#shadowrun 1e

Worst that can happen is that it just doesn’t take off!

I figure a good first post would be more or less what I'll be doing with this thing!

Okay, for one, I've mentioned this on other blogs but I should be more clear here-while I find great things about all editions of Shadowrun(and will indeed probably write a blog comparing them!), I'm a 1e-3e person mixed; between lore/sourcebooks, ruleset, and everything, I'm more old school(well, 3e might be 'middle' school, but depends on your metric.)

So most of the stuff indeed will be more to do with that era. We mostly play between 2050-2060(sometimes bumping into near 2065). Now we HAVE played a lot of 4e in the time, and even some 5e, but not so much. I actually think both of those have things to offer(5e more than 4e actually), and have good points, but their feel/theme and everything I sort of got lost on. It wasn't...I dunno, '80s Cyberpunk enough for me, for lack of a better term. Too 'icy cold pro'. They had some nice rules things(like how they made cyberlimbs awesome), but yeah, they just don't hit me. The whole wireless thing, etc.  I'm sure I'll do a few blogs comparing.

So generally it's 3e ruleset with a lot of 1e/2e fluff(and some 3e fluff too, don't get me wrong, depending on the year.) And yes-I will be discussing mechanics and such from time to time-houserules, and everything of that nature. I'll have a tag page, btw, for stuff once I get a tag page sorted out. Going over old books and such will be fun, especially some of the old favorites like Shadowbeat.

Now, fiction wise, I do write stuff there. As I started to do on the other blog is document some OCs I'll be working with. Some of these are older characters, some slightly newer, most of the older ones had been reworked slightly and so on. I'll probably be going over NPCs and areas and such, original bars/dives/clubs, corps, and so on.

Mainly I'll be working with the six I had described before(Downfall, Jolt, Val, Silver, Talon, and Sully). I'll probably do more thorough write-ups of the entire crew(and possibly mechanical builds for them; though their story counterparts are probably a little more advanced than a typical SR3 starting character-not super-powered, though.)

I'll also probably go over a lot of nostalgic stuff(like old websites I used to like-some of which are still around thanks to the Wayback machine!).