Running the shadows in Beantown, Boston campaign Options

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So, our current SR GM is leaving for the National Guard in a week or so, and the guy who's taking over is planning a campaign in Boston Sprawl. Now, it's going to be largely a Boston of his own creation, but he's taking canon sources into consideration, as well as input from the players during character creation. For example: I'm creating a Native ganger.

Now, given the history of the UCAS and NAN, I'm imagining there's not many Natives in New England these days, and the ones that are there probably aren't exactly at the top of the food chain, economically speaking. I'm going with the assumption that what Natives there are occupy the slummiest of slums, and have little connections or influence. My character, in particular, is one of two surviving members of his gang, with a family to feed (mother, young siblings, and aging grandfather (surprise, surprise, a shaman)) and enemies to spare (rival gangs and Anglo-supremacist types, to begin with). Obviously whatever Native elements are here would have had to drift back from wherever they were shipped, and have some reason for having done so. (Clash of styles with whatever ruling parties were in charge wherever they ended up, or maybe their particular tribe was too poorly represented to get their own state.) I'm thinking Nipmuc or Narragansett tribe, if he even knows his ancestry.

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