| From: | Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com |
|---|---|
| Subject: | wages of sinning... |
| Date: | Wed, 21 Jul 1999 21:26:37 EDT |
suderman@*****.ocean.fsu.edu writes:
> How often do runners run?
>
Hooo boy. The short form answer is that it depends on you and your players.
In theory one could do about a run a week, but it usually is longer than
that. For one, if people are going to be training in new things, or if they
got shot up and wound up in the hospital, it could be 3 months before thier
ready for a new run. Most conitnuing campaings seem to give the runners
about 1 month off between runs unless something has to happen that takes
longer.
> How long does a run take? Legwork? Execution?
That depends on the run, and how much information the Johnson gives them.
The less information or covert support the Johnson gives them, the longer the
legwork will take. the time it takes to execute also depends on the sort of
job... A smuggling run from Chicago to Seattle or pulling a scam on a Yak
boss would take more time to actually pull off than nabbing a truck filled
with experimental animals and delivering it to the J.
>
> How much do they get paid? Base pay, expenses?
>
Depends on the team and the J. In general though, the team will get a set
fee (either X amount per person, or X for the whole team) and te rest of
their expenses are out of pocket... thats why they get paid as well as they
do.
> How many runners are there in Seattle?
>
I'd expect that its less than 1% of the population, but that really is totaly
up to you as the GM. Remember that if you make runners rare and hard to
find, the amount the team could expect to pull down goes up. If runners (or
wannabe runners) are a dime a dozen the amount runners can expect to get paid
goes down.
> How many corps? (How often do they get hit? How high are their black-ops
> budgets?)
Now THERE is a loaded question I'm not even going to touch. All 9 AAA
Members of the Corporate court have some sort of presence in Seattle, and
there are numerous smaller ones as well. Look in the back of BBB v3. Most
of their black ops budget is determined by you as the GM, but in general they
find it easier in the long run to use Shadowrunners as their deniable assets.
About the only "Black" ops people in any corp would be their
"Johnson"
division, and maybe some really heavily cybered types who provide addiotnal
security muscle for certain sites.
