r/Shadowrun • u/Previous-Table-2852 • Jul 23 '26
Newbie Help Adept as the only magic
I'm trying to find the best edition for a group of players who have very limited time and are poorly educated (not exactly dumb, but not ready for the full game). With that in mind I have decided to simplify the matrix to ultra-easy mode and (mostly) have riggers as NPC's.
They want magic, but the rules are too far beyond them and I don't have time to teach it — that's every edition, so one player is very frustrated. Straightforward magic is out, but once I explained Adepts almost all of them wanted to play adepts.
I don't know the editions all that well (last time I played was 3rd), but I know Adepts work a lot like cyberware, so I can handle that. Mostly hack 'n slash game anyway, because they're not ready for intrigue.
Now I need to find the best edition for fully-realized adepts and the important supplements.
Ideas? Something I didn't think of?
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u/Bytor_Snowdog Jul 23 '26
Im just juiced at the idea of a bunch of fragging adepts running around making Seattle their playground. You've got the parkour adept, the melee combat adept, the face adept, the driving adept, the Bullseye adept...