My Shadowrun group, My group. Options

[LaughingTiger]

I'm home, bored, my radio station just got sold, and I have to be back at work in less than 12 hours.

Therefore, you get the product of my nuerotic boredom.

When I joined the boards, I posted a topic, asking about info for St. Louis, stating I am planning to run a game soon. I finally have all my players and all characters made, here's a quick rundown.

An as yet unamed male Ork. Large, with dreads, a cybereye, skull, 1 arm, and an eyepatch. From the Carribean. Was on the bad end of a double cross and nearly died, used contacts to find a place to hide. St. Louis. Is buddies with Solomon Greene, the "independant" contractor the group starts out working for. Has three hookers as contacts. Has them all addicted to smack, which he gets from his drug dealer contact (cy, from Bringing out the dead) and uses them as informants on other criminals who use their services. Is Psychotic. (think Mr. Blonde from Resevoir dogs)

Archer Zane, a human bounty hunter with skillwires. Dresses nicely, all the time. hides his skillchips as cufflinks, which he fiddles with constantly. Has, as a knowsoft, a St. Louis phonebook, the kind used by the phone company, with unlisted numbers listed.

Blacklock, Dwarven Decker. With Bad Rep. Got his last team killed when he tried to be Vindicitve on an old enemy. Dark Secret.

Lauren Busch. The resident newbie. Elf. Her Father, August Busch the V, is human, and xenophobic. Had her locked up in a convent. recently escaped, on the run from the Church and her dad. and yes, Busch, as in Anhueser Busch, the beer people with gadoodoles of money. Hunted flaw.

John Marriot, late of Scotland/ UK. Involved with the IRA. Assinated a member of Parliment, sent to U.S. to cool his heels. There's an IRA contigent in St. Louis.

An unamed Elven Irish Rigger. Also involved with the IRA, who, in my game, hate elves. Interesting conflict.

Another Elf, Jorge, from the Vallejo. Left Cali after his job with renraku went south. Turned into a security riggger, and also uses his ware to run lightshows and dj at a couple of clubs.

So that's the basics of my starting, street-level-ish, style over substance, campaign.

Just thought I'd share.

[CirclMastr]

I've been on this board for years and haven't found or been able to form a local group. :jealous rage:

[Ecclesiastes]

Where do you live?

[LaughingTiger]

Very close to St. Louis, Missouri, in a wonderful little German-esque river/rail town named Washington.

Linkage!


*edit*

and could you have picked a more depressing bible verse? ;)

[Abstruse]

Look at how long I've been a member and I just finally got a group together last night.

The Abstruse One

[LaughingTiger]

The problem is, I've run for most of these folks before and the games, I don't know... fizzled... after one or two short sessions. I've had the hardest time keeping interest going.

For this campaign, I've changed everything, the way I write, the way characters are made, the "feel" in hopes of giving my players a long, fulfilled gaming expereince.

[Wounded Ronin]

Getting a physical group together is really hard. I've only seen it done a few times.

It seems that usually the simplest way to have a long term group is to use IRC or something. I think that at this point I feel much more comfortable with IRC SR than with in-the-flesh SR.

[Madda_Gaska]

[LaughingTiger]

Sorry, wrong term, my fault. Datasoft.

*blames above reasons for confusion*

[Wraithkin]

Every time I tried getting my TT group to play, they balked at it because of the different rules. They are used to WW and D20 rules. "Too complicated" they cried. Wah. Good luck to you on this one.

[Berzerker]

I've almost convinced my d20 group to play with me. Of course, since a couple of them can barely grasp the concept of d20 I'm not sure how well it will go over (that and the fact that usually the only part of the character they flesh out is the type of weapon carried).

[I am Jin]

Amen to the difficulty of getting together SR groups. On my own side of things, I can usually find some people who would be willing to play if I would gm, and that's what I'm doing right now, but I would kinda like to be a player too...

oh well.

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actually to be more accurate I AM a player in a campaign, but I am the only player in that campaign (just me and my gm). But that's gonna end fairly soon and then I suspect I will be gming for a while, i.e. the whole summer and then either a continuation of the summer campaign or gming a new one come fall, possibly for the entire year. (What happens when you have cool people that you enjoy being around that are interested in playing SR but don't know anything about it and need to learn. So they won't be gm material for a little while)
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[LaughingTiger]

I'm actually kinda lucky, my group are experienced gamers, who have put together excellent characters, all fitting with the theme of my game. They are interested in story, pacing, roleplaying. They're a good, good, good group of people to game with. Our main problem is coordinating schedules. And killing our games with humour. It happens far too often.

[Sahandrian]

[Wounded Ronin]

That's why d20 is evil. It's corrupting the youth.

[Arethusa]

We should make everyone at Wizards drink hemlock.

[Number 6]

Yep. Revitalizing RPG's in a whole new generation can only be bad for the future of roleplaying as a whole. :sleepy:

[LaughingTiger]

Yay! My topic has turned into a somewhat elitist discussion of the state of gaming in the world today, ending with a poisoning of "enemy" game designers!

Can I call myself a dumpshocker now?

Please??

[Kagetenshi]

Vive la Revolution!

~J

[Arethusa]

I'm disappointed that no one got my Socrates joke. What is this place coming to?

[JaronK]

Meh. I got it, it just didn't fly.

You have gotten better at intellectual jokes (8)!

JaronK

[CardboardArmor]

Acknowledging it would have made everyone at Wizards look better in the end.

Remember, Socrates could either have left Greece (or was it just Athens?) and in doing so admit he was wrong or hang around and drink hemlock.

Course, it's late and I'm being needlessly flippant.

[Domino]

:please:

[JaronK]

Lil' bastard was right though. If he'd said otherwise, we likely wouldn't remember him today. He's one of my heroes, really. Is it a bad thing one of my heroes was killed for being too damn annoying?

JaronK

[derren]

I must be in the minority when it comes to "in the flesh groups". Our group is seven people strong of which five of us gm, we meet every monday night and have great fun. Guess i'm just lucky!