Stalker, from the Shadowrun Forums has created an interesting utility for Gamemasters. It is an Initiative Tracker that includes the ability to roll and sort the initiatives of PCs and NPCs alike.
A recent posting by another Savage player brought me back to the idea of using GraphViz in gaming. This particular example was in mapping player characters with their in game relationships to people, places, things and ideas to help a GM visualize how they are all interconnected.
Talk about a blast from the past. I recently came across a copy of FASA's 1990 Shadowrun Promo video. I never realized that FASA had ever done anything like this. In some ways it is much better than the current WotC ads for the "Red Box".
It features everything I'd expect from Shadowrun, and all with that old school late 80s amateur look to the sets. I was impressed by the fact that they actually did have some 3D animation in the video, but, as expected, it was very low polygons (just a few boxes with very few textures or shaders to their surfaces).
I spent some time and took and created a version of a Shadowrun character sheet that is fillable in Adobe Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. Most of the file is complete, but there are still a few sections that I haven't gotten to as yet to make editable, like the cybernetics page at the very end. This sheet is based on the one by Ismo version 2.1.
I recently found another SR4 Character Sheet to begin modifying from Super Spy Studios. This is a basic sheet designed for characters that can fit on two pages. Or just keep filling out and printing the additional "back pages".
A friend of mine is wanting to start up a new Shadowrun game, so I thought I'd be helpful and make a few PDF sheets editable like I did for Shadowrun 4th Edition sheets. This first one is the Shadowrun Companion Character sheet that can be found at Catalyst Labs Shadowrun Site. This is the first of 6 files from that location.
Got the second sheet up. This one is the basic SR3 sheet. A few fields might need a bit of adjustment for size or placement, but it shared enough in common with the SR3 Companion character sheet that I was able to copy and place the fields from it into this one.
I’m standing on the edge. The brink of eternity, staring out at the vast nothing that is before me and the long and distant nothing of the landscape that extends off to nowhere behind me. I’ve been here before many times, but something about this time feels different. Just one small step forward is all it would take to go from standing on the edge to plunging down into the nothing that yawns open before me. Turning around again, careful not to lean too far in any direction I stare back at the landscape behind me that led to this place. The reddish-tan ground is covered in random patches of low, dry scrub, struggling to eek out an existence in a place that receives little water.
When - 2nd Sunday of Each Month; Generally From Noon to Around Five
Where - Game Depot, Southern Ave & McClintock Ave, Tempe AZ
Joel Agee, Catalyst Games Demo Team, runs a Shadowrun 4th Ed Game Demo once a month. Characters are provided (Joel has a bunch of 400 point pregen characters or one can bring a character).
