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Posted by: FlakJacket Sep 3 2007, 12:24 PM

This kind of follows on from the http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=18865 thread about where people are basing their games out of. A Number of people mentioned locations that GMs have developed on their own outside of or building on marginal canon material. So what are some of the places that you've come up with for your games? Not looking for a War and Peace-esque pages and pages in-depth description, more say something along the lines of maybe a couple large paragraphs outlining the place, what's it about and what makes it an interesting place to play in. So impress us.

Posted by: Fortune Sep 3 2007, 03:21 PM

I know these might not be quite what you're looking for, but it's been a while since I have seen some of these sites pimped.

http://www.angelfire.com/oh2/Griffin/Cincy.html
http://home.fuse.net/solace/cl-src.htm
http://members.aol.com/BSpurg241/Cordova.html
http://www.angelfire.com/de/srii/delaware.html
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Portal/4133/campaign/p1.html
http://www.amurgsval.org/shadowrun/OrkUnderground.html
http://home.fuse.net/solace/pr-src.htm
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/7931/quebecfirst.html
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Shire/8834/
http://tarislar_database.tripod.com/
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Corridor/8130/shadowrun/index.html
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/1754/Enfield.html
http://www.technoschamane.de/ [in German]
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Castle/2966/b_plexe.html
http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/3335/index.html
http://www.amurgsval.org/shadowrun/TrollKingdom.html
http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/zenith/134/srncamp.htm
http://users.tkk.fi/~jalkanen/sr/antarctica.html
http://www.amurgsval.org/shadowrun/space.html

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Sep 3 2007, 11:58 PM

I once had a Johnson offer a job to the team in outer space but the team declined. It was sad because I had planned them to go on a space station that was a giant Mickey Mouse head floating in space. There was going to be a firefight with storm troopers wearing Mickey Mouse armor. Sadly, they declined, and being a good GM I just threw away my prep work and played along.

Posted by: dog_xinu Sep 4 2007, 12:18 AM

I have had several campaigns (locations). New Miami (Miami, FL - done twice once as 3rd and once as 4th); MetroDFW (Dallas/FtWorth, Texas); Hotlanta (Atlanta, GA). Most of the material is not online anymore. If you have interest in any of these I can maybe dig upset some thing or write some of my mental notes down.

Posted by: Mercer Sep 4 2007, 12:21 AM

My last 3e game was a false start-- we picked it up after a long break and spent 2 sessions trying to remember the rules, and then 4e came out-- but I had set it in http://www.cartagenainfo.net/ (or technically, Aztlan). If anyone has seen http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088011/, the climatic scenes in the old Spanish Fort were set there.

I always saw Cartagena as sort of a South American http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0034583/, with refugees from the Central American conflicts, Aztlan trying to remain in control, ghost cartels and Amazonians trying to subvert that control, all right next door to the Carib League with its smuggling and voodoo and 6 species of awakened shark. So, good times all around.

Posted by: Fortune Sep 4 2007, 02:51 AM

http://www.shadownode.com/shadowrun/mpls.html

Posted by: Kyoto Kid Sep 4 2007, 07:07 AM

...a few non canon locales I have used/am using

Alice Springs (pre Target Awakened Lands)
Beograd
Boston (SR4)
Gibraltar
Highstar Station
Hilo
Honolulu
Ljubljana
Milwaukee
Osijek
Portland (pre-Tir Taringire sourcebook)
Vienna
Vukovar
Zagreb

Posted by: tisoz Sep 4 2007, 05:11 PM

Shadowland had a 2 issue (at least) write-up about a German location, also a write-up about the Nashville, TN sprawl. TSS had, or planned, a Detroit, MI article. I recall Detroit being discussed by SubRosa here on DS years ago. I also recall someone talking about Philadelphia, PA as a setting.

Posted by: Fortune Sep 4 2007, 09:12 PM

Blackjack had Philly, but the page is down at the moment (along with about half the other SR locations sites I know of).

Posted by: Wounded Ronin Sep 4 2007, 10:32 PM

QUOTE (Fortune)

Blackjack had Philly, but the page is down at the moment (along with about half the other SR locations sites I know of).

What was the damage code of a philly cheese steak hot off the griddle? It'd have to be at least 2L...

Posted by: bofh Sep 5 2007, 12:03 AM

QUOTE (tisoz)

Three issues. 1 through 3 has The Gross-Frankfurt Sprawl

1: Frankfurt am Main
2: Rhein-Main
3: The Rhein-Neckar Region

Carl

Posted by: kigmatzomat Sep 6 2007, 01:09 PM

I'll pimp my own Louisville FTZ currently here on DS.
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16785

Posted by: Daddy's Little Ninja Sep 6 2007, 01:26 PM

I know Snow Fox is planning to write up Philadelphia, where she now lives. Our group all came from Westchester county , north of NYC, and had several runs in that area. Most of the group went to the same High School and got to shoot up the front of it, it was justified.

Posted by: bofh Sep 6 2007, 05:50 PM

QUOTE (kigmatzomat)

I'll pimp my own Louisville FTZ currently here on DS.
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16785

You're welcome to host it on my web server if you'd like. I tried to PM but it's still borked.

Carl

Posted by: kigmatzomat Sep 6 2007, 06:49 PM

Carl,

I was unaware PMs were borked. Give me an email. I use kigmatzomat on the hotmail. I've been working on a prettified PDF that includes maps and such.

Posted by: bofh Sep 6 2007, 07:16 PM

QUOTE (kigmatzomat)

Carl,

I was unaware PMs were borked. Give me an email. I use kigmatzomat on the hotmail. I've been working on a prettified PDF that includes maps and such.

Yep. I clicked on it and get the white screen, same as if I try to go into my controls.

I've sent you an e-mail.

Carl

Posted by: tisoz Sep 6 2007, 08:17 PM

QUOTE (bofh)

QUOTE (kigmatzomat @ Sep 6 2007, 11:49 AM)

Carl,

I was unaware PMs were borked. Give me an email. I use kigmatzomat on the hotmail. I've been working on a prettified PDF that includes maps and such.

Yep. I clicked on it and get the white screen, same as if I try to go into my controls.

I've sent you an e-mail.

Carl

How to use the Personal Message function.

Click on 0 new messages in the upper right part of the screen, then go to Compose New Message.

Posted by: bofh Sep 6 2007, 10:12 PM

QUOTE (tisoz)

How to use the Personal Message function.

Click on 0 new messages in the upper right part of the screen, then go to Compose New Message.

Ok, it worked that way. I tried clicking on the user (which is how I do it elsewhere) and didn't think about going into the message area.

Thanks.

Carl

Posted by: Blaze Sep 11 2007, 08:53 PM

I'm currently running an SR3 game out of St. Andrews University, Scotland, where the players are Archaeology postgrads. The game's set to visit Visby in Götland as well as Prague before heading off to Cairo.

The Cairo bit is something I've planned for quite literally years- I set up a civil war between the Islamic government and Pharaonic revivalists which I didn't get to play with fully in my last long-running plot arc, so I intend to explore it fully this time around...

Who knows where I could end up from there? I'm thinking either South-East Asia or South America, though I am rather enamoured with Hong Kong as a location.

Closer to topic, I did once set two sessions in an Ultraviolet host that appeared to all intents and purposes to be the Redmond Barrens...

Posted by: Feyd 47 Sep 12 2007, 03:12 PM

Not to mention you based a whole section of a game out of the The Hague...

(as an aside, i'm posting as Mr. Croup normally, didn't realise my old login was still on file!)

Posted by: treehugger Sep 12 2007, 03:34 PM

Blaze would you have some material to post on your campaign ? (or PM it to me )
I'm realy interested in doing a few "archeological" runs with my group

Posted by: Thane36425 Sep 12 2007, 03:59 PM

I've got an old post somewhere about a rural area in Alabama that I used as home territory for some of my characters. Also I have used:

Richmond, Virginia and vacinity
Jacksonville, FL
Mobile, AL
Ivory Coast and Liberia (for a mercenary campaign)

Posted by: Jame J Sep 12 2007, 04:07 PM

I'd be interested in seeing who runs in CalFree.

And then I'd be interested in seeing which of their runners uses MediCal...

Posted by: Daddy's Little Ninja Sep 12 2007, 06:13 PM

We did a couple of short, military adventures there, but remember, we were all New Yorkers so it was probably not very accurate.

Posted by: It trolls! Sep 12 2007, 06:17 PM

I'm currently preparing http://www.koblenz.de/touristik_kultur/koblenz_allgemeine_infos_e.html as a setting for a campaign I'll be starting soon. According to canon, the city and the surrounding region are completely flooded.
But the players I'm about to start with are mostly complete newbies to the Shadowrun world and we all live in Koblenz so I think it'll be easier for them to relate to a city they know. Also I find the reasons why the whole Neuwied basin is flooded and now a giant lake downright retarded (in 2042 volcanoes in the Eiffel erupted and lava caused the Rhine to dam up).

Posted by: tisoz Sep 13 2007, 02:31 AM

QUOTE (It trolls!)

I was anticipating an underwater campaign from your intro, having the runners diving for lost treasures in the flooded city.

Posted by: It trolls! Sep 13 2007, 03:21 AM

Not entirely. The city is subject to almost yearly floods though so I've decided I want some parts in 2070 to be permanently submerged with squatters living in the upper stories of higher buildings.
Lying about one hour from Rhein-Ruhr-MP and Greater Frankfurt, I plan for the city to be part corporate enclave where weary worker drones and execs alike spend the weekend in the arcology and the better parts of the town, making a perfect setting for extractions.
I've not yet decided what to do with the fort of Ehren-Breitstein though.

Posted by: Kronk2 Sep 16 2007, 06:51 AM

I have an ongoing campaign set on a submarine.

We do a great deal of work in Austin DFW and Houston, and Abilene, TX. ( I like to get players to play near where they live, so that the game will seem a tad more real.)

Oh yah for a while I had an entire setting worked out for Lubbock