Shadow Blades Running Dark

How to apply Blades to running Shadowrun's setting?

Physical	Magic	Tech	Social
Athletics	Conjuring	Computer	Con
Firearms	Sorcery	Mechanical	Sway
Stealth	Astral	Biological	Negotiate

still 12, but now more, smaller, saving throws

So strain retention caps at a slightly lower level, and there are more groups. I'm ok with that.

shadowrunesque

By starting with SR's skill lists, we're backpedalling from the style that Blades and Fate-Accelerated use instead of skills. In Blades, it doesn't matter whether you're using a gun, sword or fist -- if your intent is to engage in pitched combat, you roll Skirmish. By reverting to "skills," we are allowing a PC to focus points on how they approach problems, instead of tying dice to goals. As retraining players to think in Blade's "actions" paradigm has been a tax on table time, I'm not bothered by its absence.

I'm thinking of removing the separation between "these numbers are for actions" and "these numbers are for saving throws" -- that allows PCs to say "fooey to being a generalist" where desired. Such specialization feels genre appropriate, and it avoids the hacker needing a point of doctor to boost Tech. (This is already a non-problem in Blades despite what a quick read of the Resist Roll rules might suggest.)