Where do YOU run?, Where is your team's stomping grounds? |
Where do YOU run?, Where is your team's stomping grounds? |
Sep 1 2006, 01:11 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 12-July 06 From: Redmond,UCAS Member No.: 8,876 |
After our last session, my team has been forced to relocate and leave the Seattle sprawl. We're making arrangements to head for some other coast, and I have a feeling we'll end up in Hong Kong. I then realized most of our careers were spent in the Emerald City, and that got me to wondering, what city do other players find their teams "running" in most of the time?
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Sep 1 2006, 01:17 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 83 Joined: 26-March 03 Member No.: 4,336 |
can't believe you didn't include denver as a base choice.
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Sep 1 2006, 01:26 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,011 Joined: 15-February 05 From: Montréal, QC, Canada Member No.: 7,087 |
Most common has to be using a sourcebooked city followed by using your hometown (if you live in or near a metropolis).
So I've only based my campaigns in Seattle and Montréal. |
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Sep 1 2006, 01:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 12-July 06 From: Redmond,UCAS Member No.: 8,876 |
I can't believe it either. I guess you chose "Other"? |
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Sep 1 2006, 01:35 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,011 Joined: 15-February 05 From: Montréal, QC, Canada Member No.: 7,087 |
Berlin also should have been on the list since it had a sourcebook in previous editions and likely had it fans.
Paris also had a non-FASA one (possibly only made available in French). |
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Sep 1 2006, 01:53 PM
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The Dragon Never Sleeps Group: Admin Posts: 6,924 Joined: 1-September 05 Member No.: 7,667 |
Denver. Boxed set was nice.
New York, San Francisco, Vladivostok are some other locales. |
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Sep 1 2006, 02:00 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,635 Joined: 27-November 05 Member No.: 8,006 |
For this group the team is based in Seattle so far, but we've spent a good deal of time on an extended Yucatan/Cuba/Miami 'vacation' and had a 2 session run to Quebec City.
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Sep 1 2006, 02:01 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 9-January 06 Member No.: 8,143 |
Other. Antwerp, Europort. The United Netherlands really.
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Sep 1 2006, 02:07 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 162 Joined: 27-January 06 From: Norfolk, Ma Member No.: 8,202 |
With the regular gaming group, Seattle. Personally am trying to do all the SRM with a friend from college so you can add Denver. I have two ideas for campaigns, on in Boston (near where I live) and New Orleans
Mark |
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Sep 1 2006, 02:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 313 Joined: 5-March 04 From: UK Member No.: 6,125 |
We live near London but we use Seattle just for simplicity. We have had some runs in Hong-Kong, I think one in London and one in Azzie-land. Of course, my wife and I are looking at the possibility of moving to Seattle now. Maybe visit Redmond and start the decline...
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Sep 1 2006, 02:10 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,150 Joined: 19-December 05 From: Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Member No.: 8,081 |
Seattle, because it's most convenient. Every Player has at least a passing familiarity with it.
I'll most likely start a campaign in one of the "new" places when the winter settles in. Munich, to be exact (from the german München Noir). |
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Sep 1 2006, 02:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 633 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 8,301 |
My group's in Seattle. Mostly people new to Shadowrun, so I figured that it'd be easiest to start in the "default" city. It's shaping up quite nice, really; we've really developed a unique feel for the city. We're primarily in Tacoma, because I like the whole lower middle class post-industrial feel of it. More organized crime, less megacorps. I did send them on a brief mission to Albany, New York. (Sadly, they're not likely to go back there. It's currently occupied by a massive eastern Native American terrorist organization and is half destroyed.)
I like the feel of Seattle, though. I think I do a pretty good job of making it feel massive. That's why, though they live in Seattle, they've rarely seen downtown, but they spend most of their time in Tacoma. Some of Seattle's "boroughs" (or whatever they're called) are as big as modern-day cities. Downtown (and Renton, and Puyallup, etc.) is part of the city they live in, but it feels very far away. |
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Sep 1 2006, 02:18 PM
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Shooting Target Group: Members Posts: 1,706 Joined: 30-June 06 From: Fort Wayne, IN Member No.: 8,814 |
Seeing I had a new group to run for, I just put them in the Denver area to start. I have not run any of the SRMs except for one from SR3 (which I modified to put in the Denver area) but I am sure I will at least use some of the SRM history/background for my own adventures.
I do take a lot of ideas from my hometown and just plop them into the area the characters are running though, so it is certainly a mix! |
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Sep 1 2006, 02:28 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 111 Joined: 12-July 06 From: Redmond,UCAS Member No.: 8,876 |
Like I said, Seattle has been our main AO since the start with our main cast of characters. They've also been to the Phillipines, Calfree, the NAN, Tir Tairngire, and Las Vegas (damn those Feds who tried to take us in!), but their home is in Seattle (mainly Auburn, Tacoma, and the Redmond Barrens).
We briefly had a new team which began in Denver, and another in the DeeCee Plex. |
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Sep 1 2006, 02:32 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 289 Joined: 20-February 04 From: in the matrix Member No.: 6,091 |
I generally write up the a new "city" for my campaigns OR run in seattle. I generally like writing my own since it give the players a new arena to play in, instead of the standard ole seattle.
My new campaign will be in miami... but they will go to some of the cities in Runners Havens. :) |
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Sep 1 2006, 02:36 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,498 Joined: 4-August 05 From: ADL Member No.: 7,534 |
Rhein-Ruhr-Megaplex
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Sep 1 2006, 03:08 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 475 Joined: 13-March 06 From: dusty Mexican borderlands Member No.: 8,372 |
My group runs in Chicago, though none of us live there, and I think I'm the only one who's ever actually visited the city. We like the CZ, and we're playing out a real estate war between corp subsidiaries to snatch up cheap land for the "renewal" of Chicago.
Also, I strongly recommend reading the Sun-Times for all GMs. The sheer abundance of corruption and violence in modern day Chicago will provide an endless stream of run ideas. |
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Sep 1 2006, 03:23 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 93 Joined: 9-December 03 From: Greenville, SC Member No.: 5,889 |
Seattle, Las Vegas, and (pre-bug) Chicago are our most common settings. When our SR4 game finally gets off the ground, it'll probably be Seattle for a while, then see where fate takes things.
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Sep 1 2006, 04:06 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 684 Joined: 8-April 06 From: My dorm room Member No.: 8,438 |
Agreed: the Sun-Times is a much better source than the Tribune, except if you're looking for fun things to do on the weekend (and when I say "fun things," I mean stuff like going to a summer festival or eating at a nice restaurant, not stuff like blasting away at gangers or being chased by the police). Oh yeah, and the Trib has a better comics section and is much prettier overall, but other than that, it has little to recommend itself. EDIT: If you don't believe me, just check out this brilliant and insightful feature column. |
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Sep 1 2006, 05:18 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,333 Joined: 19-August 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9,168 |
Mmmm, Vladivostock.
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Sep 1 2006, 05:21 PM
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jacked in Group: Admin Posts: 9,042 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 463 |
Rhine-Ruhr-Megaplex for our PnP game.
Bye Thanee |
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Sep 1 2006, 05:41 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,537 Joined: 27-August 06 From: Albuquerque NM Member No.: 9,234 |
John Kass' column in the Tribune is good for a take on political corruption. As a semi-random example: July 16, 2006 Battered Blagojevich has friend in foe There's only one politician in Illinois who can make Republican gubernatorial candidate Judy Barr Topinka look like a reformer: Gov. Rod "The Unreformer" Blagojevich. Or the ones about the three connected teeens who sent a 75 year old woman to the hospital after they shot her up with pellet guns and got 25 hours of community service for their "non-violent" acts. Chicago is a great place, which is why I moved out of the state. |
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Sep 1 2006, 05:51 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 |
Miami.
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Sep 1 2006, 05:55 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 2 Joined: 23-August 05 Member No.: 7,598 |
Nowadays Seattle, but on 3rd ed. We run in São Paulo Amazonia.
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Sep 1 2006, 06:08 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 76 Joined: 16-August 06 Member No.: 9,131 |
The campaign I am running in currently is taking place in Seattle, However there has been an ongoing storyline that will end up taking the group to Tir Tairngire, Then to London, then Egypt, and finally at the fruition of the Story to Tir Na Nog and the metaplanes.
The outlook of the entire world could change depending on how the storyline ends. The campaign storyline I am using however is a longterm thing. It has already started but is something really just running in the background that really is only effecting one member of the team. |
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