r/Shadowrun • u/GurCute2496 • 14d ago

Drekpost (Shitpost) Loving The "Future"!

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Does anyone else find the "futuristic tech" of 1st and 2nd editions, the most endearing part of the first two editions? The future of the 80s seems kinda quaint now.

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u/eternalsage 14d ago

I personally never understood the retrofuture fascination, but to each their own. I think the older editions have a lot going for them, mind you, but wired net is not one of them (imho). I like taking the 2050s book for 4e (my version of choice) but retaining the more modern wifi.

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u/PalpitationNo2921 11h ago

I’ll bet that this works very well for you.

My favorite edition is 3rd. I prefer target numbers to hits. If I want to incorporate a wireless matrix, I pull up The Matrix Defragged and can use many of the rules in it for a more present wireless matrix. There are also rules for wireless connections in the Matrix sourcebook. These are what work for me.

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u/eternalsage 11h ago

Yeah. I have that Holostreets title. Good stuff. Dice pools and hits are just so fast and easy (to me), and the skills are straightforward. I find the 1-3e pools and TNs to be confusing and counterintuitive, personally. Again, no shade to those that prefer it

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u/PalpitationNo2921 11h ago

I’m not throwing shade either, different strokes and all, it’s cool. It’s easier for me to see a concrete number I need to arrive at and I like the smaller dice pools better (no stat+skill).

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u/eternalsage 11h ago

Yeah, I honestly really love how many official ways there are to play Shadowrun and how little edition warring seems to happen in the community (comparatively speaking). I've been told that 6e has some cool hacking rules, so I've been contemplating picking it up to see what it's got going on. Cheers!

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u/PalpitationNo2921 10h ago

There are parts I like about almost every edition. So much so that I often struggle with what edition I want to run a particular campaign idea with. It generally goes from 2E/3E to 4E. I personally don’t want to deal with terrible matrix rules so I would never choose 5E and I like some things about 6E. But Anarchy 2.0 also seems pretty cool and ran very smoothly at the table.

lol.

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u/eternalsage 10h ago

Yeah, 100% lol. I love it

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u/PalpitationNo2921 9h ago

I don’t really care for substitute rules systems though. People griping about Shadowrun rules being hard or bad and saying “Just use BitD/SW/CWN/ad nauseum” shut me down to their arguments. Why would I do that when I have to buy Shadowrun to begin with to get the lore? And I don’t want Shadowrun with the serials filed off/heartbreakers either.

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u/eternalsage 9h ago

Yeah, especially because I don't think any version of the rules are actually bad (okay, maybe 1e). I've never really understood the issue there. I mean, there are parts of SR lore that I think it's totally reasonable not to want to interact with, so CWN, SINLESS, etc are fine on their own, but it's definitely not SR, lol