User:AndyWaltfeld

A nametripfag going by the moniker "XANAndy Waltfeld", an artifact from his days as a /co//m/mie bastard "Master Andy," tangentially related to his becoming a /m/egaman Fuck it, he's calling himself Andy Waltfeld again. Specializes in Shadowrun knowledge, despite having only recently picked up a 4e corebook. This deficiency is offset by his addiction to the fluff and careful study of /tg/'s habits.

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Andy's Shadowrun Random Encounter Tables

I figure only 20 people have downloaded the /rs/'d .doc file, so here's a delicious text version.

For the uninitiated (or unsubmerged, if you're playing a Technomancer), these are random events for use in 4th Edition Shadowrun (though they can be used in harder cyberpunk if you file off the magic bits). About 30% of the ideas are my own design, the rest come from this thread and two others that didn't wind up getting archived. If yours didn't make the cut, you either sucked or wound up making a plot hook instead (admittedly, most of the latter are more awesome than these - I'll find a use for 'em later).

On The Home Front: For use in and out of a PC's residence (d10)

1. A small package arrives at the PC's doorstep. Inside is a fashionable ring.
2. A Force 1d6 Hearth Spirit has taken up residence in the PC's, well, residence. Treat its Lifestyle rating as 1 above the norm (or, under Runner's Companion rules, increase its Comfort, Necessities, and Entertainment by 1) for Force months (cost difference counts as prepaid).
3. A body is sitting on the doorstep that the PC didn't put there.
4. There’s a deep-looking hole outside the PC’s residence that wasn’t there before.
5. The PC’s ride has been keyed.
6. The PC’s ride has been booted.
7. The PC’s ride has been (or is being) towed.
8. The PC’s ride has been (or is being) Looted. Upon recovery of the vehicle from (or delivery by) the Ork Fixer who did it, the PC/party finds that it’s been painted red, fitted with Rigger Adaptation and an extra Weapon Mount (over the cap, if it was already reached), and tricked out with all sorts of gubbinz. The fixer asks only the party’s cooperation in the next WAAAAAAAGH against (adjacent street gang or corporation).
9. The PC finds that gnomes (the tiny ones, not the Dwarf variant) have taken up residence within their floorboards. Treat the residence as having the Black Hole (Rating 2) negative quality for all shiny objects.
10. Some of the PC’s gear has been stolen. Turns out their residence was zoned within an Urban Brawl field.

Hostilities: For use when the PCs need something to fight (d12)

1. A turf war erupts between two street gangs.
2. A turf war erupts between Lone Star and Knight Errant.
3. A turf war erupts between DocWagon and CrashCart and/or Medicarro.
4. The party is accosted by a gang comprised of members with negative qualities tattooed on their foreheads. “Racially Insensitive” and “Poor Impulse Control” are bad enough, but woe betide he who crosses swords with “This Isn’t Big Bob’s Autos.”
5. A pickpocket tries to lift one of a party member’s possessions. He isn’t particularly successful.
6. A disillusioned 3e decker rushes toward the party, brandishing his old cyberdeck as a weapon (treat as Longsword doing Stun damage).
7. A large paracritter perceives the party (or its vehicle) as a threat to its territory.
8. A belligerent wiz-ganger threatens the party with a heretofore-unknown spell known as “Proplapse.” (Treat as combination Agony/Pain + Orgasm/Orgy, depending on desired area effect radius)
9. Neo-Nazi metahumans (most likely elves) attack the party with weapons crafted to resemble old German WWII arms.
10. Belligerent eco-shamans accost party members sporting obvious cyberware.
11. A PC gets haunted by an argumentative Watcher Spirit.
12. The party is accosted by a man wearing full plate. STOP RIGHT THERE, CRIMINAL SCUM!

Good Omens: Because sometimes the GM has to be nice (d8)

1. A noticeably fatigued person with HMHVV asks the party for a blood fix.
2. A noticeably Chaotic person with HMHVV asks the party for BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!
3. A PC is mistaken for a popular simporn star and hounded for autographs. Said autographs are requested for power tools, blowtorches, or other industrial equipment.
4. A PC finds a credstick on the ground with 1d20 nuyen on it. It ain’t much, but hey, drinks are on some other chum tonight.
5. An Ork walks by wearing a sandwich board, reading “I wish to be the little girl.”
6. A crate of NERPS falls off a passing delivery truck. Roll Intuition + Perception + any Aztechnology knowledge to discern its contents.
7. A crude-looking dog drone (more like a wheeled toaster with a dog’s head coming out of one end) approaches the party. While fiercely loyal and equipped with a nose-mounted Ares Redline, it just won’t stop stating the obvious.
8. A localized earthquake occurs in the party’s vicinity, unearthing a blue, troll-sized capsule. The holographic Agent inside claims that the capsule contains an upgrade module for one of a specific PC’s cyberlimbs (or matching set of cyber-extremities). Limbs upgraded by this event gain +3 to all Physical attributes and detect as deltaware.

See Also: Things (mostly) inspired by other things (d20)

1. The party stumbles across two bored riggers playing a scaled-up game of Battleship, using double-blind rotodrones to drop grenades on old car husks.
2. A PC’s hand starts burning red (or glowing with an awesome power). Unarmed Combat attacks with that hand deal Physical damage for 2d6 Combat Turns.
3. A simsense peddler offers his wares to the party. A starlet on one of the covers looks suspiciously like the younger sister of one of the PCs.
4. A skillsoft peddler offers his wares to the party, claiming that they’ll make them the very best, “like no one ever was.”
5. An explosion can be seen from an adjacent building. A van full of runners can be seen hauling ass in their vehicle of choice, drones and/or Lone Star in hot pursuit.
6. A bystander tripping on a personafix BTL approaches the party, convinced that one of the PCs is a person of import to whoever they’re emulating. Roll Intuition + Perception to determine friendly or hostile intent.
7. An unattended firearm discharges into the party’s vehicle.
8. An attended firearm discharges into the party’s vehicle.
9. An unattended party discharges into a vehicle’s firearm.
10. An old mystic offers to tell a PC’s future for free. If they accept, allude to something else in this document occurring within the next week.
11. A silver pizza delivery car zooms by, towing a pigtailed girl on a skateboard via some sort of magnetic harpoon.
12. The party’s vehicle hits a speed bump. Roll 1d4, a PC’s drink falls out of its cupholder on an odd number.
13. The party’s vehicle hits a speed bump. Roll 1d100, the fuel tank ruptures on a 1.
14. An NPC jumps out of a nearby building to commit suicide, landing next to (or on) one or more of the PCs.
15. A sniper takes a potshot at one of the PCs with a rifle.
16. A sniper takes a potshot at one of the PCs with a rocket launcher.
17. A sniper takes a potshot at one of the PCs with a bowl of mac ‘n’ cheese.
18. A Blade Runner approaches the group, requesting/demanding to Voight-Kampf Test a PC.
19. A Junker and his drone can be seen at a nearby food vendor. The Junker is particularly despondent about the fate of his Neo Kobe Pizza.
20. A group of bystanders of wildly different ages can be seen (and heard) debating the antiquity of the previous edition’s slang terms.

A Mr. Johnson Walks Into a Bar: Randomness under the influence (d6)

1. A man nursing an iced tea can be seen at the bar. Attempts to pull up data on him reveal that he was declared dead several days ago after a particularly bloody shootout.
2. A bar fight gets ugly when a patron declares himself to be a BERSERKER PACKING MAN AND A HALF and proceeds to RIP AND TEAR through all comers. The extent of his brutality appears proportionate to how huge his opponents are compared to him.
3. The guitarist of tonight’s band implores the audience to “LISTEN TO MY SONG!” A blonde guy wearing goggles responds by jamming all audio output devices in the bar with his own song.
4. A spirit randomly manifests in the party’s (or Mr. Johnson’s) booth.
5. A ganger defeated in a bar fight shouts “BARF!” instead of actually barfing when punched in the gut.
6. The author of this document can be seen in a booth, making a detailed chemical analysis of his cup of soykaf.

Wired Reflexes: Because randomness isn't confined to the flesh (d6)

1. A PC’s mother calls, wondering why they don’t call once in a while.
2. A PC’s mother calls. That PC doesn’t have a mother.
3. A PC’s newly looted milspec cyberware has been loaded with an agent with similar functions to the announcer from Unreal Tournament. Whatever audio link that cyberware can gain access to begins announcing “HEAD SHOT!” or “DOUBLE KILL” and so forth, as appropriate, until the agent is deleted.
4. A yellow van explodes in the distance. Local newsfeeds immediately attribute the explosion to “Hackers on Steroids.”
5. The party’s hacker, having cheesed off a local Seoulpa, is invited to a game of Starcraft against its boss (or similarly skilled champion). Loss of the game or refusal to play results in unresisted Rating 6 Black Hammer damage.
6. A PC’s default AR overlay is hacked to display various bits of (often explicit) furry iconography. Anyone nearby using this particular reality filter willingly starts hitting on the PC relentlessly, pursuing all sorts of wild yiffing. Taking any of these contacts up on their offers will almost assuredly get the PC infected with HIV, HMHVV, VITAS, or a similarly acronymized disease.

Regional Flavor: For those of us who don't run in Seattle (no dice)

• DETROIT: A Lone Star/Knight Errant detachment under heavy fire can be heard telling their dispatch to “send in Murphy” when calling for backup.
• CHICAGO: A physically manifested Insect Spirit mauls and zombifies a random bystander. The zombie will generate a new Insect Spirit in 1d6 Combat Turns (or upon death) unless killed with fire.
• PARIS: A group of five middle schoolers emerges from a sewer entrance, beelining for a factory. Attempts to Assense the group will reveal that the pink-haired female is an expert technomancer.
• TOKYO: Godzilla emerges. For the duration of his rampage, all Japanese citizens gain English (Dialect: Engrish) 1 (+1) and attempt to speak it as their natural language.
• HONG KONG (or other former Chinese municipality): The party, along with several NPCs and bystanders, is transported to an unknown plane of existence. Two people, generally a martial artist and a pasty-faced rigger, can be seen at the start of some sort of arcane obstacle course, shouting “GONG YI TAMPAI!” before starting the competition.
• CALFREE: A PC is handed a pamplet by a passing cultist, which simply states that “OPTIMUS PRIME DIED FOR YOUR SINS!”
• ATLANTA: An explosion can be heard from the direction of Coca-Cola HQ. A group of runners can be seen hauling ass, drums of soda and piles of gift shop swag in tow.
• LONDON: The party comes across a group of people involved in a Mornington Crescent LARP. Roll Intuition + Con to blend in by challenging their latest move or ruling.

Things that are Underpowered in Cyberpunk

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  Deserves much better than that, chummer.

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  Are you Jacking In in there?