[CanRay]

Just make "The Punisher", and, hey, you've just made a typical Shadowrunner. 

That's actually the aim my gf had with her weapon specialist.  A totally mundane character that can kill the crap out of anyone and anything that she crosses paths with.  So far, the project is progressing nicely.

Nice to know.

"God made man, Sam Colt made Men Equal." as the saying goes.

[Dead Monky]

Nice to know.

"God made man, Sam Colt made Men Equal." as the saying goes.

Pimped out guns, creative tactics, and high explosives are quite good at leveling the playing field. 

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Fixed my tag errors.

[Critias]

And a little Edge from time to time.   

[Crimsondude]

A comics podcast was discussing him and mentioned that Frank's superpower is anger (He would absolutely be a Red Lantern in DC, which is saying something considering Earth's RL is a Russian Blue cat). Paraphrasing, one of the guys described it as "Imagine the angriest you've ever been in your life. That's Frank when he gets up in the morning." SR and Punisher also have a direct link through the fantastic Tim Bradstreet (It'd have been awesome if he and Alex Ross had pieces in the 20th anniversary book).

The thing about the Punisher is that Matt Fraction's and especially Rick Remender's run showed what it would take for Frank to exist in the regular Marvel universe. And then he pissed off Osborn so much that the entirety of HAMMER was sent to hunt him for 24 hours and he was sliced up to become a Frankenstein monster -- because shit like that happens in the core Marvel universe all the time.

The cool thing about SR's various aspects is that magic is a real help in replicating superhumans.

Speaking of which, the blogger MightyGodKing had an interesting series of thoughts on Dr. Strange that I think would be an interesting tone and style to run as a type of Shadowrun magic campaign. The gist is that he knows certain "easy" spells and magic, but for really complicated actions in his role as defender of reality it would involve him working as essentially a Face negotiating favors and deals with powerful spirits to do the job. In SR it would be in the form of dealing with powerful free spirits and Totem spirits among other things.

[CanRay]

How to describe a Shadowrun fight between Adepts:  "Punisher Vs. The Russian". 

Adept Vs. Cyberzombie:  "Punisher Vs. The Russian, Round Two".  With a second Adept guest star, Spider-Man!

Shadowrun Vehicular Combat:  The Punisher One-Shot:  Hot Rods of Death.

Old Shadowrunners demonstrating how to discipline a bad Mr. Johnson:  Col. Nick Fury taking his belt off around a bunch of Generals.

[Crimsondude]

I don't read the comic anymore but I understand this latest issue of Punisher MAX has a brutally violent fight between Frank and Bullseye. And I mean brutal by MAX standards.

[The_Gun_Nut]

That actually sounds awesome.

Oddly enough, I can see a Deadpool character coming out of SR.  Someone makes a spirit pact and can't die for a while (or consumes an awakened drug to get the same effect), goes insane from spirit talking into his head.  Hijinks ensue.

[Crimsondude]

I meant to mention it before, but one thing that Economist article about reputation management does is provide some depth and background so that I may actually give some thought to the European aristocrat/titled noble cabal for once.

[Dead Monky]

Oddly enough, I can see a Deadpool character coming out of SR.  Someone makes a spirit pact and can't die for a while (or consumes an awakened drug to get the same effect), goes insane from spirit talking into his head.  Hijinks ensue.

I could probably make Deadpool in ShadowRun.  Not so sure how to make some of my other favorite characters.  Like the GLA.

[Critias]

One of my local gaming group, who's new to gaming in general and had never played Shadowrun before, got hauled in as a playtester for Ancient Pawns.  It seemed like a good idea at the time, especially since AP is going into the convention mission pack stuff, and made specifically for con gaming (where sometimes you get someone who's totally new to the game).

He randomly pulled the Weapons Specialist pre-gen, saw that they had guns and two katanas, and kind of went into Deadpool mode.  I tried to explain that his character was a generalist and kind of a "support combatant" (largely because the Weapon Specialist pre-gen could be made a hojillion times better by a little chrome), but he was in full-on Wade Wilson mindset, leaping into the fray, wisecracking, and trying to skewer stuff with his katanas instead of really listening to what was going on or paying attention to what his character was actually good at.  A dwarf KO'ed him with one punch, mid-adventure, and he toned it down a little after that.

Ahhh, good times.

[Rockopolis]

Hmm...I once played in a Star Wars game using Shadowrun rules.  Ah, the joys of playing a gangsta cybered-up Street Jedi...

[savaze]

The Tick made an appearance in one of the games I played in. He seemed to fit in that not quite right in the head street sammie kinda way...

[hobgoblin]

Meh, i blame the change in RPG fandom on the people that railed against white wolf to the point that they redefined RPG as tag team story telling. Suddenly everyone was to be the GM, or the GM was a evil dictator. And if you where not telling deep, soul searching stories you where having "bad wrong fun". When some start classifying others in the fandom as retarded for not "getting" their creative genius, you know things have hit rock bottom and continued digging.

[CanRay]

I have creative genius?

Why has no one told me this yet?

[Patrick Goodman]

You didn't get the memo?