I played a game of Shadowrun last night. And I have to say, it was rather interesting.
We actually did a couple small missions, which always seemed to end up with things exploding. Generally, in Shadowrun, we play with good-ish characters who avoid killing and try to find creative ways to solve the problem. This time, we're tired of preserving lives, and we're actually playing an evil-style party. And I have to say, it's a lot of fun.
One of the missions we had was to break up a party of tree-huggers who were protesting some de-forestation. There were about 50 of them, and half of them were chained to trees. So what do we do?
1. The stealth guy (me) goes around (invisibly), fixing the locks so that they can never be opened
2. The mechanic rigs up their cars with explosives
3. The stealth guy (me!) douses the ones locked to trees with gasoline
4. The two weapon guys open fire randomly into the crowd of them. A couple take shots back, but very few of them escape
5. The stealth guy (me!!) throws a match into the gasoline
So long story short -- the ones chained to trees wildly tried to escape, as they burnt up. They couldn't, of course. The ones that weren't chained tried fighting back a bit, but couldn't even hurt the weakest guy (me). Then the ones that could still walk either made a run for their cars (BOOM!!) or tried to run down the road towards town, where we ran them over on our way out.
So yeah -- playing with malicious characters is sort of fun, once in awhile.
