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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord_Blacksteel" data-source="post: 7800714" data-attributes="member: 53082">That's how some people run entire campaigns of many RPG's, not just Shadowrun. Not every campaign has to have an overarching plot. Sometimes it's just about living/surviving in a fantasy world whether that's Greyhawk, the Realms, the Third Imperium, the Old Republic, or 2050+ Fantasy Cyberpunk America.That said, there's no reason you couldn't run a Shadowrun game with an epic quest approach. You just have to decide what the end goal is and work backwards. Is it to take down a meagcorp? Or maybe replace their leadership and approach to the world? Replace the leader of a nation? Stop a war? SR tends to be run in a "mission" format so you just need to connect the missions with NPCs, locations, and organizations and it can go wherever you want it to go. It probably starts local - a corp is booting some friends out of their home. Digging deeper, this Corp A is maneuvering because they know Corp B is about to take action against them. Down the road it turns out that Corp C has instigated a conflict between A and B because of some agenda of their own - maybe they want to acquire one or both corps after they're weakened. Or maybe a state/national politician - probbaly a Tir Elf - has pushed all 3 of them into a conflict to settle some ancient score on the date of some magical conjunction that will elevate them to Xtreme Arcane Power. You never know with those ancient pointy-ears...It's Shadowrun - the obvious reason is never the real reason and there's -always- another layer. You can have a lot of fun with it if you let your inner conspiracy theorist loose.</blockquote>

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