Spirits make great back-up, ambushers...
Also, concealed sentry guns (Narcoet, gas spray, SMG, LMG, Assault Cannon)...these can scale to your game, no problem.
Sidenote, who is dumb enough to mug a troll for a bag of chinese food?
Quote from: Dakka on <03-03-11/1237:39>Sidenote, who is dumb enough to mug a troll for a bag of chinese food?The guy that nobody likes but who is desperate to fulfill his gang initiation so he can "be respected"?
For gangers in an alley sure. For a climactic battle? I think the OP was referring to the larger scale battles, not stuff like getting mugged.
Quote from: Dakka on <03-03-11/1237:39>Sidenote, who is dumb enough to mug a troll for a bag of chinese food?A hungry Troll?A gang of Orks?Gang Initiation?Shadowrunners on the down low and can't get to their hidden reserves because of monitoring?
Quote from: Dakka on <03-03-11/1237:39>For gangers in an alley sure. For a climactic battle? I think the OP was referring to the larger scale battles, not stuff like getting mugged. It still needs to make sense - I never just pile on enemies because I want a climatic battle, to me it still needs to make sense.Two teams of highly trained cybered up elite units with heavy magic supports showing up to recover a 10k data-file doesn't for instance
Quote from: CanRay on <03-03-11/2014:38>Quote from: Dakka on <03-03-11/1237:39>Sidenote, who is dumb enough to mug a troll for a bag of chinese food?A hungry Troll?A gang of Orks?Gang Initiation?Shadowrunners on the down low and can't get to their hidden reserves because of monitoring?Once played a very low-power SR game (2nd ed, I think) where we literally started as no-good gangers. We would definitely have tried to mug the troll for food.....
The troll beat up the gangers pretty badly btw (as would be expected by a troll physical adept versus 4 lowlife gangers) Once back to the hide-out where the other runners where waiting, a huge (2 hours long) role-playing argument started between the runners about whether or not he should just have handed over the bag to the poor gangers and bought a new one.Was a good time as a GM, I just sat back and watched - I love when my players create their own content