Who's running where?, What cities are you basing your games i? Options

[Donk]

Me,

I'm going to be running in Cincinnati. I live here and my players are familiar with the area.

The campaign is going to be called "Queen City Blues".

I'm running my game concurrently with a friend who will also run in Cincinnati with a different player group.

We are talking about setting up a website for both groups to reference and to allow those outside the game to see what's going on and also (I hope!) to post what essentially would be our "Shadows of Cincinnati" rpg reference.

That's all from Donk for a bit....TTFN!

[BishopMcQ]

I'm currently running games based in Seattle, Denver and NYC.

[imperialus]

We're going back to Seattle for our next campaign but I've played games in London, LA, Hong Kong, and perhaps the most... interesting, Jerusalem.

[Serbitar]

Rhein-Ruhr-Megaplex

[Kyoto Kid]

...Started in London...

...Went to Vienna...

...currently somewhere in Croatia on the road to Zagreb.

[itinerary of the RiS team so far]

past campaigns included

...London (again)

...Kingdom of Hawai'i

...Portland TT

...oh, and Seattle.

A campaign in the works will include

...Kingdom of Hawai'i (again)

...Milwaukee

...LEO & Geostationary.

...Luna

[jklst14]

Currently, Philadelphia. Past games include the usual suspects (Seattle, Denver, Hong Kong).

[Adarael]

The major two for many games I've run:

Seattle
Pre-PCC Los Angeles

For my european spy vs spy type game:

Prague (Home Base)
Paris (2 PCs home town)
Rhine-Rhur (for Industrial Esponage)
Venice (for a James Bond segment)
Moscow (for some jobs)

[Gelare]

I only just started playing Shadowrun, but the games I ran were in Seattle, and I played in a game set in Denver. Moscow would be fun, though.

[Zen Shooter01]

Central Florida.

[lunchbox311]

Denver, because I live here.

:D

[Adarael]

Here, because this subject interests me, here are some more cities that I've found are awesome to set games in. I haven't used them for full story arcs, but they're overflowing with possibility:

-Brussels. Central to freakin' everything, full of money, surrounded by warring power blocs and corporations. Plus, it rocks.
-Vienna. It's Vienna. It's just awesome.
-Novosibirsk. Got turned on to this idea by an old girlfriend who grew up there. It's where runners from Vladivostok go when they've run out of edge, out of money, and are willing to fight in back alleys for pocket cash. I play it up as the hellish end for all out-of-towners, and the Trans-Polar Alieuts that visit use them up and spit them out like so much disposable junk.
-Abuja. Capital of Nigeria, and last bastion of anything resembling order in central Africa. Past this point, it's all Bartertown, Mad Max, and guys with guns trying to kill eachother for gas, oil, diamonds, and spare parts.
-Baku. I don't know why, I just really love setting games in the southwestern ex-Soviet territories, and Azerbaijan is my favorite of them.

[Kyoto Kid]

[JesterX]

Seattle (UCAS)
Phoenix (Pueblo)
Denver (Hard to say ^_^)

And I have plan for them to go to Montreal (Quebec) or Portland/Eugene (TT)

[Arix]

In the last game I played in went went to:

Athens (we blew up the Parthenon)
Hong Kong (lovely fun with the Triad)
The Moon (weird genetic experiments for all!)

[Aristotle]

I'm thinking of basing my next campaign out of Baltimore. I've never lived there, but I've always lived close. That gives me a certain feeling of familiarity with it. I don't think it's been covered by any source books (am I wrong?), so I intend to pretty much do what I want with it. Right now I'm thinking heavy influences from criminal syndicates (sort of an organized crime version of a corp. enclave). I'm sure my campaign will travel a little. They usually do.

I'd post some material if I ever get 'round to writing anything.

[toturi]

Non-canon settings campaign - Hanoi, Chiang Mai, Bali, Singapore, Malacca.

[AngelisStorm]

The game I'm playing in is based out of Seattle (because we live here). On the old, super detailed map of Seattle, I looked up my road and I live a few hundred yards from the NAN. :) But we're running in western North America, and we've had an adventure in Rome also so far.

The game I'm GMing is based out of New Orleans. I've looked around and haven't found very much source material on the area, so I'm working from my own ideas. That campaign is loosely connected to our Seattle one, and I've got a couple of non-awakened characters who have to deal with awakened wierdness. It's been pretty fun so far, since they can't just switch to astral perception or mana bolt stuff. They feel totally underdogs, and are having a great time getting by (sometimes by the skin of their teeth). I based it in New Orleans because I love the south, and it's centrally located near Mexico, the Caribean, and so on.

- Angel

[Strobe]

Sydney. We live here and it is nice to actually know where you are going.

-Strobe

[DTFarstar]

My players are about 2 sessions away from having a running gun/magic battle in the Louvre. I am so excited!


Chris

[Draconis]

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[Adarael]

[Marwynn]

We have two games based in Hong Kong and one in Toronto where we are (physically) at. It's hard to get Toronto to feel properly cyberpunkish, so the campaign is a bit slicker. "Hollywood North" and all that. It's about stars, drugs, more drugs, and the occasional piracy thing.

Hong Kong, however, is an amazing cyberpunk dystopia. Honestly, Runner Havens did an amazing job for HK. We're supplementing our gaming with real HK pictures that don't need doctoring to feel like it's in the heavily neon world of the future.

Plus that feng shui stuff adds a new dimension. I feel naughty for sneaking in someone's office and rearranging furniture, it's like the pranks you pulled in high school but for thousands of nuyen. My Face/Mage even faked a job interview just so he could subtly manipulate the office while he was there. A nudged plant with some bent leaves/branches, somewhat less than pure water fountains, etc.

Of course, they take it too seriously since they actually do channel magical forces.

You gotta try it. You don't know fun unless you've forced the downfall of small corporation for hacking a work-party's instructions for repainting the lines in the parking garage to funnel bad mojo.

We giggle like schoolgirls we do.

[Adarael]

Agreed. It was awesome to see Hong Kong get the kind of treatment it deserved.

[Draconis]