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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Abstruse" data-source="post: 7800616" data-attributes="member: 6669048">If that's the case, you might be better off giving them a specific antagonist ASAP. First run, the Johnson set them up in a frame job and it gives them a specific face to put on the foe. That way they're less focused on taking down Renraku as they are the newly-promoted Vice President of Research and Development for the SimSense division Layton Kyle or whatever the same way they'd take on the Evil Lich Laytonkyle. If they know he's several levels higher than them, they're not going to go kick in the door to his lair as they'll have lots of adventures first, some involving disrupting his plans and some just unrelated. Same thing here, they work on bringing down Layton Kyle as they do side-jobs to make nuyen.Or you can embroil them in a plot that's a threat to the existence of the world that's a bit more direct and immediate than the megacorps. The Universal Brotherhood storyline from the first edition is the quintessential example of this for Shadowrun in my opinion, running from Missing Blood adventure in the Universal Brotherhood sourcebook to Queen Euphoria and all the way through to Double Exposure and the Bug City sourcebook events.</blockquote>