Shadowrun
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Runaway:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCZY9Z6WvSY
Tekwar:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v81Aj3R9v1M
Honorable mention to: Max Headroom.
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It should go without saying that Dark Angel is all up in there, but don't forget Max Headroom!
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Johnny Mnemonic
Neuromancer
And the ever venerable Blade Runner!
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how could I forget the Dirty Pair?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fm9v_7GaaHg
Or the Galaxy Rangers?
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Theres not going to be one that encapsulates all that is shadowrun Tek War is about BTLs pretty much Johnny N is close I mean gundamn is pretty much about riggers with the Zero tech then there Ghost in the Shell Macross Akira
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I've heard the show Leverage was inspired by Shadowrun. It certainly has a very similar vibe with characters that are clearly the hacker, the street samurai, and the face. And it's a freakin' great show. I really like it.
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Definitely Leverage. Also a fan of Burn Notice, if only for Bruce Campbell's Face (or indeed, chin).
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Honestly, I'd either go for Continuum or Black Lagoon.
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Equalibrium John Wick for Gun Adepts anything by Chow Yung Fat John Woo films Matrix is probably what a Deep Run would look like (if it wasnt already to begin with) Also Mr Robot in USA for hacker
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No SF elements, but never forget John Frankenheimer's Ronin (1998).
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Ronin is a great inspiration if you want to play a street sam (and also a good example how to get wildly different characters to work together)
Dread with Karl Urban is my go to movie to explain cyberpunk and is also a great inspiration for gang related runs.
Also a +1 for Leverage. Age of the geek, baby.
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Ronin is a great inspiration if you want to play a street sam (and also a good example how to get wildly different characters to work together)
Yeah, but they threw one guy out of the group, and then got betrayed by another team member (plus the Johnson).
So I guess the theme is that getting different characters to work together has a price...
And yeah, Urban's Dredd rocked hard.
And if we are talking about street sam movies, there's Leon/The Professional.
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Well, yeah. That's another great lesson from the film: Never trust the geeky German if you are in a French movie ;D
If we count Leon, I'd add Nikita with the whole "forced into the shadows" angle.
And since I now think of Luc Besson: The fifth element does have a lot of... elements that I regularly find in pink mohawk runs (also a great depiction of low lifestyle in the sprawl compared to the luxuries of the mega-rich)
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Nikita and Leon.
Both great films.
But there are good things about Fifth Element, if you can get past all the dorky parts.
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You mean adorkably ;)
...Multipass?
It's amazingly hard to find good science fiction that can be taken seriously.
Gattaca is a great film in regard of how to infiltrate a corporate environment.
And now that I have mentioned Andrew Niccol: Lord of War captures brilliantly why nations and corporations tolerate the existence of gun- and shadowrunners.
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I've heard the show Leverage was inspired by Shadowrun. It certainly has a very similar vibe with characters that are clearly the hacker, the street samurai, and the face. And it's a freakin' great show. I really like it.
Yes it is ;D
Great show
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Ronin is the best shadowrun-esque movie, it doesn't have cyber or magic, but it captures the essential spirit of shadowrun better than any other movie I have seen or listed so far.
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Leverage
Oceans Eleven
Blade Runner
Ghost in the Shell
Johnny Mnemonic
Akira
Lawnmower Man
Equilibrium
Doctor Who ("Time Heist" episode)
Mission: Impossible
S-cry-ed
Italian Job
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The Firefly episode Ariel is an example of an insertion type 'run. It also shows why sometimes it's best not to have the muscle say anything at all...
"We applied the cortical electrodes...."
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The Firefly episode Ariel is an example of an insertion type 'run. It also shows why sometimes it's best not to have the muscle say anything at all...
"We applied the cortical electrodes...."
Some of his quotes work quite well though! "Sure would be nice if we had some GRENADES!"
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The later Fast & Furious movies for a pink mohawk run.
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Yeah, it's a bit like: We are all riggers - cars is all we have and can do. So let's make sure to involve car chases in everything we do no matter if it makes any sense at all.
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Running Man was a cheesy Schwarzenegger movie, but all the same I thought it makes a pretty good introduction to the corp/sinless social divide in ShadowRun. And, you know, in that one exchange just mentally replace "steroids" with "cyberware."
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The Firefly episode Ariel is an example of an insertion type 'run. It also shows why sometimes it's best not to have the muscle say anything at all...
"We applied the cortical electrodes...."
Yes, I thought this when I watched that episode the first time. And the other 5 times.
I regularly watch Leverage and Burn Notice the night before a game night. Gets me in the mood. I like how Westin narrates his thought process as they go. I think Leverage is very hand wavy on pulling off their capers. I like that Burn Notice seems to be a little grittier.
Yes any of the heist movies work. All the fun Sci Fi movies have elements.
Sad that there isn't more Urban Fantasy on film. You know, that isn't about vampires and demons. I wish the Dresden series had been better and stayed on. That's my other source for Shadowrun inspiration. Makes me wish alchemy worked better. Making potions with coffee, adding expensive women's perfume. Good inspiration for a modern twist on potions. I'm playing an intuition based mage that took inspiration from Dresden. I like how Butcher takes every mythological character and fairy tale and fixes it somewhere in his reality. My mage character believes that all mythological deities were just spirits in previous ages.
I almost rented Ronin the other night. Looks like I better go ahead and do it.
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A number of things I'd mention already were mentioned. Burn Notice being foremost among them. I see a lot of good inspiration in White Collar as well especially for Mirrorshades style games. I also like the movie Hackers for what it's like to go up against a corp.
As an aside, smilnirish, the Dresden Files RPG is a FATE based system that IMO really captures the feel and allows for a huge amount of character creativity particularly in magic. And potions actually work really well in that system, especially compared to alchemy here.
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So, going to end up showing my age here with some of the suggestions, along with the fact I've watched a lot of B movies in my time. Also I'm not going to repeat anyone else's suggestions, just know that I do agree with most of them.
Split Second
Nemesis
TC-2000
Any of the Transporter Films or TV series (judgement still reserved on the new one as yet to see it)
Angel Cop (Anime)
Cybercity - Oedo 808 (Anime)
Cyber Tracker 1 & 2
The Crow (only the original though)
Black Rain
Terminator and Terminator 2
Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Bionic Woman (Actually not that bad)
Strange Days
Dollhouse
Cast a Deadly Spell (obviously more Cthulhu but very good for noir and use of magic)
End of Days
Ultraviolet (film rather than British Vampire Hunting TV series)
Alias
Dark Angel (the Dolph Lundgren film)
Inception
Chuck
Until The End Of the World
New Rose Hotel
Paycheck
God, the list is almost endless so am going to stop before I end up going through my entire collection :o
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There are many great movies on these lists that I agree with… and some I have never seen. I will have to correct this lapse in my collection.
Among the staples that I recommend to new players to watch are the Transporter series (though, I too, have not seen the newest one), Johnny Mnemonic, and the Ghost in the Shell franchise (both the movies and the series). But, I have one that I believe captures the essence of Shadowrun and is one that I always recommend, though most people have never heard of it.
Cyber Wars (2004) – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270841/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0270841/)
Following the story of a bounty hunter in a near future world where the megacorps rule with impunity. From fake sins to the twisted politics of the 1% to the all invasive nature of the matrix, in my option captures all that is Shadowrun (minus the awakening, sadly, heh). Hell, it even has a dragonfly drone and Shadowrunners in all but name. Plus, I think Julius is the quintessential decker if there ever was one.
Just my 2 cents.
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@Stoneglobe: Split Second is such a great dystopian action B-Movie. Glad to know someone else has seen it.
One I didn't see posted yet is Smokin' Aces. Just watched it again last night, and realized it would make a perfect run for a team. Spoilers below for anyone who hasnt seen it.
Get to Vegas (or another gambling city), infiltrate a casino's penthouse suite to extract a burned-out entertainer with mob connections before the Feds can get to him. Complications are that a 1 million ¥ bounty has been placed on his head by the mob so he won't talk, and every hit man, assassin, and psycho with a gun is also trying to get him. Oh, and 3 bail-bondsmen because he skipped town.
The twist? The team is hired to deliver him to the Swede, a mysterious figure that doesn't show up on any known databases of hit men, assassin's, or corporate/mob movers and shakers. Because unknown to the team, the Swede is a world-renowned heart surgeon who is getting paid to do a heart transplant from the target into the old, near-dying mob patriarch, who is actually an old FBI deep-cover agent who may have 50+years of info on the mafia.
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The Black list. TV show is a good example of a man who is a very scary fixer :)
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From the point-of-view of a potential Johnson, I'd suggest Harvey Specter in Suits. More than a little underhanded work going on there ...
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I binged Mr. Robot and certain episodes really feel like street level runs.
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Great stuff, I'm binge watching Leverage, and it's got a good 'theme'.
I just now figured out, that "The big Lebowski" was a run!
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Sure was. Attempted by amateurs, and botched as a result.
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Warehouse 13 as a retrieve the object kind of shadowrun.
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I'll plug Cypher (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0284978/?ref_=nv_sr_3) with Jeremy Northam and Lucy Liu. Limited release, then to DVD (and eventually Netflix), so not many have seen it. Not sure if it is still on Netflix or not, but it's pretty enjoyable with some nice twists.
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I don't know if anyone watched it but the new series minority report definitely shows the detective side of things with some cool drone use.
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Black Mirror is a great show for Matrix-related inspiration.
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Well as most of the older ones have been covered two new ones I saw that do shadowrun reasonably well - the whole magic angle are (I put more than the name in spoiler's to avoid spoiling things if people want to take a look and there are major spoilers in the spoiler bits) . . .
Momentum http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3181776/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3181776/)
[spoiler]Very nice little example. At the start you've got all the fancy gagets including a bank vault that wont let them in because they knocked a tooth out of the bank manager who's the "key" and then later on you have the powerful senator (who could easily be a corp example) and lots of tricks/double dealing. Then at the end the main heroine hasn't actually won (very much a setup for another film)[/spoiler]
Dark was the night http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2251281 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2251281)
[spoiler]This one's more an awakened angle with them stirring up what lurks in the woods. Fun thing is at the end you find out its not some ancient monster lurking in the woods its an entire nest/pack/tribe/? of them so rather than the usual how did X survive you know that this lot is breeding and living in the deep woods till human's got too close to the awakened critters and they went on a rampage due to loss of natural habitat.[/spoiler]
I'd actually recommend dark was the night as a decent horror movie too as long as you don't mind a slow development.
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Haywire (2011). Great example of a Johnson trying to clean up by geek in operatives.
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So, going to end up showing my age here with some of the suggestions, along with the fact I've watched a lot of B movies in my time. Also I'm not going to repeat anyone else's suggestions, just know that I do agree with most of them.
Split Second
Nemesis
TC-2000
Any of the Transporter Films or TV series (judgement still reserved on the new one as yet to see it)
Angel Cop (Anime)
Cybercity - Oedo 808 (Anime)
Cyber Tracker 1 & 2
The Crow (only the original though)
Black Rain
Terminator and Terminator 2
Terminator, The Sarah Connor Chronicles
The Bionic Woman (Actually not that bad)
Strange Days
Dollhouse
Cast a Deadly Spell (obviously more Cthulhu but very good for noir and use of magic)
End of Days
Ultraviolet (film rather than British Vampire Hunting TV series)
Alias
Dark Angel (the Dolph Lundgren film)
Inception
Chuck
Until The End Of the World
New Rose Hotel
Paycheck
God, the list is almost endless so am going to stop before I end up going through my entire collection :o
Wait..The Bionic Woman but no mention of The Six Million Dollar Man, especially since the Six Billion Dollar Man movie is going to come out. For shame. But I forgive you since you mentioned Black Rain.
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The Raid: Redemptionhttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899353/ (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1899353/)
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Honestly, I'd either go for Continuum or Black Lagoon.
Finally sat down and watched Lagoon. Now I'm itching to run a campaign in soutbeast asia.
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There's a new show called chappie sounds like short circuit with guns and riggers and bank robberies very shadowrun esque
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https://cyberpunkmovies.net/
Always a nice list to check in on when I'm looking for more material!
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Honestly, I'd either go for Continuum or Black Lagoon.
Finally sat down and watched Lagoon. Now I'm itching to run a campaign in soutbeast asia.
Lagos!
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Black Lagoon
Firefly
Minority Report; both the movie and the new tv series
Leverage
Almost Human
Blade Runner
Judge Dredd; both movies just cause
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Robocop is classic cyberpunk (and the reason Shadowrun has assault cannons). The main character isn't really a runner, but the interaction between the villains feels very much like Mr Johnson and a shady runner team.
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Dark Angel (The Jessica Biel Series ;) )
Babylon A.D.
with two more Dances
Medicineman
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Strange Days (BTL plot!, excop-BTL junkie& chauffeur/bodyguard)
Ghost in the Shell (movie and i hear the series is quite good too)
Daredevil & Jessica Jones (Neflix-only Marvel adaptions. Lots of adepts there and gangsters)
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Hmmm... There was this one movie... When i saw it i had to think immediately of Shadowrun!
Problem is i don't remember the name...
But maybe you guys have seen it?
Story was something like this:
There was some sort of corporation that had some sort of accident... Some murderous robot that would eat your face.
Anyway, there was a team of specialists that entered that corp. building.
(Dunno if damage control or if they where stealing shit or sumtin).
It had like... The classic Shadowrun 2nd E tribal warrior, it had a somewhat emotionally cold tech guy,
there was (prolly even a couple) military style weapon experts...
And at one point of the story, to fight that robot murder machine, they had to strap this one military guy into some sort of exo-skeleton
prototype thing that would override his brain with it's onboard A.I. which is why they hesitated first.
Anyway, THAT was a shadowrun movie to me... Might as well have been an official thing imho!
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>> Problem is i don't remember the name...
thats Death Machine ;)
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0109575/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
There's also Gunhed
http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt0097410/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
a quite similar Plot/movie but with a Mecha.
Not really Shadowrunny but still usefull.
And fun to watch if you're in the right mood
He who Dances without Fear
Medicineman
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Yeah... :D That's the one... Death Machine!
Going to watch that movie right... now!
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I like to point my players towards Psycho Pass as an example of the levels of corporate control (government control in the show, but whatever) common people are willing to put up with in the same of safety and security.
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I think some of the best Shadowrun/Cyberpunk movies are by Guy Ritchie. Especially if you want to see street level runs.
Lock Stock and 2 Smoking Barrels
Snatch
RocknRolla
Revolver
There is also for street level other movies as well.
Layer Cake
Faster
As for anime. I get my inspiration from:
Cowboy Bebop
Ghost in the Shell
Black Lagoon
Old Bubblegum Crash and Crisis (Not that 2040 junk where the Voomers look like muppets.)
AD Police
Durarara!! (If you are interested in seeing how a free spirit might interact with the world around it. Celty is the perfect example.)
Baccano! (This anime is awesome a bunch of immortal alchemists running around in different time periods.)
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Don't think any one has brought up "Gunslinger Girl" yet. manga/anime series about a secret government agency that turns young orphan girls into brainwashed cyborg assassins using extremely experimental technology .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kDREBAIA9A
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Found a comic, Accelerate (http://www.hellocomic.com/comic/view?slug=accelerate), a little while ago - very Shadowrun vibe.
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Repo:The Genetic Opera anyone? What? No, just me? :P
And yeah, Dark Angel with Alba is a favorite of mine...it feels very Shadowrun, with a Decker and a BioAdept taking out the bad guys. It's very bioware heavy though, but definitely some cyber-at times. (Like in the episode Red, or that street gang that takes in Zach in an episode.)
I really like Bunraku too. Mostly because of the name, but it has a flair that vibes with Shadowrun with me, if the story itself does not.
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Old City Blues is also a great (and free!) read for Shadowrun ideas.
http://milonogiannis.com/OCB/
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http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/10/judge-dredd-tv-show/
Dredd will come to TV as Judge Dredd : Mega-City One. And it instantly becomes #1 of my "most-awaited TV show" list.
Even more if they keep the aesthetics and treatment of the 2012 movie with Karl Urban.
Even more if they keep Karl Urban.
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Not exactly the "best Shadowrun", but it's worth noting that the plot of Die Hard is basically a C.L.U.E. casefile (meaning "a shadowrun that went horribly wrong for the runners because they did something incredibly stupid") that included a very lucky NPC. If I remember the movie correctly, the fatally foolish error made by Hans Gruber and company was assuming that they'd killed McClane instead of confirming their kill.
I also like to think of it as an example of why it's pointless to go full Black Trenchcoat and why you should always be ready to go Pink Mohawk; for all Gruber's detailed plotting, his plan was ruined by one thing that he didn't see coming. Sure, you might say "So what? If he'd just done a truly ludicrous amount of legwork he could've seen it coming and prepared accordingly!" You'd be right, but you'd also be missing the point entirely. He thought he'd done enough legwork, but "enough legwork" and "enough planning" are delusions brought on by the arrogance of players. No matter how much you plan, the GM can always throw an unexpected curveball at you, and when that happens all that will matter is how well you can improvise and react. And you know what else? If your GM has a brain, a spine, and good taste, they're never going to let you just waltz through the main event of a run no matter what you do for legwork.....unless they're setting you up for something horrible, but that's a different kettle of fish. What I'm getting at here is that beyond a certain point, planning and legwork are futile; shit will hit the fan and full-auto APDS from an assault rifle will be the best solution, so abandon any delusions you have that it won't turn out that way.
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rather have a flawed plan executed perfectly than a perfect plan executed flawedly and yes, there is always plan b but a soft entrance and a hard exit is always preferred over a hard entrance and a hard exit but a soft entrance and a soft exit is always the the best
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Unless it's only a small part of a big run or you've already neutralized all threats, a soft exit should make one suspicious. Either you're being set-up, or worse, your GM is decided to have a circlejerk and didn't invite the combat-focused players (see: Ocean's 11). Better to be dropped into hostile territory with minimal intel than to endure a wankfest where the streetsam has nothing to do but pick his nose....er, roleplay.
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http://ew.com/tv/2017/05/10/judge-dredd-tv-show/
Dredd will come to TV as Judge Dredd : Mega-City One. And it instantly becomes #1 of my "most-awaited TV show" list.
Even more if they keep the aesthetics and treatment of the 2012 movie with Karl Urban.
Even more if they keep Karl Urban.
Let me just say: Weeeeeeeeeee!
And yes, Karl Urban is a must.
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Always try to go Black Trenchcoat; always be prepared to haul out the Pink Mohawk. "Hope for the best, plan for the worst." If the GM is absolutely determined to drop you into the pot, it'll happen, sure; it's usually a warning sign, but sometimes this sort of thing is necessary.