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?

heh... mine's Seattle.

How close to the Seattle area are the sourcebooks, would you say?

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

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.

Funny thing:

I´m a brazilian, so it means that my country (Brazil, for those geographically-challenged), in SR, is now know as Amazonia, and there´s 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 (it´s 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.

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.

That'd be rather difficult, seeing as my hometown is covered under several layers of radioactive sludge in 2064 according to SR

Aes, that sig is funny as hell!

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

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.

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.


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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).

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.
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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.

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

Hometown: Singapore. Nothing much, except for the MRG, Morgue and some mentions in obscure places.

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.)

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."

Mines Denver.

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.

Live in the Detroit area, run in the Detroit area. Our team loves to soak up all of those big fat Ares contracts.

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.

No idea what Ottawa looks like in Shadowrun

Mine got nuked
Also, sweet home, Chicago.

Marietta, Ga got nuked?

I live in Mariette, I'm from Chi-town. I consider Chicago my home town

I would too. I'm From Toledo, OH but I consider my hometown St. Paul, MN

Had some games that took place in Vienna. That was fun, especially since the style of the old Austria sourcebook was...special .

Having a comedian write a supplement for a cyberpunk RPG was the best idea FanPro ever had.

I live in Oregon (as the location part of my side-thingie says). So, I'm in the Tir. As it is, I'm in the Suburbs. And I know nothing about the Tir and it's layout.

My hometown of Saskatoon was inexplicably made the capital of the AMC, so the one campaign we ran there was quite a different city than what it is today and I don't recall the GM feeling any compunction to staying true to canon (at least what little there is in SoNA). Certain landmarks were kept, which was fun.

I've also run games in Boston, where I went to university, for my friends there. I've got my own ideas of what happened to it, so I tend to ignore canon there as well. I did keep the Avalon as a shadowrunner bar, as mentioned in one of the novels, because I find the idea hilarious, given the current variety of people that frequent that fine establishment.

I live pretty close to Gilroy, and it was really funny to hear about what happened there in Shadowrun. For those who don't know, it's a little farming town that's just a little too far away from everything fun... it's also known as the Garlic capital of the world. All these leads to a joke:

Why do Vampyres hate Gilroy?

Because it's a sh*t hole!

But I don't think Santa Cruz actually has any mentions in the books, and so far all our runs have been in Seattle.

JaronK

I know what you mean Demosthenes, I'm still trying to get a refund on SoE myself.

I live in a large town just outside London, almost directly on top of Heathrow airport, and since our industrial estate is almost as big as Silicon Valley, I'm surprised we ain't been mentioned in SR fluff - like what kind of hellhole have the AAA's made it :o)

My old GM ran a couple of adventures in the home counties near where we all lived, which was kinda cool cos he actually gave us the proper map to get from the airport to the meeting :o) I was playing an ex-SAS weapon specialist, so didn't use it, but it was thoughtful.

I've had my players come through London a couple of times, but only as a gateway to Europe. There's almost no info on London, or the UK, so I can't really attempt it - though I do know a great dragon owns a street gang somewhere in London....

I live half a mile from Disneyland, so my apartment is part of the Shadowrun Fun Zone.

Shhh. Don't let Cynic hear you.

My hometown was on the 2nd ed map, but I don't recall ever reading anything about it, and I agree with Trax, my current town doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere at all.

I'm in Redmond, WA.
It's nice to play a game where everyone who plays, all over the world, knows what happens to my town over the next 60 years.

Oh yes -- if you want me to bury something for your character to find in 60 years, just let me know. I'm about 2 km north of Glow City.

My town IS glow city.

Poor, poor chicago.

Mine up and moved about 60 miles south.

Kind of puts the moving field at the new Arizona Cardinals stadium to shame.

Anyway, I'm about 50/50 on whether or not I should just nuke my hometown rather than let it suffer the indignity of having been tainted by unclean hands. Of course, to that end redoing most of the history and any subsequent events involving the PCC would make it thoroughly unrecognizable to anyone.

My home town is in the middle of a permanent manastorm, but all my runs have been done in Seattle.