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I've seen a number of products around that let people run DnD games with the equivalent of an online or virtual tabletop. Stuff that keeps track of positions, dice rolls, etc. I wanted to know if there is anything that works for Shadowrun?

There's a few that can do it, I think. Just look for 'virtual tabletops' and go from there. You might need to do more work yourself, though...

You could drop by the S-Run community's IRC channel and ask around. I think most people there are just using IRC and a dicebot, but you never know.

Maptool is an open source virtual tabletop that I imagine could work well for any system. It can handle square grids or hexes.

I think Kloogewerks may have had a module for SR... I haven't sued it in years, though.

Balance wrote:I think Kloogewerks may have had a module for SR... I haven't sued it in years, though.

That's a very GW slip of the tongue/keyboard... I assume you're not bragging about your litigious nature but instead meant used.

Whatever works for D&D systems (other than the official D&D tabletop if that ever came out) should work for shadowrun with a bit more work. Most of those systems let you import small pics for characters and maps. I don't know if I'm imagining a market for something that doesn't exist but I'm surprised no one has made something like a virtual tabletop for the indie channel on xbox live. Every tabletop gamer I know except one has either a PS3 or Xbox, both of which have integral voice chat. I'd definitely sink a few bucks into a program like that over xbox live. I suspect that the closed playground that Microsoft keeps would not allow for uploading custom maps and pics which would limit the graphical options to whatever the xbox camera could capture.

Yes, used.