So what's going on in the rest of the world in the Shadowrun

>>49729598
You know there's a ton of lore from the books and setting guides, right?
Also a wiki and /srg/?

I'll tell you one thing though

Chicago is an irradiated shithole filled with bugs, don't go there or near there

>>49729598
grab a pdf of sixth world almanac. read it

heres /srg/s pastebin. its in 4th edition
https://www.mediafire.com/folder/s8h1ai7hbdgla/Shadowrun#s8h1ai7hbdgla

>>49729598
We also know a decent amount about Hong Kong.

Lagos has half a splat book.

Chicago is pretty well expanded on.

So are the Elven Nations of Tir Tairngire and Tir na nOg.

Mexico is blood magic Aztecs. It's called Aztlan now.

Brazil and a bunch of other countries in South America became Amazonia and they have a huge fucking city.

History wise there's the Euro-Wars, both Matrix Crashes, and a couple other big events.

>>49730061

So Chicago's got a better future, on par with future Detroit? I thought this was supposed to be dystopian.

>>49730061
Ghost bugs, right?

>>49729598
Feng Shui is a proven science in Shadowrun Hong Kong

Which means a completely legitimate job could involve busting in to a CEOs house and rearranging his furniture

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>>49729598
I'd really like to see more stuff done with Shadowrun Africa. I think something like District 9 + Marvel's Wakanda would be pretty cool.

>>49734334
Cool thing is that Africa's a big place. You can have high-tech urban sprawls surrounded by Mad-Max wastelands that are playgrounds for tribal warlords and corporate mercs. There's a nation of ghouls, and all kinds of pre-Awakening stuff to find as well as regular corporate resource grabbing.

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>>49734334
>>49734402
I was about to say, isn't there a city of the dead in Africa? That runs better then most regular cities.

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So what IS going on in Vegas? That's in First Nation territory, right?

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Wanna talk about Shadowrun? Not the crunch like they do in the General, but just about thew world?

>>49734683
The Twilight Horizon talks about Vegas. It's Pueblo Corporate Country and a big Horizon town. Technomancers used to be banned from the Strip, they protested and hacked a lot to show how they totally aren't troublemakers who'll hack your shit, eventually Horizon massacred them. Don't protest so much anymore. Market Panic touches on that.

>>49729598
>What's going on in Las Vegas?
In NAN 1, there's a scenario that has a segment playing in LV. Set in the 2050s, Las Vegas is still entertainment town but it's stuffed with (hotel, I presume) security personnel of all sorts. Like crammed. On top of that, cilivians are also openly packing SERIOUS firepower, people are not driving around in limousines but more military/security vehicles and shit. also, it gets very seedy, once you step away from the big lights. furthermore, they belong to the pueblo corporate council nation and these native americans have some of the blackest ice in north america to keep their matrix safe.

>>49734079
>Delivery driver leaves an unopened box to the east of a doorway.
>Mass panic.

I know there are a ton of books detailling europe in french and german.

According to the wiki NZ is run by a bunch of Maoris and Australia by Abos

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>>49734574
Asamondo only runs because the rest of Africa is a shithole; they can import corpses at a steady rate to feed it's ghoul population, and other Infected who need live subjects for Essence Drain can go hunting.

They've never properly explained how Asamondo pays for all this. The early history is basically Israel, "Fuck you we're taking this land and we'll fight off anyone who wants to take it back muh homeland" but there's no America sponsoring Ghoultopia.

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>>49735702
Australia isn't so much 'run by Abos' as it is 'the entire continent slipped back into Dreamtime except for a couple of fortified cities on the coast, and Aborigines are the only ones crazy enough to head out into the manastorms for a walkabout.'

>>49736729
Didn't they have a shitload of mines?

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anybody knows what's up in Minneapolis?
I wanted to run a campaign there.

>>49736759
They had some rare earth mines, but those aren't uncommon in Africa, and the placement of Asamando doesn't correspond with any currently known amazingly fruitful deposits. Not to mention that 50 years of work should be enough to deplete many mines if they're worked aggressively, for instance if the state needs massive cashflow to buy 'meat' and armaments to fight a never-ending border war. And they got some Orichalcum in the Year of the Comet, but the timeframe for that was all fucked up when you think about what's actually involved in setting up a mine.

>>49729598
Ireland got taken over by the Elvish IRA and is currently a totalitarian elf-supremacist state>implying you even need to specify an Elvish state as totalitarian

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>>49736781
lrn2research

>>49736827

Mind you, alchemy can MAKE Orichalcum and every single infected is magically active so that might be the cornerstone of their economy.

>>49736898
They don't all awaken as magicians, though, that's only a few specific HMHVV strains that force that. Ghouls have MAG 1 so they can't also be technos, they are about as magically capable as a rock.

>>49737112
>>49736898
Obvious caveat: Unless you're part of the 1 percent that was already Awakened before being infected.

>>49736879
Thank you anon

Istanbul is a free state riled by an AI named neo-ataturk.

I wish I was making this up. Because I couldn't if I tried.

>>49738034
*Ruled

>>49733934
my fellow chicagoite.ian.nigga.

>>49729598
Switzerland was still trying to cure metahumans last splatbook I read.

>>49738196
Switzerland being bigots always struck me as weird. They're isolationist and insular in a lot of ways, but generally speaking they tend to be forward thinking in a pragmatic sense.

What's happening to sweden and the rest of the nordic countries in SR5? I remember reading about some bigass meteor strike or similar turning northern sweden into a very S.T.A.L.K.E.R-ish zone in a fluff blurb in a SR3 or SR4 Europe splatbook but there's nothing about it on the SR wiki.

>>49738217
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/a-dark-chapter-in-history_recognising-switzerland-s--slave-children-/35429120

Let me enlighten you about the Swiss.

>>49729598
Well Britain's fucking shite, don't consider visiting. Need to remind myself what's it's actually like, but I do remember the druids being hermetic mages and really fucking political.

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>>49742420

>>49739055
I don't know if scandinavia has any official fluff.
i got my hands on a semi-unofficial fluff piece that details some of the internal politics of Sweden and specifically Stockholm.

In short: politics is dominated by the Social Democrats who are controlled by an extremely sophisticated AI named Per-Albin, a dragon named Nidhögg appeared in 2022 and is currently attempting to infiltrate the social democrats and find out what's going on at the top.
Sami independence movements managed to acquire a large degree of autonomy in controlling the northernmost areas in 2027 using Sami shamanistic magic.
In 2031 Russia attacks scandinavia, their entire fleet is destroyed by the combined Swedish-Danish navy with a lot of help from Nidhögg.

Dwarfen groups are in control over practically all the mining and metallurgy industry in the country, elves have a lot of success in the media.

Gotland has a small elvish independence movement growing, Skåne/Scania also has an independence movement though far larger and more violent than the gutnish one, the motivations there are mainly anti-metahuman.

Magic is common enough that most inhabitants of Stockholm have witnessed a few magical phenomenons, Stockholm also has a problem with a lot of crimes perpetrated by orcs and trolls etc.

JUST TO NAME A FEW THINGS, the pdf is in swedish so I'm not sure how useful it'd be for you

>>49742612
>>49739055
Keep in mind the fluff piece is written primarily for SR4, I'm not well acquainted with SR5 so not sure how well it would mesh in that system.
it's pretty devoid of any mechanical rules so you wouldn't need to convert any character sheets or anything, it's essentially just a setting.

>>49741624
best girl

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>>49743035

>>49743035
Is gloria hidden somewhere in the imagine. Because otherwise I don't see best girl.

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I'm going to run a game in Metropole, the world largest's urban sprawl, which has surprisingly zero lore besides a few paragraphs when talking about something else.

In theory when a dragon took over Brazil and later most of South America, it kicked everyone out it to let the forest grow back to their former glory. And all this people end up migration to Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo, making a large city that connect both.

Since there's almost no Lore on that, but I'm brazilian, I'm writing my own (shitty) splatbook. And doing my own maps.

Here's an example.

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>>49743432
Since you're doing it yourself, you can have all kinda of fun.
Make the Olympic Village the headquarters of the strongest Gang? Sure! Make Shadowrun Carnival? Awesome! I would so love to see Shadowrun Carnival!

>>49743514
Huh, maybe I should do something similar for Toronto. Unless there's already fluff about it somewhere.

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>>49743514
Hmmm. I've lived it Aztlan, Salish, and UCAS territory.
What kind of logistical nightmare would it was taken me to do all that?

>>49743514
Ha!
"Carnival" Is the name of the campaign i intent to run and see if I can turn in the 'sample' adventure in the end of the book.

But Brazil has a lot of cool shit that's very shadowrunny:

>Police fame for corruption and excessive use of force.
Check.

>Huge slums with heavy armed gangs.
They found anti-aircraft artillery shells and bazookas in some favelas. so that's a check.

>Radical neo-christian churchs with temples that put the vatican to shame.
Check.

>Tradition in African-descendant religions that practiced blood magic. (And it's not voodoo, it's its own thing)
Check.

>Super luxury condo right besides slums.
Check and check.

>Broken nuclear power plant good to make a irradiate city zone with muties and shit.
Check.

>Large corporations that are already relevant in Shadowrun lore
Embraer, and Taurus was a brazilian gun company that owned Smith and Wesson for a while. So Check.

>Sexy mulatas (mixed race women) in kick-ass cyberware.
Check and check.

>>49743362
>Liking Muh dark past:The character

pls go away

>>49743514
>Miami and West Palm Beach separated

All my rage. I go back and forward between those two every weekend.

>>49743599
Yeah. Lucky Strike best girl.

>>49743615
also good

was so happy when Racter mentioned her in HK

>>49743546
Just be sinless and smuggle yourself. Nothing simpler.

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>>49743546
Oh man, it would have been IMPOSSIBLE now that I think about it.
I was born in the UCAS in Chicago, so either I wouldn't exist or, more likely, the Navy would have stationed my dad somewhere else.
Then I was raised in Salish territory near Idaho Falls, and I grew up in Aztlan near El Paso.
And now I'm back in the UCAS just north of Seattle, outside Everett.

>>49730061
Yeah, but what's it like in Shadowrun?

>>49743514

>There's a dragon lair in Flint, MI

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>>49743641
Not possible. Born on a Navy base. No way would I get out of childhood without a SIN.

>>49743514
I thought Japan owned Cali. Is that just one city now?

>>49743716

California Free state is Japanese-backed, hence the flag. It stretches from Eureka to Bakersfield.

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>>49743756
And Shasta is were BESTaby makes her lair, right? She's held the Japanese from further expansion.

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>>49743575
>>Radical neo-christian churchs with temples that put the vatican to shame.

You better use the Catedral Metropolitana de São Blade Runner for something wickedly cool!

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>>49744133

Are ork's short lifespans due to rapid aging or the fact that most of them die violently?

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>>49743716
>>49743756
The Japanese left California. There was a huge earthquake in the home islands in 2061 and it became politically untenable to keep an Imperial presence there. General Saito (a commander of the Imperial Marines) refused to come home, and stuck around with a couple of battalions and the backing of some of the Japanacorps, declaring it the California Protectorate. Between 2064 and 2069, he was taken out of power and the California Free State existed once more, though they lost Los Angeles and the Central Valley to the PCC. (that map is 2075)

>>49743794
Shasta was fucked up in the Dragon Civil War, most of the Shamans were killed and Hestaby is in semi-exile; still powerful, but not making obvious waves (possibly that was part of the peace deal, which is why her lair is mostly undamaged and nobody is flogging her hoard on eBay).

>>49744264
Yes.

>>49744264
Explicitly aging. Orcs do tend to die violently, but genetically they hit a wall in their mid-30's. They get physically and mentally mature in their early teens, live about 2 decades as prime physical specimens, then deteriorate rapidly. A 45-year-old orc is like a 90-year-old human.

>>49744347
Do trolls live longer? I would assume they do, just because of how giants and the like in myth are always associated with long years but I actually don't remember.

I know elves live fucking forever though.

>>49744386
I think elf lifespans just haven't really been reached by the timeline of the setting, but there are "immortal elves" which sort of implies the others don't last as long. Dwarves also live a bit longer iirc, but I don't know about trolls

>>49744409
I believe it's mentioned somewhere that the average elf should live to about 500, based solely on metabolic and genetic data.

All these pics of armorless runners who would get 1 shotted.

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>>49744386
Trolls live to be about 50. Similar maturity in what is human adolescence, similar deterioration.

It's one of the reasons why orcs and trolls have a hard time integrating into human society. They start wanting to fuck in grade school, and by high school they're grown men and women who want to get on with their short lives, not waste a quarter of their prime years learning calculus.

>>49744409
>>49744428
Dwarves should live more than a hundred years, and elves 'several hundred'. Nobody's sure, because the Sixth World hasn't been around long enough. Immortal Elves are a special category of elves who lived from the 4th World (Earthdawn), stayed hidden in the 5th, and are now coming back into the light in the 6th. How they stayed alive that long is a matter for conjecture, but there's accusations of special secret magic and dragon fucking

>>49739055
Last time the Scan Union got any meaningful coverage was in Shadows of Europe. The only thing I actually remember from it was that Maersk basically owns everything that used to be Denmark, minus the parts of Jutland that the Black Tide left uninhabitable. The rest was mostly about how the Union government was fighting a losing battle to keep corporate influence from subverting their social systems, and the resurgence of Asatru and neo-paganism.

>>49744478
Don't the Fomori and Giant troll metavariants have longer life spans than the other troll types though? Or I misrembering stuff?

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>>49745008
The metavariants do have different spans, but I don't know them off the top of my head. I think you are right in that fomori and giants live longer, but I don't know how much longer.

>>49743432
Looks cool, omae. Keep working on it and post it here if you ever get it translated into English.

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>>49743432
Remember to use all that Niemeyer archictecture, anon
Gaúchos sobreviveram? Diz que sim.

>Weapon mods and improvisations more dangerous to the user than the target.
Check

>Surreal bureacraucy.
Check Mate

>>49742299
The druid nazis finally got shown the door in the late 60s.

>>49745333
Tem um grande bairro no distrito de São José chamado Little Rio Grande, onde a maior parte das pessoas do sul do país se juntou. A maior parte trabalhando para a Taurus Co.

>>49745317
Working on it to make a pretty PDF, will be sure to post it here.

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So how's New York City?
I'm sure there should be plenty of things written about it. But from just glancing a wiki article it seems like your standard sprawl with no weird features standing out.
So I guess it's the "normal" cyberpunk city while the others are run by mages/dragons/ghouls/bugs/females.

>>49735579

So early-00s America?

>>49744478
Supposedly, the UCAS Military is happy to sign up orcs at 14 years of age for 'ROTC' units that are nothing of the sort and behave exactly like ordinary military units comprised of adults. Its an excellent way to get money and job training as a young adult orc who wont officially be an adult for another 4 years.

>>49745433
NYC is locked down hard. External security is top notch, and there are internal checkpoints everywhere. There is not even a single lingering vestige of the manipulable government, every single square inch is owned by an extraterritorial corporation. Its one of the most difficult but lucrative places to run the world.

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>>49743432
Rapaz, im quite interested in that, the map is fucking awesome , do post your stuff once you can !

I feel like there should be one or two more human metavariants. What would be good mythological contenders?

I liked the idea of Greek style demigods. Better than a baseline human in most ways, but stuck with adolescent emotional reactions and violent outbursts.

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>>49745433
Seattle is the 'default' city.

New York City is Big Brotherland. There was a big earthquake that levelled most of Manhattan Island, and the ruins got bought out by the Manhattan Development Consortium, a union of megacorps that is itself a megacorp with extraterritorial status.

Nowadays Manhattan is probably the most tightly regulated place on the planet. The MDC controls every inch of it, with cameras and security equipment errywhere tracking every movement of every person, animal, and drone there. Any runs that happen there are the blackest of trenchcoats, and even arming yourself with a taser is a big deal.

The boroughs are much looser- so long as the serfs still come into work, the MDC doesn't care what happens in the wilds of Staten Island. That area is much more like modern New York/classic cyberpunk city, with ethnic enclaves, street gangs, and corps there to squeeze out money and not to rule like gods.

>>49744314
Hasn't she just shown up in 5th in a Jackpoint comment or am I mistaken?
Hell, it's been a long time in real time since I saw an Orange Queen comment at all

>>49746251
LIONIZE ME!

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>>49746275
Maybe once. She also gave a speech to the UN. She's not so much retired as she is keeping her snout clean for a decade or two, which is nothing in dragon time in return for a peace treaty. She's better off than Alamis, who has to pretend to be dead again

>>49746332
Utterly meta comment, but I miss Shadowland being more open. Jackpoint is a good attempt to modernise the concept. But I miss the chance for dragons to post, for powerful people in canon to make comments. Hell I even miss the painted cock lord himself and his cryptic hints.

>>49743514
>that map
I must (re)unite the American peoples under one flag

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>>49743432
would you like a copy of Shadows of Latin America?

It's technically apocrypha, but the writers kept it during the company change over between 3rd and 4th edition and released it themselves.

http://fexes.de/downloads/Shadows_of_Latin_America_v1-2-1.pdf

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What's going on in Miami as of the 5E time frame?

Are there books or resources I can explore or do I have to infer from previous editions?

>>49747559
Rainy Neon Burn Notice with 300% more boats and trolls.

>>49747559
Nothing official as far as I know. They did have some brief touches in the book where sirrig is killed/taken down/crippled/whatever. Tense games between the Caribbean league and the CAS for control.

>>49738034
I am seriously impressed they didn't go with the name Auto-turk.

>>49747262
If only to save them from their new, incredibly ugly looking flags

>>49747262
If you want that a little bit, give some money to The American Tricentennial Committee. If you want that a lot, join the New Revolution and blow up some 'in-jins'.

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>>49747621
>Shadowrun in Miami = Burn Notice + Scarface + Neuromancer + fantasy with a soundtrack by Lazerhawk

>>49739055
In general, if it's not Germany or the British Isles, lore is somewhere between thin and shit.

>>49747774
IIRC France has some good lore, but only in French.

>>49747782
Yeah, it's also all the way from 3e but that book has some neat stuff.

>>49747836
>>49747782
Japan too.
So really what we're all saying is that yes, they have fluff, but not in English.

>>49743514
I don't know which asshole made that map but Augusta, Maine is further north and towards the center of the state... that's fucking Portland.

>>49747849
It's essentially the same for anyone who doesn't speak it (and the 3e French France book is pretty rare nowadays)

>>49738217
The Swiss have no problems with nazi beliefs, they just don't want to be ruled by Germany. The reason they stay out of conflicts is because they sell mercenaries to both sides. The Swiss are dirty.

>>49749341
What is she?
I mean other than thicc

>>49749897
Big horns and bits on her face says troll to me. She's a female in a fantasy setting so obviously a bit more attractive than you'd expect.

>>49742612
>Gotland has a small elvish independence movement growing, Skåne/Scania also has an independence movement though far larger and more violent than the gutnish one, the motivations there are mainly anti-metahuman.
Scania is in Gutland.

>>49749951
I wasnt sure if trolls had horns. I never played SR but read some books. Can't remember the Troll-character having horns.

>>49738217
They're conservative, so somebody telling them that he can make it so that nobody can tell that young Wilhelm's an Orc is something they'd certainly not be against.
Some cantons, like St.Gallen, also locked up people for wrongthinking right until the 90s.

>>49747659
Right?

>>49750105
Scania is in gotaland. A gut is a person from gotland

>>49739055
They and northern germany have the giant meta variant of regular trolls who they try to accomodate.

But its hard.

>I want to play a giant bodyguard.

>>49746224
Tzere are those indian blue gzys with many arms.

>>49739055
There isn't much about nordic countries in SR5 and even then not that much.

Because there isn't much at all about Finland I have had to homebrew a bit how Finland could work in my headcanon.

Finland is ruled by a council made from CEOs of several major Finnish companies, Union represantives and Government officials. This council then directs the government proper and how Finland should be ran. This represents our tradition about "holy trinity" of employers, employees and government on business talks. A tradition that started after the ww2.

More or less S-K and Neonet/Erika have presence in Finland. Otherwise most of Finnish economy is run by Finnish companies. The Governmental council tries to restrict the power of foreign companies.

Running in Helsinki-Metroplex isn't that hard, but requires some preparation. In true Finnish way more or less everything is behind a SIN licence of some sort. Forging those things is hard, but possible if you want to be "lawful".

Surveillance is everywhere, but if you don't attack government assets or mess things up they are going to keep thwir distance. If you do mess things up be prepared to fight against FDF Military Police who make up most of the Police force. This is due to constant threat from Russia after their previous war.

All this has lead the Shadowrunners to find their ways to do business. A very clean and utilitarian way of running. So if you are a foreigner coming to run in here, you need to contact your local fixer who then arrangers required paperwork and equipment to be delivered to you/your crew.

>>49752075

Running outside Helsinki-Metroplex there is few possibilities. The quick money of smuggling at Russian border or running slow tedious runs for different Finnish corporations into struggle of council power.

Personally I don't like the choice of Finland joining Scandinavian Union because fear of Russians so in my headcanon Russians did attack in Euro Wars, but it just lead into bloody stalemate.

I did do some writing last spring? about possible Finnish corps. Here it is again.

>Stora Enzo Kymmene is biggest forest industry corporation in northern europe. They survived the major paper industry crash by eating other majot competitors and switching to bioengineering and building industry. Specialized in biofuels and building energy efficient wood structures Stora Enso Kymmene has managed to weather the storm.

>Sako-Valmet is conglomerate made from privatized former state companies and formerly Beretta owned Sako. Making a wide array of products from industrial equipment to weapons they are biggest Finnish corporation.

>Patria-Kongsberg. Two companies merged in 2016 (Kongsberg actually bought part of Patria few weeks ago) with Nammo to become biggest Fenno-scandinavian weapons, maritime, air- and spacetech company.

>Wärtsilä-Cargotec controls most of Finnish shipyards and is specialized is whole shebang that is ports and shipbuilding. Known for their leisure cruiseships and world-class propulsion and power systems.

>Kone. They sell lifts and lift accessories. Merge of Kone (one of the world leading elevator and lift makers) and Konecranes (formerly part of Kone) made Kone biggest elevator and lifting equipment maker in world after buying Cargotecs lifting business along with Terex.

>>49736759
I'm pretty sure it's King Solomons mines

I wonder if IKEA would till be around. Or at least independent still.
I mean, the IKEA catalogue is the only book more widely distributed then the Bible.

>>49752741
>Ikea buys out Saab and Bofors and goes in the armament business
>Kit cars, kit fighters, kit guns, kit artillery, kit tanks
>a favorite of shadowrunners in need of milspec for ease of smuggling

>>49742612
Hold on, There is a dragon named nidhögg and some people trust him?
That's like trusting the 4 horsemen of the apocalypse to run for office on the same ticket.

>>49752953
At least you know where the Horsemen stand on the important issues.

>>49747486
Ooh Amazonia and Metropole have a lot more fluff than I knew about...Now I'm torn if I should just toss what I'm working on keep what's compatible and expand on it.

But thanks based anon, this is great material and I never have heard of it before.

>>49742612
As a Swede all of this cracks me up.

>>49753961
Don't just toss what you've done!
Incorporate what you can.

>>49751692
Yeah sorry that's what I meant. I assumed Gotaland and Gotland were the same thing.

>>49754659
It's easier to tell appart in Swedish with the extra vowels. Then Gotaland becomes Götaland and Gotland is just Gotland with the Ö being pronanunced like the E in Terminator.

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>>49753961
Go forth with your own material, and aim high!

>favela Complexo do Alemão (Rio), 23-XI-2010
>Luiz Machado, conhecido como Maluco Beleza, um Policial Civil, figura bem conhecida no RJ por se candidatar a cargos políticos; esse ano tentou vaga para Deputado Estadual.

>>49729598
So I was wondering if there was any official mechanics for mortars? I was just thinking about the idea of runners setting up a few autonomous mortars before the run, to be used as either a distraction or bail them out when a HTR team showed up. Would it just be like grenades but with a way longer range?

>>49734079
YOINK! Ill use that shit. :D My players need something to take the edge off.

>wonder what my rural hometown would be like in Shadowrun
>google it
>someone has created detailed census info for the surrounding region and written that it is constantly besieged by the undead
why

>>49756796
At least that's interesting. I think mine just has a hotel and nothing else of note

>>49736729
I'd assume that if they aren't getting money from a megacorp it's probably the fault of the Lodge, or possibly whatever that one group of eastern european vampires was called.
>>49743432
Nifty! I'm not from brazil, but I've always been interested in Amazonia, if only because I like the idea of the standard dictator procedure of giving high up govt positions to your friends working out somewhat because the dictator's friends have names like Sirrug the Destroyer.
>>49755832
Nope. You'll have to improvise.

>>49757961
I don't think the Ordo Maximus has anything to do with Asamando.

>>49743311
Not an unattractive mountain either, really. There's a hard majesty going on here. I wanna pitch a tent on its slopes and curl up for a cozy night in my high altitude sleeping bag with a buddy for warmth. It's like a threesome but without any sex, but more...majesty

>>49759362
There's not a lot of places to pitch a tent on Eiger. It's a very dangerous mountain to climb. Hence why Eiger got the nickname.

>>49744478
Troll lifespan is 55, and human is given as 65 in the same table. I think that we can rightly add 10-15 years to all the averages given if you have money for decent medical care, given how nowadays humans can regularly hit 80 in developed countries.

Still sucks for orks though

>>49759427
They breed faster though right? And pairing of ork and non-orks is more likely to result in ork kids.

>>49759449
Six month gestation period, so a bit faster. I think higher odds of twins as well.

>>49729598
Actually the games take place like thirty years in Shadowrun's past. Berlin's anarchist revolution has fallen for example.

As for the rest of the world, you're asking a lot on top of the fact it's already well documented.

>>49759449
Trolls don't breed faster. Orcs breed like roaches though,

>>49746435
Back when tripfags were worth something. Jackpoint always feels so elitist and up it's own ass; nobody is welcome in their super sekrit club unless they're a super-cool snowflake runner who has already beat at least 6 AAA's.

So everybody knows the huge AAAs. But how big does a company need to be to be an A or AA?
Like, say... I work for the largest mattress retailer in North America, would that be big enough to be an A company? And we were just bought by an international company. So do I work for a AA company or would it need to be THAT big to just be an A?

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>>49762489
I think the company has to be a multinational before it's even considered for an A rating. If I understand it right, ratings are based on national presence (how many countries the corp is in), total value of assets (stock value, IPs, etc.), and diversification. I mean, every corp has its schtick, Ares does weapons, Horizon does social media, Renraku does computers, etc., but all of them do multiple things, and generally do more than one thing really well.

>>49762284
Except Kane's underage girlfriend, who they let in as literately a 14 year old.

>>49762489
Boeing manages to be an AA with fewer facilities outside Seattle than they have in the real world,so the bar cant be all that high.

>>49763493
What's the other half of Boeing again?

>>49763438
Doesn't Kane have an actual girlfriend? Like one he was so in love with that he dropped a 100 million nuyen or so to have her busted out of a Aztechnology supermax prison?

>>49762489
To get a rating from the Corp court period, you need to be multi-national.

>>49764602
What about Vietnam, which is an A rated corporation, despite not owning much but embassies in other nations.

>>49755149
It works exactly the same way in my native language. It just becomes confusing in English because it doesn't have umlaute.

>>49764642
Laos is a vietnamese puppet state, iirc, so they probably got shit there.

>>49750237
Trolls have horns, yes
the only other way to have horns is if you are a Oni/Satyr (Ork Metavariant) or through SURGE

>captcha: 07960194574 calle
guys
captcha begins to scare me

>>49764472
Yes

>>49763438
But she's a super cool hacker girl, who at 14 managed to track down and ambush Kane, an international terrorist who has murdered hundreds of people and made millions of nuyen as a pirate, and was wanted by literally every megacorp and nation worth a damn. And instead of torturing her to find out what his mistake was, then killing her, Kane adpoted her and brought her into Jackpoint, where everyone is very impressed with her and her liberal views.

Child prodigy is an archetype from cyberpunk, but /dev/grrl is the shittiest version of it.

>>49766901
You can make basically every jackpointer other than clockwork look like a mary sue if you try hard enough.

>>49767187
When they actually are mary sue self-inserts like Bull and Red, it's not hard.

>>49767324
I'll be honest, bull isn't that bad compared to (say) frosty, or man of many names. I'm not incredibly annoyed every time he posts at the very least.

>>49734683
>So what IS going on in Vegas? That's in First Nation territory, right?
I'm pretty sure it's officially owned by the Pueblo Corporate Council, largely contracted out to Horizon, and ACTUALLY owned by the Mafia.

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>>49745008
According to the 5e core rulebook, based on genetic and metabolic testing, your average ork dies of old age in their 40s, your average troll dies of old age in their 50s, your average human dies of old age in their 60s, dwarves live into the second half of their second century, and elves continue looking youthful into their 50s and live well into their 400s.

>>49742612
>JUST TO NAME A FEW THINGS, the pdf is in swedish so I'm not sure how useful it'd be for you
I'm swedish, so that's not an issue. I'll take that pdf if you're still here.

>>49759503
>Six month gestation period, so a bit faster. I think higher odds of twins as well.
Orks have fraternal twins by default, which then split into identicals at the normal rate per zygote. An ork having a single birth is very rare. That's why people tend to accuse orks of having 'litters' of children.

>>49762489
>But how big does a company need to be to be an A or AA?
An AA is a sovereign conglomerate that makes its own laws, issues its own SINs to its own citizens, and has its own armed forces and collects taxes from its citizen-employees. It's only separated from a AAA by not being quite big enough to earn a seat on the Council.

An A isn't sovereign. It's still a multinational conglomerate that has a terrifying, unimaginable amount of power, but it doesn't make its own laws (except by bribing politicians) and can't issue its own SINs. A-ranked corps - of which there are countlessly many - are all large and powerful enough to be the equivalent of the very largest and most powerful of modern-day corporations.

And then there are things like B, C, and D corporations. Those are the sort of companies which - for whatever reason - simply haven't been bought out by one of the A+ ranked corps yet and brought into their corporate umbrella. They go as low as mom and pop grocery stores and employee-owned automechanic shops.

>>49768000
So Wal*Mart for example, in it's current incarnation, would only be an A rank then.

>>49768127
Exactly. It's fuckhuge, and it owns subsidiaries around the world - like ASDA. But it's not sovereign, just enormous and corrupt.

Hell, there's arguments to be made that it's a B, rather than an A, because its holdings aren't quite diverse enough of a conglomerate, but you're definitely on the right track.

Most of the A+ corporations own hundreds of smaller companies/brands which don't carry the greater company's official name. You even often see different subsidiaries competing with each other for the same market share.

>>49768161
So Nestle would be A then. I mean, it's international and evil, with it's thumb in many pies.

>>49768217
Nestle is a much better example, yes. Except in this example, you'd be looking through Nestle's subsidiaries and suddenly go, "Wait, since when does Nestle own an automobile company and a nuclear power plant?" A-ranked corps have their fingers in an astounding number of pies.

>>49763438
Nah, he's fucking Cat. /dev/grrl is more like Kitty Pryde to his Logan.

>>49768276
>/dev/grrl is more like Kitty Pryde to his Logan.
I've looked at enough creepy nerd porn to know you just used a terrible example.

>>49768283
No, it's correct: they aren't in a relationship, but creepy nerds disagree.

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>>49729598
First time playing shadowrun and could use some build advice.

I posted about what I'm trying to build is in the shadowrun general. please reply there.
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