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History-wise, why is it that Mexico invades NAN, gets expelled, NAN collapses, and Mexico doesn't re-invade and 'restore order'? Good question. The NAN wasn't one country, it was a political and military alliance of 4 separate countries. Each is economically and militarily weak (for demographic rea...

Dude, this is fucking amazing, and you are fucking amazing. This is so similar to something I have been wanting to do for like the longest time. Thank you very much. That's very flattering. I hope the setting, when finished, will provide inspiration or material for your own game. If you have any co...

what's China's involvement with Africa in your setting? China itself balkanized into several different countries, after an extended civil war. For now, I'm mostly using the borders/names in mainline Shadowrun (originally from Shadows of Asia ), though that could change. What I call "China"...

Development Notes Now we come to the really optional section: the why’s and wherefore’s. (Mind you, those words are synonymous, so that phrase, despite being traditional, is redundant. Funny old language, English.) The core idea behind this version of Shadowrun’s Africa came to me in a flash, but a...

Africa in 2032 has been posted. It's a broad description of Central Africa, during the campaign's timeframe.

--begin file-- Life in a Consortium Town Global Nomad It’s hot in Africa, the kind of heat that weeps down your face and drenches your clothes. And the TAC market towns stink. The musk of thousands of sweating people, the stink of chickens and chicken-shit, the ozone of passing cars, and urine or vo...

###Classified### “Central Africa Regional Brief” Task Group Central Africa The Office for Strategic Analysis 02 December, 2031 File - Central Africa Regional Brief (Annotated) --begin file-- Overview Central Africa is an oddity. Variously described as post-national or denationalized, it is largely ...

Demographic Effects of VITAS in the United States Using the 2010 US Census data, I estimated rates of infections for areas of varying populations, then calculated the death toll based on the following assumptions: • 4% of the population was resistant or immune. • 25% of those who contracted the dis...

If not immediately apparent, the above is part of my Alt-History Technothriller Shadowrun Campaign. More information on the campaign can be found in the linked thread.

File #002 - The Collapse (Annotated) has been added to the forum. It covers the immediate after-effects of the VITAS plague.

###Classified### “The Collapse: Consequences of the VITAS Pandemic” Task Group Archives The Office for Strategic Analysis 01 January, 2032 File #002 - The Collapse (Annotated) --begin file-- The Collapse: Consequences of the VITAS Pandemic VITAS was the epochal moment in human history. Worldwide it...

To make it easer to read, and to follow the posting conventions here, I've combined the three parts of the VITAS writeup into one. It's now the second post in the thread.

VITAS, in First Person Broke-Down Back-Country Doc What was VITAS like for those who lived it? VITAS, when it kills, is a sudden killer. A person is doing what they always do, working at a bank, driving a bus, walking their dog. Then, for no apparent reason at all, they begin to cough or choke, or ...

Cyberpunk VR Let’s be brutally honest: the computers and interfaces in Cyberpunk fiction are bogus. They simply don’t match the real world at all. Contra Nueromancer , Snow Crash , or Tron , the Internet is not a dungeon, accessing data from another system isn’t a dungeon crawl, complete with wonde...

The Hacker Crackdown seems to be a good sociological treatment of hacker culture in the late 80s for a lay audience, but not especially relevant to game mechanics. It's not my sole reference, but (when abstracted) it does give a great insight into exactly what hacking is (my definition): "Hack...

VITAS having a 20% death rate is silly and stupid... t's not going to cause the entire world to spiral into an additional 2 in 5 dying from famine and wars, globally. I've been doing a lot of research on this topic, and I can find no definitive academic sources that give exact figures for societal ...

Is this going to be the kind of game where you can have a hacker character with sufficient tools to do everything required of her, and if so, how will you avoid those problems? Starting with the easy questions, I see. :) Hacking Let's talk real-world hacking, for the moment. To simplify real-world ...

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North American History Summary, 2010-2032 VITAS kills 42% of the US. There's a general breakdown in society (something like the first season of Jericho ). The economy vaporizes (5-digit inflation, companies out of business, banking system collapses) and most government agencies collapse. The US mil...

The Office For Strategic Analysis The Office for Strategic Analysis is an intelligence, research, and special operations directorate. In 2032, it is the only US intelligence service still functioning. OSA was founded to predict future trends and develop plans to address them. Gradually it shifted t...

Read the stickies. http://www.tgdmb.com/viewtopic.php?t=34248 6,000 word posts? :shocked: Well, if that's the convention around here, I can keep up. (Just FYI, I have been reading the "Cyberpunk Fantasy Heartbreaker" series, and most of Frank's posts were much shorter than those you linke...

Please, don't do the one posts a day thing. Well, this is a question I've asked on other forums, and never received an answer: what is a convenient amount of text to post? I personally find my eyes glazing over if a post gets too long, and the more I post in one day (or one post), the fewer respons...

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Note: The background documents for my campaign are fairly long, especially for forum posts. I am breaking each individual article up into several parts, each part short enough to comfortably read, then posting one part a day per thread. This means that people wanting to read individual posts can do...

Did you call Toyota a named American Company? :confused: No. I said that, of the companies named, the American ones no longer exist in Altered States . I know Toyota is Japanese. I was just listing it as an example of a corporation. EDIT: I went ahead and revised the original sentence to make it cl...