Your hometown in the Sixth world... |
Your hometown in the Sixth world... |
Jan 14 2005, 04:56 AM
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Moving Target Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960 |
Has anyone ever ran a game or had a run based in their hometown? If so what was it like? Did you portray it as a unoccupied wasteland? Has it been assimilated into the sprawl of a bigger city? Is it in the NAN? I'm thinking of using my hometown in 2064 as the scene of a run since it would be cool to feel and see my players reactions to my vision of what the place will be like 60 years from now and possibly creep them out a bit. Thoughts?
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Jan 14 2005, 05:09 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,129 Joined: 11-June 03 From: Tir Tairngire Member No.: 4,712 |
heh... mine's Seattle.
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Jan 14 2005, 06:19 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 596 Joined: 18-February 03 Member No.: 4,112 |
How close to the Seattle area are the sourcebooks, would you say?
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Jan 14 2005, 06:20 AM
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Manus Celer Dei Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 |
While not as well-covered as Seattle, Boston has been fairly well-covered on the overview level. I'd probably keep canon and mix in some local flavour for the small stuff.
~J |
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Jan 14 2005, 06:22 AM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,379 Joined: 16-April 02 From: the LI shadows Member No.: 2,607 |
Sadly, according to the novel Steel Rain, my home of Long Island is a yakuza resort for all the Japanicorps sararimen. I usually have my runs take place either in Seattle or New York City.
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Jan 14 2005, 06:50 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 87 Joined: 12-January 05 From: Brazil, RN, Natal (Also known as Amazonia) Member No.: 6,968 |
Funny thing:
Iīm a brazilian, so it means that my country (Brazil, for those geographically-challenged), in SR, is now know as Amazonia, and thereīs less than a paragraph about it in ALL the SR books that I could put my hands into. So, in my second SR campaign, I decided to make an Amazonian adventure, with my own view of what that little paragraph gave to me. I used my own town (itīs called Natal, that means Christmas, because of its fundation date), but called it Nassau (because of the Duke of Nassau, who was the city governor when the dutches conquested it from the portuguese in the XVII century, and renamed the city New Amsterdam), and made it a seaside industrial nightmare. I kept the general city layout, but changed some street and neighborhood names and made it full of metahumans (specially orks and goblins - no, not the goblins in SR3, but some other we invented). It was funny, for a while. The campaign laid waste to a great part of the city, while the players had fun destroying the places they most abhorred in our little town. |
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Jan 14 2005, 07:30 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 11-January 05 From: St. Paul, MN Member No.: 6,961 |
Minnesota would be in the UCAS, but I'm not aware of anything spectacular happening here, like a "bug city" or anything.
Has anyone come across any sourcebooks for Minneapols or the surrounding area? Maybe that would be a good community/fanbook project of one doesn't exist. |
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Jan 14 2005, 07:32 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 392 Joined: 13-January 05 From: Forgot where his meat body was Member No.: 6,971 |
That'd be rather difficult, seeing as my hometown is covered under several layers of radioactive sludge in 2064 according to SR :P
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Jan 14 2005, 07:42 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 69 Joined: 11-January 05 From: St. Paul, MN Member No.: 6,961 |
Aes, that sig is funny as hell! :)
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Jan 14 2005, 08:02 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 |
This site might be of interest. |
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Jan 14 2005, 08:08 AM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 90 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Germany Member No.: 2,102 |
To play in a Proteus Acrology (Wilhelmshaven) in the middle of the toxic North Sea would be an interesting Plot, but my actual gaming group was against this idea
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Jan 14 2005, 08:11 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 7-December 04 Member No.: 6,873 |
I made a hellish new version of Olympia Washington, and put it into it's own anarchist free city. Lots of gangers, but my players visited their old houses, or rather, the corp office in the place of their old houses.
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Jan 14 2005, 10:36 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 186 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Copenhagen, Denmark Member No.: 911 |
Hometown: Copenhagen, Denmark.
Covered in the chapter about Denmark in Shadows Of Europe. Some stuff was changed; but they're all described in the book. The biggest event was the arrival of around 1.000.000 million refugess from the easterns part of Denmark: it changed the layout quite a bit. I have run 2 campaigns in the city and are in the middle of a third and I have a fair deal of excess material that I'd like to put online somewhere. I just don't have the time to make a website. :wavey: Adhoc |
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Jan 14 2005, 10:53 AM
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Great Dragon Group: Members Posts: 5,889 Joined: 3-August 03 From: A CPI rank 1 country Member No.: 5,222 |
I ran most of the games of my SR group in my home town in SW Finland, but that was all pre-SoE. Haven't run a single game since then. SoE doesn't change much, and some of things it does change I'll probably gloss over (Nokia not Erika, keeping Haaparanta mundane, some of the insignificant details).
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Jan 14 2005, 11:08 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 401 Joined: 7-June 02 From: Living with the straw sheep. Member No.: 2,850 |
I apparently live in a bright and happy land of shiny weird immortal elves who pretend to talk Irish...
I've never gone near using my hometown (Galway, in the west of Ireland) as a setting for Shadowrun... When I started playing Shadowrun, it was kind of a poor place, and I couldn't imagine the city still being around so long in the future, except as some post-apocalyptic wasteland. Then they started talking about Tir na nOg (and other horrible things)... I refuse to buy a sourcebook that makes my home country sound like a 1500-sq-mile kindergarten. [/pet hate] :dead: |
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Jan 14 2005, 01:11 PM
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Target Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: 27-December 04 Member No.: 6,909 |
I have used my hometown Opelika, alabama... which is near auburn. The games were fun yet they left a little to be desired because as our town is now, there are no "seattle" type ares.... It was a little difficult to place larger corporations in alabama, however using the same street names made it a little easier.
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Jan 14 2005, 01:37 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 586 Joined: 22-November 02 From: Gordonsville, Virginia, U.S.A. (or C.A.S.) Member No.: 3,630 |
As most of you know, my SR character, "The Foreigner", is an English-born assassin of Mediterranean heritage, based upon a little-known Marvel Comics character.
However, IRL, I am an American--a second-generation Virginian. (My family's roots are here--on both sides--but my paternal grandfather was born in North Carolina.) A relative (my great-grandfather's first cousin, I'm told; I suppose that that would make him my first cousin, three or four times removed) rode with Major General James Euell Brown ("Jeb") Stuart's cavalry during the Civil War. My hometown, Gordonsville, Virginia (incorporated 1815), isn't much to brag about. It's a relatively small town (population about 3500), about an hour's drive northwest of the capital city, Richmond. We have two main claims to fame: (1) A building in town, currently known as "The Exchange Hotel and Museum", was a Civil War-era hotel, and was used as a hospital (by Confederate forces, naturally :) ). I'm told that many of the casualties (from both sides) of battles such as Gettysburg were treated there; and (2) During the heyday of the railroad passenger business in the 1920s and early 1930s, Gordonsville was known as the fried chicken capital of the world. I'm not certain if that was fact or boasting (I suspect the latter ;) ). I have a feeling that, unless something changes drastically in the next 50 years, a 'runner team would most likely just pass through my home town. As for setting a campaign here, I suspect that the 'runners would die of boredom--unless they decided to take over the town, just to see if it were possible to do so. ;) --Foreigner |
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Jan 14 2005, 01:44 PM
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Canon Companion Group: Members Posts: 8,021 Joined: 2-March 03 From: The Morgue, Singapore LTG Member No.: 4,187 |
Hometown: Singapore. Nothing much, except for the MRG, Morgue and some mentions in obscure places.
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Jan 14 2005, 02:23 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 519 Joined: 27-August 02 From: Queensland Member No.: 3,180 |
In c.2050 my city has a population of 300 000, is a Japanese enclave and is 98% Homo Sapiens Sapiens.
Maybe you know of this city voted Humanis' favourite holiday destination? (BTW I've never run a game here.) |
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Jan 14 2005, 02:31 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 |
I've looked at the Minneapolis/St. Paul link (AKS the Twin Cities Shadow Node) in the past. I think he has done a fantastic job of laying out the city and providing a lot of detailed information on gangs, etc. But I have chosen to run my campaigns here as more of a Corp/NAN area than a containment zone. I chose to expand the 3M, Medtronic, Boston Scientific influence and make the twin cities kind of a medical device testing zone with Lakota/Dakota Sioux influences felt strongly.
I have also chosen to allow a lot of the really grubby dive bars and pool halls to stay in business for the next 60 years so I can have runner bars that I don't need to overly detail to my crew. They have been in the places and I can say, "You go tho the Payne Reliever and meet you Johnson in the strip club, and before you ask nothing has changed except the walls are a little grimier and the bouncers have chrome and tusks." |
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Jan 14 2005, 03:00 PM
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Dragon Group: Members Posts: 4,664 Joined: 21-September 04 From: Arvada, CO Member No.: 6,686 |
Mines Denver.
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Jan 14 2005, 03:20 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 533 Joined: 26-February 02 From: In a hot tub, with lots of bubbles and champagne waiting for you. Member No.: 1,972 |
my hometown is lawrence, kansas and I never could find any info about it. conversely the city I liive in, New Orleans, has some info on it.
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Jan 14 2005, 03:46 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 619 Joined: 27-May 03 From: Detroit Member No.: 4,642 |
Live in the Detroit area, run in the Detroit area. Our team loves to soak up all of those big fat Ares contracts.
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Jan 14 2005, 03:51 PM
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Ain Soph Aur Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,477 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Montreal, Canada Member No.: 600 |
Amazonia will be covered in the upcoming Shadows of South America. Basically, if you're town isn't in between Rio and Sao Paulo, it doesn't exist anymore. And if it is, it's now part of the biggest Megapole in the world. I'm interested in the place, and if you're interested I'd like to see your thoughts on it. I had a thread going a while back that you can find here. I'm not part of the Shadows of Latin America crew, so none of this is official and will porbably be contradicted when that book comes out, but until then I like what we had going. |
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Jan 14 2005, 04:00 PM
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Incertum est quo loco te mors expectet; Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 6,546 Joined: 24-October 03 From: DeeCee, U.S. Member No.: 5,760 |
Yep, several times (ironically, once by someone who's never even been in the state). There's quite a lot of material on DC, and it's a great place to run. I've had a lot of fun with it.
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