Shadowrun 20(+) Questions
Note that this is waaay more than 20 questions. More like 100. A player should try to answer these before building his or her character, as the answers will guide a lot of character creation. Also note that many of these questions have multiple choice examples of answers, and that "none of the above" is a legitimate answer. Players are often asked to create answers, and are encouraged to build things that add to the game. It would be sad if every character had the same 5 trideo shows as his favorite. Questions are set to alternate gender; it should be obvious this is not to force a gender upon the player but to be inclusive. Feel free to copy this and hand it out to your players. - Mr. Black
1.
What does she bring to the group? CQC? Fire Support?
Infiltration? Matrix hacking? Investigative skills? Magical Support?
Negotiation? Transportation? Demolitions? Tactician? Medic? Logistics?
2.
How does he bring these assets? Magically? Wired? Rich?
Trained?
3.
What is her birth name?
4.
Where is he from originally?
5.
What nationality is she?
6.
Which languages does he speak?
7.
Does she have a SIN? If so, who from and what kind?
8.
Your character is waiting outside an establishment, not on a
Run. Visualize him and then describe his appearance.
9.
What Metatype is she?
10.
What sex is he?
11.
What race?
12.
What style of clothing does she wear? Tribale? Flats?
RetroJean? ArTees? NuZoot? CD? Glo Punk? Furba? Tropicalente? Urban Explorer?
NuMod? Saraiman? Berwick? Actioner Prime? Elfantastic? AfroStyle?
13.
Respirator and poncho, or latest Fellini-Med breather and
Armanté raincoat?
14.
Body-mods, no mods, or moddled? Tats, glo tats, or blank?
15.
What music/station does he have stacked on his ‘link? Classic
rock? Orcploitation? Synthpop? Elven folk? Ukraine Jumble? Natry? Rockabilly? 6th
Street? CorpClub? Prog Talk? Club Drop? Seattle Today? Good Morning UCAS?
Necro-Salsa? ElvenRock?
16.
What are her favorite tridsims of the last 5 years? List at
least 3.
17.
What is his favorite trideo station? List his 3 favorite
shows.
18.
What AR sites does she frequent? List at least 3.
19.
What Social Networks is he active in? List at least 3.
20.
What are her favorite video games? List at least 3.
21.
Which of those games did he last play live in the ‘plex?
22.
What life style does he have, and what life style does he
aspire to?
23.
Where does she live in Seattle?
24.
How does he get around Seattle?
25.
Her ride-is she looking to trade up, trade out, or just mod
the hell out of it?
26.
What level of academic education does she have? Where did she
graduate from?
27.
What did he do for a living before he was a runner?
28.
Who/what trained her for that living?
29.
Where did he get his gear he started with?
30.
Where did she get her warez from?
31.
Where will she get her gear and warez now?
32.
Nuka Cola, Buzz Cola or Omega Fizz?
33.
Soy-caf, Haute Choco®, or an honest to God double expresso?
34.
Orker!, Carlsberg, Sapporin, Pud or Pud Lite?
35.
The gang is at 3100+ Flavors™. Which is he choosing?
36.
Which is her drug of choice: BTL’s? Soycohol? Bliss? Cram?
Electric Lady? Jolt? Deepweed? Psyche? Zen? Nic-Stiks®?
37.
What would put a deal over the top for him besides nuyen
and/or gear? Tickets to a sporting event? A hot club invite? A big bag of
Jamaican meta-ganja? A crate of genuine Omaha Steaks™? A bottle of 12-year old
Scotch?
38.
Has she ever been to the Big Rhino?
39.
Has he ever been to Dante’s Inferno? If so, how far down did
he get?
40.
Nukit Burger, McHugh’s 250g with Cheez, JoDoy’s Beepher!,
Frankenburger XL or Bam! Burger?
41.
What are her favorite sports? Urban Brawl (UBPL)? Combat Biker?
Unlimited Football League (UFL)? Full Contact Basketball? Stick Ball (NASBL)?
Court Ball? Alley Ways? International Racing Circuit Unlimited (IRCU -1,
IRCU-2)? Drone Wars? UBGL? World Boxing League? Unlimited Ring Circuit? Soccer? Desert War? NASSCar? Combined
Basketball League (CBL)? Underground Hack-alympics? World Hockey League? Razor
Hockey? Ghoul Gakkers? NatAM Lacrosse Circuit? Elven Hurley?
42.
What is his favorite team, and who is his favorite player, and
does he have a jersey?
43.
The run is done, and she has some down time. What is she
doing?
44.
She is staying at home tonight, alone. What is she doing?
45.
He just got paid, and is heading out for a night on the town.
Where is he going and what is he doing?
46.
Sex and romance. Which is she getting, how is she getting it,
and which is she wanting?
47.
Which of his home appliances is he looking to upgrade first?
48.
Which piece of gear is her pride and joy?
49.
Which piece of gear is getting upgraded first?
50.
What skill does he want to learn?
51.
What non-shadowrunning hobbies does she have, other than
trideo and games?
52.
Does he have a Virtu-Pet™? If so, what kind?
53.
Where does he go regularly? A bar? The Sunhind® caf stand?
Stuffer Shack?
54.
Who provides her medical care? DocWagon®? Crash Cart®? A
street doc? A hobo shaman?
55.
Who does he know in Seattle?
56.
Who did she know before she started running?
57.
Who does he owe a favor to?
58.
Who owes her a favor?
59.
Where does he stand on metahumanity? MoM? Humanis? Sons of
Sauron? ORC? GLL? Or Elf Poser?
60.
And how about SURGE Changlings? Freaks, geeks, or wish I was
one?
61.
Dunklezahn’s assassination-Greatest UCAS tragedy, who/what?,
or serves that big lizard right!
62.
Where does she stand on spirits and AI’s? Human or non-human
rights? Newly awakened sentients or Renraku Arcology waiting to happen all over
again?
63.
Ghoul bounties-a crime against metahumanity, a necessary evil
or where do I collect?
64.
Native American Nations. Is he cool with them, ‘been that way
as long as he can remember’, doesn’t care one way or another, or see them as
usurpers to America?
65.
How ‘green’ is she? TerraFirst!, Green War, occasional
litterer, Pollution is Good!, or future Toxic Shaman?
66.
Does he follow a religion? Is he spiritual? Practicing or
lapsed?
67.
Which religion? Protestant? New Catholic? Roman Catholic?
Animistic? Amerind Spiritual? Islamic? Aztlan Path of the Sun? Elf Worshiper?
Druidic? Pantheism? Santeria? Spirit worship? Deep Resonance worship? Dragon
Worship? Zen? Golden Cup Buddhism? Voudoun? Fordianism? New Jesuit? Magical
Awaken-ism hoo-hah? Nordic Ragnarok? Judaism?
68.
Seattle is full of criminal organizations. Does he not care,
watches his back, looking for work, or looking to join?
69.
Which of the big criminal outfits does she hate the most, and
why?
70.
Which of the big criminal outfits does he like the most, and
why?
71.
Does she have legal commcode, or a black market one?
72.
Does he prefer credsticks, black escrow accounts, corp cash or
just “download it to my ‘link, neh?”
73.
Would she rather have gear or cash?
74.
Which of the Big Ten does she hate, and why?
75.
Which of the Big Ten does he like most, and why?
76.
Big Corporations- Does she not care, watches her back,
bringing them down, looking for work, or looking to join?
77.
Where does she stand on skill-wired wage slaves? Loathsome
schlubs, deluded pitiful wretches, or “they should’ve got out and hit the
shadows”?
78.
What about regular wage slaves, saraimen, or burakumin?
79.
If he could have voted in the last UCAS presidential election,
who would he have voted for?
80.
If she could have voted for Seattle’s succession, how would
she have voted?
81.
Does he have any political party he identifies with?
Republicans? Democrats? Humanis? ORC? Neo-Anarchists? TerraFirst!?
Archconservative? New Century Party?
82.
Knight Errant just took over the Seattle law enforcement
contract. Triumph, tragedy, or opportunity?
83.
Does he play BodyLotto™?
84.
What are her morals? How far will she go for a nuyen?
85.
How far for a friend?
86.
What is his relationship with his family?
87.
What professional contacts does she have?
88.
How did he get them?
89.
Who does she know Big Mack?*
90.
If she is not originally from Seattle, why did she come here?
91.
If he is not originally from Seattle, how long has he been
here?
92.
What alias does she have?
93.
What is his street name?
94.
Why did she get it and who gave it to her?
95.
What are her long term life goals?
96.
What are his long term running goals?
97.
What is his one big regret?
98.
She has skills, gear, and moxy. She could be pulling down a
fat corp contract, and not get shot at every day. Why is she shadowrunning?
99.
List at least 3 of his quirks:
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100. List at least 3 of her
“catch phrases”:
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