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Starting new campaign, looking for advice.

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« Reply #15 on: <02-10-12/1008:12> »
Also, I'd recommend giving them some bonus BP that can only be spent on gear, as well as more-relaxed-than-normal Availability restrictions (20 across the board, maybe?) since working for a Corp would give them an equipment budget and legitimate access to Restricted and Forbidden hardware, which would make the availability test "call the company and order one."

Also should give them "free" Ammo, 'nades, and other such things during Phase 1 and Phase 3, since a corp, again, would be giving them funding. Ditto for temporary access to things like expensive attack choppers and support drones.

But make them fill out the request forms...in triplicate.

Isn't it Paranoia?

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« Reply #16 on: <02-10-12/1023:49> »
I gotta be honest, when I bought Spy Games and saw the writeup, I was (as the kids say) super stoked. The Central Texas area will be a pleasant change for my players, and given we're all from Austin / Cedar Park / Round Rock this'll be something I've not done before.

Good work and thank you!

I like the idea for Lone Star, that could provide a lot of roleplaying fodder.

If you're aiming for a Dallas and Austin campaign, be sure to send a hojillion dollars to the handsome, genius, brilliant, awesome, freelancer that wrote about Austin in Spy Games, and finally snuck Dallas an Urban Brawl team in a Missions adventure: Super Brawl Sunday (because, seriously, the love child of football and gunplay, and there weren't any teams from Texas?). 

Because that mysterious stranger, whoever and where ever he may be, is obviously deserving of your adoration, money, and any attractive women you might have laying around, extra. 

 ;)

Have fun, man!  It looks like you're gonna be running a pretty awesome campaign.  Have you thought about Lone Star for the parent company?  You said you wanted a little bit smaller corp, but they're certainly local, and could provide them with some cool contacts and make the transition from Company Man to criminal...well, easier and harder.  Easier, because of some of the people they'd know, and the skills and comfort with the street they'd have.  Harder, because it might mean a real paradigm shift for some of the characters, particularly if they thought of themselves as "cops" originally.  Could make for some neat role-playing.

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« Reply #17 on: <02-10-12/1029:22> »
But make them fill out the request forms...in triplicate.

Nah, it's just a game; triplicate is just going too far.

Duplicate should work just fine. ;)
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« Reply #18 on: <02-10-12/1032:32> »
But make them fill out the request forms...in triplicate.

Nah, it's just a game; triplicate is just going too far.

Duplicate should work just fine. ;)

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« Reply #19 on: <02-10-12/1219:28> »
But make them fill out the request forms...in triplicate.
Isn't it Paranoia?
No, Paranoia is worse for paperwork than mere triplicate.
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« Reply #20 on: <02-10-12/1221:35> »
But make them fill out the request forms...in triplicate.
Isn't it Paranoia?
No, Paranoia is worse for paperwork than mere triplicate.

I know; Fulse-R-AND-3 had his end when crushed on a pile of paperwork. A moment I will carry with me forever.