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[Aku]

Ok, so i've started a semi low powered game where all of the characters are Gangers in the 405 Hellhounds, but i'm having difficulty coming up with runs that a gang would have done. So far, i've had them rob a grocery store for food (which i was surprised to have some resistance from the players on) and a hostage rescue. Anyone have any other ideas? preferably something that might take more than 30 minutes of game time to do?

[Chance359]

Have one of their fellow gang members come staggering into their clubhouse bloodied after a fight with a rival gang.

Maybe they need to purchase drugs or weapons for some of their businesses.

[Aku]

Well, that was sortof the set up for the rescue. I played it as if the 3 gangers got captured during a running gunfight

[Karoline]

Claim territory from a rival gain. Convince shop owners that they need to pay for 'protection'. Steal a new shipment of guns/drugs. Do a 'recruitment drive'. Steal some oversized speakers and other electronics for a rave!

Provide protection to someone's friend/girlfriend/other. Break into a corp or shop or something and tag the place.

Big race coming up, need to grab great parts for your team and/or make sure the other teams run into 'mechanical' trouble.

[klinktastic]

Honestly, this sets itself up perfectly for a sandbox game. Let the players decide what to do. Maybe they want to start selling new drugs to increase the profit on their turf. Turn that into an adventure. Maybe they want to steal some weapons or 'wares. As Karoline said, if they want to increase their turf, then they have to fight the guys who's turf it currently is. Instead of coming up with plots, ask them what they want to do. They should make the plots for you. To give yourself extra time to plan stuff, call/IM/email them between session asking for ideas of what they are planning next. Then you can do some legwork in advance as opposed to doing it on the fly.

[Faelan]

Well lets see, Go Gangers.

1) Rival gang does a drive by shooting on a 405 member. Hunt down the bastard, and get medieval on him.
2) Meet up with your supplier goes bad, now the Vory is pissed off with you even though it was one of their who shot first. You might need to rough up a whole lot of shopkeepers as a favor to get them off your backs.
3) While we are at it rough up shopkeepers for protection money.
4) Go to a local concert, run into an enemy gang. Brawl-O-Mania turns into a shoot out to death metal riffs.
5) Your new member is a virgin take him out for a good time, pimp slap some ho's.
6) Play mailbox baseball with random passersby.
7) Ride over the local Lonestar Patrol car, after toying with him for a bit, lose him.
(IMG:style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) Molotov Cocktail the Lonestar Patrol car, and get ghost.
9) Deliver a beat down to some kid who is wearing your colors, but is not in your gang.
10) Harass people driving down Route 405, it's your road make sure they know it.
11) A tour bus makes a wrong turn into your turf, terrorize the elderly and steal valuables.
12) Play pool at the local bar, for free. In fact drinks are free. Actually everything is free. The bartender is a real nice guy.
13) Gang challenge. Race your bikes against a rival gang. Winner has bragging right if they survive the brawl.
14) Play chicken with a semi, don't worry you will win because you are a 405 HEELLLLLLLHOUND!!!!!! and your friggin crazy.
15) B&E at the local Motorcycle Store, a new member needs his own ride.
16) Party with some fine ho's. Shit one of them stole your stash, time to teach them a lesson.
17) Borrow a couple of kids from school for ransom, make sure mommy and daddy know not to call Lonestar or little Jimmy is going to be processed. Processed? We will leave that to your imagination.
18) Defend your position as top dawg against an internal challenge.
19) Humiliate a random passer by.
20) Vandalize a church...because it is fun, and you are Satan.
21) Play a game of William Tell with some poor schmuck. Oooops. You missed, get another schmuck.

Hope that helps.

[Kagetenshi]

"The 405 Hellhounds […] specialize in moving goods from one end of Bellevue to another—sort of a fierce, unpredictable messenger service for illegal deals."

Ferry goods from one end of Bellevue to the other.

Find and mess up someone who interfered with another member of the gang ferrying goods from one end of Bellevue to the other.

Duke it out with the Mountain Boys near the Renton Airport where the highways that form their respective territories cross. This one can be out of the blue while the team is riding, too.

Go get some very special Hellhound chow for Eddie.

~J

[SleepIncarnate]

Go play Grand Theft Auto San Andreas or either Saints Row game for ideas. The other GTA games are ok, but less that street level ganger feel and more the independent guy working for the various syndicates feel.

[Rastus]

If there's any videogame I'd recommend for a few scenerio ideas AND a good way to get a feel for how a ganger game would look and run in Shadowrun, it'd definately be The Warriors.

Apparently in 1979 all New York City street gangs dressed up in gaudy uniforms, who knew it'd come into resurgance across the entire former United States in 2050 and beyond? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nyahnyah.gif) Of course, there are far far far more firearms in SR than in the entire city of New York within the Warriorverse, so yeah.

[PresentPresence]

5) Your new member is a virgin take him out for a good time, pimp slap some ho's.

DO IT.

[thetrav]

Watch Sons of Anarchy for some good criminal gang related story hooks.

Flesh out your gangs back story, what's the gangs relationship like with the organised crime syndicates? Have the organised players try to push the gang around like a pawn in their larger game

[Blade]

A basketball game
A car/bike race
A rap battle
Tell everyone you've slept with their sisters and/or mothers
Remember the help the Shadowrunners PC ask their ganger contacts? You're the ganger contacts.

[SleepIncarnate]

1) Rival gang does a drive by shooting on a 405 member. Hunt down the bastard, and get medieval on him.

We really should update this phrase to SR time lines. How about "Get 1940's on him"? or "Get Night of Rage on him"? Or "Get late 20th Century on him"?

[nezumi]

1) Set up some competition. You want a few local enemies, and one or two local allies. One of those enemies should be the Big Bad Guy for the time being.

2) BBG is getting something awesome soon (a new weapon, a new tech specialist, a mage, support of a mob). You must stop it.

[Doc Chase]

We really should update this phrase to SR time lines. How about "Get 1940's on him"? or "Get Night of Rage on him"? Or "Get late 20th Century on him"?

"Chachi got fragged on a drive-by."
"What? Let's get Victorian on some muthafuckas!"

Cut scene to a bunch of gangbangers in top hats and cravats, sipping tea before one gets up and slaps another with a velvet glove.

[Karoline]

"Chachi got fragged on a drive-by."
"What? Let's get Victorian on some muthafuckas!"

Cut scene to a bunch of gangbangers in top hats and cravats, sipping tea before one gets up and slaps another with a velvet glove.

I was expecting some kind of sexual repression. Going into his house, covering all those naughty table legs with linens and so on (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

How about 'World War'? What's the current age called? Information age? That doesn't sound nearly as cool.

[Zyerne]

What's mailbox baseball?

[Karoline]

What's mailbox baseball?

Its where you hit mailboxes with baseball bats. Often done from a moving vehicle.

I'm not sure how many buildings would have mailboxes though.

[Zyerne]

Hmm. Don't think there's a British equivalent to that.

[Karoline]

Hmm. Don't think there's a British equivalent to that.

Mailbox cricket?

Edit: It isn't an actual sport or anything, and I'm not sure it is an 'official' name, it is just a delinquent activity. Figured I'd make sure to point that out.

[Zyerne]

We don't really have mailboxes the way you do.

[Karoline]

We don't really have mailboxes the way you do.

Good point. Letter slits are the big thing over there, right?

Fact is you'll only find mailboxes in suburban settings anyway, so no real opportunity for it in city.

[Zyerne]

We call them letter boxes but yeah. No idea why as they are basically a hole in the door you put mail through.

As an aside, I can tell you from personal experience you get funny looks if you go in a 5* hotel with a baseball bat over one shoulder and and dripping wet (in the middle of summer)

As such, I'd like to suggest terrorising rich folk as a gang activity.

[AppliedCheese]

Squabble over how hard you are. Get drunk. Have somebody disrespect somebody else through an arcane street code that you all vigorously support without understanding. Survive the ensuing gang war. Break and reform your gang a dozen times based off of who is more popular today and to confuse people who were looking for you before. Go shoot up a a funeral for an opposing gang. Survive that gang war. Change names again. Keep squabbling over who is the hardest and deserves the most respect. Impress eager tweens in the barrens and make them into new gangers because all of your gang wars have cut into your numbers.

Have the actual power brokers in the 405 finally realize you exist. Start running goods. Find out you were wrong to squabble-you are very small fish. Become bigger fish. Eventually suffer the fate of all fish who get too big for the bowl.

[yesferatu]

Zyerne,

It's basically the equivalent of side-mirror smashing in the UK.
I swear breaking drivers side mirrors is a sport in England.


On topic...I need to start a storyline along these lines as well.
I try to stick to the basics.

1. Gang needs territory
2. Gang needs members
3. Gang needs money
4. Gang needs warez/transportation/drugs
5. Gang needs rep

Anything in those areas should be good for a story or two.