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Posted by: oinopion Jul 6 2011, 10:26 AM

I'm planning do send my team off to Denver for few runs. Where can I find some resources on that city?

Posted by: Kliko Jul 6 2011, 11:02 AM

Look http://denver.wikidot.com/

Posted by: hermit Jul 6 2011, 12:02 PM

More officially:

- Denver Boxed Set
- Year of the Comet
- Shadows of North America
- Shadowrun Missions Season 2
- Dragons of the Sixth World
- Spy Games

Those are the main official sources on Denver. SRM Season 2 is free for download; the others are books you ought to pay for. Denver Boxed set is hard to come by legally these days, but it is about the best of the bunch, even if a bit dated, timeline and metaplot-wise.

Also, always keep in mind that Denver is up in the mountains. If your PCs are from elsewhere (say, Seattle), I'd make them feel this, because believe me, you do. Double all Fatigue gained, and have them roll Fatigue daily for the first few months. Thin air is a bitch.

Posted by: oinopion Jul 6 2011, 01:01 PM

Cool, I'll stick with official materials; maybe buy Spy Games.
BTW, here's where links from Missions took me:
http://secure.commandohq.com/download/Files/Commando_Quarterly_1Q-06-lowres.pdf (page 12)

Posted by: hermit Jul 6 2011, 01:19 PM

Spy Games is pretty much worth it, just take good care with the rules which apparently were written by people who never read Arsenal.

As for Missions: bizarre. Try http://www.shadowrun4.com/missions/downloads-season-2/. Works for me.

Posted by: oinopion Jul 6 2011, 01:48 PM

Oh, by "take me", I meant: digging though missions resources, I got to this zine that has Denver overview.

Posted by: MJBurrage Jul 8 2011, 02:26 PM

The article in Commando Quarterly (http://secure.commandohq.com/download/Files/Commando_Quarterly_1Q-06-lowres.pdf) was the official introduction to SR Missions: Season 2, (http://www.shadowrun4.com/missions/downloads-season-2/)and an official update on Denver.

Denver sources by in-game date:

• 2052 – Native American Nations I, pp. 116–117
• 2055 – Denver: The City of Shadows
• 2058 – Underworld Sourcebook, p. 36
• 2059 – Target: Smuggler Havens, pp. 84–89
• 2061 – Target: Matrix, pp. 31–34
• 2061 – Year of the Comet, pp. 59–75, 148
• 2062 – Shadows of North America, pp. 72–84, 195
• 2063 – Dragons of the Sixth World, pp.59–69, 190–191
• 2071 – http://secure.commandohq.com/download/Files/Commando_Quarterly_1Q-06-lowres.pdf, pp. 12–19
• 2071 – http://www.shadowrun4.com/missions/downloads-season-2/
• 2072 – Sixth World Almanac, pp. 178–179
• 2073 – Spy Games, pp. 6–88, 167–170

Posted by: Snow_Fox Jul 9 2011, 04:27 PM

The problem is that there's just not enough official stuff on that one city.

(JK)

Posted by: hermit Jul 9 2011, 07:28 PM

Personally, I'd want more on Hong Kong, and London, but preferrably not from many of the current authors. Too much can go wrong there.

Posted by: Snow_Fox Jul 10 2011, 08:14 PM

Do you have the old London source book? It's nearly 20 years old but still quite good. assume the Brits aren't going to change too much.

Posted by: CanRay Jul 10 2011, 08:16 PM

Considering that they're still using the Pound as currency, because "Metric money is too complex for people to figure out", well...

Posted by: Mayhem_2006 Jul 10 2011, 08:37 PM

I assume that's some form of satire?

Posted by: Snow_Fox Jul 10 2011, 09:07 PM

Or canray thinks they still use shillings/crowns/farthings etc.

Posted by: ggodo Jul 10 2011, 09:34 PM

When the money went metric people complained about how metric money was too hard to use.

Posted by: hermit Jul 10 2011, 10:51 PM

Yeah, I do. It's about my favourite sourcebook. And still the original binding.


They do, actually. And use paper money, at least according to London SB (and Streets of Blood, my all-time favourite SR novel). I'm just worried certain new writers (the 'mercenaries' who are either in for the bucks, or were shanghaied from BattleTech and don't give a fuck about the SR setting) will do away with this, and streamline this into yet another damn Seattle clone (or turn it into something even less useful, like the LA setting or, gods forbid, Bogotá).

Posted by: CanRay Jul 10 2011, 11:17 PM

It's from "Good Omens" by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. So I was attempting to misquote satire.

Posted by: Wordman Jul 19 2011, 04:55 PM

Google's 3D Warehouse has http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/cldetails?mid=cf8699b66444e137eb306be6a8704aa7.