Fuck I love Mutants and Masterminds, but only one of my partners and none of my friends are as into original capeshit as I am; so… [sob]

Is SR6 easier to make characters for/doesn’t need a whole-ass paid-for program to do the job?

I love playing Shadowrun. I do not enjoy making the original sheet. I still have character sheets I made ten years ago that I just perpetually reuse because I’m not trying to buy another Hero Lab license.

I feel like I’m watching a wizard fight

I’m imagining the Joshua Graham bit when you ask him why you shouldn’t just butcher everyone in the Sorrows camp. “There are many reasons. I will illuminate three…” and he proceeds to hit you with one of the coldest, yet simultaneously warmest threats I’ve ever heard in an RPG just as matter-of-factly as discussing how to brew a pot of coffee over a campfire.

THAT is the Wis character nat 20’ing the Intimidation check.

Holy fuckin shit that’s the coldest Intimidation roll I’ve seen in fifteen years

Any build is a dex build if the STR character throws them

Lame and corny with one exception if that

When the tavern minstrel challenges your virtuoso and finds out they are indeed, not him

istg Nael is like. The WoL’s personal sleep paralysis demon at this point.

Feels like every would-be Double Vergil Sephiroth player fails to land step one drafting the “loner with a dark past”. There still has to be a reason to gaf about the party. Now, what’s fun is ‘naturally thawing the ice prince’ over the course of the first arc of his interaction with the party.

I call it the Law of Zuko: it shouldn’t take more than like five sessions for an ice prince/lone wolf/edgemancer archetype to either start visibly, but plausibly-deniably caring for the party they’re in; or to start accidentally leaving blatant hooks to the tune of trust for other players to grab onto as far as inter-personal stories are concerned. Ten if the ice prince you’re running is especially crotchety; but it’s hard for me to keep that kind of energy going that long. The only thing better than an edgy badass action hero is when the hero stops feeling the need to project edgy badassery.

"SHAAAAAAAAADOW… IT’S MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE… THA DEVILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL"

Shit that’s glorious

Negl I was kind of expecting the “chosen one” bit to be that kind of fucked up “this is definitely gonna kill you but they seem barely cognizant of that” prank that fairies like

Definitely going to have to see if I can lay hands on that; thanks for the recc!

Now that I think about, I don’t think I’ve ever played a classless TTRPG. My big 3 for the past 15 years have been Pathfinder, Vampire: the Masquerade, and Shadowrun(til I lost my hero lab code at least); so I’m very used to narrowing down within a slate of options for a given archetype. A lot of it is I don’t think I’ve ever known a classless DM, my list of DMs for the past 15 is actually shockingly light. I like keeping the same table folks where I can.

Gestalt Mythic sounds outright fantastic; I hope your table lives long enough to explore the concepts your players brought to it.

“Buhhhh it was just a joke” nice Schrodinger’s Douchebag manuever. If I didn’t think you were a redditor before, I would now.

Imagine not being a condescending, non-contributing tool in an until now, constructive thread. I’m sorry if it offends you that after 15 years tabletopping, I find basic sword-and-boards and basic wizards a little bit mechanically trite; but you didn’t need to come up in here acting like a redditor.

Oh man-- I could never get folks to run Shadowrun. Admittedly, I don’t anymore either, because I don’t have my Hero Lab registration code anymore, and last I looked, there were no other good character tools for Shadowrun. (Tried that open source Chummer program back in the day, but that just wasn’t working for me.)