 How to spice up your run, need some ideas now! plz. |
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 Sep 3 2005, 05:51 AM
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Moving Target  Group: Members Posts: 102 Joined: 13-March 04 From: Apparently in front of a computer. Member No.: 6,153  |
So ya, the run im doing right now is really really boring. I need something to spice it up. Any ideas?
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Sep 3 2005, 05:53 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 807 Joined: 9-October 04 Member No.: 6,741 |
Vampire ninjas.
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Sep 3 2005, 05:55 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 |
Pirates! Aaarrrgh!
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Sep 3 2005, 07:33 AM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
Ninja-Pirates fighting Vampires.
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Sep 3 2005, 08:21 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 295 Joined: 10-July 05 Member No.: 7,492 |
The easiest idea to spice up a run is Someone Else. Either a different running team is on the premesis (may or may not be after the same thing you are) or just someone unexpected shows up. Doing a simple B&E for datafiles and a rep from the AAA Mega that owns the company shows up to do a spot inspection? I hope you can deal with the added security... Or, maybe, a local go-gang chased some poor slob from the expressway now you have Lonestar crawling all over the area looking for the PanicButton Pusher.
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Sep 3 2005, 08:22 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
another runner team going for the same target
the team was hired by an old enemy that is acutally setting them up: - notifies target - doesn't notify target, does set up some sort of sting - such as video recordings of the runners that they broadcast good ol' fashion bar fight major plot twist -run was to nab prototype A017. A017 is acutally... - a vampire sealed in an airtight coffin (that was fun to run) - an otaku, kidnapped from tribe - a child - insect spirit host - a pet project of Lowfyr;s - code name for new strand if Vitas, Vitas-4 Run goes off without a hitch. Everything goes aboslutely perfectly, no mistakes at all. Group spends the next two weeks being paraniod because things never do that well. - OR - Mr. Johnson stiffs them on the bill Have Mr. J cancel the run out of the blue, say.... JUST before the runners make their move. THen have people start shadowing them, trying to find their Johnson Have something WAY out of the blue happen. Like the blackout that happens during the Brainscan adventure. |
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Sep 3 2005, 08:25 AM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 124 Joined: 7-February 05 Member No.: 7,063 |
How is it possible that nobody has mentioned the obvious:
Cybered Drop Bear Ninjas. Seriously, Slump has a good idea there, toss something that is pretty unrelated into the equation and things start getting pretty interesting. Try not to through too big a loop, or the players might get frusterated over thier plans now being worthless (alternately, some groups are masochistic enough to enjoy that). |
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Sep 3 2005, 12:11 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,283 Joined: 17-May 05 Member No.: 7,398 |
A Western Dragon with twinned dikoted cyberspurs shows up. What he lacks in Magical Skills he makes up for with the stabbity.
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Sep 3 2005, 01:20 PM
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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 |
You have to show up in the Drop Bear thread, young convert :D |
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Sep 3 2005, 03:14 PM
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Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,901 Joined: 19-June 03 Member No.: 4,775 |
Cyber Drop Bear Ninja Legionnaires.
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Sep 3 2005, 03:41 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 807 Joined: 9-October 04 Member No.: 6,741 |
How about a minor war? If the PCs are usually the quiet types, have a bunch of loud-mouth, shoot-em-ups as NPCs that broke in and are involved in military-style combat with the guards. Unfortunately, the PCs have to also fight these people, as they are in the way. Worse, the guards won't care and will shoot at the PCs anyway.
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Sep 3 2005, 03:54 PM
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Running, running, running Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,220 Joined: 18-October 04 From: North Carolina Member No.: 6,769 |
i find, one of the most effective ways to occassionally make things interesting, is to remember that you're in a CITY. Police chases, fires local to the run, hit and run style accidents so theres a chalk outline of some large metahuman on the sideaalk across from where the run is... things that can be fiated, but still (hopefully) get the players heart pumping.
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Sep 3 2005, 05:56 PM
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Resident Legionnaire Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 2,136 Joined: 8-August 04 From: Usually Work Member No.: 6,550 |
Don't forget good ol' fashion sex appeal! Having a sexy vixen show up with her own agenda for the PC's is always interesting.
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Sep 3 2005, 06:07 PM
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Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,278 Joined: 15-April 05 Member No.: 7,336 |
Make something break. Not permanently, but long enought to be massively inconvenient.
For example the covert ops specialist on the roof is going to be really pissed off if the tool laser he bought specially for this job has a bubble in the lens which makes it no more effective than a flashlight (granted a flashlight that can tan an elephant at 50 feet, but a flashlight none the less). |
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Sep 3 2005, 06:48 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
fixed :rotfl: |
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Sep 3 2005, 09:17 PM
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Horror Group: Members Posts: 5,322 Joined: 15-June 05 From: BumFuck, New Jersey Member No.: 7,445 |
So, is that Shadowcode for "I hate my players and wish to kill their characters?"
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Sep 3 2005, 09:25 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
Fixed |
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Sep 3 2005, 09:41 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
true... sex does sell. Though I have to admit, I can't tell one drop bear from the next and they will never be sexy to me.
Oh and its spelled vixen I think. |
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Sep 3 2005, 09:45 PM
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Moving Target Group: Members Posts: 288 Joined: 7-December 04 Member No.: 6,873 |
I think I already saw that movie...
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Sep 3 2005, 09:51 PM
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Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,174 Joined: 13-May 04 From: UCAS Member No.: 6,327 |
fixed |
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Sep 3 2005, 10:08 PM
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Midnight Toker Group: Members Posts: 7,686 Joined: 4-July 04 From: Zombie Drop Bear Santa's Workshop Member No.: 6,456 |
I guess that is what is known as dying happy. |
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Sep 4 2005, 03:17 AM
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Uncle Fisty Group: Admin Posts: 13,891 Joined: 3-January 05 From: Next To Her Member No.: 6,928 |
nope, see my sig for that |
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