Tag: Shadowrun 5

Daily Punch 6-1-15 Dual Training positive quality for Shadowrun 5e

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Let’s keep building of the small unit tactics idea.  What if you could double up on the abilities?

Dual Training

Cost: 5 karma

You don’t do anything by halves.  You don’t work small scale.  You like your cake, and you want to eat it too.  When you do a small unit tactics test, you can, in the same free action, name two different abilities.  You can make your small unit tactics test as normal, but the needed successes is the sum of both selected abilities.  Only other characters with this same quality can assist with your small unit tactics test, but characters without this quality can benefit from its result.  If you don’t get the needed successes of both abilities, neither triggers.

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Daily Punch 5-29-15 Tactics Training positive quality for Shadowrun 5e

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Been reading Run and Gun for a few missions.  I think small unit tactics don’t get enough love.  Let’s add some bonuses to that.

Tactics Training

Cost: 10 Karma

You drill, then you drill, and then….you drill some more!  After 10,000 thousand times doing the same thing again, you MIGHT just not screw it up!  When you are effected by a bonus from a small unit tactics ability, increase the bonus by 1, or increase any penalties the enemy is affected by by 1.

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Ring Side Report- RPG Review of Shadows in Focus Sioux Nation

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Product– Shadowrun: Shadows in Focus: Sioux Nation

System– Shadowrun 5e

Producer– Catalyst Game Labs

Price– $ 8 here http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/142521/Shadowrun-Shadows-in-Focus-Sioux-Nation

TL; DR– A little pricey, but a great read 92%

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Basics– Time to step out onto the range and head into the NAN!  As you can tell by the title, this is a guide book to the Sioux Nation in 2075, a land constantly preparing for war against a much larger aggressor that doesn’t really care about them.  The book is written in the same Shadowslands BBS style that is always a fan favorite covering the geography, magic, government, people, and underworld of the Sioux Nation.  At the end of the book, there are a few small sections on how to great a Sioux Nation shadowrunner giving quick skill guides as well as roleplaying tips.

Mechanics or Crunch– For a splat book that usually doesn’t have anything at all for mechanics, this one is pretty decent.  The last several pages are character creation.  Now, there isn’t anything that specially makes you need to buy this book like say an amazing quality or spell, but the authors took time to write something and even provided skill break downs for quick character generation.  Not bad, but much more than I honestly expected. 4/5

Theme or Fluff-   Plan to run anywhere need the NAN?  Then you need this book.  Want to learn a ton of Shadowrun world history focusing on the Western US?  Then you need this book.  Want a great Shadowrun history book for cheap?  Then you should get this book.  It’s well done with lots of mission hooks and entire campaign hooks built in.  Honestly, you could run a several months game based on the history in this book alone. 5/5

 

Execution– I’ve been pretty hard on Catalysts bigger books lately.  But, like most of their smaller splat books, this is a well done piece of work.  It flows well, reads quickly, and is fun to get through.  And the price, while a little high, isn’t bad at all for some quality world building. 4.75/5

Summary– This is an amazing nation book.  You get all the information you need with good layout, art, and text.  While there is mechanics and crunch here, my only complaint is I’d like something more mechanically.  Throw in a mentor spirit, some custom gun mod, and maybe a Sioux specific spell, and I’d be on cloud nine.  But as it is, this is a good world book with loots of fluff to start a Shadowrun game or to have on hand when you players decide to knock over a Stuffer Shack in the NAN. 92%

5-27-15 Post Hypnotic Suggestion spell for Shadowrun 5e

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I love me some Control Thoughts/ Mob Mind spells, but sometimes you have to be a bit more subtle.  Let’s work on that.

Post Hypnotic Suggestion

(Mental)_______________

Type: M    Range:1 meter

Duration: S        Drain: F+2

 

Soap Box

(Mental)_________________

Type: M    Range:20 Meters centered around you

Duration: S        Drain: F+4

As you cast the spell you subtlety suggest one action for your target(s) to take, but they believe the idea is completely their own.  This spell is especially taxing, but is unnoticeable by anyone who is not watching astraly as those creatures will notice the spell being cast.

Post Hypnotic Suggestion affects a single target while Soap Box affects a group of targets.  The target(s) will perform the action, will not remember the action, but will not suspect the action is out of character if you sustained the spell until the action is over.  After the action is completed, you can stop sustaining the spell and the target(s) will still not remember the action or think it out of character is brought to the target(s) attention.  If you stop sustaining the spell, and the action is not completed, the target will stop the action and return to normal activity.

Daily Punch 5-22-15 Resonance Shock negative quality for Shadowrun 5e

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Let’s keep the hits rolling!  This time for the technomancers out there who just can’t take the hit from the net!

Resonance Shock

Bonus: 5 karma per level (1 to 3 levels)

Requirement: technomancer

You’re as otaku as they come.  You ride the matrix faster than any decker could hope too.  But when you do that vodoo that you do, it hits you harder than it should.  When you use any complex form, increase the fading value by the amount of levels you have in this power.

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Daily Punch 5-21-15 Magic Malaise negative quality for Shadowrun 5e

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Some people get hit harder then others when they do some physical tasks.  Maybe that would carry over to magic as well?

Magic Malaise

Bonus: 5 karma per level (1-3 levels)

Requirement: magician or aspected mage

You can run a mile in under 7 minutes, you can bench press 200 and not break a sweat, but when you cast a single spell it hits you like a ton a bricks.  Increase the drain value for every spell you cast by the number of levels you have in this quality.  This does not change the type of drain from stun to physical.

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Daily Punch 5-20-15 RALLY! positive quality for Shadowrun 5e

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I was watching a few action movies, and I think my trog with a combat ax would like something like this.

RALLY!

Cost: 7 per level (1 to 3 levels)

We all get pumped when we put a fragger down.  Some get even more pumped when they do it the hard, handheld way.  When you deliver the killing or knock out blow with a melee weapon, you may immediately heal a number of stun boxes equal to your levels in this quality as you are filled with adrenalin from the kill!

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Daily Punch 5-19-15 Acid Wave Spell for Shadowrun 5e

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You know what my favorite type of element in Shadowrun is?  Acid!  Almost no one preps for it, it’s a dirty way to get out of a room (the way), and it eats the enemy’s armor to boot!  Let’s build on what’s in Shadow Spells

Acid Wave

(Direct, Elemental)

Type: P  Range: S(A)   Damage: P

Duration: S    Drain: F+1

Why throw a ball of acid, when you can be at it’s center?  Acid Wave sends a wave of corrosive acid in all direction around you destroying everything in your and it’s path.  This repeats every combat turn as the caster’s first action if it is sustained while not hurting the caster.  However, everything else int the area is damaged by the corrosive effects of the spell.

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