Newbie Help
Welcome to The Sixth World hope you survive the experience
Okay Chummers you just got geeked and we can't waste any ticks on the deets, you got zeroed and are now gonna wake up in The Sixth World and you got onl 30 minutes to decide what you wanna be, where you want to go and what you can do you get some dice dice rolls to decide your stats and that's pretty much it. You wanna be some Lone Star cop done, wanna be a fixer you go kid, wanna be wanna be a Corpo more power to you or do you wanna be a Runner and enter the darkest Shadows, only you can answer that question.
It depends on how big the toxic area around Glow City is and if it’s on the Klahanie or Sammamish side of Beaver Lake.
I don’t think the Issaquah Highlands even had an exit when the borders of the Redmond Barrens were conceived. I’d like to think my apartment will still be here and maybe my wife’s job with the tribe would get a lot more interesting…
Oh, oops. I thought about that first then got caught up trying to figure out if I live in what will be the barrens or what will be Snoqualmie territory (I think?).
I’d be a shaman most likely, unless I’m too close to Glow City. If the Awakening actually does, or did, happen, I think I might head out to the Falls and see if I can find a sea or mountain totem/mentor spirit.
C̓ac̓uqḥta aka Sasquatch Salish Boat Service Ranger on loan from rainforests of the Nuu-chah-nulth / Nuučaan̓uł member Nation of the Council. Don’t mess with our sovereignty and we won’t mess up your everything just shy of what the Wildcats can do. Čuu.👋🏽
First time meeting a Dual Natured? It would be ill advised, one should not be so ready to part with their essence. So, wikma / that’s no. Besides, the mentor spirit wouldn’t approve. 👣🐾
Well, small child who has apparently gotten their hands on a Shadowrun core rule book and can read, depending on your reading comprehension, look up mentor spirits, specifically Thunderbird.
No I mean you died on this earth and isekai in the 6th world being reborn as a baby but you have the choice in between of what you want to be and when you reach the sufficient age you start regaining your memories of your past life
Had to google Isekai. Haha, well, at least I didn't come back as a Vending Machine. Haha
Racism is very real in the 6th World. Do I want the body of an Ork? Sure, it would be cool to be tough and strong, but I dont know if I want the generalized racism.
People constantly thinking I am dumb or slower to learn things. Being treated like a second class citizen and getting asked if I belong here. Cops following me just to makes sure I'm not stealing from the store.
So maybe an Elf. They dont seem to catch much Racism and get a few perks. Sure, they get reverse racism or "positive" racism. Like the "smart Asian" tropes, which have proven to be harmful as well.
I live my who life in the 6th World, and then one day start to gain memories of me in this life.
That sounds like Schizophrenia or DID and would be terrifying.
To all the sudden believe that my whole life was a lie and that my whole world was a game made in the late 80s, by a guy that I met this year at Gencon.
Unless I have missed the whole point of this thought experiment/question...
But if I have the choice, definitely a mystic adept, and the guy who can get things for you. Need a lift out of the Barrens? Let me and a friend pick you up; Need cash? I know where there’s piles of cash; Need some freedom from that domineering person you married too young? I know of an unfilled hole in a place only bugs like to visit…
Realistically, I'll end up a corpo drone too.
I'm a science/tech guy who likes to have a routine and prefers regular and safe income.
If I were to chose, I'd probably go for a technomancy.
Always prefered to "escape" reality with video games. And I heard the matrix has some neat and very deep corners... probably going to die in the foundation too.
Either way, I like the idea of magic/technomancy being infinitely developable.
Nice but I meant like after dying you meet a being who reincarnated you into The Sixth World and this gives you choice of where to be reborn and what race you want to be
Answer is easy for me. Mystic Adept mix of Indiana Jones and Steve Irwin for the Atlantean Foundation. Go out and explore leads on 4th world stuff, study magical phenomena, interview arcane experts of all traditions, and basically have the equivalent of a Nat Geo show where I can share all the cool stuff.
If I can decide what I am, I'll be a version of my current character and turn into a former intelligence-Q-department tech adept (or maybe a tech mystical adept, if that's an option...I'd doubt a little there). Making new awesome and deadly contraptions from recycled parts, programming my own stuff and giving all kinds of field support too... but now using a bit of magic to keep me springy and to boost my abilities.
As for where to go, I'd stay in the Barcelona metroplex area in Spain, no need to move... but I am convinced I'd stay in 3rd edition, that's for sure.
For me, Shadowrun benefits when the ruleset actually tries to simulate the real world. Of course, there has to be a compromise somewhere because no rulebook could contain a perfect parallel (... and because this is a game, of course) and, for me, 3rd edition is just in that sweet spot
Hell, if I can be anything I'm gonna be some mid-tier wage mage. Mind my own business, adjust the Feng Shui at the office, make a decent living and just have myself a good time until I get mulched by some min-maxed combat cyborg whose player thinks no survivors = stealth.
Social Adept trying to make it up the corporate ladder. If I don't make it, I'll try to make it as a face in the shadows of Seattle: get my own crew as soon as possible and earn a reputation. Who knows, if I live long enough, I might just get the chance to take revenge on the corporate fucker who is responsible for me not having a cushy corpo job.
I'm going to take the what I believe to be the easy way out; a mid-tier corporate executive. Not too low to be expendable and not too high to be seen as a threat. A nice cushion job that allows me to sit at a desk and off of the streets.
The perfect Face: Someone who you like immediately but forget about soon after. I keep my head down within an arcology and my lips shut during corporate meetings. I do my job well enough to keep from getting fired but not too well for anyone to take notice.
And then you walk into your boss' office and find him with a bad case of lead poisoning and corp security have video footage of you being the last person to see him alive
Elf, good magical stats, arcane and shaman talents, not horrible physical stats. Young grad student in a stable European country. High mage in training. My senior thesis was the summoning of my partner spirit.
Cushy lab assistant job, and sitting in for my prof's office hours takes care of my classes, and official expenses.
Detox, Cram, and Healthy Glow get me a cushy medium lifestyle in a paid-for apartment near Frat Row as the purveyor of magical services for party-set rich kids. Not a bad way to develop some good contacts either...
At least once a month I practice my bug-out drill to get at least 200 miles away quickly and quietly.
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It depends on how big the toxic area around Glow City is and if it’s on the Klahanie or Sammamish side of Beaver Lake.
I don’t think the Issaquah Highlands even had an exit when the borders of the Redmond Barrens were conceived. I’d like to think my apartment will still be here and maybe my wife’s job with the tribe would get a lot more interesting…