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Shadowrun General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mystic on <09-09-10/1809:51>
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Hoi all.
Just wondering, where is everyone from and does anyone use their hometown in their games or just stick to Seattle as their main setting?
Me, I hail from Northwest Ohio near Toledo. I got bored with Seattle and decided to use my home area in my games (one factor being the relative familiarity of home to draw in new players). I even converted the Glass City into a sort of Mini-Detroit with a lot of local landmarks and places of interest for flavor. Add in a few political factions, organized crime, and gangs, and BLAMMO, instant Plex.
Anyone else done this?
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I'm near Orlando....
I use alot of the locations already detailed in the books I even did one where the team traveled the world.
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Mystic: I used Cleveland for a long time. Used to have the file up on my webpage... i should really get that stuff back up and running one of these days.
When i played my original long running game, Bull & Co. originally ran out of Chicago, and after the bugs hit and we finally escaped, we went to Cleveland, since that's where I was originally from. Since Chicago had been such a Corp hub for the Midwest, after it fell some of the corps set up shop in Cleveland. I had Ashtabula nuked (They set up a power plant that went critical and melted down), there was a partially built Renraku Archology (Which is where we did our Shutdown adventures), etc...
Bull
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From Seattle, and use allot of the places i have been to in my running....Italy, Australia, lived in Germany (BEST place ever), London, Austin Tx, Korea (awesome place, and using Seoul as a sprawl is great...lived there for 15 months), And i include some runs to the Middle east. But my main place is still Seattle; I like the feel and know the area. Also use allot of the country side and the ocean as well. Take care runners!
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I like to have the runners jump all over the world, going where the work sends them. Usually I'll base it out of Seattle, though.
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Mystic: I used Cleveland for a long time. Used to have the file up on my webpage... i should really get that stuff back up and running one of these days.
When i played my original long running game, Bull & Co. originally ran out of Chicago, and after the bugs hit and we finally escaped, we went to Cleveland, since that's where I was originally from. Since Chicago had been such a Corp hub for the Midwest, after it fell some of the corps set up shop in Cleveland. I had Ashtabula nuked (They set up a power plant that went critical and melted down), there was a partially built Renraku Archology (Which is where we did our Shutdown adventures), etc...
Bull
Sweet, I turned Perrysburg (the RICH area) turn into a gang-riddled free-fire zone.
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The bleak suburban sprawl known as Oklahoma.
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For Shadowrun I have based out of Seattle, though I live in San Francisco (just south). When I have run in the past I have sent people around the world at times to where they are needed for the run.
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I live in the Washington D.C. area these days, but my preferred locale for games is my old hometown of Denver.
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Sorry that's too much personal information for you... god knows what sort of scheme you have brewing.... damn deckers...er... hackers!
In all seriousness though, I try to encourage players to move on to a new sprawl, if only for a while once they have gained enough public awareness / noteriety... plus it just keeps things fun. My favorite places to run games are Chicago, Seattle, and Las Vegas. In the near future I plan to send players to Lagos, Hong Kong, Vladivostok, and somewhere in Japan. Some places I enjoy because of the home turf advantage, some due to experiences with being stationed there in the military, and some because I really like the way they are written up in the sourcebooks.
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I've been running the shadows of Seattle, Hamburg and the ones of my hometown Berlin, where I run most of the time by now.
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Munich, AGS, erm, germany. Years ago, when we started out with Shadowrun we used to run Seattle. But now we stick to german cities. Some we know (Munich, Regensburg), some we don't (Dortmund/Bochum/Essen/Etc.) but run them nevertheless :)
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Yokohama, Though I've made runs as far south as Okinawa before changing locales to Seattle. Lone Star can't touch whatever files Renraku has on me without causing an "inter-corporational incident". ;D
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Novi... Not exactly the Mean streets. ;)
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I prefer seattle just because I like the "feel" of it. It's not overly balanced to any one "side" it's kept in balance by everyone being a little nutz. ;)
I live in orlando but before that i was in south georgia (basically in the okeefenokee swamp); and I started (but never finished) a Fanbook on southern GA down to central FLA. There is a TERRIBLE lack of detail on the CAS so i figgered i would flesh out kings bay (CAS's nuke sub head quarters), jacksonville (one of three of the Cas's main ports), the central FLA megaplex (the AA corp that diseny had become) and finally detail out how the okeefenokee swamp and the everglades responded to the awakening.
I'll have to look for all that stuff sometime to see if i can get the inspiration to finish it.
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I live on LI, along the south shore.
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I live in Midland, MI and am originally from Saginaw, MI. Together they make up 2/3 of Michigan's Tri-Cities (the third is Bay City) which I use as the setting of my games. I've blurred the three cities together and absorbed several of the smaller towns in the region into a single haphazard sprawl. I like it because I know the area and it's fun to mess up and speculate on the future of my home area.
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Always used Seattle, but like free Cal also. Basically like being able to use a setting as a way to explore places I don't get to see often.
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Dallas/Fort Worth sprawl, Austin, and Denver. Mostly because of the lack of official game info on the 1st and 2nd which gives my group room to create our own world w/out worrying about canon and Denver cause we played out the missions arc there. We're currently thinking about doing the Artifacts arc just to see some new real estate (and to let things cool down at home a bit ;D).
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Novi... Not exactly the Mean streets. ;)
Yes, but Detroit is. And Inkster. I wouldn't be all too comfortable walking around Redford, Ann Arbor, hell, even Wayne alone at night. XD
Then again, I'm super paranoid, so whatever.
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Yes, but Detroit is. And Inkster. I wouldn't be all too comfortable walking around Redford, Ann Arbor, hell, even Wayne alone at night. XD
I've always pictured Detroit as a giant Ares enclave.
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Yes, but Detroit is. And Inkster. I wouldn't be all too comfortable walking around Redford, Ann Arbor, hell, even Wayne alone at night. XD
I've always pictured Detroit as a giant Ares enclave.
thats because secretly...it is...and Mr. Knight always has his eye on you :o
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thats because secretly...it is...and Mr. Knight always has his eye on you Shocked
Crap. Good thing I still have that "special" paydata I pilfered a while back. ;D
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thats because secretly...it is...and Mr. Knight always has his eye on you Shocked
Crap. Good thing I still have that "special" paydata I pilfered a while back. ;D
he could just send some runners to do some wetwork...i mean how hard is it to find a zombie monkey slinging grenades everywhere?
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he could just send some runners to do some wetwork...i mean how hard is it to find a zombie monkey slinging grenades everywhere?
Harder than you think. I just rigged up your coffee maker with a "surprise". ;D
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he could just send some runners to do some wetwork...i mean how hard is it to find a zombie monkey slinging grenades everywhere?
Harder than you think. I just rigged up your coffee maker with a "surprise". ;D
*(@&#(*&$ great, now i'm minus my coffee, half of my face and a few fingers...curse you dead monky...well i guess it's a better time than ever to get that new cyber...
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*(@&#(*&$ great, now i'm minus my coffee, half of my face and a few fingers...curse you dead monky...well i guess it's a better time than ever to get that new cyber...
Heh heh heh. You may want to avoid to your toilet. Unless you're looking for an excuse to buy Renraku's new cyberass.
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does it shoot darts?!? i could always use an extra weapon that nobody would suspect
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Probably. If not, I know a good street doc that can rig it up to do so. Hell, she could probably rig it up with a rocket booster or mine layer.
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*sigh* and this is why i'm a mod addict...
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You better be able to pay though. She has some nasty friends (have you met Tamanous?) and no patience for people that pay late.
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eeek...all in good time...as soon as i get this molecular biochem degree...i'm i'll be selling my retroengineerd dinos to the highest bidder...
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Well that's good. You should be able to afford it once that goes through. If you'd like, I can even disarm the toilet "surprise" so you don't have to use the sink anymore.
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could we just call it off and i'll give you tacos? for that matter can your doc be paid in tacos as well?
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I accept tacos as payment only on special occasions. Unfortunately, she does not accept payment in tacos. Now if someone were to "acquire" a CCU for her......
By the way, the toilet is once again open for non-dismembering use.
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*sigh* oook i'll look to see what i can come up with in the CCU department...jeez you drive a hard bargain...
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I'm just the intermediary. I do know another doc with a lower asking price. But he's a little.....questionable. And his appetite for Jazz is getting worrisome.
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mmmm....no junkies thank you...i want to leave with my new cyber in tact, and my liver...and with both of my kidneys
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Can't say I blame you there.
I did manage to talk her down a bit. Now she only wants a DNArt pet. I think she was just having us on with the CCU price.
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well i got the dna mapped...all we'd need to do basically is "shove it" into a chicken embryo...
[edit] keep in mind this haven't gotten past the planning stage yet, her's would be the first...and somehow i see dinos as hard to control...
(out of character i actually am going to be running my runners thru these bio enhanced versions hehe)
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When you get that done just let me know and tell her to get the ole cyberass warmed up.
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tell her i want the darts...
btw i updated my post after you replied on that one above
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Will do. And I think she could handle the dinos. Or she'll just hire someone to do it for her.
(Sounds like fun actually.)
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the corp i'm working on will do everything from a mini trex for a pet to cybered velociraptors as field security, have a whole like two or three scenes on an island testing facility with an attached underwater lab
and now i'll shut up and get back on topic...
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I use Denver as it is the closest place to home and I'm familiar with the basic of the RL city (The three sports arenas, a couple of concert venues, two fo the bigger malls and three FLGS) that it's not an issue.
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Novi... Not exactly the Mean streets. ;)
Yes, but Detroit is. And Inkster. I wouldn't be all too comfortable walking around Redford, Ann Arbor, hell, even Wayne alone at night. XD
Then again, I'm super paranoid, so whatever.
That also makes me wonder, What the Detroit plex is like?
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A prosperous metroplex in the Great Lakes Region, Detroit is a model city for corporate involvement balanced by local government. With the global headquarters for Ares Macrotechnology located there, and the recently finished eight-meter-tall wall surrounding the metroplex, Detroit is one of UCAS’ safest cities. Following the closure of Chicago to civilian traffic in 2055, the metroplex absorbed nearly a million refugees and offered them new work. The area has been a source of industry and manufacture for over a century, and continues to be a hub for UCAS construction of automobiles, aeronautics, and military equipment.
Despite the local nickname of “Aresville,” Detroit has a smaller percentage of extra-territorial space per square kilometer than many other metroplexes. The nickname actually comes from the corporation’s investment into the local economy. Ares and its subsidiaries fund work outreach programs, to offer jobs to any adult UCAS citizen living within the metroplex boundary who wants one. A census taken in August of 2070 showed less than a two-percent unemployment rate within the metroplex—substantially lower than the nationwide rate of seven percent.
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Whoah. Can this actually happen? Please? That'd be nice.
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I'm working on it... Takes a while to engineer the code for a Nanosecond buyout of Microsoft, Disney and RJ Reynolds altogether.
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Wiz. I wonder how far down Motown extends. This is the first bit of data I've seen about it.
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Thats the only thing I am afraid of regarding my hometown and Shadowrun. See, I live west of munich. I am like right around the fragging corner from Dachau. You know, Concentration Camp Dachau...
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Bad mojo, Doc.
I'm from back east. I'm (fearfully) waiting for the Manhattan earthquake. It still amazes me that there have been NO precautions taken, even though it is factual that the East Coast is on a fault line and there hasn't been a major quake in centuries. Granted, the fault is way more stable than San Andreas, but still...
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I've been living in the San Francisco Bay area for a little more than six years now. So my campaign runs in the "San Francisco Bay Metroploitan Zone" which covers the San Francisco Sprawl, the Oakland Sprawl, and the San Jose Sprawl (with a bunch of subsprawls like Diablo Canyon, Marin, Hayward/Fremont, and the little stretch of sprawl from San Bruno south to Palo Alto).
With three sprawls sort of interlinked, it makes it easy to showcase the entire strata of life in the 2070s. I also get to add the aftermath of the IJS occupation, and border tensions with Tir Tairngire. So far my runners have been focuses primarily on activities in Oakland, with a couple of small runs into San Jose.
Hopefully I'll sieze the opportunity to send them into San Quentin Prison for a nice visit with the really hard fraggers locked up in there.
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have run around the world but the pensacola/mobile plex is about the area that i call home. Actually i live rather close to the local NAN border, (you know the one around Eagle AFB) The Game i'm fixing to start will also run around the world
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Usually Seattle, because I can make up streets and such and none of my group can call me on it. I have tried games in Omaha which is packed with military, and Kaiserslautern, Germany home of MET2000 (my hometown) which is another city my group can't call me on.
We've been doing missions lately so Denver and Manhatten can be added to the list but I don't gm those.
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I'm in Summertown TN right now, but I'm my home city is Eugene OR. I think Eugene would be awesome to have Shadowruns in. Unfortunately it's in elven territory.
I also think Neo Tokyo would be reaaally awesome to play in. If real life was more like Shadowrun, that's probly where I'd want to live. They carry swords there as fashion and guns are restricted. Sign me up for that futuristic society.
Shutup, built in spellchecker. I don't wanna hear it.
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Primarily been using a Seattle-based campaign ever since my first runs back in '89. Recently rebooted a new campaign with a new group of runners - some old friends but the majority were entirely new to the Sixth World.
As for my home turf - UK, half-way between Birmingham and London, but I've only done the prep-work on a full UK campaign. Too many other exotic locales to use that grab my interest. Besides, setting campaigns abroad used to be the safe bet on your players not being able to call in their personal knowledge over yours as GM. This darn internet thingy (& Google Maps) has seriopusly dented the GM-shalt-know-All myth. Still, helps me realise the locations more than I ever could afford without having unlimited iternational travel funds (wouldn't that be nice, now? ;D).
Current campaign's street date is early August 2055, and they've just headed off east to the Windy City for a job and a delta-clinic appointment. Yeah, I've got me a backlog load of sourcebooks that are gonna get used Terms... ;D
BTW, cyberass - gotta love it.
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I'm in Summertown TN right now, but I'm my home city is Eugene OR. I think Eugene would be awesome to have Shadowruns in. Unfortunately it's in elven territory.
I also think Neo Tokyo would be reaaally awesome to play in. If real life was more like Shadowrun, that's probly where I'd want to live. They carry swords there as fashion and guns are restricted. Sign me up for that futuristic society.
Shutup, built in spellchecker. I don't wanna hear it.
no drek, combat shotgun and twin short swords, fun
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I have never used the Twin Cities for a run, I have never thought of anything terribly cool to do with it, it strikes me that all the biotech and cumputer firms would just turn it into a big corporate enclave.
My current and my first Shadowrun games have been based in Seattle, although I have run games based out of DC and San Francisco in the past. Of course there have been trips to the Middle East, the Ukraine German, Japan and small islands in the Pacific.
I have been a player in games based out of Denver and there was a short lived game where the PCs were NAN Border Partol/ Smuggler hunters based out of Minot i believe.
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My group lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, mostly around San Jose. We have two groups of runners. One is based out of San Francisco and travels around the world a lot. The other group is in Los Angeles and doesn't get out much.
I grew up near Detroit. Funny how Damien Knight likes my home towns. ;) Back in the day, we used Seattle instead of the local big city.
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We run Seattle right now, but recent runs have taken the group to Los Angeles. the group's driver/parttime rigger/part time Ork Latina killing machine calls LA home.
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I am from Houston. :)
And I base my games out of San Antonio, Azzie land(occupied Texas) and also out of Tsunami effected Galveston Texas.
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In San Antonio, the sprawl is a sprawling city with alot of trade going from the CAS and UCAS into Aztlan. Its the eastern most boarder town, and the least polluted in Aztlan. Its also a shining example of how Aztlan is good for Texas......but dont tell that to the Sons of Alamo. They take out hits on any Aztlan target they can, from stuffer shacks to Azzie officials. The Catholic Church is also behind the scenes trying to get the old Mexican-Americans and the Tejanos to rally against Aztec rule.
The old Lackland airforce base is now the Aztechnologies Lackland Archeology. And Aztec Security Force is the local Policia.
Watch out for the Azzie Blimp Drones and the hot salsa.
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No we move on Galveston, the scum stain on the foot of Texas. Most of the city was washed away in the aftermath of the Yucatan earthquake, which spawned a Tsunami. The Tsunami made quick work of the already economically poor city, in which the aftermath of the great wave left the city cut off from the mainland and unincorporated. Only the Moody Gardens where of any real value in which Saeder-Krupp has taken over and created the only bastion of hope, The Moody/Saeder-Krupp Archeology.
Privateering and smuggling is big business in Galveston. The CAS has revived the practice of privateering and has issued letter of marque to various pirate groups. Basically they provide safe haven and limited amnesty to pirates againts the Azzies. The down side is that if the Azzies catch you with a Confederate letter of Marque, they will send you to the bottom of the gulf.
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I'm originally from California and am now living in Washington, south of Seattle. In game it would be the far south end of the 'plex.
Game wise, been playing SR forever. Have pretty much always set games in Seattle, with a little bit of globetrotting when the run called for it. Hong Kong and London have been favorites to send teams when I want to give them a small break from the 'plex, and iirc, once they ended up in Amazonia....