http://smugtownshadows.prophpbb.comFlower City. Flour City. Rochester. The place has many names, but to those in the shadows it will always be Smugtown, where the sneering executives and politicos in Cobbs Hill and Pittsford kick around the have-nots festering away in the 19th Ward. Where go-gangers use the Inner Loop as their own personal shooting range/race track, and the yuppies and college kids of the South Wedge try to ignore the ghouls beneath their feet and the orks across the street. Rochester. It's an acquired taste.
I'm looking to start a campaign set in Rochester, New York. The third largest city in New York state, Rochester is acutely aware that it is not and never will be Manhattan. It's where old runners come to die and where wannabes fight for scraps. This is both my first attempt at running a Shadowrun game and my first attempt at using 5th Edition rules, so honest players that won't try to pull one over on Mr. Newbie GM are especially welcome and valued.
Why are you using a different forum?Because I want to neatly split different scenes and runs across multiple threads, and I enjoy having separate sub-forums for OOC talk or side scenes. I don't want to clutter up this lovely forum, and I like the feeling of privacy and community a separate forum provides.
Why set it in Rochester?I like Shadowrun, but my familiarity with the setting is admittedly shaky. Rochester is my RL hometown so I can bring a lot of local knowledge to the table to (hopefully) help bring the setting to life, but it's such a minor sprawl that I can pretty much use it as my own sandbox. I'll try to stick to SR canon as much as I can, but in a no-name city like Rochester, it hopefully won't be too much of an issue.
What are posting expections?I'm a busy guy, and I like play-by-post because it has more of a relaxed pace. I'm hoping for about 3 posts a week, perhaps a little more during high action scenes.
What sort of game are you hoping to run?I'm looking to start an episodic campaign, with distinct "runs" with clear beginnings and endings. An overarching plot may come up, but overall I want this to be very sandbox-like and respond to player choices and motivations. You will have plenty of downtime between runs to pursue personal goals or work on side-jobs, and (after the first few runs) you will have plenty of choices as to what sort of jobs you take.
I'm not too concerned about group composition, either. If we end up with an all-Awakened party, awesome. If it's two technomancers and a decker, great. If it's a heavily armored combat troll and a rigger flying a machine-gun toting drone, then we'll just have to bust out the pink mohawks. You'll be offered jobs your team is good at, so just play what you want.
When are you looking to start play?Not immediately. I'm still digesting the 5th Edition ruleset, and I also have some work and real life concerns that will prevent me from actually getting a workable run together for a couple weeks. This is more of an interest check. Hopefully I can get enough interested players to enlist, finalize characters over the coming weeks, and then get the first run going (or at least some roleplaying threads) started by the end of the month.
If interested, please post here or join the forum. Looking forward to playing with you!
