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Contact Brief: Shark Swap

My SR5 to Anarchy conversion Contract Brief from 2016. Back in 2016, as soon as Shadowrun: Anarchy dropped, I converted my campaign over from SR5. Below is the Contract Brief that came from it and a two-part post about what went down with my runners. Enjoy. CONTRACT BRIEF: SHARK SWAP REDDIT POST: ADVENTURES IN ANARCHY, PART 1 REDDIT POST: ADVENTURES IN ANARCHY, PART 2

Anarchy House Rule: Shadow Amps

House Rules and Philosophies for Shadow Amps and a Catalog of Amps converted from the 5th Ed Core Rulebook. In Shadowrun: Anarchy, Shadow Amps are what makes a ‘runner a ‘runner. Shadow Amps are the heart of the Shadowrun character, more so than Attributes, Skills, or Gear. Despite how fundamentally simple they can appear, they do double-duty in differentiating your character from others: both affecting the mechanics of the game and driving the character concept (and thus the narrative of the game). Below are some house rules and philosophies that I use in my Shadowrun: Anarchy campaigns. They were used to design the Shadow Amps in the extended Shadow Amp Catalog that I put together for my p

Anarchy House Rule: Crawl Montage

House rules for a cinematic method of Exploration and Infiltration in Shadowrun: Anarchy. In last week's post, I touched on a stylized method of running Legwork and Investigation called the Montage. It is basically a way of combining a series of small Scenes into a cohesive whole to compress the time that goes into Legwork and Investigation. Below is a way to accomplish the same cinematic effect for what are essentially hexcrawls or dungeoncrawls in Shadowrun: Anarchy. THE CRAWL MONTAGE: STYLIZED EXPLORATION AND INFILTRATION An alternate version of the Montage is the Crawl Montage. The Crawl Montage is appropriate when getting to the next Scene should be as exciting or dangerous as the next

Anarchy House Rule: Cinematic Campaign Play

House rules for a cinematic method of meta-gaming Shadowrun: Anarchy. Shadowrun: Anarchy can be more than just a string of Contract Briefs interspersed with Karma paydays and character advancement. It can be a rich, cinematic campaign world populated by the player characters, scheming non-player characters, and powerful factions, each vying for survival and control. Below are options that a GM may use to add some cinematic style to their Scenes and shared-storytelling aspects into their campaign story arcs. THE PROLOGUE/INTERCUT SCENE: EARNING YOUR PLOT POINTS In standard Shadowrun: Anarchy game play, the players start each session with three Plot Points. In Cinematic Campaign Play, the play

 
 

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