also Shadowrun ain't [i]real[/i] cyberpunk.

real cyberpunk doesn't have dragons, or trolls, or magicky native americans. part of the draw of cyberpunk should be the closeness to a world of our own or of the near future. i can't really imagine a future where portions of the population suddenly become orcs. 

Shadowrun just tries for an appeal to a [i]wider audience[/i] by pasting in all the D&D stuff, but as a result the game becomes D&D with guns and computers