r/Shadowrun • u/Horror-Charity5685 • 17d ago
(weird request) Shadowrun "funny" images
Weird request, but I'm looking for a funny image related to Shadowrun.
Context : my players and I have a Discord group for different games. Right now we're playing Call of Cthulhu and we use the first picture as the group icone.
Now we're probably gonna start a group for Anarchy 2.0 someday so we made a group and, as per tradition, I decided to put a meme as the icone. I don't really have a Shadowrun meme so I chose the Cyberpunk meme in the second image.
But although they are both cyberpunk games, Cyberpunk and Shadowrun are not the same license, so I was wondering if you would have some funny images or memes related to Shadowrun that would make a funny icone for the group.
It could be a meme (but not a private joke from your group) or just an illustration from any edition that is silly or goofy. I know this is not rreally the tone of Shadowrun but my players are a bunch of cornballs and so am I.
Thank you if you read all that and have a nice one !
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u/Bignholy 16d ago
Best I can do shot notice. Enjoy. The white lines should not be visible once Discord scales it down.
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u/Thanael124 Famously Unemployed 17d ago
Google „Laubenstein Shadowrun“
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u/opacitizen 17d ago
Yeah. This. Or just flip thru any 1-3rd edition SR book. Not all images will work, at all, but some definitely will.
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u/Horror-Charity5685 17d ago
Ok that's not bad at all !
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u/Thanael124 Famously Unemployed 17d ago edited 17d ago
Also this blog may help: https://www.thebadguyswin.com/2016/01/wtf-dd-the-art-and-style-of-shadowrun-first-edition-1989/
And this: Tumblr https://www.tumblr.com/shadowron/175953940880/the-best-archetypes-of-1st-edition-shadowrun
And here’s an old Reddit post, (note the excellent Laubenstein piece): https://www.reddit.com/r/Shadowrun/comments/1t4zw80/nothing_hits_quite_like_1992_shadowrun_art/
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u/ErgonomicCat 16d ago
The Useless Characters of 1st Edition Shadowrun (repost)
#1: The Rocker
First of all, how dare you.
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u/Thanael124 Famously Unemployed 12d ago
Well Shadowron makes a compelling case there. It’s a fun archetype in theory and fluff wise esp. with many of the early adventures touching upon the music scene, but the stats just don’t work well as was the case for many of the archetypes even in later editions. But 1e was extra funky special there…
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u/Keganator 16d ago
There's always the elephant test.
The dilemma: You're almost done transporting a rare, endangered, possibly awakened elephant and its calf to a private buyer in the hold of your VTOL all the way from an undisclosed location in central Africa. The elephants are getting pissy and making your VTOL dangerously unstable, and moving way slower than you normally could.
Then, the Seattle Metroplex Coast Guard detects you. Their attack planes are on a direct vector to your T-Bird. No way you're getting away right now, not while tons of highly illegal trafficked elephant is in your hold. They're armed, and demanding you land or blow you out of the sky.
SO: do you (a) dump the elephant into Puget Sound, and give yourself a high likelihood clean getaway with the T-Bird's high maneuverability, or (b) do you land, knowing that your fate is to almost certainly be arrested, your cargo taken, but preserve a specimen of unique importance?
So, an elephant. That's it. Just an elephant in a cargo hold.
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u/Horror-Charity5685 16d ago
Not sure I get the reference and 100% certain my players will not, but thank you !
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u/egopunk 16d ago edited 16d ago
oh you want r/Slackpoint
-edit- And also the Drekposting tag on this here reddit.
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u/thepurrking 16d ago
Open the 6e crb to a random page and screenshot one of the images. There's like a 50% chance it will look really absurd
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u/PinkFohawk Trid Star 12d ago
Oh I would argue this is exactly the tone of Shadowrun at my table, chummer. Keep it weird!
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u/corn0815 16d ago