"R U TRIGGERED" and all its subvariants were radioactive toxic waste and turned a valid and important psychological concept into bullying vector that for a time had nearly universal acceptance.
I still see vestiges of "le epic bacon" out there but it's mostly confined to aging :grillman: types and some :up-yours-woke-moralists: cultists and a few contrarian carninist edgelords that want to "trigger the vegans." Yes I know all of the above have a lot of overlap.
I one managed to roll 56 dice (before crits) on a single spell. But it was some ability that let you use life to add power to your spells and I killed my character doing it so my party could escape.
I think some of the older editions allowed for higher dicepools like that, yeah. 5e mostly tightened it down, though an edgelord build can unsustainably push into the 30s if paired with strong enough minmaxing and with lucky exploding crits could theoretically get up into the 40s.
Yeah that was 1e and it still took my whole life pool to pull it off.
I miss shadow run but I don't miss adding all those dice. Do new additions make it easier? I'm sure it would be easy on VTT but I don't think any of them have great support for it.
I always just used chummer's built in dice roller or a discord bot. I think roll20 has full shadowrun 5e integration but I hate its interface so much that I stopped using it and would just use a discord channel with occasionally posted reference material instead.
New editions are so poorly written that most people who are fans of Shadowrun don't recommend playing them. I haven't checked out 6e, but 5e's layout was abysmal. Stuff like sections of rules that frequently reference other rules that were 30+ pages apart for no reason, and lots of links to the index were wrong.
When I ran Shadowrun for around 1-2 years a while ago, we gradually built up a houserule document that ended up being over 30 pages long.