Shadowrun Lore 101

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  • čas přidán 20. 08. 2024
  • Wherein we get into the real meat of things @ 01:38
    I was severely sleep deprived when I recorded this video, so that's why my shirt is white.
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Komentáře • 181

  • @scottbrowne9024
    @scottbrowne9024 Před rokem +38

    I was warned it was pre-beard. Somehow I didn't quite process it.

  • @MGSVxBreakpoint
    @MGSVxBreakpoint Před rokem +23

    My gf likes D&D, I like Cyberpunk.
    This seems like a perfect middle ground.

  • @MeisterUmbreon
    @MeisterUmbreon Před 6 lety +163

    Very interesting and nice Shadowrun history video. I was astonished by your very accurate pronounciation of "Feuerschwinge" and "Bundeswehr". Most native englishspeakers i heard butchered those german words.

    • @TheBurgerkrieg
      @TheBurgerkrieg  Před 6 lety +140

      That's because I'm German :D

    • @username12120
      @username12120 Před 6 lety +22

      You also swear like an Australian, it's why I subbed, that and I like your style of content, good background noise and it gives me something to think about.

    • @DetectiveAndrey
      @DetectiveAndrey Před 5 lety +30

      @@TheBurgerkrieg ,
      nice english then.

    • @aschaff3995
      @aschaff3995 Před 2 lety +1

      @@TheBurgerkrieg is there a place or way we can get any write up on what or where West marches is and how I can look through it for info?

    • @CoolerGuy121
      @CoolerGuy121 Před rokem +1

      Lol helps when you love in Germany 🇩🇪

  • @brycelynch2138
    @brycelynch2138 Před 3 lety +118

    Sadly, the creators of Shadowrun never really gave Terrence McKenna the credit he deserved for bringing that whole Mayan calendar thing into the cultural mind.

  • @deangoldenstar7997
    @deangoldenstar7997 Před 6 lety +27

    Ohh yes, the game where you can summon a ten meter tall fiery wildebeest that eats all your enemies before eating you, while a hacker fucks up a man's fake legs so he is uncontrolably jumping all over the place and a last guy is roasting some poor sods nuts with a tesla glove. I love it!

  • @leirynot
    @leirynot Před 7 lety +190

    CAS may have had the first female president, but the UCAS had a dragon one! For like... a day.

    • @matteodelgallo1983
      @matteodelgallo1983 Před 7 lety +7

      leirynot actually 3 hours IIRC

    • @TheTenshitobias
      @TheTenshitobias Před 7 lety +5

      Pretty sure Iceland had a female president before 2012

    • @leirynot
      @leirynot Před 7 lety +4

      No one cares about Thule. They're just a protectorate of the Trans-Polar Aleut.

    • @Ghostwalker2061
      @Ghostwalker2061 Před 6 lety +9

      It was 10 hours. That's how long Dunkelzahn was president.

    • @tatujuntunen7668
      @tatujuntunen7668 Před 6 lety +3

      Finland also had pretty early female president

  • @CoolerGuy121
    @CoolerGuy121 Před rokem +18

    I remember watching this video 5 years ago and now seeing that it's 5 years old it's just such a weird dilation of time.

  • @Grinnar
    @Grinnar Před 8 měsíci +5

    Shadowrun is about to hit a re-emergence. Also history is both divergent and convergent. About 6,000BC to 1990-ish is the convergence. Anything outside of that is the divergence. I just referred friends in gonna rope into playing with me as the GM to these videos. Thanks again!
    Edit: looking into open legends tomorrow.

  • @Ralndrath
    @Ralndrath Před 6 lety +56

    As a New Zealander I found your Australian accent hilarious lol.

  • @crazyrussiannhb
    @crazyrussiannhb Před 6 lety +17

    As a fan of Arcanum, you sold me on playing Shadowrun.

  • @whysoblind5039
    @whysoblind5039 Před 4 lety +28

    "There's a kingdom of racist elves in Oregon.... which.... to be honest there's not much of a change there." Lolllll XD

  • @picklefathernurgle2719
    @picklefathernurgle2719 Před 8 měsíci +2

    Watching the playlist of Shadowrun Lore: I was not prepared for Beardless Burgerkrieg, lol. His face is too smooth, give me back the face fuzz. XD

  • @LordOfTheObvious
    @LordOfTheObvious Před 7 lety +11

    This came out as i am doing my second run of the shadowrun games. It will be amazing to see this happan. Good luck my dude on runing the game.

  • @FettTheWatcher
    @FettTheWatcher Před rokem +6

    I would really love some new top down isometric Shadowrun games or a Cyberpunk 2077/Bethesda style Shadowrun game. That would be so awesome! Shadowrun has some of the best lore!

  • @nyxnox2135
    @nyxnox2135 Před rokem +2

    Oh christ it really is no beard Burger

  • @TheMarauderOfficial
    @TheMarauderOfficial Před 6 měsíci +1

    as an australian, ur aussie impression is spot on

  • @danielbaker5118
    @danielbaker5118 Před 5 lety +7

    i instantly subbed when you went australian

  • @matteodelgallo1983
    @matteodelgallo1983 Před 7 lety +21

    Hello, i'm new here, but I love Shadowrun, and I'd love to be able to create and play an interesting character, so if there's a slot open whenever, i'd play.

    • @TheBurgerkrieg
      @TheBurgerkrieg  Před 7 lety +2

      I'll put you on the list and figure out a way to talk when I return later this month.

    • @TheBurgerkrieg
      @TheBurgerkrieg  Před 7 lety +2

      If you want to join, DM me on Twitter @TheBurgerkrieg and we'll get everything sorted

  • @tiger33116
    @tiger33116 Před 7 lety +7

    Rather interesting. I'll keep my eye on how this works out.

  • @chriseggroll
    @chriseggroll Před 2 lety +5

    I've never played the p&p game, hard to find people that play it (go figure) but I love the novels. I'm re-reading the Secrets of Power trilogy at the moment.

  • @morriganlefay5438
    @morriganlefay5438 Před 4 lety +3

    Honestly I think even if you don't speak German the German Shadowrun wikis are STILL the better option. I can speak some, but I'll only be able to understand like half of what I'm reading so I just auto-translate it into English and it's still better than the empty ass English Shadowrun wikis, even with the weird grammar that comes with translation software.

  • @dylanjoyce8104
    @dylanjoyce8104 Před 11 měsíci +1

    Pre beard burger looks like medieval pageboy

  • @cateatscanary6583
    @cateatscanary6583 Před 10 dny

    I’m late to this party.. but I brought some good pan for everyone to enjoy. Awesome shirt, Burger.

  • @drewlong3201
    @drewlong3201 Před 4 lety +2

    I came for shadowrun content. Subbed because of Drunken peasants shirt.

  • @GrauW0lf
    @GrauW0lf Před 4 lety +1

    i watched once for the content, i came back another 100 times for the first 20 seconds.

  • @Burori1
    @Burori1 Před 3 měsíci

    Gonna be playing my first Shadowrun 5e game in a bit. These vids got me into the game :D
    EDIT: 1st session with the group went well. There were rats (still are), a Poop Elemental, radiation sickness and we just started a mutiny on a ship, who's leader/captain has gone nutty due to some ancient artifact. And she also became a Ratking. Next session's gonna be an interesting fight. I'm playing a non-mage, a Street Samurai who's akin to John Wick, but an Elf. Who's been around since the 1960s. So he has quite the life story he can share with the party, should they ask :D Also Snipers keep trying to beat him at Sniping, due to his rep.

  • @MorriganJade
    @MorriganJade Před 6 lety +2

    I recently found a supplement hack for The Sprawl to run Shadowrun in The Sprawl. So I'm basically searching lore videos now for background knowledge :D

  • @StrangeCreed
    @StrangeCreed Před rokem

    Well done. You made picking up a book and reading the lore more tedious.

  • @radaro.9682
    @radaro.9682 Před 7 měsíci

    I find the "they take vengeance" storyline troubling. It has a lot of roots in the "white replacement theory". And as we know, thats just bunk.

  • @Tenezill
    @Tenezill Před 6 lety +1

    Good sir even tho it's "just" a rant your editing is great :D and another channel to steal my time .

    • @Tenezill
      @Tenezill Před 6 lety

      also your face @13:48 :D

  • @Datswetoddid
    @Datswetoddid Před 6 lety +1

    I think I might run a shadowrun campaign using starfinder rules

  • @LeonarldoLaurence
    @LeonarldoLaurence Před 3 lety

    sasquat is just a dude wearing a proto-ghillie suits for hunting animals.

  • @jaspermooren5883
    @jaspermooren5883 Před 10 měsíci

    To be fair to the French, that border all the nuclear reactors are built on is the Rhine. And you need a ton of water for nuclear plants and big rivers tend to, you know, have a ton of water.

  • @anthonyandrade5851
    @anthonyandrade5851 Před rokem +1

    It's actually brilliant to deal with the topic of racism in a context of different sentient species; since that stress the point that the genetic makeup is not basis for personhood. In real world, turns out that the genetic differences between etnicities is dismal; but if science had found the opposite it should have no impact on your moral attitude towards anybody. Otherwise, we should consider it was ok to treat people whatever we want before we concluded the human genome programm

  • @mathewmcgee8029
    @mathewmcgee8029 Před rokem

    You got me with the Australia rant.

  • @ogrehaslayers605
    @ogrehaslayers605 Před 3 měsíci

    I think I would enjoy being an actual Ork.

  • @McKay416
    @McKay416 Před 10 měsíci

    OMG! My next Shadowrun Campaign is going to be based in Australia!!!! THANK YOU!!!
    Also... I need to learn German.

  • @johnshaffer3405
    @johnshaffer3405 Před 4 lety

    The Humanis rant was the funniest part of this video.

  • @AcidropOSY
    @AcidropOSY Před 4 lety +1

    SMOKE PAN EVERY DAY

  • @elijahwilensky3318
    @elijahwilensky3318 Před 4 měsíci

    0:32 it would, in fact, become the norm

  • @AustinBeeman
    @AustinBeeman Před 3 lety

    These videos are very helpful. Thanks for Making them.

  • @versebuchanan512
    @versebuchanan512 Před 10 měsíci

    I once heard someone say Shadowrun is Cyberpunk for nerds and I never, till this very day decades later, knew how to feel about that.

  • @Joshuazx
    @Joshuazx Před 3 měsíci

    You say Open Legends is easy to learn somewhere in the 19 or 20 minute of the video. I must have a learning disability because I see it as very complicated.

  • @bjorncorvin4568
    @bjorncorvin4568 Před rokem +1

    14:05-14:22 as an Australian this is hilariously accurate

  • @degant1239
    @degant1239 Před 6 lety +2

    I wonder what happened to Poland in Shadowrun

    • @MeneltirFalmaro
      @MeneltirFalmaro Před 6 lety +3

      Same thing as always... It's not very fun being located between Russia and the rest of Europe.

    • @degant1239
      @degant1239 Před 6 lety +3

      So even in a world filled with magic and shit, we are in one of the worst positions a country can find itself in..... to be honest I was kind of expecting that

  • @adastra3147
    @adastra3147 Před 6 lety +1

    great video, I'm playing Apocalypse World 2 and I will absolutely steal some ideas from Shadowrun, it would run so good with the Powered By The Apocalypse system!

  • @zachsilby4569
    @zachsilby4569 Před 2 lety +1

    Coming here from playing the Shadowrun RPG games on my PC.

  • @murderbunnies
    @murderbunnies Před 2 měsíci

    This is the first video I saw of yours. I honestly thought at the beginning that your accent was you doing a bit.

  • @filthycasual6118
    @filthycasual6118 Před 5 lety

    A smoke pan shirt? Glad to see I'm not the only person who bought one.

  • @deathstrikegaming4730

    As an Australian I can confirm literally everything said is just normal life here

  • @og_3rd_st_saint_gat
    @og_3rd_st_saint_gat Před 6 lety +4

    I sometimes wish shadowrun was real if it was I would be in the yakuza my street name dr bright i would be a decker/shaman/btl dealer

    • @MrRourk
      @MrRourk Před 6 lety

      Every day I ask where is my cerebral booster, and chip Jack?

    • @baker90338
      @baker90338 Před 5 lety

      Personally I would prefer to be a street samurai with the street name of “Markus Duo”. The idea of the character is a rifle wielding face character in a ballistic weaved suit.

    • @Plankensen
      @Plankensen Před 4 lety +1

      You would Probably be a shopclerk

  • @shanepatrick6836
    @shanepatrick6836 Před rokem

    “The Middle East is a… sh*t hole.”
    Me: Yes, but what is the region like in Shadow Run?!”

  • @fumarc4501
    @fumarc4501 Před 2 lety +3

    Fascinating.
    Subscribed.
    Nice video. I’ll check out some more.

  • @nickdeagle1155
    @nickdeagle1155 Před 2 lety

    first video of yours ive seen may be the last who knows but good work on this one

  • @MFinGonzo
    @MFinGonzo Před 3 lety +1

    I like your canadian shirt.

  • @rod4309
    @rod4309 Před 6 měsíci

    I

  • @guydeuche666
    @guydeuche666 Před 4 lety

    best intro ever

  • @loki.odinson
    @loki.odinson Před 3 lety +1

    Your voice is almost identical to the original guy who did the "Monster Mash" song.

  • @MrRourk
    @MrRourk Před 6 lety +1

    1st edition when karma was king. GM's used to ask for dice rolls. I would be like you see how many karma points I have? It just happens. Seriously. We don't have time for your dice rolling.
    The good old days of checking the gm with fast talk and intimidation.

  • @JonathanBotts
    @JonathanBotts Před rokem

    Brilliant

  • @Mistwingz
    @Mistwingz Před 6 lety

    I LOVE this idea! Because i fuckin' LOVE Shadowrun AND Open Legend. Too bad I'm too late to sign up.

  • @The_Mocker
    @The_Mocker Před 2 měsíci

    I just wanted some lore for the video games im playing but aughhhhhh yeaaaaaaah lotta presure main

  • @floridamancode_e2673
    @floridamancode_e2673 Před 5 lety +2

    you forgot to mention that the UCAS government at the time of the 2nd great ghost dance was kind of putting natives in concentration camps. exploding super volcanoes at that point is almost kinda justified

    • @baker90338
      @baker90338 Před 5 lety

      Although it might have started the horrors waking up the end times

    • @floridamancode_e2673
      @floridamancode_e2673 Před 5 lety +1

      @@baker90338 details details

    • @barrymcballs9031
      @barrymcballs9031 Před 5 lety +1

      Well, if they didn't want to be put in concentration camps, they shouldn't have protested. Silly natives.

  • @TimdeVisser86
    @TimdeVisser86 Před rokem +1

    As much as I love the concept of native Americans getting their land back by any means necessary, it strikes me as odd and a little bit of projection to suggest that every single tribe would engage in genocide in retaliation. I've spent quite a while with native American activists and although I'm sure power could corrupt a lot of them, anger against individuals is not an emotion I've seen a lot of them express. Also if you know anything about recent first nation history you would know that state violence against them is by no means in the past, not to mention the fact that the Canadian and United states were largely successful in destroying their societies by extorting, kidnapping and abusing the survivors of traditional genocide. Most elder first nations people I've met have survived some sort of institutional physical, emotional and sexual abuse from churches supported by state officials in the last 60 years. A significant percentage of natives was taken from their parents in the '60's because they were natives and this disqualified them from being good parents. Environmental genocide is still going on, it's not about what happened between our ancestors.

    • @TimdeVisser86
      @TimdeVisser86 Před rokem

      Just to be clear: I'm not accusing you of anything. These videos are great, they're quite old, I watch them a lot. This is just context most people have little way of knowing, that I think would complicate any lore doctoring that I would do in this case (in a good way).

    • @lolusuck386
      @lolusuck386 Před rokem +2

      One thing Burger didn't mention in this video about that whole situation was that the US and Canada were literally rounding up all Native American tribes and putting them into concentration camps. The break up of the USA and Canada into the nations of the Shadowrun world was done at a peace summit in Denver after a 4 year long violent war. Lorewise, it wasn't so much ancestral retribution as it was direct retaliation for very overt and actively genocidal acts.
      In comparison to the actual tribes of the US and Canada, it's probably still a pretty problematic depiction but I'm not knowledgeable enough to say whether that's the case.

  • @ronjerusalem8013
    @ronjerusalem8013 Před 7 lety +4

    Are there any free slots left?

    • @TheBurgerkrieg
      @TheBurgerkrieg  Před 7 lety

      If you want to join, DM me on Twitter @TheBurgerkrieg and we'll get everything sorted

  • @bowtosquirrels
    @bowtosquirrels Před 6 lety +1

    I reaaaaaaaally hope this video can help me understand this setting, because I just c a n ' t.

    • @bowtosquirrels
      @bowtosquirrels Před 6 lety

      and it diiiiid not. Fuck this was my last hope.

    • @Dave0G
      @Dave0G Před 6 lety

      It's easy - just take Palladium Rifts and turn it down from 11 to about 7

    • @bowtosquirrels
      @bowtosquirrels Před 6 lety

      If I had played that, maybe I could. Nope. Rip.

  • @AngelSaintCloud
    @AngelSaintCloud Před 2 měsíci

    Ha I time traveled to say hi

  • @thebowiththemost119
    @thebowiththemost119 Před 2 lety

    Woah, this sounds interesting.

  • @kierancreighton96
    @kierancreighton96 Před 2 měsíci

    Boris Nonsense

  • @drakashrakenburgproduction5369

    Background music?

  • @LandB2015
    @LandB2015 Před 2 lety

    I'm Aussie that was perfect spot on

  • @iptf
    @iptf Před 4 lety

    I see you have all three mass effect books.

  • @niccolomachiavelli1512

    It sounds great. I’m down

  • @freakfilicon
    @freakfilicon Před 4 lety

    wow, this guy is a good orator and just enough funny to earn my sub.
    gonna watch all 4 vids before starting dragonfall (I had it on steam for over a year now, I think it's about time I play it)

  • @sentientbean1
    @sentientbean1 Před 4 lety

    Best Aussie accent and vocab!

  • @noctusdoesthings
    @noctusdoesthings Před 5 lety +8

    A german talking about race and racism... That ended better than I expected.

  • @stevenjohansen3827
    @stevenjohansen3827 Před 2 lety

    You think Shadowrun has a bad system? Try Earthdawn.

  • @blackcorp0001
    @blackcorp0001 Před 6 lety

    Bright pretty much stole the whole Shadowrun thing except for the fact there is no hacking...yet

    • @oliviawilliams6204
      @oliviawilliams6204 Před 5 lety +1

      Also a very shitty world building
      I’d like a ShadowRun anthology show

  • @Tonio445
    @Tonio445 Před 4 lety +1

    Gosh! Were you high while recording this? XD

  • @charleahvanderheyden5816

    I will give you any money's and a copy of sheepdos album on vinyl still in plastic for that god damn gamecube.

  • @rytheguy99
    @rytheguy99 Před 6 lety

    I want to play this now

  • @thefeleapz4144
    @thefeleapz4144 Před 5 lety +1

    Hey Burger, isn't Shadowrun a multiplayer shooter in the early 2000's? Just checking

    • @orionassante3386
      @orionassante3386 Před 5 lety +1

      It was, an unfortunate blemish on the IP which Mitch Gitelman apologized for, not that it was really his fault.

  • @anthonyballard8468
    @anthonyballard8468 Před 3 lety +1

    Sounds like living in Seattle to meh.

    • @anthonyballard8468
      @anthonyballard8468 Před 3 lety +1

      "#$@&#+* Sasquatchs start; start popping up all over the place."

  • @knightdegrey6339
    @knightdegrey6339 Před 6 lety

    This would be a great book

  • @allones3078
    @allones3078 Před 3 lety

    be cool if you do more shadowrun...

  • @Ghostwalker2061
    @Ghostwalker2061 Před 6 lety

    If Shadowrun were to exist today, Lofwyr would have bought out Google and...fav.me/d79ivt0 all the memes that come with the internet. And considering Saeder-Krupp is one of the corporations that owns nuclear weapons, I'm sure all the memes and cat videos flooding his inbox, Lofwyr would eventually press the button.

  • @Marianojoey
    @Marianojoey Před 6 lety +1

    dude, your voice... you are awesome! :D
    Also, great vid. :)

  • @TheMarrethiel
    @TheMarrethiel Před rokem

    13:58 rofl... [reaches for his kangaroo totem\

  • @flavortown3781
    @flavortown3781 Před 6 lety

    I believe that their is anway to play in a d20 system

  • @Morec0
    @Morec0 Před 6 lety +1

    #HumanisForever

  • @socialsuicide5734
    @socialsuicide5734 Před 6 lety +2

    I love it when the non-charismatic pretend they are bubbling over with charisma... I. really. do. :/ Animate, my puppet which is my body! Animate, please.

  • @MrRourk
    @MrRourk Před 6 lety

    Don't forget thorny elves with rose fetishes.

  • @beholder9
    @beholder9 Před 2 lety

    Australian or Liverpool accent?

  • @saigongeeks8350
    @saigongeeks8350 Před 2 lety +1

    Hey, thanks a lot for this video.
    I'm designing my own cyberpunk world for homebrew pathfinder and this helped tremendously!

  • @Boomtendo4tw
    @Boomtendo4tw Před 5 lety

    freakin hasbro had to buy all the ttrpg

  • @algumnomeaihehe
    @algumnomeaihehe Před 4 lety

    haha naughty words = funny! he said frick xd

  • @RunningOnAutopilot
    @RunningOnAutopilot Před 2 lety

    The system is fine the formatting is so bad that you will find endless edits of the rules in collage bringing all the combat rules into one place instead of across the whole book
    However I will concede that the dwarves are badly designed I challenge you to remember one time someone played a dwarf

  • @CSSUcommand
    @CSSUcommand Před 5 lety

    I see a few Eve Online books in the background. Do you play Eve Online?

  • @Bongwater33
    @Bongwater33 Před 4 lety

    dude- Oregon has legal weed 3$ a gram/ 60$ an ounce...those racist elves are incredibly stoned!

  • @overdrive36
    @overdrive36 Před 3 lety

    I do play this game since 1994, and you made me laugh, but fits as ass on shithole. Count me in as “liker”... greetings from Czech.