What brought your runners to Africa? Courier job? I kind of like the magic side of shadowrun and I like your ideas about Africa JudegementLoaf.

I have an itching to do a cross-country road-trip adventure using a Buffalo RV (or whatever the equivalent is from Arsenal) as my players' base of operations. There's a bounty on their heads so they need to get out of Seattle for awhile. Putter down to California Free State and end up in NYC in the UCAS. PCs would have to outrun the NAN highway patrols, dodge Ghostwalker in the Denver area, join an armed trucker convoy, deal with toxic spirits burbling out of the toilets in nasty rest-stops...

The run that sent my runners into Africa was actually a photography mission. They had been working for a branch of the catholic church trying to verify a number of miracles, and their current mission had them trying to track down a missionary who has supposedly manifested stigmata. Unfortunately for the players, the missionary in question had died several months ago and had been infested by a shedim who was building up a small private army under the guise of being a new saint. This of course lead to a LOT of conflict with other, more local religious groups and quite a bit of additional strife (read additional bullets in the air) in the region they were operating in. The runners goals were to take pictures of the shedim's wounds (so that the church could verify their authenticity) and to then stand by for further instructions. As it turned out, the runners figured out the missionary had been "spiritually compromised" and were authorized to banish the shedim and disperse his followers, which resulted in a lot of lightning bolts being thrown at the party.

That sounds really cool! I may have to try something like that out sometime.

Is there any SR3 books you guys recommend for city info? I've heard of Bug City, and Shadows of Europe, Asia, and N.A. (I think). Are the Shadows of books like Runner's Haven in terms of information?

You know... I'm getting the idea for a Shadowrun Gumball Rally now...

I've wanted to run Sydney for a while now. I just find the idea of a temperamental magical storm that swoops in over the city and rains frogs and other wierd things totally charming.

Oddly enough, the barrier is that I live in Sydney, so converting it to Shadowrun might be difficult for me due to overfamiliarity.

I'm from Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN. For some reason, I think I would have a hard time running something for here. I guess I could try to make something up, but for some reason I think it would be boring.

Ahhh... Asamando. The land of promise for ghouls worldwide. And really, so close to Lagos... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I'm just starting a campaign in Los Angeles--yummy P2.0, irradiated San Onofre, and El Infierne. Should make for a fun time.

I watched the Jackass Gumball Rally episode like, twenty times. That looks like fun.

And imagine it with Riggers!


Anything you'd like to share, oh great Shadowrun writer? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Lagos will be a fun place. Bring plenty of sun-block and critter repellent (I'm fond of assault cannons for the latter). Beyond that, Feral Cities is just around the corner...

Just that I really like Asamando... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) [and that previous location books have all touched on neighboring nations/cities in the main chapters... _{Obligitory warning: previous performance is no indication of future returns}]

Looks like my upcoming campaigns (I'm going to be doing one for my biweekly PnP group and a weekly IRC-based game) are going to be in Hong Kong and Caracas. I've done a campaign in Hong Kong before and I absolutely loved it. After reading the little blurb on Caracas in Runner Havens, I think that has the potential to be the grittiest, most depressing campaign I will have ever done to date. I'm really psyched, both about going back to the FEZ as well as seeing how Caracas turns out.

Care to elaborate on this "grittiest, most depressing campaign", (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) or do you have players who read this board?

Munecas, Cartels, and a squalor that makes the Barrens look civilized. Caracas certainly has everything necessary for a dark, gritty game that leaves emotional scars. (in a good way of course...)

I just read through Caracas in Runner's Haven. Wow, not the most pleasent place to visit. I may either start a group of runners there, or find a reason to bring my Seattle runners down there for a run or two. One of the likes to dabble in drugs, so that might be a window for me as a GM.

Death Race 2000 anyone ?

I'm also surprised no one's mentioned Cleveland... Tho I am a big fan of Snake Plissken(wish they'd cover a movie based on the Cleveland adventure that they talk about in the movies)

I'm thinking of the Shadowrun version of the 1970s trucker/convoy phenomena. B.J. and the Bear: 2070. Gotta get this load of orichalcum ore from El Paso to Minneapolis in two days! I got a Mac truck and both Knight Errant and Lone Star highway patrolmen on my tail!

the "shadows of"-series is a more general description of a hole region, you won't find detailed city descriptions in them. But that doesen't mean that they're useless. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

The only real citybook for SR3 is new seattle, but this is of course outdated by runners havens.

for the description of other cities you have to go back to 2nd or even 1st ed. stuff.

- Bug City (chicago during the bug attack)
- Target: UCAS (Boston, Detroit and Chicago after the bug attack)
- Target: Smuggler Havens (Vladivostok and New Orleans)
- Paradise Lost (Honululu)
- London SB (London and GB)
- Germany SB (Rhine-Ruhr, Berlin and Hamburg)
- Aztlan (Tenochtitlan)
- CalFree (LA and Frisco)
- Neo-A's Guide to North America (Frisco, Dallas/Ft. Worth, Atlanta, Quebec City, Washington DC, Chicago before the bug attack, NYC)

I'm not sure if I would recommend any of those, since the descriptions are pretty much outdated (nearly all of them are set in the 2050s), but however they are fun to read and you'll get some infos out of them, if you can get a hold of them (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Or the new Death Race that just came out. (Good violently entertianment!).

It's much more Shadowrun, despite the lack of running people over. But you can definetly rip the vehicles off for a ganger's Barrens ride!

*Pushes Biohazard Button*

"What's that?"

"Most important part of the car."

Was I the only one who saw the trailers for that and went, "Hey, they did Twisted Metal the movie! Only they made Calypso a girl. Wait. They made Calypso a girl. [ Coop ]Niiiice.[ /Coop ]"

No, I said that too.

And you call tell that she'll be even closer to him in the sequal, too! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/devil.gif)