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For the last six months or so, I've been playing in a #Shadowrun game where my character is a monstrous, cybered-up cartel hitman, who became what he is to get vengeance for the family that was murdered by a rival cartel.

Today, I saw the film SICARIO for the first time.

Welp, there's my character, plain as day, as if I'd time-traveled somehow to copy him line for line. The only thing missing is the cybered-up stunts. #ttrpg

a #Shadowrun #TTRPG session fragment with a moral embedded in it somewhere. About searching a missing person's apartment for potential clues. (Naming is from the alphabetical character list. All phrases are paraphrases.)

Player2 (him): I can distract the gangers while you sneak in and search it.

Player3 (him): I will see if I can sneak past that dual-natured mage in the astral to search it.

Player4 (him): I can climb the apartment and get in via the balcony door to search it.

Player 5 (him): I can get some drones in there to search it.

Player1 (her): If we ask his girlfriend she probably has a set of keys and can let us in to search it.

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@clew Thanks for sharing some feedback! To answer your question, there is some computer action and some cyberspace action, but to me #cyberpunk is most about telling a story in a technologically advanced but socially regressed future world.

If you're familiar with #Shadowrun, that's what I was going for, more or less, with this book/genre categorization.

grognardia.blogspot.com/2025/0

Listen, if someone has an opinion on #Shadowrun, I'm gonna chime in.

The reason Shadowrun remained relevant while other cyberpunk #TTRPG titles faded is that Shadowrun has always been woke. Racism and class warfare weren't just adjacent to the setting, they were the whole point of the game's world.

Punk is about the empowerment of the individual in the struggle against authoritarianism. Shadowrun always nailed the punk in cyberpunk in ways few other games did.

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