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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 384 Joined: 18-August 03 From: North VA Member No.: 5,519 ![]() |
I just had the player on whom the next run was going to be heavily reliant on tell me he wouldn't be able to make tomorrow's game.
I spent all week working on this upcoming run, and so I have nothing planned. Can someone point me to some short runs, or modules, or anything, really? Or throw something on the boards that would be easy to start a mission that could be run on the fly? Many thanks. |
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Great Dragon ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 6,640 Joined: 6-June 04 Member No.: 6,383 ![]() |
Take a D&D dungeon crawl module and as a novelty let the SR characters blaze through it with guns and potentially unlimited spellcasting?
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Manus Celer Dei ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 17,006 Joined: 30-December 02 From: Boston Member No.: 3,802 ![]() |
1) Food Fight!
2) Package delivery. Team gets a package in a McHughes, needs to get it somewhere else. Catch is, they cannot under any circumstances be followed. The people after them don't care so much about taking the package, they just want to know where it's going. ~J |
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Man In The Machine ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 ![]() |
Be the ones following after said package.
Simple wetwork (always a way to spark some interesting strife). Contact needs help. Lots of fun things there. |
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Prime Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Retired Admins Posts: 3,929 Joined: 26-February 02 From: .ca Member No.: 51 ![]() |
Infected Greetings and Runaway Joe are both relatively short/simple adventures.
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Neophyte Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,453 Joined: 17-September 04 From: St. Paul Member No.: 6,675 ![]() |
Wing it.
Some of the most fun one shots I have done have been completely off the cuff, with very little reason given for why it happens. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 108 Joined: 6-December 04 Member No.: 6,871 ![]() |
What is going on in your game?
Does a players contact need help? Anyone got enemies? Has a troll gang moved in near their hangout? |
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Target ![]() Group: Members Posts: 71 Joined: 2-February 05 From: Greensboro, NC Member No.: 7,046 ![]() |
one of the best times i ever had was when my gm made us use standard sec-type guys and had to face off against a group of runners that looked surprisingly familiar... it's always nice to see how the "other half" lives (or dies, as the case may be.)
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Man In The Machine ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,264 Joined: 26-February 02 From: I-495 S Member No.: 1,105 ![]() |
Interesting... Ill keep that one in mind.
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Target ![]() Group: Members Posts: 80 Joined: 12-October 04 Member No.: 6,751 ![]() |
Have an old enemy snatch the character of the player that's missing, and have the players try to get him back.
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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 ![]() |
Deliver the Johnson's dry cleaning to his favorite place, deep in the barrens.
Your local pizza delivery place is sick of some stinkin' prank callers. Find them and kill them. The ghouls are revolting! A group of particularly literate ghouls have ganged together, and are marching on city hall to protest the fact that they are reduced to living off human drek deep in the sewers. Burn them all. |
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Target ![]() Group: Members Posts: 91 Joined: 23-January 05 From: Washington, DC Member No.: 7,007 ![]() |
Here is a quick and fun run I've run more than once:
Runners hired by eco-group to prevent an assassination attempt on a pro-environment mayoral candidate (or city council). They suspect that the candidate's main aid may have sold out to local A rated corp. Their plan: they have planted four assassins as kitchen help and plan to put a bullet in the candidate's head at a speech in five days at the (insert name of metroplex's stadium here). The runners can either 1) do the legwork and figure out that 5 new hires on the kitchen staff is suspicious, 2) shadow the aide without letting the aide know that something is suspicious, or 3) just follow the candidate around incognito and hope to stop the assassination at the last minute. All three groups I've run this on have picked option 3. All three had at least one team member who talked to the press afterwards and became a local hero. All three later realized that this really ruins a good shadowrunning career!!! :rotfl: |
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Mr. Johnson ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,587 Joined: 25-January 05 From: Berkeley, CA Member No.: 7,014 ![]() |
We already KNOW ghouls are revolting. The eat human flesh, for heaven's sake... oh wait, that's not what you meant. *grin* |
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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 ![]() |
Let them take part in a headhunt. Someone wanted by a corp, syndicate or even the government is supposed to show up in the town of the runners. It's a good amount of cash placed on his heads, so the runners could make a good profit. Sure, other parties want the unlucky guy as well....
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 190 Joined: 24-October 04 Member No.: 6,787 ![]() |
Show them a copy of the big D's will, and tell them to pick a topic.
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Neophyte Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,001 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Michigan Member No.: 1,514 ![]() |
If you want to hold onto your game then pause things and have some fun. Draw up a map, or find a map from somehwere and run what we call "Fight Night". Roll initiative, and have at it. Last man standing gets a point of karma.
Add in some GM NPC's, traps, or what not, and practice gaming skills outsideof continuity. |
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 870 Joined: 6-January 04 From: Idaho Member No.: 5,960 ![]() |
This is the #1 suggestion. Literally 1,000s of run ideas in there. Email me about it but hurry. |
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,751 Joined: 8-August 03 From: Neighbor of the Beast Member No.: 5,375 ![]() |
You could ask your players what they want to do. Put the ball in thier court.
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Moving Target ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 384 Joined: 18-August 03 From: North VA Member No.: 5,519 ![]() |
Thanks much for all your suggestions. With your help, I'm sure I'll have something ready by tomorrow. As for what's going on, well, the player whose contact needed help is currently gone...but all is well. See, the problem is, this is a relatively new game, and all the runners are far too paranoid to actually let each other know where they live, or do things for each other when money isn't involved.... |
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Running Target ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 1,311 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 2,062 ![]() |
Just tumbing through my cache of emergency runs... Have a run to re-arrange some corperate furniture to disturb the feng shui (sp?) of the office. Trick is it has to stay that way for a coupla days. Have them get something out of a safe deposite box in your local bank. Bank jobs make runners *nervous*. Have them hunt down a drake for an interested thrid party. And, if all else fails, throw them in some facility and fill it with zombies. Everyone enjoys the occational break for zombies. |
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Runner ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Group: Members Posts: 2,598 Joined: 15-March 03 From: Hong Kong Member No.: 4,253 ![]() |
Especially if its a zoo or aquarium...
The runners go to extract some guy from the zoo, but another team already tired and screwed thigs all up, releasing the extractees sample of zombie gas... Now the pcs are facing a wall of man-eating zombie zoo animals... |
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