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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 284 Joined: 16-June 05 Member No.: 7,450 ![]() |
I'm an epic kinda guy. Epic games, epic stories, epic fails. :D
I like centering my games around an epic story or theme. Big picture things. Instead of making enough to make rent this month, I like PC's that are centered on big picture issues. Immortal elves, prophesies, dragons, the sixth world, Horrors, and that sort of thing. But, I've heard from people on these boards that when you get that far in a setting it breaks down what the characters are and loses the scope of what Shadowrun 'should be'. It's supposed to be a game of survival of the fittest. Once you get powerful enough, you basically retire into NPC status or die. I've got my game centered around large story issues, a hive of bugs, a dragon looking to make some status changes himself, a corporation with an evil master plan, and the obligatory "OMFG, HORRORS! GTFO!!!!" I don't want to lose the focus of the game, but I want it to be fun AND to tell the story I have in mind... Is this wrong to do? And if it isn't, are there any ideas you can give me? I'll give a rundown of what the first run was... (Keep in mind, I had way too many players show up, so a lot of these battles kinda got cake-walked) The PC's are contacted by a mysterious fixer wanting to give the runners a shot at some nuyen. The Johnson is a weapon's dealer that hasn't gotten his mafia-supplied weapons from his dock contact. It's been sold to another buyer. He wants the runners to find out who bought it and to get him the shipment back. They go to the docks and shake down the mafia contact to find out where the shipment is. They don't get that, but the hackers break into the warehouse network and find out that the shipment has been transported to a Aztechnology shipping company. The avoid the first fight with a bunch of mafia hitmen too. Going to the warehouse, they find it crawling with dalmatian drones. 6 total. Normally, this should be hard, but the hackers blow through the drone's admin access, shut down and resubscribe them, and even intercept the warning signals that go back to the security spider. So, they blow through another fight, as well as netting themselves a few drones (I think I'm doing something wrong here...) Finally, they hand the shipment and info back and go to collect the pay. After they do, they get another call from the fixer to head to downtown Seattle. Getting there, they find the mafia hitmen waiting for them. After the troll axes someone in half and the face chainsaws another one, two snipers begin picking them off. The mafia mage starts stun-balling them too and I ALMOST dropped the face. Did a 9 box hit on him, then started stunning. The troll shrugged off the first bullet, but kept getting hammered. Also, they took the cyborg and set off his cortex bomb by hacking his PAN. Suffice it to say, they survived. Getting to the fixer, they find out he's a dragon. And he wants their help on something. He's agreed to be their fixer and doc contact if they help him later on. |
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