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 Sep 3 2007, 12:24 PM
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King of the Hobos  Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127  |
This kind of follows on from the Who's Running Where? thread about where people are basing their games out of. A Number of people mentioned locations that GMs have developed on their own outside of or building on marginal canon material. So what are some of the places that you've come up with for your games? Not looking for a War and Peace-esque pages and pages in-depth description, more say something along the lines of maybe a couple large paragraphs outlining the place, what's it about and what makes it an interesting place to play in. So impress us. :)
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Sep 3 2007, 03:21 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
I know these might not be quite what you're looking for, but it's been a while since I have seen some of these sites pimped. :D
Cincinnati Cleveland Cordova, CFS Delaware Memphis Ork Underground Puerto Rico Quebec St. Louis Tarislar Toronto Enfield, UK Frankfurt [in German] Rhein-Ruhr Megaplex Scandinavia Troll Kingdom of the Black Forest Venice Antarctica Outer Space |
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Sep 3 2007, 11:58 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
I once had a Johnson offer a job to the team in outer space but the team declined. It was sad because I had planned them to go on a space station that was a giant Mickey Mouse head floating in space. There was going to be a firefight with storm troopers wearing Mickey Mouse armor. Sadly, they declined, and being a good GM I just threw away my prep work and played along.
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Sep 4 2007, 12:18 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 289 Joined: 20-February 04 From: in the matrix Member No.: 6,091 |
I have had several campaigns (locations). New Miami (Miami, FL - done twice once as 3rd and once as 4th); MetroDFW (Dallas/FtWorth, Texas); Hotlanta (Atlanta, GA). Most of the material is not online anymore. If you have interest in any of these I can maybe dig upset some thing or write some of my mental notes down.
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Sep 4 2007, 12:21 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,326 Joined: 15-April 02 Member No.: 2,600 |
My last 3e game was a false start-- we picked it up after a long break and spent 2 sessions trying to remember the rules, and then 4e came out-- but I had set it in Cartagena, Colombia (or technically, Aztlan). If anyone has seen Romancing the Stone, the climatic scenes in the old Spanish Fort were set there.
I always saw Cartagena as sort of a South American Casablanca, with refugees from the Central American conflicts, Aztlan trying to remain in control, ghost cartels and Amazonians trying to subvert that control, all right next door to the Carib League with its smuggling and voodoo and 6 species of awakened shark. So, good times all around. |
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Sep 4 2007, 02:51 AM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
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Sep 4 2007, 07:07 AM
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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 |
...a few non canon locales I have used/am using
Alice Springs (pre Target Awakened Lands) Beograd Boston (SR4) Gibraltar Highstar Station Hilo Honolulu Ljubljana Milwaukee Osijek Portland (pre-Tir Taringire sourcebook) Vienna Vukovar Zagreb |
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Sep 4 2007, 05:11 PM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,944 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
Shadowland had a 2 issue (at least) write-up about a German location, also a write-up about the Nashville, TN sprawl. TSS had, or planned, a Detroit, MI article. I recall Detroit being discussed by SubRosa here on DS years ago. I also recall someone talking about Philadelphia, PA as a setting.
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Sep 4 2007, 09:12 PM
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Immoral Elf Group: Members Posts: 15,247 Joined: 29-March 02 From: Grimy Pete's Bar & Laundromat Member No.: 2,486 |
Blackjack had Philly, but the page is down at the moment (along with about half the other SR locations sites I know of).
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Sep 4 2007, 10:32 PM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
What was the damage code of a philly cheese steak hot off the griddle? It'd have to be at least 2L... |
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Sep 5 2007, 12:03 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 28-November 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 10,065 |
Three issues. 1 through 3 has The Gross-Frankfurt Sprawl 1: Frankfurt am Main 2: Rhein-Main 3: The Rhein-Neckar Region Carl |
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Sep 6 2007, 01:09 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 909 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Louisville, KY (Well, Memphis, IN technically but you won't know where that is.) Member No.: 7,626 |
I'll pimp my own Louisville FTZ currently here on DS.
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=16785 |
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Sep 6 2007, 01:26 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
I know Snow Fox is planning to write up Philadelphia, where she now lives. Our group all came from Westchester county , north of NYC, and had several runs in that area. Most of the group went to the same High School and got to shoot up the front of it, it was justified.
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Sep 6 2007, 05:50 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 28-November 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 10,065 |
You're welcome to host it on my web server if you'd like. I tried to PM but it's still borked. Carl |
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Sep 6 2007, 06:49 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 909 Joined: 26-August 05 From: Louisville, KY (Well, Memphis, IN technically but you won't know where that is.) Member No.: 7,626 |
Carl,
I was unaware PMs were borked. Give me an email. I use kigmatzomat on the hotmail. I've been working on a prettified PDF that includes maps and such. |
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Sep 6 2007, 07:16 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 28-November 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 10,065 |
Yep. I clicked on it and get the white screen, same as if I try to go into my controls. I've sent you an e-mail. Carl |
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Sep 6 2007, 08:17 PM
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Free Spirit Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,944 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Bloomington, IN UCAS Member No.: 1,920 |
How to use the Personal Message function. Click on 0 new messages in the upper right part of the screen, then go to Compose New Message. |
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Sep 6 2007, 10:12 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 166 Joined: 28-November 06 From: Broomfield, CO Member No.: 10,065 |
Ok, it worked that way. I tried clicking on the user (which is how I do it elsewhere) and didn't think about going into the message area. Thanks. Carl |
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Sep 11 2007, 08:53 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 94 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Loughborough, UK Member No.: 1,321 |
I'm currently running an SR3 game out of St. Andrews University, Scotland, where the players are Archaeology postgrads. The game's set to visit Visby in Götland as well as Prague before heading off to Cairo.
The Cairo bit is something I've planned for quite literally years- I set up a civil war between the Islamic government and Pharaonic revivalists which I didn't get to play with fully in my last long-running plot arc, so I intend to explore it fully this time around... Who knows where I could end up from there? I'm thinking either South-East Asia or South America, though I am rather enamoured with Hong Kong as a location. Closer to topic, I did once set two sessions in an Ultraviolet host that appeared to all intents and purposes to be the Redmond Barrens... |
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Sep 12 2007, 03:12 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 29 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Derbyshire / UK Member No.: 1,309 |
Not to mention you based a whole section of a game out of the The Hague...
(as an aside, i'm posting as Mr. Croup normally, didn't realise my old login was still on file!) |
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Sep 12 2007, 03:34 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 181 Joined: 29-March 07 Member No.: 11,342 |
Blaze would you have some material to post on your campaign ? (or PM it to me :P)
I'm realy interested in doing a few "archeological" runs with my group :) |
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Sep 12 2007, 03:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: 21-December 06 Member No.: 10,416 |
I've got an old post somewhere about a rural area in Alabama that I used as home territory for some of my characters. Also I have used:
Richmond, Virginia and vacinity Jacksonville, FL Mobile, AL Ivory Coast and Liberia (for a mercenary campaign) |
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Sep 12 2007, 04:07 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 23-March 06 From: Drowning in the pollution of Mass Bay Member No.: 8,401 |
I'd be interested in seeing who runs in CalFree.
And then I'd be interested in seeing which of their runners uses MediCal... :wobble: |
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Sep 12 2007, 06:13 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 976 Joined: 16-September 04 From: Near my daughters, Lansdale PA Member No.: 6,668 |
We did a couple of short, military adventures there, but remember, we were all New Yorkers so it was probably not very accurate.
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Sep 12 2007, 06:17 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 259 Joined: 2-September 07 From: In the AGS, underwater Member No.: 13,049 |
I'm currently preparing Koblenz, Westrhine-Luxembourg as a setting for a campaign I'll be starting soon. According to canon, the city and the surrounding region are completely flooded.
But the players I'm about to start with are mostly complete newbies to the Shadowrun world and we all live in Koblenz so I think it'll be easier for them to relate to a city they know. Also I find the reasons why the whole Neuwied basin is flooded and now a giant lake downright retarded (in 2042 volcanoes in the Eiffel erupted and lava caused the Rhine to dam up). |
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