Mr_Spicoli
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Looking to see what the interest level for a Shadowrun campaign using "The Matrix" and Cthulhupunk influences. Looking for potential players as well as opinions and ideas.
In the process of designing a campaign scenario based on the 3rd edition Shadowrun world. Add to it ideas from the Matrix movie but tweaked with Brave New World. The Matrix is a new drug entertainment system that feeds biofeedback and psychic energy from the billions hooked up to it to a megagenerator powering unscrupulous AIs. There are those who gain much power and wealth from this setup. Also, Voodoo magic will be involved in the matrix as from the William Gibson novels.
There will also be Cthulhu mythos beings that are involved with rituals and cults. The result will be influences from Gurps Cthulhupunk manual.
Movies for inspiration
The Matrix series
5th Element
Johnny Mnemonic
Blade Runner
Sneakers
Hackers
TV shows:
X files
Tekwar-some good ideas
Novels for inspiration and imagination:
All of the Shadowrun novels.
For cyberpunk inspiration:
William Gibson: Burning Chrome, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, THE DIAMOND AGE
Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix, Islands In The Net, Heavy Weather, Holy Fire, Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, Crystal Express, Globalhead,A Good Old-Fashioned Future
Williams, Walter Jon: Hardwired
Twelve years after Earth loses the Earth-Orbital war, panzerboys perform illegal runs from the west coast where the orbital shuttles land, across what once was America, to the northeast, encountering frequent organized resistance.
Philip K. Dick, : Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The movie `Bladerunner' is based on this book
Effinger, George Alec: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun
Lewitt, S. N.: Cybernetic Jungle
Vinge, Vernor: True Names
Platt, CharlesThe Silicon Man
Huxley, Aldus:Brave New World
John Shirley: He was a member of the original movement and one of the most extreme and influential cyberpunks. His novel City Come A'Walkin is generally credited for introducing many ideas that were later popularized by Gibson's Neuromancer.
He was the only original cyberpunk to live the punk aspect of the genre. He was leading singer of several punk bands
Please share idea, opinions, information. If the game has enough of an interest level, planning to run a cmapaing sometime late December or so.
In the process of designing a campaign scenario based on the 3rd edition Shadowrun world. Add to it ideas from the Matrix movie but tweaked with Brave New World. The Matrix is a new drug entertainment system that feeds biofeedback and psychic energy from the billions hooked up to it to a megagenerator powering unscrupulous AIs. There are those who gain much power and wealth from this setup. Also, Voodoo magic will be involved in the matrix as from the William Gibson novels.
There will also be Cthulhu mythos beings that are involved with rituals and cults. The result will be influences from Gurps Cthulhupunk manual.
Movies for inspiration
The Matrix series
5th Element
Johnny Mnemonic
Blade Runner
Sneakers
Hackers
TV shows:
X files
Tekwar-some good ideas
Novels for inspiration and imagination:
All of the Shadowrun novels.
For cyberpunk inspiration:
William Gibson: Burning Chrome, Neuromancer, Count Zero, Mona Lisa Overdrive
Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash, THE DIAMOND AGE
Bruce Sterling: Schismatrix, Islands In The Net, Heavy Weather, Holy Fire, Mirrorshades: The Cyberpunk Anthology, Crystal Express, Globalhead,A Good Old-Fashioned Future
Williams, Walter Jon: Hardwired
Twelve years after Earth loses the Earth-Orbital war, panzerboys perform illegal runs from the west coast where the orbital shuttles land, across what once was America, to the northeast, encountering frequent organized resistance.
Philip K. Dick, : Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The movie `Bladerunner' is based on this book
Effinger, George Alec: When Gravity Fails, A Fire in the Sun
Lewitt, S. N.: Cybernetic Jungle
Vinge, Vernor: True Names
Platt, CharlesThe Silicon Man
Huxley, Aldus:Brave New World
John Shirley: He was a member of the original movement and one of the most extreme and influential cyberpunks. His novel City Come A'Walkin is generally credited for introducing many ideas that were later popularized by Gibson's Neuromancer.
He was the only original cyberpunk to live the punk aspect of the genre. He was leading singer of several punk bands
Please share idea, opinions, information. If the game has enough of an interest level, planning to run a cmapaing sometime late December or so.
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