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The set up is (roughly) that the sister of a Seattle fixer was in Toronto on a school trip. So the fixer reaches out to talent they know and sends them to Toronto to find and fetch the sister. Some conceit can no doubt be found for non-Seattle based runners.
Anyway, at this point in time Detroit is mostly a shot up ruin after Ares vs Bug-hordes vs Ares' out of control super bugs (per Cutting Black). I think Detroit might have had its own black out to, as did parts of Chicago. And of course a lot of talent in the Toronto area would have already been hired for things to do with the blackout, I suspect (which could be part of why newish runners get hired) |
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But what makes you say Scotland doesn't exist?? ...granted it might be a toxic hell hole but still... |
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Ok, I think this looks like the applications so far, please shout if I've missed anyone! I'll update the opening post too
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Okay, I'm not finding a good explanation of specialization. I want to maximize Biotech/Medicine. The character is a doctor. I have 32 points to spend on skills, and I can go to 7 in a skill if I take the appropriate positive quality. Or, alternatively, I can boost my related stat. Think I want to go to 7 though. I'm perfectly fine with having a lower Biotech than Medicine, Medicine is the specialization.
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*depending on who you listen to, the sprawl might be called "The GTA" (greater Toronto Area), "The Golden Horseshoe" ( for how in pictures from space the whole west end of the Lake Ontario shore is lit up) or "The Oshawa-Buffalo sprawl". Torontonians likely hate that last one since they don't get mentioned) If it helps anyone, in super rough comparisons to the standard SR Seattle setting: - Toronto is Seattle. Centre of the sprawl, has rich parts and rough parts. More tall buildings. - Oshawa (to the east, old automotive factory town) is Auburn - Hamilton (at the west end of the lake, old steel making town and has a highly polluted port) is Tacoma. - Mississauga is the big adjacent suburb to the west. I don't actually know the SR fate of it, but if you assume it crashed hard and became some degree of barrens it actually makes 30 Nights make a bit more sense (makes getting out of town harder), so barring word otherwise treat it as Redmond. - Likewise with Richmond Hill to the north, so perhaps it had an environmental disaster so call it Puyallup - Oakville (west of Mississauga) is Bellevue - Brampton is Renton. So is St.Catherines. - Bufallo is Everett - Milton is Snohomish, and so is Niagara-on-the-Lake. - Niagara Falls is something different, a mix of tourism and casinos. Not that any of that really matters other than for colour -- we should be going into darkest Toronto. |
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Driver or Rigger would be nice. Should I change runner-type?
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There are a lot of magic types so far on the list but I can accommodate that, play the character you want and we'll make it work ...bear in mind the roads are going to be pretty blocked with stationary vehicles so you might all be better on bikes/foot anyway!
Fair warning, I will be experimenting with the background count (sort of) rules from Slip Streams for the worst parts of the sprawl... I'm not going to be overly heavy handed with it as there's no real mitigation yet until the magic book comes out, but it will add flavour to significant scenes Last edited by Arialles; Nov 10th, 2020 at 06:21 PM. |
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Huh. Adepts seem...I don't know. 6th edition is confusing me a bit with how magic points for adepts work.
I think I'll just go street sammy, lol... |
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Hmm, since there was nothing in 6e for me to go by, how do you foresee background count affecting conjuring tests? Need to know how it will affect my spiritual “brothers”. |
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Double Tap in the Free Seattle campaign is a gunslinger adept. Basically, it’s cheaper to get magic at Priority D and use adjustment points to raise it to 6. That way you get 6 power points. Qi focuses are also relatively cheap in Nuyen for those powers that you don’t need all the time like Astral Perception or Traceless Walk.
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Of course some runners would likely have been among the first to get out of the blackout zone. After all, there may be jobs in there, but if nobody can contact you, you can't take those jobs. So I'd imagine quite a few walked/biked/use spirit-movement-boosted-jogging out early on, then sought jobs that would take them right back in. So nothing wrong with a runner just being from Toronto either. They could have been outside when things hit, they could have been in the zone but left, all sorts of explanations. I don't know much about Burlington. Mostly I hear about people living there and working in Toronto or Hamilton, but a) SR2080 could have Burlington much more developed, and b) there is no reason that a ShadowRunner couldn't live there and do most of their work elsewhere in the sprawl. It is pretty central. If I was making a new character from that area for the game I'd probably set them somewhere like that too. (really tempting to make a character with some local knowledge, but I figure I'll carry on with my current character, because bringing a technomancer into a matrix free zone totally makes good sense ) Last edited by Betabeta; Nov 11th, 2020 at 09:57 AM. |
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I know that basically all tech was shutdown in the blackout like a big EMP but new tech coming in isn’t affected. Is it possible to repair/rig the shutdown tech with appropriate checks to get them going again? Like we really need to get out of there and somebody hot wires an abandoned vehicle.
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