Now we all know about the traditional loadout for a given shadowrunner, assult rifle in the hand, SMG slung over the back, a pair of heavy pisols strapped to the legs, body armour, decks, fetishes up the ass ect ect but what about other gear that your characters carry to help them be more prepared for just about any given situation. Nothing more than couldn't be fit into a small rucksack or daypack or possibly even combat webbing depending on the character but the sort of stuff that you keep around so that when the GM says "ok what are you cutting the barbed wire fence with" you don't stare blankly for a moment before getting into a half hour long discussion over whether or not you can chew through it or the troll street sam can cut it with his claymore.

In my case I have a small rucksack containing
1 small flashlight with new batteries before each run
1 "pay as you go" cellphone with minutes.
1 leatherman multitool
1 small electronic toolkit with wirestrippers, cutters, soldering iron and current tester.
1 screwdriver with interchangeable bits (philips robinson ect)
1 roll ductape
2 pairs handcuffs
1 small spraybottle of bleach (spray any blood you leave behind and no more risk of ritual magic or DNA testing)
1 clean white t-shirt
3 stimpaches
3 trauma patches
1 pocket secratary (we houseruled the size of these things to make them the size of a modern PDA no more concelability 3 )
1000 cash (no credstics, cold hard cash)
1 certified credstick worth at least 5000:nuyen:
1 locker key to a storage shed near the airport which contains among other things fake id's, extra guns, a buttload of cirtified credsticks, and everything else you would need to make a quick flight to a country without an extradition treaty.
6 meal replacement soybars
bottle of water
1 cheep fake sin card, just enough to check into a motel or rent a car.

That's about all I have, anyone else have any ideas for what could be added? What have you found useful or essential to everyday life as a runner. I've tried to keep from putting anything illigal in the bag so that it is something I can cart around on a day to day basis. I'd love to see what other people keep close handy by for their characters though even if it is illigal.

A knife.... you ALWAYS want a knife-ALWAYSSSSSS!

One other thing is amazingly obvious and people don't seem to ever bring it.... plastic bags.

Need to pick up and carry a bunch of stuff? Need to cover up the body so it does not bleed all over your car? You ALWAYS need plastic bags... carry a bag of plastic bags.

Well the multitool has a knife in it, and a saw, and pliers and a rediculous assortment of other things. I also didn't include anything with a damage code though my char will amost always have a survival knife on him as well. The bags are a great idea though.

I wondered when someone would notice that.

I would have pointed out the 'fetishes up the ass' part, but I didn't want to post without contributing anything.

Although that is a bit much weaponry to bring along on a job. Not to mention that carrying a duffel bag around isn't always going to be workable. What Runners need is Batman-style utility belts. With turn signals.

( Cracking Knucles ) Rope( at least a fifty feet or so) a Couple packs of smokes (even if you don't smoke good for bribing squatters for info) Peppermint Candies (great for sore throat or queezy tummy) Remi Oil, Whet Stone, Piece of Flint, a holy symbol of somekind (no atheists in foxholes), a small but EXPENSIVE bottle of wine (<shrug> never know when you'll have a reason to celebrate) toilet paper, bell (wrapped in cotton until you want to use it), Fishing Line (has many uses), Zippo Lighter (also many uses), spare socks, Towel. . . and just to go over the top for humor purposes. . . Boo Boo Piggy, Flare Gun, Slim Jim, Rubbers, Bottle of Rubbing alcohol/Hydrogen Peroxide/Salt, a copy of Robert Frost's Poetry, Colored Contacts, electric hair trimmer/shaver, Walkman with "Youth Gone Wild" "Magic Carpet Ride" "Sharp Dressed Man" "For those about to Rock" "Beer for my Horses" and "We Will Rock You ( with that prissy "we are the champions" part edited off )", Pictures of Pretty Women and Cute Kids ( won't really make that cover story of yours work any better but victims often grow uncaring and less nosy ), Tee Shirts that read "Hit Shappens" and "Poke Smot" (great for infiltrating college campuses and Frat/Sorority houses), Sockfull of Quarters, Sunglasses, Fiction novel, Lighter Fluid, Marbles (dikoted), and a foam rubber brick (will do absolutely positively no damage but there is slim chance it may frighten and distract just as well as a flash/bang/smoke grenade). And I can't find it now but I think my mind is down in there somewhere, but too tired to root around for it.

Rock the Hell On, no apologies Necessary Chummer, I'm sure he approves of that rendition.

mardi gras beads

Rucksack containing:
- 2 Traumapatches
- 2 Stimpatches
- Medkit Level 3
- 3 NutriSoy bars
- small army-issue water container (y'know, that little bottle thingy)
- 4 sets of plastic handcuffs
- one roll strong duct tape
- pair of socks (great for making gags)
- Swiss Army knife
- Farinella Electronics kit
- spray bottle of chemical cleaner
- fiberoptic ocular
- 2 cellphones (prepaid)
- 4 200-MP memory units (Memory sticks)
- large seasack (folded) for eventual loot
- Level 4 fake SIN
- 3 packs cigarettes (menthol)
- 3 packs of chewing gum

In addition to the above...Backups of all utilities and blackmail data I have accumulated over the course of my life.

Of course the only problem with all of this is that using canon weights any of the above lists would weigh more than 100 kilograms. And yes, I am including the list that consists only of a towel.

Anyone mention a maglock passkey? In low to moderate security environment, a simple passkey can go a long way when you have to improvise an infiltration.

Of course, it ain't exactly cheap.

And also buggers the doors royally so everyone and their brother knows they've been tampered with.

Or the alternative of using your electronic kit to gut open the lock and play with the wire.

Beside, the flavor text only say that it "often leaves the lock scrambled and sluggish in response". If everyone and their brother conclude that there was an intrusion from that fact, I'm assuming everyone and their family are working security, hmmm?

The only way to bypass a maglock without leaving traces on the lock that I can see are to :

A : steal a legit pass, clone it and put it back un noticed
B : Decking.
C : Having someone else use his pass and enter behind him (You are invisible, you bribed him etc.)
D : You steal a pass and use it (as opposed to cloning it like in A).

Ideally, I recommend A or B. If you are going to do C or D, most of the time you might as well use a passkey. Comparable risk of discovery, less hassle and much less time consumming.

If you never found use for a magklock passkey just because it leaves evidence of intrusion behind, it's because your GM never put pressure on you. I can think of dozens of scenario where a passkey is invaluable. A or B are not always option.

ID you can forget everything else, in my experience you are screwed without a good ID. All the kit in the world wont get ya ass out of the shit !

torz x

The standard loadout when not being gone for longer jaunts usually includes the following in a small military rucksack and/or a combat harness. (Yes, the character is a B&E type)

-Swiss Army knife/leatherman tool
-Small electronics toolkit
-Set of lockpicks
-Glasscutter
-Duct tape
-Plastic handcuffs
-Prepaid, disposable cellphones (Hard to trace, easy to distribute)
-Spray bottle w. bleach (For blood stains)
-Stim/Tranq/trauma patches
-Saviour Adv. Medkit (like normal medkits, only better)
-Certified credstick
-Paper money/Corp script
-Pack of cigs (One or more of them being plastic explosives wrapped in paper, another a wrapped detonator. Enough to take out a lightly reinforced door at least)
-Lighter (Expensive one you could rely on to keep a flame going in a stiff wind)
-Bottle of water
-Ration bars
-Chocolate bar (For bribing the street urchin or satisfying that 3AM craving)
-Pocket secretary
-Earplug cellphone/Micro transceiver w. encryption
-Pocket Flashlight w. spare batteries
-Fake ID/SINs as the situation warrants. Always at least one
-Some good, thick plastic bags of generic make
-Small pair of binoculars
-A length of rope
-Gecko gloves
-Rebreather
-Disposable chemseal suit in clear plastic (Yes, we have an evil GM)

Sometimes, a little is removed or added, depending on the situation. The only thing with a weight worth mentioning is the medkit. Everything else should fit nicely in a small rucksack or a combat harness and half a dozen pouches.

duct tape

its like the force: there is a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together, including my beat up Ford.

Lemme see, I'll just note the stuff I have that someone else hasn't mentioned:
Nitrile gloves, leather work gloves, roll of parachute cord, face paint. Thanks for the useful ideas guys.

Hair dye (to go along with the face-paint idea). Never know when you need to look like someone else.

You mean you haven't gotten artificial, color-changing hair yet?

But good point from Dog. Add a pair of surgical rubber gloves to my list. Just in case the GM houserules that a FFFBS doesn't cover the fingertips.

You don't carry dye around in a field bag. Too much work, too much time. If you're in a position to need and use it, you can get it from a drug store. Carry a wig, if anything.

And face paint isn't for changing your skin color. It's for painting your face black for night ops.

Yes, for camouflage and for confusing facial recognition programs (edit: and for looking scary!). It may be redundant, but I just remembered that my watch-cap rolls down to a bellaclava, too.

Just going through my IRL work bag:
Pen, pencil, marker (the marker might be useful to a runner), business cards (for the face, maybe), tons of relevant reference material (on chip, I guess) EXTRA CUFF KEY!, first aid kit, knife, flashlight, headlamp, nitrile gloves, safety glasses, extra batteries, multi-tool, extra carabiners, extra paracord. I used to just keep it in a fishing vest, but paperwork builds up. Hey, anybody's character wear a protective cup for close calls?

Standard gear carried:

A few pairs of disposable surgical gloves

A Multitool

Cigarettes and a Zippo

Pack of firecrackers

Small can of WD-40 (spray)

Sunglasses

Can of black spraypaint

Pack of blank optical chips

Disposable camera

Wristphone



All these items will fit into a longcoat's pockets, and what doesn't can go with your pants pockets. Anything else I use is mission specific.

Two words: Emergency Pants.

For all those times when you're blown out of buildings with not a stitch of clothing on...or don't have enough time to grab yer clothes when Bubba the luv troll comes a knocking on your door...

Emergency kits aren't that useful.

At least, not in the games I play in -- you don't have them, because the only time you need them is when you've woken up at the edge of town with nothing but your pants. No boots, no shirt, no guns, no ride, no cred.. just those pants..

Jesus H. Christ.

Doesn't anybody just go to the meet and wing it anymore?

Seriously, it must just be the style of our group, but the most I ever carry is a cellphone and maybe a toolkit (of appropriate type) that i think I might need for the job.

Frosty, that's what my group does, but the reason is because of what I listed above It only happened twice, but once was at 200+ Karma. Basically, any time we have a total party knockout. Once was first run, once was end of that storyline.. end of the storyline we didn't even get to keep the pants..

That being said, there are spare guns in a secret compartment in the bike, and the bike will go nowhere when it gets shut off.. hefty hefty security on it.

Remember guys, this is a back pack, not a suit case.

Gecko tape gloves from 2063-or4.

Currently, nothing. That's right, nothing. When you play a fox shapeshifter, one has to consider what kind of gear a fox with no bag, or pockets, for that matter, can carry. I let the other team members carry what little I own.

I suppose I could design a little fox backpack to put some expendable spell foci in,
but I don't have Backpack B/R. Plus, it's hard to intimidate people when you look like a fox version of the koala on the cover of T:AL.

My god man, you live like an animal! You need to be more feng shui!

Capt. Dave--Best thing I've ever seen, utility mage in a backpack with little mesh screens. Levitate, Armor, Heal and Invisibility are all great things to cast on your chauffeur, I mean teammate...

Character also happened to be a Fox Shifter...

That was my first thought too.

They're making a sequal!



"You and you're damn rope!"

They've been making that sequel for, what, 6 years now?

Admittedly, Duffy finally confirmed a written script and mostly confirmed cast and budget, but, uh, I'll believe All Saints Day when I see it.

Buzz kill

Wether it's a Shadowrun Character, or a DnD character I always add to the gear list "Lots 'o' Fuckin Rope", just to momentarily throw those GM's who do not look closely at character sheets during initial inspection and/or don't care how many weapons characters lug around but suddenly want to know "... how much rope do you have dude?" After that first double take I'll specify " about 300 feet "

So in SR, is it the requisite extandable-titanium-stealth line-10 foot pole?

Toilet Paper...

because it is better to have and not need...