Alternative Sprawls, Where are [I]you[/I] running? |
Alternative Sprawls, Where are [I]you[/I] running? |
Nov 29 2005, 08:31 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 128 Joined: 15-February 05 From: Omaha, UCAS Member No.: 7,090 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 08:48 AM
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The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 08:55 AM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,168 Joined: 15-April 05 From: Helsinki, Finland Member No.: 7,337 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 09:00 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 504 Joined: 8-November 05 From: North Vancouver, BC Member No.: 7,936 |
Ive ran games in Seattle, Vancouver (can't remember the NAN that it is in right now), and Scotland/europe
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Nov 29 2005, 09:01 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,000 Joined: 17-November 05 From: Halifax, Canada Member No.: 7,975 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 09:18 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 09:44 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 17-November 05 Member No.: 7,977 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 10:01 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 204 Joined: 27-October 05 From: Waterloo, ON Member No.: 7,900 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 01:02 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
Seattle, pre-Saito Los Angeles, Miami, Metropole and Rhein-Ruhr.
Miami was by far the coolest setting. :) |
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Nov 29 2005, 01:07 PM
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Freelance Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 7,324 Joined: 30-September 04 From: Texas Member No.: 6,714 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 01:28 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 01:32 PM
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Great, I'm a Dragon... Group: Retired Admins Posts: 6,699 Joined: 8-October 03 From: North Germany Member No.: 5,698 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 02:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 175 Joined: 15-July 04 From: Imperial Japan Member No.: 6,483 |
I did boston-Provedence sprawl not too long ago. My US geography sucks though
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Nov 29 2005, 03:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 207 Joined: 3-November 05 From: KCMO Member No.: 7,922 |
My GM is working on the KC sprawl....
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Nov 29 2005, 03:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 266 Joined: 16-April 02 From: DC Member No.: 2,605 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 03:36 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 207 Joined: 3-November 05 From: KCMO Member No.: 7,922 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 04:56 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
I played in New-Orleans, New-York, Morrocco and West Africa.
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Nov 29 2005, 05:05 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
Minneapolis/Saint Paul here.
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Nov 29 2005, 05:38 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 05:50 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,028 Joined: 9-November 02 From: The Republic of Vermont Member No.: 3,581 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 06:50 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 6 Joined: 24-November 05 From: Colchester, England Member No.: 8,000 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 06:53 PM
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Shadowrun Setting Nerd Group: Banned Posts: 3,632 Joined: 28-June 05 From: Pissing on pedestrians from my electronic ivory tower. Member No.: 7,473 |
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.
*notes the lack of reference to Pitt*
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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Nov 29 2005, 09:13 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 61 Joined: 17-November 05 Member No.: 7,977 |
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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Nov 29 2005, 09:57 PM
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Bushido Cowgirl Group: Members Posts: 5,782 Joined: 8-July 05 From: On the Double K Ranch a half day's ride out of Phlogiston Flats Member No.: 7,490 |
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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Nov 30 2005, 05:14 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 207 Joined: 3-November 05 From: KCMO Member No.: 7,922 |
Sorry to show my ignorance here...Warpath? |
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