Sketchbook Sundays!

[Tom the Fanboy]

Man, now I want to play Unknown Armies even more!
I keep seeing references to it all over the place but nobody else is interested except our Changeling the Lost storyteller, and she's still getting the hang of roleplaying and DMing despite the years we've been gaming with her.

Maybe I can borrow the books some time...

[Alina P]

I've had a double-dose of Shadowrun goodness this week - not only are we ramping up for another dose of the Shadowrun storyline, but tonight was also the night that xaq brought back his old Shadowrun campaign. We're lucky enough to have two characters from his old campaign playing, which means that a bunch of the old plot that never got resolved can be carried forward into this new game. I'm especially excited about it, since I get to play my very first regular tabletop character - Willow, the biggest, greenest hippie you'll ever meet.

[Narf the Mouse]

...A hippie? In Shadowrun?

I've never played the game, but isn't that suicidal?

[Tom the Fanboy]

...A hippie? In Shadowrun?

I've never played the game, but isn't that suicidal?

Not if you're a shaman, or in elf lands.
*lives in Oregon*

I think your character is very pretty Alina.

[Alina P]

...A hippie? In Shadowrun?

I've never played the game, but isn't that suicidal?

It also helps if said hippie can fire a heavy machine gun one-handed, and is rather lax about that whole 'make love, not war' thing.

I think your character is very pretty Alina.

Thanks! She's got a pretty good charisma for a troll, so I wanted to try and make her a bit prettier than your average Trog. I think xaq's reaction upon seeing that sketch was "Cutest. Troll. Ever."

[Alina P]

This is a very rough size and build chart for some of the different races in Shadowrun. It's not entirely accurate, but it was good enough for me to get a bit of a handle on just how much size different there would be between a gnome (like Twitch) and an average Troll (like Lenny).

From left to right, it reads "Gnome", "Human", "Troll", "Orc", "Elf".

[Alina P]

In our previous Shadowrun game, we had a gnome rigger named Spoons. She was great friends with my character, Willow the troll, and the two of them were the inspiration for so many of my Lenny and Twitch jokes. The size difference between the two of them was the source of a ton of funny moments in our chronicle, as was the tension between the "life is a video game" rigger and the tree-hugging eco-terrorist hippie. Spoons, if you hadn't already guessed, is the main inspiration for Twitch. However, Twitch is infinitely more likely to blow you up, while Spoons was infinitely more likely to accidentally shoot you with the harpoon gun on her R.V. Both are certifiably nuts.

[Punstarr]

Gnome? Ok I'm confused now. I thought it was Dwarves. Are there optional rules for gnomes in SR? If so, where can I find em? That sounds interesting.

[Xaq]

Gnomes are a metahuman variant on Dwarves. You can find them in the Shadowrun Companion (at least, you could in 3rd Ed... I dunno what they're doing with 4th).

[Tom the Fanboy]

*squee*
OMG Alina, are all the runners in your game this adorable!?
I could just eat spoons up she's so cute!

[Narf the Mouse]

She does have a cute quality.

Probably kill you for saying that, though.

[Alina P]

Here's the rest of the Shadowrun team (see, they're not all adorable )

Clockwise from the top left, we have Caleo, a Mouse Shaman; Spoons, the gnomish Rigger; Kanshi, a Physical Adept with ties to the Yakuza; two very bad drawings of Silhouette, our amnesiac ninja elf-poser; and Blitzkrieg, ex-military hardass and the team's leader.

[Narf the Mouse]

Dangerous.

[Tom the Fanboy]

OK some maybe they're not all "adorable"....
But you've gotta admit that elf posers are cute.
They're like little puppies pretending to be big bad guard dogs!
"Awwww, they think they're worthy of a noble elven souls and the inherent understanding of the wyrld's mysteries that come with it! Silly little guys!"

[Alina P]

This is Willow's gun - "Little Jimmy". He's a custom built light machine gun that she modified herself. (She has another gun - a Defiance Short shotgun that she wears like sidearm, but she doesn't fuss over it nearly as much.) She gave it gas-venting, a weighted barrel, a custom grip, and just to top it off, made it proportional to herself so it wouldn't look like she was lugging around a little Nerf gun. (Though, she's since added a bayonet as well.)

I was looking at the stats for a Troll-sized weapon, and trying to figure out exactly how big Little Jimmy would be in comparison to an average pistol. You can see the pistol just below him for a good comparison of size. All I can say it - yikes.

[Ferret]

She is the cutest troll ever. Aww..

I gotta play me some Shadow Run.

[Faolan]

Now THAT is a firearm! I have GOT to play some Shadowrun in the near future.

[Narf the Mouse]

I've been thinking of picking up the book, partly because of this strip.

[Tom the Fanboy]

Do it Narf! If enough of us play Shadowrun then maybe we can get a game started on the forum!

LOL! Maybe xaq can run it!

[Thunderhowl]

I'd be down for that. I can bust out one of my old Ork street sams or Phys Ads!