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Wakshaani
post Aug 24 2014, 09:57 PM
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Cross-posting this on another forum, but since Dumpshock's filled with dedicated Shadowrunners, I figured I should ask here as well.

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I'm not looking for how *much* you pay your 'runners as that opens a whole war of people, so, table that part of your thoughts and keep reading.

I'm curious how you handle a few subsets of the Shadowrunner ecology. In particular:

Pay. Do you dish out pay on a per-runner basis, or do you pay out a lump sum for them to divide as they see fit?

The Fixer. Are they involved in the negotiations at all or do they point the team at a Johnson and go, "Here he is. Good luck." Does the fixer get a "finder's fee" and, if so, how is it done? Do the runners pay teh Fixer? Does Johnson? Does the fixer get a share of the team hire? Does your team *use* a fixer or do you cut out the middle man and have the team face deal only in Johnsons?

Mr. Johnson. Is Johnson usually the client or is Johnson there to *represent* a client? Does Johnson talk in code at a meeting or do they lay details out openly? Does Johnson recruit only your team or do other teams jockey for jobs? Does Johnson take a second meeting to give full 'run details or does he present everything up front?

Do you have several different fixers for a team or do they mainly stick with one? Do your fixers "headhunt" from one another to get good runners?

Do you use the same Mr Johnson several times or is each one a one-and-done?

On the issue of pay, how often do you pay in corp scrip rather than nuyen? Of those, how often is the hiring corp the one paying out instead of "planting evidence" by using another cor's scrip? How often does your Johnson offer 'perks', such as gear, stock, or access to Beta clinics, as deal sweeteners?

Been chatting with a few people here and there and gotten some interesting answers that are quite a bit different than my own game, and I'm curious how the rest of you lot handle it.
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- Wakshaani   Just curious: How do you handle Mr. Johnson, Fixers, and pay?   Aug 24 2014, 09:57 PM
- - Dolanar   This is different for every game/set of players I ...   Aug 24 2014, 11:03 PM
- - rythymhack   Regarding the fixer's pay, I think they could ...   Aug 24 2014, 11:54 PM
- - ShadowDragon8685   Hooo boy. You've asked a lot of complicated qu...   Aug 25 2014, 01:11 AM
- - hermit   I tend to go by a mix of gut feeling and GTA facto...   Aug 25 2014, 01:16 AM
- - ShadowDragon8685   I'd be very careful, if I were a Johnson, abou...   Aug 25 2014, 01:53 AM
- - Wakshaani   Let me head that line of talk off. NOT about pay r...   Aug 25 2014, 03:25 AM
- - Hexariah   I haven't played much Shadowrun yet, but so fa...   Aug 25 2014, 03:33 AM
|- - ShadowDragon8685   QUOTE (Hexariah @ Aug 24 2014, 10:33 PM) ...   Aug 25 2014, 04:56 AM
- - kzt   First of all, Runners are deniable assets. Why sh...   Aug 25 2014, 05:53 AM
- - Wakshaani   See? Here we start to see some interesting differe...   Aug 25 2014, 06:01 AM
- - JesterZero   Ok, here goes: Pay (Lump vs. Per Capita): In gener...   Aug 25 2014, 06:40 AM
- - hermit   Alright, Wakshaani, I didn't get your post the...   Aug 25 2014, 08:38 AM
- - bannockburn   These are a lot of interesting questions. Most of ...   Aug 25 2014, 10:23 AM
- - Wakshaani   My way is a tad odd, and I adopted it after watchi...   Aug 25 2014, 10:38 AM
|- - bannockburn   QUOTE (Wakshaani @ Aug 25 2014, 12:38 PM)...   Aug 25 2014, 10:55 AM
- - Betx   I’m curious too to see what other groups are doing...   Aug 25 2014, 03:24 PM
- - Shemhazai   What if it's done per runner and some of the r...   Aug 25 2014, 06:16 PM
- - kzt   Mr Johnson has more to spend on hookers and blow. ...   Aug 25 2014, 07:03 PM
|- - Hexariah   QUOTE (kzt @ Aug 25 2014, 03:03 PM) Mr Jo...   Aug 25 2014, 08:30 PM
- - DrZaius   I have played where the Fixer deals with the Johns...   Aug 25 2014, 08:52 PM
- - Nath   On pay Some employer pay each runner separately, s...   Aug 25 2014, 11:04 PM
- - Paul   I tend to over plan just about everything, but I l...   Aug 25 2014, 11:31 PM
- - Temperance   QUOTE (Wakshaani @ Aug 24 2014, 02:57 PM)...   Aug 26 2014, 01:00 AM
- - Glyph   Runners who are a team are likelier to accept a lu...   Aug 26 2014, 02:52 AM
- - Moirdryd   May I recommend Mr Johnson's Little Black Book...   Aug 26 2014, 11:52 PM
|- - Wakshaani   QUOTE (Moirdryd @ Aug 26 2014, 06:52 PM) ...   Aug 27 2014, 12:54 AM
|- - ShadowDragon8685   QUOTE (Wakshaani @ Aug 26 2014, 07:54 PM)...   Aug 27 2014, 05:02 AM
|- - toturi   It depends on the setup of the business. Does th...   Aug 27 2014, 05:58 AM
- - Glyph   I honestly don't see many fixers trying to pul...   Aug 28 2014, 01:52 AM
- - cndblank   I've always played the fixer gets his cut from...   Aug 29 2014, 05:33 PM
- - Pendaric   In our games the fixer gets his or her 10% from th...   Aug 30 2014, 10:22 PM
- - ShadowDragon8685   One thing that's important to remember when yo...   Sep 1 2014, 02:55 AM
- - toturi   QUOTE (ShadowDragon8685 @ Sep 1 2014, 10...   Sep 2 2014, 04:33 AM


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