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So a cousin of mine decided to run Shadowrun, and decided create three to four Dossiers of Fixers for the players to choose who to work for at the beginning, which also gives him direction on what kind of runs to focus on. He informed me the other Fixers that aren't picked are planned to be future antagonists or allies depending on what the party does, and to give them an idea of what kind of characters to roll for to avoid playstyle clashes. A's all about keeping his part of the city safe, he prefers the light touch and keeping things quiet and bloodless as possible. He doesn't pay well as the others, but seems to have everyone owing him a favor, so gear can be gotten on the cheap or some heat taken off. Friendly and easygoing with Big Goals. B's pays the highest, but might have some ties to a megacorps. He does not care how loud or nasty runs gets long as it doesn't get traced back to his clients. A lazy rear end in a top hat who prefers talking to people through their avatar so they doesn't have to get out of bed. C's middle of the road pay, a higher up in the mob, granting the runners more protection from heat or rivals. Working for C means doing some downright nasty things, sometimes even to people who don't actually deserve it. A severe woman who gives and takes no bullshit and cares only for the bottom line. D's a wildcard - mainly if the group don't like the other choices. I'm kind of interested to see who the group ultimately pick and how it's going to play out for them, but I think it's a neat idea to structure a campaign in this manner. Robindaybird fucked around with this message at 08:07 on Aug 29, 2015 |
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Robindaybird posted:D's a wildcard, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcG8z2OTAWs
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Aug 29, 2015 05:40
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Robindaybird posted:
"D" for Dragon, I presume?
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Aug 29, 2015 23:05
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D is for Dwarf
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Aug 30, 2015 02:56
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Deez Nuts?
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Aug 30, 2015 08:15
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D is for the Brit ex-pat Street Sam Ork Gunbunny who hands out the really dangerous suicidal jobs and advises that everything will go fine if you BRING MORE DAKKA
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Aug 30, 2015 08:17
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It should be Deez Nuts.
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Aug 30, 2015 08:27
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D represents a committee of people trying to bring power back to the people and away from the megacorps, and hiring runners through crowdfunding. The missions D sends the players on are decently-paid and involve doing genuine good, but even if the PCs' mission doesn't bloody the nose of a corp, the fact that they're on the payroll of people who are is eventually going to make them into targets. -Or- D is the entertainment division of a megacorp. Their senior staff frickin' love watching shadowrunners murder people live on camera. The missions that they send the PCs into never have surveillance, because the surveillance in the buildings has been suborned by D's own deckers for his clients' private show.
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Aug 31, 2015 09:33
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Whybird posted:D represents a committee of people trying to bring power back to the people and away from the megacorps, and hiring runners through crowdfunding. The missions D sends the players on are decently-paid and involve doing genuine good, but even if the PCs' mission doesn't bloody the nose of a corp, the fact that they're on the payroll of people who are is eventually going to make them into targets. Oh man that last one, that's some good stuff.
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Aug 31, 2015 10:55
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Yeah, that second option sounds pretty twisted, in a good way. That could lead to some interesting character development for the PCs, especially if they don't know they're Twitch streaming a snuff film.
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Aug 31, 2015 11:17
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Runners vs Pewdiepie. 
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Aug 31, 2015 11:33
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Just imagine the revelation when they find out they are pieces in someone's game, and all their effort and near-misses only took place just for the entertainment of some nebulous group of entities. Do they roll with it, kill the players, or set up a TRPG group and bicker endlessly IC(OOC(IC))
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Aug 31, 2015 11:45
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Just send my cousin the snuff film crew idea - should I be worried about how hard he cackled?
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Aug 31, 2015 17:57
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It DOES sound very Shadowrun; dystopian future megacorps doing shady poo poo for unjustifiable reasons. Could definitely be a way to set up an 'antagonist' corp that the players might feel some antipathy towards later, if the team dynamics support it. Or, alternatively, it's just another job in the hosed-up future for runners. I could definitely see a less-scrupulous group trying to argue with their Mr. Johnson for a higher cut of the proceeds in exchange for spicing the show up once they figured it out. E: Or a (very slightly) more light-hearted twist on it would basically have your runners become the Saints and market their televised crime sprees and sell action figures. Not sure how the big cartels would like that, though...
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Aug 31, 2015 18:33
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Shady Amish Terror posted:
They say in Seattle runners need a Fixer; in LA, they need an Agent.
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Aug 31, 2015 18:36
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It seems like a good idea to consider real world changes in society and technology and apply them to a future setting that was written before that kind of thing happened. Shadowrun has its own Internet analogue, but it was written long before things like social media, YouTube, and smartphones. I've been doing the same thing with the STALKER thing I've spent a long time working on. The game takes place in 2012 but was released in 2007 (and they began writing years before that) and little to no prediction on changing technology , so it still just ends up being 2007 with a different date on the calendar in-game. I decided that it would be interesting to consider real world changes in technology, politics, and culture and reinterpret the series in a more modern setting. So stalkers are liable to carry smartphones (but still prefer ruggedized PDAs for durability) and there's massive amounts of photos, videos, and stories from the Zone on social media. Also stuff like the Zone being flooded with really unprepared rookies who run in unarmed or with a sawed-off shotgun and cheap airsoft and sporting goods gear.
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Aug 31, 2015 19:27
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Shady Amish Terror posted:E: Or a (very slightly) more light-hearted twist on it would basically have your runners become the Saints and market their televised crime sprees and sell action figures. Not sure how the big cartels would like that, though... Corps have a global reach nowadays. Maybe murder-runs that are being filmed in UCAS are getting big ratings over in Henan or Asamondo. Imagine their surprise when they take a run 10,000 miles away and see themselves on a ten-story billboard in the middle of downtown Manila.
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Everything Counts posted:Corps have a global reach nowadays. Maybe murder-runs that are being filmed in UCAS are getting big ratings over in Henan or Asamondo. Imagine their surprise when they take a run 10,000 miles away and see themselves on a ten-story billboard in the middle of downtown Manila. Bonus points if the feeds are being dubbed over in the local language, complete with character arcs and ludicrously inaccurate/out of date street slang.
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Dulkor posted:Bonus points if the feeds are being dubbed over in the local language, complete with character arcs and ludicrously inaccurate/out of date street slang. Even without this, runners should be able to catch TV shows based on runners that are exactly like this.
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Dulkor posted:Bonus points if the feeds are being dubbed over in the local language, complete with character arcs and ludicrously inaccurate/out of date street slang. Double bonus points if the runners find themselves hired by a well-heeled fan to assassinate one of 'their own' foreign voice actors because the client hates his accent.
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Your Most Heinous Stories of Role-Playing Gone Wrong This starts off pretty mild but hoo boy do the stories get worse the deeper you go.
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Serf posted:Your Most Heinous Stories of Role-Playing Gone Wrong quote:The most hosed up story I have is when I joined a D&D “Storytelling” group. The GM didn’t roll dice, he just told stories and asked us how we would react. He said, “I FEEL the stories and what your characters want and need and I’ve never been wrong.”
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Sep 2, 2015 15:27
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When I read I thought it said YOUR (the narrator's) family, which is the only way the tale could get weirder.
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Sep 2, 2015 17:11
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My best friend recently gave an update on a D&D game she's playing. Her friend (playing a druid) was confronted with a fire elemental and wanted to summon an animal to help. She summoned Smokey the Bear.
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Just done character gen for a new campaign, and pretty excited for what the players have come up with. The setting is the Axis Milo, the secret magical city at the heart of the world, located in a parallel Manhattan. The characters are all students at the Scholomance, the elite boarding academy where the wealthy and the mystically powerful of the Axis Milo send their kids. The general feel is somewhere between Gunnerkrigg Court, Hogwarts, and Morning Glory Academy. Our cast so far: Chet Drakenberg: Total 1%er. His family are basically the magical Kennedys, complete with assassinations. He has the power to turn things (including himself) into dragons, and sometimes to turn dragons back into things afterwards. Cassie Keys: Scholarship student from a family of shape shifting private eyes. Can't afford gravity in her dorm room. Can possess people, and has boundary issues. Jacob Borges VII: Latest in a long line of necromancers, supplying the elite of the AM with obedient skeletal staff. Has a box of bones in his room, just in case he needs some helpers at short notice. Oliver: Not actually a student, or human. Cassie's shadow, gained sentience in a lab accident. Took three days to work up the courage to tell Cassie he was alive now. Wants to enrol so he can have his own room, with gravity. Katherine Rowley: Newly arrived British exchange student. Had no idea prior to arriving that anyone in the world other than her could do magic. Struggling to adjust to life in the Scholomance. Has somehow managed to avoid telling anyone her name, so everyone else has just started calling her Hermione on account of the accent. In the actual play we've managed to do so far we've established that something weird is going on with the choir (which the staff claim doesn't exist), there may be a razor-wieldng hobo god stalking the school, and smuggling a cerberus onto school grounds then just leaving it in the lacrosse fields is a bad idea.
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chitoryu12 posted:My best friend recently gave an update on a D&D game she's playing. Her friend (playing a druid) was confronted with a fire elemental and wanted to summon an animal to help. An update: Smokey the Bear worked. "The bear takes fire damage." "But does the fire take bear damage?"
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chitoryu12 posted:An update: Smokey the Bear worked. "No, because it turns out that only you can prevent fire damage."
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Hahahaha Holy loving poo poo.
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chitoryu12 posted:An update: Smokey the Bear worked. That reminds me of one of my favorite reoccurring thing from a game of 13th Age. One of the players was playing a nature themed sorcerer, and he reskinned burning hands to be firing bees at things. This led to the constant question from the party, "Are they weak to bees?"
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Sep 2, 2015 23:50
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"I cast Protection From X" (DM rolls on the list) "For the next week, the party is immune to medical malpractice"
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Sep 3, 2015 00:37
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silentsnack posted:"I cast Protection From X" In certain systems, it's actually possible for a critical fail on a medical-related roll to cause further injury or death. So you'd technically have a week-long immunity to crit fails on first aid rolls!
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Whenever I GMed wacky campaigns in 3rd Edition Gamma World, I'd let the players pick really outlandish things if they rolled the "immunity" mutation in character creation. We ended up with a mutant human who had a vague "immunity to kinetic energy", which as you might imagine made him more or less immortal and had some other universe-rending consequences that I just went along with. I think we switched GMs at one point, and I ended up killing him with a laser axe as a mutant dwarf with carnivorous power armor.
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 You have slain the dragon! Now the treasure horde is yours to do with as you please. Alright, we fill our bags with all the gold we can carry. There's still a ton of gold here. Three cubic acres of gold! The wagon's down at the bottom of the mountain, isn't it. Hmm... maybe we could sell the horde's location to someone? I'm going to draw a runic fire circle around the horde! You said it was in the middle of the huge dome, right? Okay, that's going to be a huge circle and a lot of fire. Uh, what's your plan? I'm going to melt the gold and pour it down the mountain! SOME of it will reach town, I bet! Alright, uh,  , and furthermore the town is at the very base of this very steep mountain, and this is a ton of gold, so--- Gold plated town it is! (rolls) Nat 20 on Rune Carving! 
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An here I was thinking the witch was going to trap the horde and they could keep selling its location to adventures, slaughter them so no-one claims it, and repeat.
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Sep 3, 2015 05:27
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Kavak posted:An here I was thinking the witch was going to trap the horde and they could keep selling its location to adventures, slaughter them so no-one claims it, and repeat.
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Sep 3, 2015 05:32
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3 cubic acres of gold is more gold than exists on Earth. A find of that size would destroy gold's value as a rare mineral.
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Sep 3, 2015 05:54
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VanSandman posted:3 cubic acres of gold is more gold than exists on Earth. A find of that size would destroy gold's value as a rare mineral. 
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Sep 3, 2015 05:58
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Orrr... Hold the economy hostage by threatening to release the gold. Then you get paid to not do anything, or something.
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Sep 3, 2015 06:05
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For reference, with a find that large, three families could replace all water usage with molten gold for a year.
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cheetah7071 posted:For reference, with a find that large, three families could replace all water usage with molten gold for a year. Does it count if they die of dehydration several days in?
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