Quote from: Spike;257386Its the faaking POINT of Shadowrun... and you want to abstract it???

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Well.. yeah.

There is the kind of Shadowrun scenario which, although different in tone, isn't miles away in structure from a Star Wars or Deadlands adventure with a mix of action and intrigue, interaction with NPCs and with scenes which liberally skip forward in time and space to the next point of interest.  So the first scene might beon a Monday morning  at the harbour, the next Tuesday evening in seedy motel room and so on.

Then you get the other kind of scenario, which after the introduction is over,  the run itself is essentially a map-driven, room by room exploration of some corporate facility. That kind of game, for me, is really a variation of the dungeon crawl theme.

I may have misinterpreted the orignal poster, but what I thought they were saying is that while they liked the first kind of scenario they did not care for the second type, hence the suggestion of abstracting the latter for those times the logic of the adventure requires a bit of sneaky b&e.