Re: So why would anyone become a shadowrunner, anyway?

On 11/16/06, pentaj2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 <pentaj2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> But, still. Why would he become a shadowrunner? (I know, maybe it
> means I should go with another character concept, but...Eh, I dunno.
> Something in me feels stubborn.)
>
> Why would *anybody* become a shadowrunner, actually?

So he can be played by a PC and go dungeon-delving for treasure... I
mean, go infiltrating secret research facilities for money :).

A bit more seriously, a jobless but law-abiding ex-cop who did pretty
well in college and who was only fired because of an administrative
****-up doesn't look like shadowrunner material. He'd probably be able
to find employment in some other security firm in very short order,
and carry on with his life.

The way I see things, shadowrunners are those people whose outlook on
life is different enough from that of lawful society, gangs,
governments and cor****ations that they're not part of any of those
groups. They're too independent to serve any of them, but for some
reason not independent enough to do things on their own initiative
without being hired for it. The "not independent enough" thing is
purely a metagame concern, since it would screw up the traditional
"mission" structure that most SR adventures are built around.

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