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youngtusk87
post May 1 2007, 02:56 AM
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'Ey folks, new to the forums. Anyway, my buddies and I have entertained the idea of a Shadowrun campaign in which the characters play an insurgency group. I decided to run it, but i'm still having trouble with setting up the backstory.

I know I want it to take place in a country thats been invaded and is now occupied by the invaders. The people are oppressed and exploited, the living conditions poor, the Matrix is monitored and censored, no one is let in or out, and the general scenery is grim and dark. I know how I want the setting, but I don't know how I should go about setting up the backstory/history to the game. Should the occupants be corporate or a foreign imperialist country? Why are they occupying that specific country? Where should the game take place?

Think Half-Life 2, Children of Men, and Gears of War in terms of setting.

Any help with the backstory, or suggestions for the plot would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
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post May 3 2007, 04:21 AM
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- youngtusk87   Shadowrun: The Resistance   May 1 2007, 02:56 AM
- - Kagetenshi   You could set it in any of the Native American Nat...   May 1 2007, 03:05 AM
- - Angelone   Poland would work. Any of those Chinese city-state...   May 1 2007, 03:16 AM
- - Demerzel   My vote: Anytown USA. Well, Anytown UCAS or anyt...   May 1 2007, 03:19 AM
- - mfb   the Tsimshian / Salish-Sidhe would be a good choic...   May 1 2007, 03:34 AM
- - Therumancer   The priorities in an insurgent/rebels type campaig...   May 1 2007, 05:28 AM
- - mfb   QUOTE (Therumancer)3. MORE CANON! Elf Warz...   May 1 2007, 05:37 AM
- - youngtusk87   Thanks for the advice fellas, so far you've be...   May 1 2007, 06:02 AM
- - Therumancer   Actually what I was talking about was Elf Supremic...   May 1 2007, 06:18 AM
- - youngtusk87   Indeed, when I say resistance I mean covert operat...   May 1 2007, 08:07 AM
- - Athanatos   Um, people the Tir Tairngire revolution is already...   May 1 2007, 12:48 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   ...the Balkans. Currently I have Croatia occupied...   May 1 2007, 03:11 PM
- - Backgammon   QUOTE (mfb @ Apr 30 2007, 11:34 PM) the Tsims...   May 1 2007, 05:33 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   ..agreed, there is a lot of good run potential in ...   May 1 2007, 05:51 PM
- - Darkest Angel   I'm running exactly this kind of campaign in C...   May 1 2007, 07:42 PM
- - TheRedRightHand   If I was doing a campaign like this I would have i...   May 1 2007, 10:32 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   Warning: to all participants in Rhapsody in Shadow...   May 2 2007, 12:42 AM
- - Gyro the Greek Sandwich Pirate   What about those in Chechnya?   May 2 2007, 03:15 AM
- - Kyoto Kid   ... I thought they were a part of the New Soviet a...   May 2 2007, 03:02 PM
- - MaxHunter   actually, the real world has enough examples. I be...   May 2 2007, 04:47 PM
- - Kyoto Kid   ...actually the the TT doesn't need to be all ...   May 2 2007, 05:33 PM
- - hyzmarca   Cuba. Make it Cuba. Instead of a blatant occupatio...   May 2 2007, 07:43 PM
- - MaxHunter   Cuba!!! Corporate Dictatorship!...   May 3 2007, 02:32 AM
- - youngtusk87   I don't want to involve communism, since corpo...   May 3 2007, 04:01 AM
- - Kagetenshi   Actually, corporations in Shadowrun depend on the ...   May 3 2007, 04:12 AM
- - youngtusk87   The corporations need the Government to stay out o...   May 3 2007, 04:18 AM
- - Kagetenshi   Capitalism is about perfect competition. Name me a...   May 3 2007, 04:21 AM
- - youngtusk87   No, the idea of Capitalism is about perfect compet...   May 3 2007, 04:26 AM
- - mfb   the fact that the ideal which forms the basis of c...   May 3 2007, 08:12 AM
- - Demonseed Elite   Cuba's an interesting place for something like...   May 3 2007, 01:34 PM
- - MITJA3000+   ^Teasing us with that SoLA stuff DE? At least now ...   May 3 2007, 01:49 PM
- - Demonseed Elite   It is covered in SoLA, yeah, but some of that info...   May 3 2007, 03:00 PM
- - youngtusk87   QUOTE (mfb) the fact that the ideal which forms th...   May 3 2007, 09:46 PM
- - hyzmarca   QUOTE (youngtusk87) QUOTE (mfb @ May 3 2007, ...   May 3 2007, 11:11 PM


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