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post Nov 29 2005, 08:31 AM
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Just curious.

Is there anyone running games in locations not covered in Canon™? What cities? What countries? Basically, I'm just curious as to what other people do when they've worn out their copies of Seattle Sourcebook & New Seattle...
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post Nov 29 2005, 08:48 AM
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Denver, Seattle and the occasional jaunt to Europe because SoE was a great book that doesn't get enough screen time.
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post Nov 29 2005, 08:55 AM
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Mod I am working on starts in Amsterdam, heads to Rotterdam and Tilburg, Netherlands. Also heads to Copenhagen, Denmark, Oslo(Norway), Helsinki and Joensuu, and maybe another random city in Finland, and possibly a couple other places(prolly Stockholm, Sweden.)

Right now I have one char running in Denver(from Finland), and one in Seattle(from Norway). I typically play European chars, and they end up in the US. :D
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post Nov 29 2005, 09:00 AM
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Ive ran games in Seattle, Vancouver (can't remember the NAN that it is in right now), and Scotland/europe
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post Nov 29 2005, 09:01 AM
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A GM of mine once did a quick suppliment for Winnipeg, and a prison complex for the awakened creatures up in Churchill. (Big background count makes it hard for the Awakened to break out) It was sortof interesting.. I've been debating making one up for Halifax...
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post Nov 29 2005, 09:18 AM
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Miami. The runners are working for the Mob in Miami, and the runs often involve the caribbean scene. I wrote my own version of the SR Miami, using travel information and other current stuff from the web, information from SR books like Cyberpirates and my own ideas. F.e. a number of clubs and restaurants detailed in it are just taken from actual clubs all over the world, and spiced up a bit.

Edit: And magic is pretty mysterious and scary due to a main part of the practicioners being houngans, with the bermuda triangle as well as the jungles of central america relatively close for added ancient threats.

Main themes are smuggling, gang/mob wars, piracy, voodoo-trouble and other magical tie-ins.
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post Nov 29 2005, 09:44 AM
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I've always thought that New York would be an awesome place for a campaign or a set of campaigns. Wasn't it torn apart by an earthquake?

I just imagine it as super-seattle. Tons of mafia, tons of gangers. Lots of "import/export" and MUCH closer to Europe. Who knows what's coming in on the next boat?

As for the Earthquake, you could have tons of stuff living down in the hole. Insects? Toxic spirits?

IMHO, I think New York would be more fun than seattle. Of course, I'm FROM New York.
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post Nov 29 2005, 10:01 AM
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Toronto. A city so covered in highways, "plate cities" and arcologies that you can go your whole life underneath a steel sky. Ghouls infest the lower levels, while the upper ones drop their trash on the poor.
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post Nov 29 2005, 01:02 PM
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Seattle, pre-Saito Los Angeles, Miami, Metropole and Rhein-Ruhr.

Miami was by far the coolest setting. :)
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post Nov 29 2005, 01:07 PM
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We play in Seattle, but it hasn't got much in common with the official published stuff. What it does have in common is likely more by accident than design. We've got our own clubs, our own NPC-types, that sort of thing.
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post Nov 29 2005, 01:28 PM
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Well, the canon exists, but in terms of locations it's easier to use more creative player-conceived locations which don't have any likelihood of being retconned out of existence or being blown up in a supplement.
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post Nov 29 2005, 01:32 PM
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That's why we chose sprawls where not much canon material existed. Seattle was our first sprawl when we had been new to the system. But one realizes quickly the advanteges of a fresh (=non-canon) setting.
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post Nov 29 2005, 02:08 PM
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I did boston-Provedence sprawl not too long ago. My US geography sucks though
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post Nov 29 2005, 03:26 PM
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My GM is working on the KC sprawl....
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post Nov 29 2005, 03:29 PM
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We have been playing with the idea of starting a campaign out of Philadelphia. To us it sounds like a perfect place. So close to everything: NYC, Baltimore, DC, CAS boarder, not to mention the possibilities of going rural occasionally into central PA or upstate NY. The possibilities seam endless. In Seattle, I think it should be very hard to travel with all the semi-hostile boarders.
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post Nov 29 2005, 03:36 PM
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In fact, regarding KC, there is a decent Native American population in the area, including Haskell Indian College in nearby Lawrence...yet KC is well within the boundaries of the UCAS. Does anyone have any ideas about a sort of Indian Underground or even just embassies that could be put into play?

So far, we've decided that Lawrence (home of KU) was torn up quite a bit from riots during the whole Ghost War timeframe.
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post Nov 29 2005, 04:56 PM
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I played in New-Orleans, New-York, Morrocco and West Africa.
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post Nov 29 2005, 05:05 PM
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Minneapolis/Saint Paul here.
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post Nov 29 2005, 05:38 PM
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For the last year I have been running predominantly in Europe.

I have been relying on the old London Sourcebook (SR II), and of course SoE. Several the cities that I fleshed out more include Vienna, Liverpool, Innsbruck, Belgrade & Zagreb which are where most of the action in the last campaign took place,

For the next campaign I am working on Honolulu, the Big Island of Hawai'i, Paris (FR) Toronto/London (UCAS), Milwaukee, Sydney (Aus). Near Space, Geosynch, L Point, and two Lunar installations

The runners will defininitely earn their "Frequent Smuggler" miles on this one.
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post Nov 29 2005, 05:50 PM
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Anywhere but Fucking Seattle.

My preferred setting is the Boston-Richmond sprawl. My SR world has a much higher population than canon - cyberpunk needs overcrowding, dammit! - so that really is sprawl. None of this trying to pass off a city of half a million people as "sprawl"... we're talking continuous urbanization from Massachussetts to Virginia.
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post Nov 29 2005, 06:50 PM
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I'm planning a campaign based around the London sprawl and the Merseysprawl in Britain and maybe the Paris metroplex, if they go to France. Contemplating Tasmania, though obviously that isn't a sprawl.

A good Alien/Dino Crisis/Jurassic Park type adventure is just waiting to be written for that island.
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post Nov 29 2005, 06:53 PM
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QUOTE (Grinder @ Nov 29 2005, 07:32 AM)
That's why we chose sprawls where not much canon material existed. Seattle was our first sprawl when we had been new to the system. But one realizes quickly the advanteges of a fresh (=non-canon) setting.

Yeah, but some of the time it allows me to make smartass reference to canon locations. Such high regards as "full of posers" (Dante's) and "overrated" (Underworld 93, Penumbra even before it's hazing in SOTA:2063) and "has-been" (Matchstick's) have been uttered not a few time.

I've also set plenty of games in the PCC (Shocking, I'm sure) and one in Washington after I visited because it seemed like the most fucked-up place I could think of to pull off a job. I also have a cross-continental run planned.

QUOTE (6thDragon)
We have been playing with the idea of starting a campaign out of Philadelphia.  To us it sounds like a perfect place.  So close to everything: NYC, Baltimore, DC, CAS boarder, not to mention the possibilities of going rural occasionally into central PA or upstate NY.  The possibilities seam endless.

*notes the lack of reference to Pitt*

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In fact, regarding KC, there is a decent Native American population in the area, including Haskell Indian College in nearby Lawrence...yet KC is well within the boundaries of the UCAS.  Does anyone have any ideas about a sort of Indian Underground or even just embassies that could be put into play?

Sure. You can base them upon Warpath or *gasp* decent, political activists instead of goddamn terrorists. Seems just as reasonable, since there's still trade and other (some outside) factors keeping the UCAS and NAN from not destroying each other.
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post Nov 29 2005, 09:13 PM
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QUOTE (Valentinew)
In fact, regarding KC, there is a decent Native American population in the area, including Haskell Indian College in nearby Lawrence...yet KC is well within the boundaries of the UCAS. Does anyone have any ideas about a sort of Indian Underground or even just embassies that could be put into play?

So far, we've decided that Lawrence (home of KU) was torn up quite a bit from riots during the whole Ghost War timeframe.

There's a few hooks you could use in KC. I believe KU has some of their medical mini-campus' in KC, which in the ShadowRun world would translate to a LOT of poor college "street docs" who'd do discount (even experimental) work on the cheap.

There's an opprotunity for a casino explosion if the cities economy collapsed, bringing in the Mafia, Yaks and god-knows what other criminal organizations.

KC's a major train hub for the whole US (and UCAS why not) so, instead of the import/export at the Seatlle docks, you'd have thousands of transport trains coming and going daily.

Me and my group did a campaign in Wichita once. Might seem boringat first, but we added a lot of elements to it. The Boeing production center was closed and turned into a major international airport hub, which left the rest of the city littered with small branches of all the major corps. There wasn't anyone not working for at least one of them.

The idiodic exposed sewage system which ran across the south side of the city was a breeding ground for toxic spirits and shamans. The highway runs right above the sewer system, leanding itself to very action packed car chase scenes.
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QUOTE (Drinnik)
I'm planning a campaign based around the London sprawl and the Merseysprawl in Britain and maybe the Paris metroplex, if they go to France. Contemplating Tasmania, though obviously that isn't a sprawl.

A good Alien/Dino Crisis/Jurassic Park type adventure is just waiting to be written for that island.

If you do not already have it, pick up a copy of the London Sourcebook. It contains a lot of nice detail about London/UK society, laws, & various groups & gangs. It als so has several simplistic but still useful maps that can be used in conjunction with real maps of London.

I believe it is now out of print but you should be able to find ia copy at a used book/game store.
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post Nov 30 2005, 05:14 AM
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QUOTE (SL James)
Sure. You can base them upon Warpath or *gasp* decent, political activists instead of goddamn terrorists. Seems just as reasonable, since there's still trade and other (some outside) factors keeping the UCAS and NAN from not destroying each other.

Sorry to show my ignorance here...Warpath?
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