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Has anyone tried to run a Shadowrun game using Starfinder and
Pathfinder rules? If you cut out all the high tech weapons and space
rules is it doable? I love the Shadowrun world but I hate the rules.

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ksks80628@zeus.eonet.ne.jp wrote:

Has anyone tried to run a Shadowrun game using Starfinder and
Pathfinder rules? If you cut out all the high tech weapons and space
rules is it doable? I love the Shadowrun world but I hate the rules.

I remember not being impressed by the d20 version of ShadowRun. I don't
imagine this will be better.


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ksks80628@zeus.eonet.ne.jp wrote:

<<Has anyone tried to run a Shadowrun game using Starfinder and
Pathfinder rules? If you cut out all the high tech weapons and space
rules is it doable? I love the Shadowrun world but I hate the rules.>>


There's a lot of reasons why D20 just doesn't fit with Shadowrun. The probability curves are completely different and it'd be a nightmare to
adapt every number and test. They're just really incompatible.

But apart from numbers it's a major feel thing. D20 feels like the hand
of fate being modified by godly abilities. It's why it suits your
traditional high fantasy settings with super-powered characters.

The SR dice system is about your every bit of skill being brought
together to overcome a challenge. I've never understood the complaint
of "too many dice!" (I really think it's not a real issue anyone has,
just one they're taught to have.) It suits being a scrappy underdog in
a deadly world. You feel week if you're rolling few dice. You feel
strong when you're rolling fistfuls.

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ksks80628@zeus.eonet.ne.jp wrote:

Has anyone tried to run a Shadowrun game using Starfinder and
Pathfinder rules? If you cut out all the high tech weapons and space
rules is it doable? I love the Shadowrun world but I hate the rules.

Huh. That's an interesting thought.
It's probably pretty doable, if you re-skin everything to fit the themes of Shadowrun instead of a high-fantasy/sci-fi game.
Thinking about it, I don't see why it wouldn't work. Might have to homebrew a lot
of cyberware and such, though.
However, you could play Anarchy instead, which is a rules lite Shadowrun.

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Benjamin Gear <BenjaminGear@aol.com> wrote in news:bL2dndKzBKc2XhnHnZ2dnUU7-K-dnZ2d@giganews.com:

ksks80628@zeus.eonet.ne.jp wrote:

<<Has anyone tried to run a Shadowrun game using Starfinder and
Pathfinder rules? If you cut out all the high tech weapons and
space rules is it doable? I love the Shadowrun world but I hate
the rules.>>

There's a lot of reasons why D20 just doesn't fit with
Shadowrun. The probability curves are completely different and
it'd be a nightmare to adapt every number and test. They're just
really incompatible.

But apart from numbers it's a major feel thing. D20 feels like
the hand of fate being modified by godly abilities. It's why it
suits your traditional high fantasy settings with super-powered
characters.

The SR dice system is about your every bit of skill being
brought together to overcome a challenge. I've never understood
the complaint of "too many dice!" (I really think it's not a
real issue anyone has, just one they're taught to have.) It
suits being a scrappy underdog in a deadly world. You feel week
if you're rolling few dice. You feel strong when you're rolling
fistfuls.

Personally, I feel bored when everyone else is *counting* fistfulls
of dice. (Hero is prone to that, too.)

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On Thursday, 15 February 2018 00:14:33 UTC+1, Mattew Henry wrote:

ksks80628@zeus.eonet.ne.jp wrote:

Has anyone tried to run a Shadowrun game using Starfinder and
Pathfinder rules? If you cut out all the high tech weapons and space
rules is it doable? I love the Shadowrun world but I hate the rules.

Huh. That's an interesting thought.
It's probably pretty doable, if you re-skin everything to fit the themes of Shadowrun instead of a high-fantasy/sci-fi game.
Thinking about it, I don't see why it wouldn't work. Might have to homebrew a lot
of cyberware and such, though.
However, you could play Anarchy instead, which is a rules lite Shadowrun.

There's a few more rulesets for the setting, many of which try to minimalise the rules somewhat.

There's Karma in the Dark, which is based on Swords in the Dark https://www.casskdesigns.com/

There's Shadowrun in the Sprawl, an extension of The Sprawl https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BtD9Rvgn3NR6OdsIRJZuvZcdNxieFEI4/view http://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/171286/The-Sprawl----MIDNIGHT

Sixth World, which is a Dungeon World hack https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vLdlUf4Vj3lSOMZtEzezXfhCUdvLacvzOkxsPU59jHs/edit

The Savage World of Shadowrun, which is for Savage Worlds https://wrathofzombie.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/savage-worlds-of-shadowrun-final.pdf

and there's also Shadow-Hack, which is based on Old School Hack https://sentientgames.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/shadow-hack/

I bet there's a lot more.

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