 Miami, Trying to dig up any info on the city in shadowrun books |
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 Apr 26 2008, 12:33 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516  |
Im trying to plan a rather long adventure in Miami for my players, that eventually will lead them deeper into the Caribbean. So I've been looking for info regarding Miami in shadowrun books. Ive gone over books released by FASA, Fanpro and Catalyst, but sofar I've only been able to find something in the Cyberpirates book (the caribbean league sourcebook released by Fasa in 1997), and that was only half a page... (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)
Anyone know if Miami is covered in any other shadowrun book? I dont think it is but maybe/hopefully some of you will prove me wrong. |
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Apr 26 2008, 12:52 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 |
Eh, just rip off of Miami Vice. Play lots of 80s music during the game.
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Apr 26 2008, 12:54 AM
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Street Doc Group: Admin Posts: 3,508 Joined: 2-March 04 From: Neverwhere Member No.: 6,114 |
Target: Smuggler's Havens has some info on the Caribbean League, but its centered mostly on New Orleans.
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Apr 26 2008, 12:56 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516 |
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Thats an option ofc. Well it wont be a problem for me to put something together. Im just hoping that I've missed something about Miami in some other book.
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Apr 26 2008, 02:01 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516 |
Any chance that Miami will be covered in one of the upcoming geographical spotlight books?
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Apr 26 2008, 03:45 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 |
The novel "Shadowboxer" contains some info about Miami. And iirc Art Dankwalter (or however his last name is spelled) got involved with the city when he ripped Gunderson Corporation apart. That should be in "Threats".
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Apr 26 2008, 03:49 PM
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Immortal Elf Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 14,358 Joined: 2-December 07 From: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Member No.: 14,465 |
*Sighs* One of the few novels I could never find. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/frown.gif)
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Apr 26 2008, 03:55 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516 |
Got the novel, been over 6 years or so since I read it so dont really remember it. I will have a read thank you Grinder.
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Apr 26 2008, 05:38 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 |
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Apr 26 2008, 08:55 PM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
QUOTE (Grinder @ Apr 26 2008, 04:45 PM)  The novel "Shadowboxer" contains some info about Miami. Don't bother, it's incredibly bad. If I recall it's one of the few if only novel where FASA/FanPro declared to be completely non-canon, both rules as well as plot-wise. The books that cover the city are CyberPirates for what little information we got on the place and Threats 2 for the update on what happened to Gunderson Corporation, the main local player. Going from memory since I don't have access to the books at the moment in brief Miami used to be pretty much a one corp town with AA rated corporation Gunderson having a strangle hold on the place, with two of their largest subsidiaries being TransSea (shipping division) and Atlantic Security(surprise surprise, security division covering both land and sea) which they used to enforce their control. When Art Dankwalther was limbering up for his attempt to destroy Novatech though he decided to use Gunderson as his practice attempt of taking down down an AA corporation and he tore them to shreds. Gunderson lost something like two thirds of their total assets and had to sell off TransSea to Wuxing and I believe AtSec, although I'm not a hundred percent sure about that one, just to survive. This means that Gunderson lost their monopoly on Miami and the region opened up to competing interests. |
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Apr 27 2008, 10:29 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516 |
Yeah found some nice info regarding Miami and recent devolpments there as well as some info about Gunderson Corp in Threats 2 thanks (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
In regards to the different corporations that have bought up most of Gunderson corporation I have a question about one of them. Does anyone know which country the corporation: Global Oil is from? Ive found a few mentions of it in Threats 2 and Target Wasteland but no real info about where the corp is from, but it seems that its an independant A or AA. |
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Apr 27 2008, 11:08 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 |
Global Oil was rated A until it merged with Sandstorm Engineering Conglomerate, another A-rated corp out of Arabia to form Global Sandstorm in 2065. Despite being only rated AA, having sided with Ibn Eisn, it is now the leading corporation in the Middle East, ahead of even Saeder Krupp. They deal mostly in resourses and contruction, and their owners (or main stockholders) appear to be the Shammar family.
Information on Global Oil can be found in ... - System Failure - pg. 110 - Shadows of Asia - pg. 100, 101, 105, 219, 220 - Target: Wastelands - somewhere? - California Free State - pg. 13 Information on Sandstorm Engineering Conglomerate can be found in ... - System Failure - pg. 110 - Shadows of Asia - pg. 13, 98, 100, 105, 220 Information on Global Sandstorm can be found in ... - System Failure - pg. 104, 110, 111, 112, 113 *Much thanks to Nath (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Apr 27 2008, 11:38 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 |
You have been bored, it seems. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Apr 27 2008, 11:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516 |
Wow thank you very much Fortune! Lots to look into (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Apr 27 2008, 11:46 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 |
No Problem. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
QUOTE (Grinder) You have been bored, it seems. Yes, but this didn't take long. I have Nath's Corp Index, and just basically summarized from there. I didn't even crack a book. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Apr 27 2008, 11:59 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516 |
QUOTE (Fortune @ Apr 27 2008, 06:46 PM) Yes, but this didn't take long. I have Nath's Corp Index, and just basically summarized from there. I didn't even crack a book. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Is this Corp Index available from somewhere or? Just had to ask since it seems like a very useful tool. |
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Apr 28 2008, 02:42 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 |
Last time I checked you could find the xls file here.
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Apr 28 2008, 02:54 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
How up to date is it nowadays? Having a quick look through it seems like it goes all the way up to System Failure but I could be missing something.
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Apr 28 2008, 03:00 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 |
Up-to-date as of 2065 and System Failure. I think Nath is working on an updated copy, but I am not too sure.
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Apr 28 2008, 03:27 AM
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King of the Hobos Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,117 Joined: 26-February 02 Member No.: 127 |
Has Nath been about lately? I've been something of an infrequent and cursory visiter of the forums for a while so I haven't really seen any recent posts of his. Either way I'll give him a PM and see if he's planning on updating it or not and offer some help if he is.
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Apr 28 2008, 03:48 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 |
He actually posted today, and he posted that link a little over a month ago, but doesn't post all that often (well, compared to me anyway! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) ).
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Apr 28 2008, 06:07 AM
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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 |
Well, you are... dedicated. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Apr 28 2008, 06:47 AM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,328 Joined: 28-November 05 From: Zuerich Member No.: 8,014 |
In my Miami campaign, we just made the city up, using rl guides as a base. Core to our view was the "Miami is a mob town" idea - I think that's taken from the Underworld Sourcebook, but I am not sure anymore, we started playing years ago.
We got a home-made sourcebook, but it's in german. |
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Apr 28 2008, 09:22 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516 |
QUOTE (Fortune @ Apr 27 2008, 09:42 PM) Last time I checked you could find the xls file here. Thank you Fortune, its an awesome aid and thank you Nath! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) |
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Apr 28 2008, 09:26 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 129 Joined: 26-July 04 From: Arhus, Denmark & Paris, France Member No.: 6,516 |
QUOTE (Fuchs @ Apr 28 2008, 01:47 AM) We got a home-made sourcebook, but it's in german. Wow very cool! I bet that was alot of work, well im no stranger to creating settings myself, so it shouldnt be a problem creating a satisfing setting from the info ive found thanks to the help I got here on the forum together with my own stuff. |
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