Copacabana Nights | A Beginner's Shadowrun Oneshot

Creating your character

There will be 4 pre-made characters to choose from. Their backstories, pronouns, and appearances can all be modified if you so wish! Listed here from easiest to hardest to learn: {Guns} Goldie (short for Golden Wattle), a badass black grannie who looks innocent, but don't let her cane fool you. Her arms can whip out deadly shotgun augmentations at any moment, and her katana lies within her cane itself. She seeks to retire to the Carribean. {Blood Magic Assassin} Dropbear, a big gruff man with blood magic coursing through his body to make him better at doing what he does best -- slicing people with an axe. He's divorced with a daughter, Joey. {Drone Guy} Possum, a mid-50s man just trying to get through life. With a tragic loss in recent memory, he was given an Accessibility Bot, Lola, to look after his mental, physical, and social health. Naturally, he installed her with the most illegal, hidden weaponry money can buy. She will do anything to make sure he is safe and happy. {Hacker & Face} Gecko is a methodical hacker and face of the party. She's great at making a first impression before being forgotten moments later. She works for a company who's identity she's unaware, but has been tasked to gather the group together for another mission from her Mr. Johnson.

Preparing for the session

We will play on Discord and Owlbear Rodeo. Discord requires an account, but Owlbear Rodeo doesn't need anything from you except the link I will provide. A working microphone, headphones, and internet connection is required, as well as a camera. If you don't have/want to turn on your camera however, that's okay too, but I do heavily encourage it! Otherwise, you don't need to know anything about the system! We will figure it all out together.

What Charlotte the Green brings to the table

Shadowrun is a very complex system. Therefore, I run heavily with the Rule of Cool to make things run smoothly. I indulge in roleplay, and as this setting is on the lighter side, with some comedic hijinks too. Combat is probable, but not definite. I do a lot of character voices (especially for the setting of Australia). I like to set up a Discord bot to play ambient music that you can control the volume of to your liking. I love to create atmosphere, tone, and have a good time as that's what this is all about!

Homebrew rules

Notably, Shadowrun usually has an Astral Plane apart from the real and the digital. Since this is set in my homebrew setting, the Astral Plane is more of a flesh dimension and leans more heavily into gore, mutation, and body horror. These heavy themes won't be included in the game, but are the backdrop and one distinct difference to normal Shadowrun games.

How Charlotte the Green creates a safe table

This will be lighter than Shadowrun usually is, to be both introductory and accessible. Possum's backstory does involve themes of grief and the loss of a loved one, but this can be ignored/modified. At a bare minimum, I always have an X card at my tables. I will have a special chat that only I can see messages in which you can type an X, N, or O in. I will also have an anonymous survey if you have anything you want to make sure isn't in the game/clarify/etc. You can always message me as well if you're comfortable.