What have been your favorite campaigns? Options

[emo samurai]

I'm probably infamous for my admittedly insane campaign threads. In a departure that I should have made long ago, I'd like to hear what everyone else has made up for their own games. I have no idea what a normal run goes like without being stereotypical and boring.

[Ice Hammer]

For my group, I created a North American, Magic-focused AA Corporation, which publically, it is a corporation that uses its magical talent and skill for bettering society for both humans and metahumans (ie, it builds schools, it builds hospitals, it rebuilds neighborhoods), but beneath its public fascade, it is a runner for hire agency. We've ran three teams, and it has proven to be a rich source of material. The runners have encountered their own enemies, have encountered the corporation's enemies, (ie, th Illuminate of the New Dawn, Sader Krup, Wuxing), have encountered many magcical threats, and have been allowed to change things about the shadowrun universe. Right nw, we're dealing with a potiential mob war with the various Seattle families, as we're going into 2064, and System Failure. I wil soon be taking the AA Corporation and using the runners to help it expand, execute its plans, and to become a brand new AAA corporation.

[emo samurai]

Wow... that is so awesomely not street level.

[Wounded Ronin]

I've personally spent a year or so running ninja-centric campaigns. I've had Ashida Kim, Frank Dux, and Stephen Hayes appear as grotesque charictatures. If I were still GMing today I'd probably have started a Bryce Dallas campaign after Bryce Dallas went and sued e-budo for making him look fraudulent and foolish. (I wonder what came of that, after all...)

[Ice Hammer]

Yeah, I do tend to run high level campaigns. The first team had a bear shapeshifter...need I say more? :grinbig:

[Glyph]

The longest-running Forum game I was in was Cage Fight, a game with characters built on 40 build points. Low-powered, but fun. Rat was one of my favorite characters.

[SL James]

I started a post-Crash campaign several months ago, and started posting the actual game play with the first PC exactly four months ago today (well, technically yesterday) with a grand total of 28 dice rolls in four months - most of which were done in two points several months apart by different PCs - and I'm having a blast. To say it is heavily RP-based is an understatement. Eventually the dice will come out. I await that day with excitement and terror (excitement because people will die, terror because it will take forever).

Each PC has had a name for his/her own track (The game's called "There's Nothing Free In This World"). For example, one's called What A Week It Has Been. Another is To Live and Die in Seattle. A third is simply called, Gone to Ground.

The one where everything all comes together is called Armageddon.

[Ophis]

A campaign I really enjoyed running was the "13th Platoon" campaign. I bunch of experienced, hard asses acting as Lofwyr's personel expeditors. Going all over the world kicking ass in the name of Saeder Krupp. The run I enjoyed most was taking back a nuclear launch facility from Winternight. Great fun...

[mfb]

best campaign i've ever been in, hands down, is Tropical Connection. we tracked a talismuggling route back to the Indonesian island of Wetar, just in time to get caught up in the revolution of the island's high Awakened population against the anti-Awakened regime. we escaped a cloud of high-force blood spirits, made it into the jungle, fought off an assault by three attack choppers, swam across the channel to the next island, defended that island for an hour or so from an assault by thousands of shedim, fought off a force 12 shedim with 7 spirit energy, and finally managed to escape the entire area. and the campaign's not over yet.

and we did all of the above while sustaining no injuries, with the exception of two of our mages losing banishing contests against the badass shedim.

[SL James]

I still can't believe it. I've seen it with my own eyes, and I still can't effing believe it.

Given its even more impressive scope (albeit not in a geographical sense) and with far less magic, if There's Nothing Free doesn't at least challenge them like TC did, my reputation and self-respect as a GM will be shit.

[Lindt]

I loved the Earths Dawn game over on the WttS boards. Pity that one died, tragic loss it really was.

I find it funny that for someone who has been involved in Sr for the length of time I have been, I cant really say I have played (or even run) many good story lines.

[SL James]

Really? I find it utterly unremarkable.

But then again, if you knew how long TC took to play to this point you might understand my overwhelming lack of surprise. I've seen maybe a half-dozen? Dozen? In 14 years of gaming with too many players to remember. Of those, TC's the only great one. And like I said, it took a long damn time to run.

[Paul]

We're running a National Geographic campaign in real life. They play a team of national geographic photographers who explore the natural wonders of the world, and along the way find themselves in all sorts of situations.

In the first game we did a survivor/lost style game in which their plane was shot down over the Costa Rican mountains, and they had to make their way out of the jungle alive. they lost all of their aequipment, and soon found one of the passengers that survived with them was being hunted by Aztechnology forces.

In the end they managed to survive, and get good footage of some Aztechnology troopers massacring a village.

[Paul]

[SL James]

Nor is your "street" mine.

[Raskolnikov]

I had a character who started life as a street punk trying to break into the big time. He eventually did get recruited by Ares corporate security and worked his way up to Knight Errant. He ended up leaving the corporation to become a grunt in Black Sands, a mercenary outfit working out of eastern Europe. During this time he went from grunt with a VCR (fire support specialist essentially) to the unit's primary Command and Control rigger. The company grew and developed transient bases in Vladivostok, Istanbul, Prague, and Seattle.

Unfortunately, this growth was brought to tragic end as a contract with Russia disolved in the most violent way possible. The character spent some time in a Russian gulag before escaping to Vladivistok only to face an old rival now working for Ares special assets. The battle on the docks left much of the remaining merc group dead but the few that survived were able to disappear. Leaving much of the assets of Black Sands buried and under lock, my character took up work running talisma, acting as a guide, and other such activites with a group of nationalist mountain men in Siberia.

Eventually he returned to Seattle to work up a base for revenge on the Ares operative who had initially caused the trouble with Russia and then attacked the team after the escape. He had to stay low and adopted a new street name (the entire time before he just went by his actual name). He worke as a Command and Control rigger for mid-level shadowrunners and developed his hacking skills from moderate to elite.

He moved up to a new group after the disolution of his first team. The second team ran significantly higher-end work in the Seattle region with occasional work in other states. This group was also soon to disolve when they attempted an infiltration of the Arc. Only two members emerged.

At this point my character had the rep and resources of a well-connected information warrior with a reputation to back it up. He was ready to start making actual moves towards his original goal, at least he was near ready. This all happened before the campaign I liked the most. At this point I started posting him on Shadowland as a solo hacker.

He worked for a time establishing reputation with the various other players and characters of the RL board www.shadowland.org. During this time he worked with another hacker apprentice and came into contact with a young otaku who was something like his adopted daughter. The ambition of the apprentice ended up pulling him away to his own solo work and the otaku was caught up in the unreasoning insanity of a free AI (or sophisticated SK) that culminated in the suicide bombing of a local club in which the otaku was nearly killed and then disappeared by the AI.

After the disappearance of his daughter, the character began reactivating some of the old Black Sands assets and becoming more pro-active in disruptive events in the Seattle area. His information-awareness work brought him into frequent contact with an operative doing the same thing from a different angle. The two found that my character's technological investigation and the other character's magical investigation overlapped in many game plots and scenarios. Eventually they decided that by combining their overwhelming abilites in each field they could operate each of their long-term goals more efficiently. This duo played a couple cameo parts in the Tropical Connection run mfb mentioned.

The character continues to become involved in events throughout Seattle but has maintained a fairly effective information block on the extent of this. He operates both above and below the board. Above, he or his front company has had official contact and work with the metroplex government and even worked security contracts during the revolution that James is running. Black Sands is once again operationg, though no one can say how many people it currently employs. The real answer is that it consists almost entirely of expert systems and control networks. The character hires supplimental magical support and even works with a few mages regularly, but the company carries out mid-scale mercenary work often with no real person in theatre and top-level operations being controlled by the character and his expert systems in Seattle. He appears ready to make his move on the man in Ares and has started letting his information screen down, alerting the Ares man (now a Colonel in Ares Arms operations) of his presence and that he survived.

With the disapointment of SR4, I'm afraid the campaign of Telnet may be coming to an end, however.

[SL James]

Ritter's only a Lt. Colonel. However, when he single-handedly defeated Saito in Robert DeNiro elf to Jap racist Hand-to-Hand, he probably earned himself a promotion to at least Colonel, or maybe even earning himself a star or two.

[Fury]

[COLOR=green][FONT=Courier] i'm currently in a game where we're up against the Enemy. kind of a spinoff of worlds without end. The campaign includes dragons and field trips to australia. pretty high level, but keeping with the major storylines. one fire oriented mage, one phys adept who can punch through steel, and one jack-of-all-trades inventor.

[pragma]

As a GM my favorite campaign (called "The Red Bandit")was centered around a Russian Arms Dealer who had been framed for the death of Patrick O'Malley in 2057. In 2063, when the game took place the Russian was planning to return to Seattle and clear his names and had the PCs pave his way. I enjoyed it because it mixed the street flavor of Seattle with some reasonably high powered players and also had a compelling backstory, logical evolution, memorable cast of characters and a pair of awesome climactic runs. (The players, mostly successfully, broke into the O'Malley estate in the first and then got to confront a long-hated enemy in the second.)

My players insist that a campaign I called "The Judas Cyberarm" was the best. In the campaign three members of the network living within a Yamatetsu arcology attempted to develop and bring to market a very high quality consumer cyberarm and datajack which, when installed on the same person, allowed the network to communicate with them. The real twist was that one of the PCs got this set of cyber installed and served as the opposition for half of the run. It was successful because they deciphered the backstory from well hidden clues and had a great time interacting with some of the top deckers in the game and the Yamatetsu employee whose house they took over as a staging area.

[Wounded Ronin]

Hmm. I remember a one-shot I ran. The night before I had been frantically playing the Shadowrun SNES game in order to come up with an idea for the game I needed to run the next day and I'd gotten to the place where you kill the kraken in the warehouse which is disguised as your girlfriend.

Using that as inspiration I had the PCs hired to go and battle large hentai anime tentacle monsters in a warehouse. The twist was that they were gay tentacle monsters.

[bclements]

[emo samurai]

Vader?

[mfb]

yeah, who's that guy? he sounds familiar, was he in a movie or something?

[emo samurai]

I thought that was a vB command or something.

[CirclMastr]

My favorite campaign is the one that I last more than three months in.

I'll let you know when that actually happens.