I should play Dragonfall again sometime. Preferred that to Hong Kong.

Im considering hacking Into the Odd to rebuild Shadowrun without all the… nonsense. Anyone got advice?

Still trying to dig through Returns myself, I heard latter two games are even better.

Try Cities Without Number! It’s also an OSR game, and is more well-suited for the Sixth World setting.

Goddammit another game to go on my wishlist apparently.

Goodbye, money

Ooh I have WWN rotting apart on my shelf, one of my favorites thanks for reminding me!

The latter two have a lot of nice QoL changes and imo more fleshed out stories, but all three are fun. There are mod that have recreated the entire first game in Dragonfall, so it might be worth checking out (have not played the mod myself)

Shadowrun: Anarchy was a rules lite version of Shadowrun. I had to search the name to remember it and apparently 2.0 is kickstarting this year.

Shadowrun: Anarchy is rules lite. Apparently a new version is coming this year.

Look at older editions. 6th is hot garbage published with criminally low quality material and he didn’t pay the freelance writers that contributed to the game.

Isn’t that still what it is? It’s just that its understanding of what Cyberpunk is is more than just superficial.

Others have given alternatives, but no one has offered Savage Worlds. It’d probably work great in a cyberpunk setting with magic, and it plays super easy.

You could just run it straight out of the box with the SWADE rulebook, but there’re published books (and free homebrews) that go for that feeling as well (like Sprawlrunners).

Also check out the video games Shadowrun: Dragonfall and Shadowrun: Hong Kong.

Hong Kong is exceptionally wordy. That’s not necessarily bad, but I spent far more time going through conversations with the party than I did on runs, and I’m a quick reader. They’re excellently written characters, but the conversations had little interactivity and were just pages of text with ocassional dialogue options. Conversation in Dragonfall flowed much better.

Gobbet is still the best character, though.

Shadowrun Returns is part of that trilogy, and pretty decent too.

They can be played in any order - they’re all standalone stories.

Returns is extremely linear and lacks a party though, in addition to the later games having improved mechanics. Also, there’s a mod for Hong Kong that remakes the Returns campaign.

I tried to get into Dragonfall for a few hours, I love the setting (and cyberpunk overall) but I can’t get into turn-based combat. It’s annoying cause I know I’ll miss great games like BG3 because of that 🫤

Don’t know anything about Into the Odd, but I know Blades in the Dark had some people working on a Shadowrun conversion; the heist nature of that game appealed to them. GURPS also handles Shadowrun pretty easily, you can find other people’s conversions online.

I think Runners in the Shadows has been out for a while