So let's see... If we lived in the Shadowrun world, that means I was born in the UCAS...

what is that red area above California Free State?

Born in the UCAS on the outliers of the DEECEE Sprawl (Glen Burnie, MD, suburb outside Baltimore)

Moved down to the Confederacy and Charleston about a decade ago

Keepin trogs in their place

That's a Contested Zone. Basically the Japanese who control Cali wanted to take a bite out of Tir. But Hestaby, the Dragon at Mt. Shasta, told everyone to knock that shit off, so the fighting all but stopped, but there wasn't a clear "winner."The red bit between Pueblo and Aztlan is also a contested zone.

I keep buying 1st ED Shadowrun rulebooks. I don't PLAY 1st, but I love the fluff so much!

>buying 1st ed rulebooks
>buying

How easy is it to avoid all the native american stuff in shadowrun?

I know the setting creators had a massive boner for them and gave them what, half the US, but I find them pretty tedious - I've yet to see native americans done interestingly in literally anything, so how easy is it to basically ignore them while still doing stuff in the americas?

From second-hand bookstores...
Not too hard. They're basically just like anyone else, with a bit more emphasis on harmony with spirits and sweat lodges. Slightly.

How's life in the C.A.S? I find it amusing Atlanta is the capital, everyone knows it would be Raleigh because NC STRONK.

>Raleigh
Isn't that not even the biggest city in its own state?

As a non-murrican I've heard of Atlanta. Raleigh I had to look up (and was promptly amused to know that yes, it was named after the Englishman)

I live within the borders of Ares home metroplex and would be an instructor for FireWatch.

Born in the UCAS, moved from coast to coast and north to south several times growing up, worked contracts around the world, mostly in the Middle East. And is now back in the UCAS living in a critter hotspot.

The problem with Atlanta is that it's a crime filled mess of a city that to fix half of its problems would require you to burn it to the ground and start over. Nobody in the South other than Georgians would pick that for the national capital. Charleston probably has better odds.

And yes, he was pretty popular.

>NC stronk
Heeeelll yeah my brotha

Put a bullet in your brain, Eurocuck.

Raleigh is the heart of NC.

>Atlanta
>burn it to the ground and start over.
Sounds good to me.

Don't know anything about shadowrun, anything big going on in vancouver in it?

Someday I'll see a setting that doesn't shit all over how big Mormons are in the Rockies.

Someday

I'd be inside the druidic fuckfest of western France.

New Vegas?

Winston Salem best town

>Born in south Florida so I'd be Caribbean League
>Probably be the tech guy of some low level pirate operation

I feel like I should involve myself in this, but I went from living in Wilson, to Fayettenam and neither is winning any awards.

I'd be stuck in the Lambeth Containment Zone, and probably be an Ork or Troll considering the areas history.

Great.

That pretty much ensures I'd have to become a Shadowrunner to survive.

acceptable answer

>fayettenam

genuinely pity you DESU

Barely a blip really. And there are guys who claim that Caesar killed all of them. Which is lame but alright

apparently there is a dragon lair near Boston
hmmm
also I love shadowrun but I really hate the native american states
can we get a plot arc where the UCAS and CAS blitzkreig them soo?

They're too OP magic wise.

Speaking of the UCAS and CAS, I have some Yankee family. How easy would it be to visit them?

If I lived in the Shadowrun world, I would have been slaughtered in that EPIC white genocide courtesy of the red man.

Well... Sherman did it once, so...

I have no idea how UCAS and CAS realtions are but I assume cordial
It's hard for me to imagine the north and south becoming north and south korea in only a generation
Also thats fucking dumb
there should be enough native americans left to have their OP muh ancient traditional nature magic

Honestly it's not a terrible idea to give it a second shot. The city is a fucking mess. Also you won't get someone from NC triggered about Sherman. He treated us with respect, restrained his men, and kept to military targets. Something about our reluctance to join the war initially if I recall. Did blow up our local newspaper because they where violently pro-confederate, but he let the people inside leave first.

Would someone even be allowed to move around like that in the Sixth World? I know Aztlan is into oppression.

Aztlan is into HIDDEN oppression. Most people think they are the good guys, selling cheap food all over the world. They have either the best or second best PR in the sixth world, depending if Horizon has a bad day or not. Only those in the shadows know the truth, and even most of that is based on rumour.

Born in Hamburg, Germany. In Shadowrun, large parts of the city have been flooded, which caused piracy to rise. Corps are in constant battle with pirates an anarchists.

So it's basically real world Hamburg 600 years ago, but 50 years in the future and with ak's

The Shadowrun campaign my former group used to play actually took place in in Hamburg, with my former school now being close to the waterfront, and me transforming it into some kind of mini-state, with it's own rules and laws.

The CAS has canon seen through their shit. Their version of the CIA spends most of their time sabotaging Aztlan and Aztechnology. Which is important because they could steamroll them militarily.

Ok, who would steamroll whom? I though Aztlan had a really good military, especially with the fighting in the Yucatan.
I'm not as familiar with the CAS, but I assume the UCAS would help them out against Aztlan.

>Hampton Roads
Born, raised and lived here my entire life. Probably still wind up joining the military then land a job somewhere locally in Corpsec if the pay was better.

If the UCAS hadn't stole Northern Virginia from us you know Richmond would be the capital again.

because aztlan is a mega corp they would prob win though with UCAS backing them up it would be insetting especially because there is a dragon further south who would love for Aztlan to be in a big war so he can fuck them up

I meant the sabotage is important because the CAS lags behind everyone in terms of military tech. They make up for it with their intelligence agencies. While the UCAS would probably help, it's never wise to rely on allies.

You ought bit be surprised about Raleigh- despite all the trouble of the Revolution, very few places in the US got renamed to purge British influence. Georgia and the Carolinas didn't get renamed, even when the Carolinas stopped being Carolina singular.

If I lived in Shadowrun world I would've live in...can you give an European map

Oh, I actually like them, you rarely see any representation from them (Although I do believe they should be a bit smaller) but considering that a single tribe in Washington currently owns huge swathes of wilderness around Mt. Rainier for their private use I think it fits quite nicely.

Well, where I live is supposed to be the safest and quietest city in the UCAS. So that's boring as hell, but at least I don't have to worry about getting shot by gangers on my way to the mall. That said, I'm studying humanities right now, so maybe I could hope for being a mage or something.

You'd be burning it for a different reason though, and that's why it can't happen. Atlanta's problems now have nothing to do with white Confederates.

Isn't CAS territory home to a lot of ex-US bases?

Also, looking at that map, wtf is Space City?

Cas
Don't know enough shadowrun lore to know whats happening down their
Anyone care to explain

>tfw in Aztlan
>tfw don't speak Spanish
>tfw white

i'm scared

>Live near a critter hotspot

What is a critter hotspot and how screwed am I?

Are you Catholic? Do you mind blood sacrifice?

Space City is a city built around a spaceport. Of which I think there aren't that many.

Somebody sum up Shadowrun world history. Why is the USA broken up into several different countries? Why are most of them Native American? What happened to the white people living in those places? Were they killed or did they go native? What is that tiny little country around Denver and who is the dragon that lives there?

Friend wants to run a Shadowrun game. We're going to be playing runners in New Orleans, looks like - I'm planning on animistic magic with shark mentor spirit.

Not sure how well we'll do without a dedicated hacker, but I'm hoping we can manage. Any good general tips for a non-specialised mage?

Where will you be when Daniel Howling Coyote triggers the great ghost dance in 48 days?

Stuff in the 90s was shittier than in the real world and somehow led to corporations getting lots of power.

In 2012 magic comes back, Native people make the most use of it immediately because they notice first. I forget the exact context but at the time most Natives in the states were being persecuted and put in camps for some reason. They quickly wreck all the military forces sent to take them out and leverage a treaty that gets a lot of territory back. This leads to the US and Canada being highly destabilized and combined with worldwide problems like a third of Germany being torched by a dragon and a Chinese civil war they aren't able to recover very quickly. Bits break off permanently, like California, Quebec the CAS. White people in Native controlled regions mostly just live with it but there are insurgent groups I think. There is some repression of overtly white culture like Christianity I believe.

The area around Denver is literally called just called Denver. It's kept separate from the other states around it by a dragon named Ghostwalker.

Yep. The CAS also has the world's largest conventional and nuclear submarine fleets on account of taking them from the UCAS during the divorce.

Spirits are better in direct combat then spells but spells let you control the environment better, use rituals to gather information, take a mind control spell but don't ever use it as the core of a plan, foci are your friends but nobody like an addict.

Living in the CAS, and yeah, Atlanta is a tumor, but it's a tumor with a fuckhuge airport, a central location in the CAS, and for some reason everyone wants to visit the damn place so it's persistence as a capitol is semi-logical. a little weird that we take that big chunk of Kansas though.

I guess we have a space port so we in theory have a significant orbital presence?

We need to push those Aztlan savages back across the river tho, probably trying to control a ley line there or something.

>Romania is country in Europe.
Gee, thanks, shadowrun wiki.
>The European Economic Community, southern France, Italy and southeastern Europe shatter into hundreds of city-states in 2033.
Ironically, my city did declare independence from the country once. For like 23 hours, or something.
>Neighbouring Ukraine annexes the northern third of the country, including most of the Transylvania region, and declares it a protectorate.
What? Why?

Overall, boring as fuck.

>Romania is country in Europe.
Gee, thanks, shadowrun wiki.
>The European Economic Community, southern France, Italy and southeastern Europe shatter into hundreds of city-states in 2033.
Ironically, my city did declare independence from the country once. For like 23 hours, or something.
>Neighbouring Ukraine annexes the northern third of the country, including most of the Transylvania region, and declares it a protectorate.
What? Why?

Overall, boring as fuck.

Like, make some vampires or some shit.
Turn our gypsies into fortunetelling trolls, or something.
Pull a Ruritania.
I don't know.

Is Ghostwalker cool, or a tyrant, or what? Are people still living there, and Ghostwalker is like "Well, I guess you're part of my hoard now so I better take care of you." I don't know how Dragons in Shadowrun are except one was the President of the USA for awhile.

There's no native americans there, they don't care.

Though I think they did shit for Ireland

Where can I read a book the SR lore?

Ghostwalker is a mix of cool guy and big dick dictator
He did kick out the aztlandians tho so good on him

Dragons in SR have a reputation as dicks, mostly because the most public dragon is a sociopathic corporate dictator. Altogether they're a mix, some are cool like the one who was president, some are pretty much just animals in their motivations, some are extreme nationalists. Overall a mixed bag, but universally they struggle seeing metahumans as people. So never cut a deal with one.

>nationalists
Aren't dragons like thousands of years old or some shit?

Some of them got heavily invested in human politics

Did I say they were nationalistic for any existing country? Well, some are but only because those countries are still basically the ones they remember.

There's dragons like Sirrug and Hualpa though, who basically took over Brazil and renamed it Amazonia.

IIRC the UCAS's plan to retake the continent is to "liberate" it from the azzies, which I guess counts as help.

I like that the UCAS and CAS Marine Corps are still cool with each other, to the point of sharing personnel and training together.

Yeah, english treatment of europe is boring. Sorry.
I think germany has a weird troll city state somewhere.
I assume they're talking about Hualpa. He ate most of Brazil's goverment and declared himself president for life, and then began invading everyone unfortunate enough to share a border with him like it's the Napoleonic wars or some shit.

There's also the rumor that UCAS is waiting for CAS to get committed to retaking the territory Aztlan took, then being too weak to withstand a UCAS conquest afterwards. That keeps CAS from really putting much effort into getting back that lost territory, they'd rather wait for Aztlan to bite off more than it could chew someplace else and be able to walk into those territories without sacrificing too much military in case UCAS decides to pull a Lincoln II: Son of Illegal War Crimes and suck CAS back into the fold.

>Latvia
>No history
>only geographical information is that Riga is the biggest city in Baltics
>Economy is heavy industry and manufacturing, Saeder-Krupp and Trans-Latvia(great naming) corporate presences
>A lot of arheological interests with sereval groups, sponsoring expeditions in the are
Well I couldn't expect that much info, in fact I'm suprised that there even is some information about it,.

At least the CAS is smart about it.

Despite their badass navy, CAS is kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place. They have to play it pretty safe just to keep the neighbors at bay. No huge megacorp daddy to cover the bills in CAS.

>Check France
>2008—A meltdown at Cattenom nuclear power plant irradiates Lorraine, Sarre and Luxembourg, creating the SOX.
Dropped. I don't mind elves and magic and shit, but that's too far into fantasy.

Seeing as the Elvish Republican Army took over, everything would probably be the same except I'd speak Irish and might know more terrorists

Not too bad I guess. I'd probably try to move to the mainland though, seeing as I'm too old to have been born an elf myself

So the need to make make their own Megacorp! With blackjack, and hookers!

Well to be fair, magic waking up really fucked with nuclear power for reasons no one understands. So much so that nuclear weapons stopped working for a time after the Native American tribes rebelled.
Nukes still aren't reliable in the Sixth World.

They apparently utilize runners pretty cleverly and have a top-tier intelligence agency and CT group. Shit, I want to play a CAS game now.

Is nuclear power dead in SR, then? What has it been replaced with? Just mages producing steam/heat directly? Or did enough people die in all those wars that countries can truck along just fine without nuclear power at all?

I like Technomancer's version too.
As Oppenheimer says his famous phrase, he closes some ancient necromantic ritual. The test bomb explodes just fine, but the leftover mushroom clouds turns into a permanent tornado filled with red lightning. People born too close gets powers or become monsters and shit. The Soviets test another bomb under Antarctica, produces the same but the cloud is even bigger. Also leads to communist hive-minded sentient killer penguin.
It also fucks with nuclear reactors, to the point demons pour out one once. But eventually, people manage to develop rituals to protect reactors, so it's fine, I guess.

>All these plebs not cowering in the glorious shadow of Our Lady the Queen City of Charlotte, long may her vast shadow drown out all other Carolinian gathering places

It's like you guys don't even "Third fastest growing city in the entire goddamned United States of Glorious America" or something.

Not totally dead, but close. Also toxic spirits tend to develop near nuclear waste/bad pollution.
There was a virus that killed 1 in 6 people the world over, and that's pretty early in the Shadowrun timeline. So the population took a big hit, and then people started being born as elves and dwarfs, and later on trills and orcs.

I sure do feel at home surrounded by a bunch of Yankees and dot Indians, really is a True™ Carolinian™ Gathering™ Place™!

>Dot Indian
While not really related to your post, now that it's mentioned, Shadowrun really doesn't have as many Indians as it should. They're everywhere here in Seattle. Maybe in the late 80's and early 90's that wasn't the case, and that why they don't show up in the game.

Sixth World Almanac

ttop.rem.uz/Shadowrun/Sourcebooks/26205 - Sixth World Almanac.pdf

Don't worry about the dragons, I'll take care of everything.

Originally they tried to explain the lack of Indians by saying VITAS hit the region extremely hard. But in recent fluff they've said the it's bounced back to higher than pre-VITAS population.

I suppose it's just one of those things the authors don't want to touch because they don't know enough about it to care.

I would live in an irradiated, bug infested hellhole.

We're talking about future Chicago, not modern day.