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

On 11/16/06, Brett Ritter <swiftone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> On 11/16/06, Zebulin M <zebulingod@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> > services for another "run" and another. Pretty soon he's a "bodyguard"
> and
> > he starts to realise maybe he has to work outside the law at times.
>
> A good step here (for ?"good guy" concepts) is to have the "right
> thing" not be the "legal thing".  Once the character has accepted
> that, the character is well on the way to moving to a more "my rules
> are more im****tant than 'their' rules" mindset.  That's the path of
> the Shadowrunner.  Not necessarily immoral, but certainly illegal, and
> when one spends a lot of time in such grey areas, other grey areas
> present themselves.
>
> Frankly, I find the moral dilemmas of shadowruns to be the best parts,
> but my most common players prefer to play amoral characters.
>
>
I agree wholeheartedly. This is an excellent jumping off point, IMO (even
if
I did come up with it, and so am biased). In fact, I think I might have
just
had the flash of creativity needed to start playing SR again, having taken
a
rather long vacation due, largely, to World of Warcrack.

Zebulin