[ChewyGranola]

So obviously this is a very cool site. I'm wondering if SCP style events/artifacts would be appropriate for Shadowrun, in the forums opinion. Are there any SR groups at all similar to the Foundation? Atlanteans? DIMR? Any cool books that could help bridge the gap between SCP and SR?

[Mirikon]

You'll get a better response if you actually tell us what SCP is, and don't assume that we know already.

[MijRai]

Yeah...  I have no clue what SCP is either. 

[Beta]

I had no clue either, but thanks to Google and Wikipedia I now know that:

The SCP Foundation is a collaborative writing website that describes the exploits of the SCP (Special Containment Procedures, though it also refers to the slogan of "Secure, Contain, Protect") Foundation, a fictional organization responsible for containing entities, locations, and objects that violate natural law (referred to as SCPs). The majority of the written works on the SCP Foundation website consist of "special containment procedures", each of which purports to be the containment process for a specific SCP. The website also contains several hundred "Foundation Tales", which are short stories set within the universe of the SCP Foundation.

I'm not quite sure what the overlap with ShadowRun would be, however?  I guess from the wording of the OP that the idea is that some of the SCP write-ups could give ideas for ShadowRun?  To which I'd say sure; I once got an adventure (for another game system) circulated electronically to a fair number of people, which I'd drawn the inspiration for from "Baa-Baa Black Sheep."  Obviously the translation was not literal ... and I think the same would be true here, too.  You may find great ideas, but you'd likely do best by being 'inspired by' rather than trying to take them whole cloth.

That said, take inspiration anywhere you can find it!

[ChewyGranola]

Sorry about that, other RPG forums I post on it seems to be general knowledge, so I figured it would be here too. Basically, the SCP Foundation is a group that seeks to secure, contain, and protect various supernatural/unexplained events/individuals/items/unknowns. They spend a lot of time searching out and researching said things.

The site itself is a collection of community generated short stories and descriptions of various entities/events. Good stuff.


Anyway, I was curious if there was any overlap between say the Atlanteans or DIMR.

[Mirikon]

Oh, well, in that case, then I'd have to say no. For one, the 'supernatural' is too intrinsically woven and out in the open for something like this. Second, everyone's found that guns work really well on most supernaturals, especially if you use big bullets or play to their allergies (wood for vamps, insecticide for bugs, etc.). But most importantly, the people behind groups like the DIMR and the Atlantean Foundation are some of the biggest supernaturals there are, and they already know most of the answers (even if they're making us learn for ourselves instead of giving us a data dump).

So no, nothing like that. Closest you get would be Ares Firewatch teams and other bughunters. But that's less 'secure, contain, and protect' and more 'eliminate with EXTREME prejudice'. You're thinking of a much nicer world, not a dystopia like Shadowrun.

[Reaver]

The only real cross-section of the two would be on items of magic, refered to in Shadowrun as artifacts.

Artifacts in SR run from 'pretty mundane' to 'insanely powerful' and I could see some groups out there looking to find and 'contain' said items.


But other than artifacts, everything is already out of the bag. Trolls serve your coffee, Orks drive cabs, Spirits sit of the boards of megacorpations, Bug Spirits try to eat your very soul while perverying and twisting your body....

[LordGrizzle]

I have read a lot of SCP and have to say, it doesn't fit well with Shadowrun. There are too many things that can grant every wish, or destroy the world. Shadowrun magic is muc more prevalent, but less powerful than many things in SCP. Secure Contain and Protect is a thing also because they find a lot of things that can not be destroyed, even if it was easier and clearly a good choice (like our beloved Hard to Kill Reptile). They have so many things locked up that would survive the heat-death of our planet.

Not even the most powerful horrors can measure up to SCP. SCP fits a lot better with Warhammer 40k or Call of Cthulhu in my opinion. (Which reminds me of a friend of mine doing some Delta Green based on SCP, sadly never played there)

[aono]

Question is what do you mean - SCP-type of organization, SCP mythology or SCP flavour?

I mean, well, I believe every one government sensible enough will have an organization, separate or some departamet, who will mess with unknown/unexplained, and essentially answer "secure, contain, protect" is the basic answer any such responsible organization will give about "what should we do with <something>". Compare SCP with "Warehouse 13" for example - and in Sixth World there is a lot of unknown/unexplained around.

SCP mythology is another matter, but also simple enough. It's quite possible to move SCP-682, SCP-073 or SCP-076.  Personally I don't believe they're fit, with God, Cain and Able, but why not.

SCP flavour is the weakest point I believe. The very idea behind SCP Foundation is "unknown and unexplained usually kills, makes mad or something worse, so you better hide it, contain and protect". It's not good in a world where Dunkelzahnn elected as a President, Lofwyr is the wealthest... ahm... men on the planet, and comets creates new strains of people.

So if I wanted to put SCP into play, I'd take one of two approaches.
1. SCP WAS a thing before official Awakening. They didn't have all that things they put into Net (and they always said so!), but they have _something_, they made a great deal with damping all that "spike"-awakening things, and maybe they even kills a dragon or two and take their hoardes. But in decades after, well, SCP declined and was dissolved, their personal and riches cames to different govs and corps.
2. SCP exists, it's kind of terror group who believes that everything unexplained should be contained because it's inherintly dangerous. Look at them as Humanis Policlub, but with "unexplained", not "meta" agenda. For hillarious moments it's possible to assume that organization takes an inspiration from early-21st website. For more hillarious moments it's possible to assume that SCP from website was real thing, with website as a cover story (exactly such as site claims was).