/game-resources/slang-guidebook/

good start but doesn't cover them all

[Karmadive]

ah even better

Originally posted by Grenaid:

http://pl.shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Slang
http://shadowrun.wikia.com/wiki/Slang
These helped a lot, didn't happen to see that idea though. It was really fun learning slang as I went, hope I don't start saying "Wiz" tomorrow.

[›Kolanaki]

Originally posted by Grenaid:

hope I don't start saying "Wiz" tomorrow.

I've been using Shadowrun slang in my everyday vocabulary IRL ever since playing the PnP game the first time. XD

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Grenaid:

So after chasing down a genuine creep, he mentions that he was in the perfect position to make "b******," I can't remember the word.

Bunraku? Bunraku are Meatpuppets. The same thing that allows Better than Life Chips (which are recordings of other peoples sensory inputs directly feed into your brain), allows for people to be completely personality wiped.

Those programms then can adjusted to whatever the customer likes. Just slot the sexy french maid programm into your meat puppet and it will be a sexy french maid. Or whatever you want it to be. The meatpuppets are completely personality wiped (they are repressed)

[lowercase_donkey]

Would that work by seperating the brain from the rest of the nervous system, impulse control, memory? Or does it change the soul in the same way implants make you less spiritual? Shadowrun is such a weird combination of tech and spirit interacting with a person.

Edit: also, not sure what would be creepier: remembering being a puppet or never being aware at all. :(

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Grenaid:

Would that work by seperating the brain from the rest of the nervous system, impulse control, memory? Or does it change the soul in the same way implants make you less spiritual? Shadowrun is such a weird combination of tech and spirit interacting with a person.

No, has nothing todo with the spirit. (Although you can damage your Essence with to much BTL).

Its an implant. Like Decks of Decker and Rigger have a ways to disable motor functions while you are in the Matrix/Drone. Its basically the same thing as what happens when your body sleeps and you enter Rem sleep. Your body gets disconnected from your mind. The Bunraku modification simply represses the personality (putting them to sleep, forever) while the body is being controlled by the programm.

Its like going to sleep and sleepwalking, except the sleepwalking is being done by a programm and you cannot wake up, because your conscious is being suppressed.

[Goober Peas]

Originally posted by Grenaid:

Shadowrun is such a weird combination of tech and spirit interacting with a person.

That would be the main draw of the Shadowrun world. Like it says in the game cover. Man, machine, magic. Three things that normally don't go together in this combination. Usually magic is just in typical fantasy settings, which is fine, but can be a bit bland (I think this is why The Witcher is very popular IMO, it takes the typica D&D type setting and adds modern sensibilities to it to make it feel more "real" Witcher and Shadowrun both go with the gritty theme and are fairly similar despite having very different settings).

Magic in modern/sci-fi usually ends up being technology based. Think Mass Effect, biotics and hacking things are just technilogical magic. NANOMACHINES.

[lowercase_donkey]

Ok, that makes sense. Sophisticated wires in a frog, I guess.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Kab:

it takes the typica D&D type setting and adds modern sensibilities to it to make it feel more "real" Witcher and Shadowrun both go with the gritty theme and are fairly similar despite having very different settings).

To be fair. Shadowrun was created in the 80ties. They even used to have 1kg heavy cellphones in the Shadowrun year 2050. Shadowrun is Highfantasy Cyberpunk. 2050 was Cyberpunk, 2060 Biopunk und 2070 Highfantasy Science Fiction (shedding the punk aspect). Haven't taken a look at the 5th edition, yet.

[Goober Peas]

I know what you mean. I've been reading over the 5th edition lately and it still has a lot of the cyber and biopunk things going on. I think the big changes are mostly the technology, since in the older versions real life technology caught up with typical cyberpunk technology. Everything is wireless now, including the Matrix...although there are deckers once again instead of hackers, because coroprations now store sensitive stuff in close networks that need to be physically accessed. So decks are back in.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by Kab:

Everything is wireless now, including the Matrix...although there are deckers once again instead of hackers, because coroprations now store sensitive stuff in close networks that need to be physically accessed.

Glad to hear they changed that. When we wrote unwired that was one of the main issues we had (next to Technomancer being useless thanks to Magical Adepts hacking faster through the AR than any Technomancer ever could). They wouldn't allow us to change information from the GRW, but at the same time, we couldn't just go ahead and assume everything was accessible wireless.

I mean seriously, which paranoid runner would actually but their stuff wireless, if its so easy to hack. And more importantly, who would store data in such a way that everyone with a cyberdeck (and 2070 that was literally everyone) could hack into it.

Personally i like the 2060ies the best. Its the sweetspot to me. To bad no one understood the Matrix back then... and most GMs wouldn't touch it.

*sighs* I want my Otaku back.


Anyway...i am really glad to hear the Matrix is back to what it was in SR3, then.


(Otaku in Shadowrun is ... lets make it easy and understandable to people that don't know Shadowrun... its Neo from Matrix. People that can connect and control the Matrix without needing a Cyberdeck. Technomancer are the same in the Matrix 2.0 -> Otakus didn't automatically become Technomancer tho)