Shadowrun: Anyone Up For It?

[DrZombie]

Or we could allways try to make characters together, I mean, a troll physad as bodyguard for a mage, you know, that kinda thing. Get the background together so we have a reason not to shoot eachother.

Btw, the troll physad is just a thought, i can play other things as well, i don't really mind.

 

[Thanee]

Was speaking more of the players, not the characters there.

I doubt everyone who has expressed interest is going to play, that would be a rather large group then.

Bye
Thanee

 

[Velmont]

Yes, it's make quite a large group. Not unmanageable, I am in a game where we are 8 players, and no one left yet, but I am sure the master must put great time to make it up for all of us.

That's decision, of how large group and which he keep will depend on master, so, Andrew, what's your call?

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Back after much time away.

As to the group thing, I think I could do a group of 5 or even 6. I'd say maybe start hashing through backgrounds a while, then when I formally start recruiting it'll be first come, first serve, the rest of you get put on the alt-list. I guess on second thought you can be a decker, but not an otaku. I hate those guys.

I've decided on a setting, and I'm doing the good ol' "make your own hometown in 2060" type thing. So you'll be starting off in the Harlan Sprawl (Harrisburg/Lancaster). I luck out because Pennsylvania's not detailed at all (beyond, IIRC, a mention of the Bethlehem area in Portfolio of a Dragon), so I get total free reign.

Of course, eventually you'll be getting moved all around, with stops in various places - the only other real one I have in mind at the moment is Tir na nOg, because, well, I am a loyal son of Hibernia and all.

 

[Shalimar]

Sounds good, though I wonder what the Harlan sprawl is like, I mean, does it have anything to recommend it to a shadowrunner as far as location of a lot of Corp buildings, etc?

 

[No Way]

Hooray. Only one question. Does Harlan sprawl have a good arms/armor/cyber ware market? Or is it just pretty common stuff for sale there?

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Sounds good, though I wonder what the Harlan sprawl is like, I mean, does it have anything to recommend it to a shadowrunner as far as location of a lot of Corp buildings, etc?

I'm still forming the ideas myself, though I have it that Columbia (my town) is pretty much split between two corps - Shiawase and Saeder-Krupp, but it's mostly like the Barrens in Seattle. A real craphole. We have a facility not too far from here that makes a lot of vaccines and pharmaceuticals and whatnot, that's been pretty much taken over by the gov't since September 11. I imagine by SR time that's either still a UCAS facility, or maybe taken over by Yamatetsu or Universal Omnitech or one of those.

In Lancaster, you'd probably have some lower-level corps, none of the biggies but the second-tier ones. I can especially see some of the media corporations here. We'd also have some lower-level computer corps. Part of Lancaster (Green Street) is pretty much a perpetual warzone, since even currently that's the absolute pit of the Lancaster ghetto.

It's somewhat corny, but I'd like to do something with the Amish. They'd of course be completely non-cybered, and their policy of basically inbreeding might have somehow cut down on some of the metahuman races among them. I can see Humanis or some similar group courting the Amish.

I'm doing the dystopian thing, and saying there was another accident at Three Mile Island, so much of the land between here and Harrisburg is a big toxic zone.

In Harrisburg proper, I could see probably pretty much all the big corps - your Novatech, your Renraku, your Mitsuhama. I could particularly see Ares doing quite well around here. Plus you'd have the state government, and therefore some shadowrunning opportunities right there.

And then Gettysburg's not too far away, and I imagine that place is really fun since the Awakening. Plus, going by legends, we should have our very own dragon lairing not too far from here.

I have ideas for a corporate Tuscarora Facility, but not any real ideas on which corp would run it.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

Does Harlan sprawl have a good arms/armor/cyber ware market?

There'd definitely be a good market in arms and armor throughout the sprawl. This area's not that great a place now, and I imagine by the 2060s it's even worse.

As for cyberware, it's probably run-of-the-mill in the lower (Lancaster/Columbia) section, unless you go black market. In the upper (Harrisburg) part, you'd have better luck getting some non-standard stuff.

 

[Shalimar]

Sounds good, my characer has a pretty much ready made reason to be anywhere you set the game. Her teacher/lover (Level 3 contact) left the Tir after some stuff in her back story, the same stuff that eventually gets her to leave and go hook up with him, so anywhere you want to set the game is where he will be.

How do you see magic around that area? Is there an over-abundance, or is it just like anywhere else? Excluding Gettysburg, anything with a huge background count, er outside the melt down?

How do you feel about edges and flaws, assuming priority system, so long as they balance out? I only really want 1 2point edge and then 1 two point flaw.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

How do you see magic around that area? Is there an over-abundance, or is it just like anywhere else? Excluding Gettysburg, anything with a huge background count, er outside the melt down?

There isn't really any real high background count. I'd think the dragon's lair I mentioned and possibly some mountain regions just outside the sprawl might have some decent background, but still nothing astronomical.

How do you feel about edges and flaws, assuming priority system, so long as they balance out? I only really want 1 2point edge and then 1 two point flaw.

That sounds fine with me. Just so you and anyone else who takes edges/flaws knows, you'll just have to lat me know of the game effects, since I haven't managed to procure the Companion yet.

Along those lines, does anyone know how the metavariants from the Companion work under the priority system? Standard rulebook races + the metavariants are all I'll be allowing, as well as SURGEd folks, if anyone wants to be those. I'll leave it up to you whether you're one of those or not, SURGE didn't hit this area too hard.