Archetypes

"If you think it's a trap, it is. If you don't think it's a trap, it is." - Street Proverb A game without classes Shadowrun is one of those few roleplaying games that have no classes. A character can basically developed in virtually every way accessible to it in the setting. Nonetheless it is possible to categorize a character into one of several Archetypes. For ease of understanding the more typical archetypes will be discussed here. Both from an in-game perspective and a players point of view. Mages: In Shadowrun the world has awakened to magic. All kinds of people can influence the world with spells, conjure spirits to do their bidding, create magical artifacts and travel into astral space and even the metaplanes. The Enhanced: Shadowrun is a cyberpunk setting. Metahumanity (races are discussed in another section) has shed the limitations of the flesh and enhances itself with cybernetically, bioengineered, nanotechnological and even genetic means. The Interfaced: This is another fantastic aspect of the game. Simsense allows a person to perceive strictly technological data directly through the brain. This allows for two major paths: using the Matrix (the global datanet) to run data heists on the sprawling megacorporations (in their employ or on your own) in the fully virtual world of the matrix and rigging (the direct neural control of vehicles through your brain) where the data input of a vehicle is translated into impulses that make the vehicle controlled by the rigger. Experiencing the vehicle like it was the drivers body. >>> FILE LISTING: More on Magic More on Enhancements More on Matrix More on Rigging Magical Traditions Enhanced Archetypes Decker Rigger Races The world of Shadowrun is awakened. Which for one means that magic works again. On the other hand it means that a certain percentage of the formerly purely human society shed their formerly human skins and change into something different. Some simply were born as another species, like elves ad dwarves, other changed by a process called goblinization. A horribly painfull process of the entire body restructuring to it's true form once the mana levels were sufficiently high. This resulted in several new races walking the earth. >>> FILE LISTING: Non-goblinized races Elves Dwarves Humans Goblinized races Orks Trolls Shadowrun-logo and content with friendly approval by Pegasus Spiele under licence of Catalyst Game Labs and Topps Company, Inc. © 2014 Toppy Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Shadowrun is a registered rademark of von Topps Company, Inc.