Hopefully I will be able to start this relatively soon, using a setting based in 2070 era Manchester, england. The game will begin on the 15th of january, 2070 in lower level manchester.

Players will be a rag tag group of runners establishing themselves in the hustling and bustling city of manchester, the third largest city in England.

Character concepts would be appreciated first, one per player - rough guides to their history and personality. If players would like to keep some of the information private by all means message me or send an email to GretikUk@Hotmail.com.

Generation will take place after characters have been chosen, roughly aiming for a group of three to four of standard 400 build point characters. We have a perfectly functional excel spreadsheet to be used to ensure that all characters are valid and equally built.

For those people who do not live in england, a basic map of the country will give you the rough shape and lay out of major cities. Cities as they are in the current day are similar to the 2070 cities in rough shape and the names of major areas, just assume that the shadowrun cities are larger, taller and far grimier.

Oh, and it always rains - It is permanently raining in 2070 manchester.

So no change from present day then.

Definate interest from me, probably will go for a light combat sammie or a socially skilled mage/mystic adept. Which ever seems a better fit for the group.

Sounds good, your obviously the first one in so far so pretty much it'd be your choice.

I'll see who else signs up and what they want to do, I am after all easy.

Fair enough.

I've signed up for the Ganger campaign, but wouldn't mind playing in a standard Shadowrun campaign as well. So mark me down as interested.

As for the character, I generally like awakened characters (shaman or adept), but since my ganger will be a street shaman already, I could also go with some cyberware (street samurai or infiltration specialist).

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Thanee

Mark me down as interested as well. I've an old gunslinger adept with a penchant for sporting/sniper rifles floating around somewhere. But if the group needs any specific role filled when everyone's signed up, it's only a few hours to think up another character and do the nuyen shuffle.

I'm interested as well (bringing my WttS total to 4 games at once... eek). But I've found I *still* have time at work to troll the forums, so sign me up.

I think I'd like to play a mystic adept who is also a doctor. Will post the details later today.

Guess I shall go for a Mage with some face capabilities then, as we seem to have plenty thuggery developing

Random thuggery is a time honoured tradition of manchester, as is gun crime and large bombs.

Well, I can help with creation somewhat, my creation-fu is adequate if not quite fully zen-like. I have a pretty solid excel sheet to aid matters.

And how can you rate fighting with leeds over the in fighting between city and united fans, or god forbid - arsenal or liverpool fans.

Well, I have one friend who was already signed up before I even posted this who will put his concept down in a bit - this seems like enough people for now.

It would help if people could work on their character backgrounds a little first as to give them a reason why in specific they are in manchester, shadow running. No particular affiliation is required or particularly wanted, but the group will be tentatively under the 'employ' of a man named Ivan.

Ivan, Just Ivan. A tall, handsome Russian man in a fine brown suit, he has a silver tongue and is a smooth operator; but don't be fooled by his appearance, underneath he is a cold and calculating killer. An ex-hitman, he knows how to handle himself.

(Face/gunslinger)

With all the interest in magically active characters, I will definitely make a mundane then.

I'll post up something soon.

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Thanee

Noia beat me to it with the monosyllabic, ex-hitman. (Though mine was goign to be Sven from Norway). I'll go and rework the background to something different. Adept with a bit of bio/cyber thrown in (because everyone's gotta have implants, or it's not cyberpunk!). Going to specialize in sneaking about and making people meet abrupt and painful ends. Likely mercenary or bounty hunter background.

Sounds good, but theres no reason why you couldn't play as Sven - it'd make for an interesting group.

How do you pronounce Ivan in a single syllable?

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Thanee

Very quickly.

Ivan is pronounced Eye-Van with a round V.
As for Sven from Norway, sounds like fun but I should warn you, I'm Norwegian

Yeah, but then you are a duosyllabic ex-hitman, instead of a monosyllabic ex-hitman.

(I was only kidding there, really.)

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Thanee

Start making quotes from that god awful PlayStation 'mech-em-up Krazy Ivan, and I swear I'll kill you all with an assault shotgun.

Incentive enough to investigate the game haha

I could get used to the nam "Crazy Ivan", though I'd have to keep looking over my shoulder

As for a rough background idea, I was thinking of a former runner (human or elf), who has had a run go seriously wrong and had to move. She fled to england and used up most of her savings to cover her tracks, get new IDs and start a new career there. She has good cyber-/bioware and some toys she could smuggle out, but otherwise only legal or easy to obtain equipment for now, and she is seriously broke. She also has few contacts, her old ones either turned on her or were left dead... one new aquaintence would be Ivan, I suppose.

Skillwise, I will surely have decent combat skills, but other than that I thought about some knowledge needed for the breaking & entering business (Hardware most importantly to get past those pesky maglocks, maybe some computer/matrix knowledge). In addition to that, the usual suspects, like some Athletics, Stealth, Perception, Pilot.

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Thanee

Sounds and looks good.

Ok, I've a rough concept..

I'm thinking of a runner that's originally from the Leeds/Bradford area, that ended up in Manchester due to either money (or lack thereof), or because he upset someone in Bradford.

This gives me the opportunity to disparage Manchester constantly

In terms of abilities though, probably a combat mage with a really, really big gun.

Sven (who may turn out to be a Dane instead of a Norweigan, now that we have an expert to pick up on my mistakes started out as a bounty hunter, mistaking his latent adept abilities for raw skill. He slowly accumulated bits of bioware to help him out in his chosen profession about the same time he found out dead bounties were less trouble to bring in than live ones. Riding the wave of lucrative contracts that followed Scandinavias rise alongside the Erika corp post-crash, he is currently on extended vacation after a botched assassination attempt in Stockholm.

I notice we've no hackers/technomancers in the group so far. WIll this be a problem? If so, I do have a hacker PC lying about as well. I can't make much sense out of the hacking rules as they are written in the BBB though, so I'd probably end up making a lot of mistakes my character ICly would know better than to commit.

It shouldn't be much of a problem - not having a hacker makes things in some ways simpler. If people need an excel character sheet Noia and I have copies hanging around.

Working on the character now. Does anyoen know how the "modified skill rating" rule works? Lets say I have a skill at rating 5, is the highest modified skill rating 7 or 8?

As far as I understand it, you can have one skill at 6 to begin with, then raise it to seven with the exceptional skill quality. Once modified, normal skills cap at 9 and the limit is 10 with the excepional skill quality.

Okay, that owuld actually imply that if you had a 7, and skill x 1.5 = 10, that you are supposed to round down... so that actualyl answered my question.

I think if it doesn't say that you round up, then you round down.

Except for Adept abilities and Reflex Recorders is there anything that actually modifies Skill Ratings?

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Thanee

@thanee - nothing springs to mind.

I'm going with playing face mage type. As mentioned, big on spirits following a gardenarian wiccan tradition. Will + Int on drain, I'll post up the spirit links when i find what I wrote for a friend character, but it is fire, air, water, earth and man in some order. Female Elf from the British Nobility, kicked into shadows due to her antigovermental leanings (ie she aint a fascist and supports the Movement, see Shadows of Europe). Probably have some connection to the Alderley edge power site, near manchester.

@Gretik - are you using any house rule on contacts? Or do I have to blow extra points on them?

Two times charisma seems fair and is on the sheets I have used for other characters before, just don't expect your contacts to be unwaiveringly faithful to you

2xCha as free points for Contacts?

I think I have heard of that house rule before...

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Thanee

Your choice between either a pm or an email - GretikUk@Hotmail.com

I'll have a character up by tomorrow (Monday) evening, trying to get some other stuff sorted out at the moment....I really wish I could stop sleeping 'till 3pm, means I get nothing done..

No problem, I have two sheets in so far (Thanee and Ivan) and can wait a bit for the others without much of a problem. So far we have a business looking man and whatever Thanee decides to tell you her character is

Emailed you the sheet.

Expecting some pushback, so we can iron out the details over the enxt couple of days.

Looks good.

Will PM you sheet shortly...
hm cha*2 should really help.

I'll crunch the numbers during lunchbreak today. Cha*2 points for contacts. Anything else I should be aware of in regards to houserules?

Not that strikes me now.

Sheet and BG, sent. Facimagilicious!

Got Ophis' sheet and it looks good.

There are no real house rules that I can think of that I should tell you of, everything seems fine so far.

Hey guys. I've been looking at my schedule for the immediate future. I'm afraid it looks like I will have a hard time getting near Dumpshock regularely for about a month at least. Since the game isn't started yet, I think it might be better if I bow out in favour of someone with a more reliable posting schedule. It's no fun if everyone has to wait for me to catch up after all.

I hope this won't cause any problems?

Its a pity but it shouldn't actually cause any hassle - if things change please do come back and say.