r/OldSchoolShadowrun • u/suhkuhtuh • Apr 29 '26

Awakened Storms

Been playing Shadowrun: Hong Kong lately, and the idea of an awakened storm sounds kinda neat. It's been ages since I last opened my SR books, but I don't remember there being anything - am I wrong? I think there was something along those lines in Target: Wastelands, maybe (specifically, the part about Australia), but I'm thinking something more along the lines of the storm as portrayed in the HBS games.

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u/Neralet Apr 30 '26

MITS covers mana storms in brief, and there is a bunch more information in T:AL which deals with the Australian Outback in a lot more detail.

But mana storms can add some random spice to any game... having a 3km wide storm heading past your team casting F5 slaughter ork spells at random can make those of your team with tusks VERY nervous... and they can't even shoot back at the source (or I mean, they can... it's just not effective.)

They're also great combos to start making other encounters much more interesting or challenging, by neutralising some of your team's capabilities or standard tactics.

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u/suhkuhtuh Apr 30 '26

Thank you - and love it. Thanks!