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[Jeoshua]

Megacorporate Fortress: Stories of Greed and Greed.

Depot becomes Loading Dock.  Diplomats become Salesmen.  Crafts become Export goods.  Research facilities.

And milita becomes security.

SINless "citizens" are executed or forced into labor as necessary.

Possible megaprojects include building a skyscraper, paving all the town's roads, making a stripmine for exportation (with "criminals" forced to work for you), and generally pissing off the Amerinds by cutting down all their trees.

Bonus Points: Tribal organizations, Smuggler rings, and Nation States as possible "Fortress" types

Adventure mode criminals could be called Runners, and only Mr Johnson has the tags that would make him a quest giver.  Tho adventure mode would work WAY better with Nightclubs (tavern alternate name)

Goblinization is a somewhat rare occurance in the age of 2050, but it doesn't have to be like that.  To ensure some metahumans in your fortress, you could model all the different races as castes.  Since they're all homo sapiens somethingelseis, they would work pretty good as rare castes and maybe a separate creature type for the ones who run their own nations other than humans (elf caste, but also an elf creature)

If you're playing as a Humanis Policlub member, you can then just execute the "freaks" that are born to your pure race of hillbillies.

Or at least, that's how it could work.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Aright...I only have an old 2nd edition rulebook, but the info should be the same.

(Meta)Humanity

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All (meta)human races are subspecies of humanity; however, there are no half-elves or dwarf/orks. The child of two elves is an elf, as is the child of an elf and a human; the child of an elf and an ork is usually an ork. You can leave that part out, though.

Humans are easy.

Dwarves are 1.2 meters tall and 54 kilograms (about 4 feet and 120 pounds) on average. They have thermographic vision and prefer underground areas like basements and caves (surprise, surprise). "Metabolic studies" suggest their lifespan is over a hundred years, but as of 2053 none had died of old age. They are tough, disease-resistant, and have a high muscle density.

Elves are 1.9 meters and 72 kilograms, or about 6'4" and 160 pounds, on average. Although in urban areas, elves live in houses, elves in the wilderness tend to prefer structures made out of natural materials or living plants. They are vegetarians with low-light vision, and the aforementioned "metabolic studies" are inconclusive but suggest a maximum lifespan of several hundred years. Elves are graceful and are described as nocturnal.

Orks are about as tall as elves but weigh an average of 95 kilos (210 pounds). They prefer roofed buildings and have low-light vision. They are active at night and during the day but prefer the former. Ork lifespans seem to be around 35 to 40 years. Orks are big, tough, ugly, mean, and dumb.

Trolls are a lot like big orks. They are 2.8 meters (9'4") and tip the scales at 225 kilograms (495 pounds)! Trolls have bony dermal armor, thermographic vision, and the speed and intelligence of a brick wall. They're as tough to knock down as one, and punch like a brick wall would punch--hard. They also regenerate far better than brick walls, or normal humans. Trolls tend not to live in normal human structures--they are more likely to live in sewers or abandoned warehouses (although this might be more due to how hard it is for a guy as fast as a tortoise, pretty as a warthog, and mean as an underfed mountain lion to get a job more than preference).

Selected Paranatural Beings

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Dragons-Three main types--feathered serpents (Quetzelcoatl with little legs), Eastern Dragons, and Western Dragons. All vary greatly in abilities, but are large, scary, and have hide as tough as a small tank. Then there are great dragons--even bigger, tougher, and more magically powerful. Oh, yeah, they are rather smart, too.

Eyekillers-7 meters (23 feet) long and 2.5 meters (8 feet) high at the shoulder, 200 kilos (440 lbs), and capable of shooting electricity out of its eyes. Looks like a wingless owl with a long tail. More or less.

Ghouls-1.7 meters tall (5'8"), dual-natured, cannibalistic, and the charisma of a troll with a personality disorder. Technically metahuman, but they still have a bounty on their heads.

Shapeshifters-Animals that can assume human form. Allergic to silver.

Spirits-Astral beings that magicians summon up. Most have little power except on the astral, until they manifest. Nature spirits can't leave their domain and don't serve their "master" for longer than half a day (until the next sunrise/set); elementals mostly only serve in their master's line-of-sight, or else they take one order and follow it to the letter.

Thunderbids-Eagles with 10-meter (30-ft) wingspans and electrical projection.

Vampiric Creatures-(Meta)Humans infected with theHuman-Metahuman Vampiric Virus (HMVV). Humans-Vampires,. Dwarves-Goblins (unthinkable!), Elves-banshees, Orks-Wendigos, Trolls-Dzoo-no-qua. See?

-Patterson's Guide, Heavily Abridged. Supplement knowledge with a standard mythology handbook.


Also, post the mod when finished please. It seems awesome.

[Deon]

Deon, I am very curious what you are going to do with this.  I loved Shadowrun but just do not see how it could fit into a DF world.  Are you just going to make a somewhat regular DF game with all the races / creatures from Shadowrun or do you have something else in mind?  I just don't see how you can turn digging holes in the ground and setting up defenses into Shadow run.

Can Urist McHacker really steel the plans for a new hover forge from the Elfhaswood Megacorp fighting his way through Black IC while his Physical Adept friend Urist McSteelDwarf fights off hordes from the Goblin Security company with his machine gun and the gear on the Panzer assault vehicle they stole before making a daring high speed getaway.....

I am just rebuilding the universe. The moment I saw the Shadowrun setting with its metahumans I thought that it would greatly fit into DF with its caste system.

We will have to wait until the next release to get the true HMHVV, but a base mod is needed because the most important thing in TC is to build the main "basement", everything else is a subject of tweaking and doesn't take too much time.

So yeah, I wanted to do it a long time ago, and now when I start getting some free time I've decided "screw it, let's make it".

It should totally shine once we get city quests in DF (the next release too), with catacombs and "city quests". Those will be like shadowruns .

@Jeoshua: That's a lot of useful info condensed in one place! Thank you very much .
As for the good news, I've found a few books amongst my friends and "pirated" some more, so now I have the full Shadowrun bestiary and most of culture/environment rulebooks.

[Deon]

Oh my god. I've just found the "Parazoology" book... Man, so many mutant/magical creature variants! A ton of horse hybrids, dangerous fish and other critters... AND ELEPHANTS WITH FACE TENTACLES! Darn, illithid elephants!

I am so going to have fun with it.

Btw I plan to have "mundane" critters in normal biomes and mutant/magical in evil/good biomes. I guess it's a sane decision, right?

[Jeoshua]

Yeah Shadowrun treats magic-high areas as most science fiction would treat radiation.  Giant deformed beasts of all stripes roam the shattered lands of the former US.

Can you tell I love the setting XD

[Deon]

AFAIK it's not just US, I've got a full book on european critters too . And yeah, I'm done with terrestrial mundane critters. I will need to add poisons and syndromes to them, but other then that I am on avians now.

[Jeoshua]

This might be another one of those TCs that I end up trying to shoehorn back into Vanilla.  I see no reason for the SR critters not to fit into the vanilla DF feel... after all most of them are culled from Earthdawn, which was a pure fantasy world.

[Deon]

Yeah, they are all as much mutants as magical creatures, so this mod helps Genesis a lot by its development .

[Fleeb]

Whoa, wait, a Shadowrun mod? This just made my day. I may have to dig out my old source books... mothballed since 1998 

[Deon]

It's great to see that more people are interested, it motivates me a lot! Hello, Fleeb .

I've updated the creature files in the first post, now I just need to finish snakes and it should be a solid framework for mundane areas.

[CatalystParadox]

Sounds cool - I used to be obsessive over the (pen and paper) game, and have a lot of books as well as general setting-knowledge, if there's anything you want to know/want an opinion on.

[NobodyPro]

Went back and played the Xbox 360 canon. Now I've borrowed a friend's Shadowrun books and I'm hooked.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Went back and played the Xbox 360 canon. Now I've borrowed a friend's Shadowrun books and I'm hooked.

Xbox 360...canon?

[Jeoshua]

Went back and played the Xbox 360 canon. Now I've borrowed a friend's Shadowrun books and I'm hooked.

Xbox 360...canon?

LIES! The XBox game cannot be considered cannon, or even fannon, since it was a FPS not an RPG.  The only similarities between the ACTUAL Shadowrun and the XBox abortion was visual.  Nothing more.

The same is not true for the old SNES and Genesis games.  Although they were sorely lacking anything deep or edgy, they were RPG/Adventures and did expose some of the world of Shadowrun.  In a way they could be considered Canon-Lite.  Back in the day, FASA cared about their copyrights and intellectual property.  Today... well today they've gone out of business and sold the rights to Microsoft.

[Deon]

Who cares, if the guy has a nostalgia, let him have it .

I've only played the Genesis Shadowrun a month or two ago, so it was a new experience to me.

Sounds cool - I used to be obsessive over the (pen and paper) game, and have a lot of books as well as general setting-knowledge, if there's anything you want to know/want an opinion on.

Right now I miss info on naga and centaurs. I don't know proper naga physiology nor culture, and I have trouble finding proper info on centaur culture.