Cybercops: SIOD 4th Squad Characters

The 4th Squad of the Southowilson Investigations Division is the newest of the SIOD squads. They are a lean, soon-to-be overworked crew of detectives and operators tasked with the city’s dirtiest cases—political assassinations, syndicate wars, and corporate black projects that no precinct cop dares touch. With barely two dozen investigators in the entire division, every squad is expected to conduct surveillance, solve cases, and break down doors without backup.

Cybercops: Southowilson SIOD (Campaign and Character Creation)

The Special Investigations and Operations Division (SIOD) is an elite unit within the Southowilson Police Department, composed of the department’s most skilled detectives and MaxTac officers. Candidates are selected for their experience, intelligence, and initiative. Unlike other divisions, SIOD is centrally administered from SWPD Headquarters in Turner Plaza, though its officers are deployed citywide as needed. They answer solely to the division captain.

SIOD is tasked with cases deemed too dangerous, sensitive, complex, or unusual for other divisions to handle. These range from gangs, organized crime, and drug rings to serial killings, corporate malfeasance, and incidents too obscure for routine investigation. If a case is too high-profile or, conversely, too low-profile to be handled through regular channels, SIOD takes it. Such assignments occur more often than most civilians realize.

The division is organized around a central command element and three to four teams, each comprising three to five officers. Every team is led by a detective sergeant, usually the most experienced officer on the team, and is assigned a distinct case. Squads maintain separate office spaces clustered around a shared briefing area near the captain’s office. Although the division’s base is officially located in the Judicial Center (Building 11, Turner Plaza), SIOD officers typically operate in the field or out of local precinct offices while conducting investigations.

ETI: Characters

Character generation on the Earth That Is setting is largely normal for SWADE, with a few specific modifications. 

K24: Kehler Lands Campaign Premise

Adventure Hook: The characters are the survivors of a destroyed merc unit, the Suthlundt Green Company (established in Silverwater). They had been hired by the government of Mismallon to help defend the country against the forces of Tempelhoff and the Ascendant Kehler Empire. The company was based in southern Mismallon in the foothills of the Middlemounts, guarding a hill fort with several local Mismalloni units. The fort was attacked by a mix of Tempelhoffer knights and several cohorts of the Kehler Imperial Legions, including their experienced combat engineers. When the besieged fort fell to the Legions, the PC's escaped on foot with what they could carry, pursued into the mountains by their attackers. The escaping mercs followed the mountain passes into Halleck, where they wound up in Glen Stardecampayne, a Halleck castle town near the border with Nyremi.

NPC Motivations System for 2300 AD

2300AD was one of my favorite settings back in the day, and I have used it as a basis or inspiration for countless campaigns since the mid 1980's. You may or may not be familiar with this ancient bit of gaming tricknology, but it fits well with Savage Worlds and it's own "playing cards for everything" design ethos. It is a simple way to quickly generate motivations and personalities for NPC's, using two playing cards. 

NPC Motivations System for 2300AD

2300 AD: Tanstaafl Nights - Dramatis Personae

These are the PC's, the specialists of Kingston Kinetics. Tanstaafl City's finest military contractors. 

Alt-Onin: Conversion from GURPS to SWADE

 As of this post, we will officially convert the Alt-Onin campaign from GURPS to Savage Worlds (SWADE). This has advantages and disadvantages, but the biggest one is speed and simplicity. Core to this process is the following document:

Savage Samurai

Alt-Onin War - Dramatis Personae (Continually Updated)

 

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Alt-Onin War - Character Creation

The default player character for the Alt-Onin War campaign is a masterless samurai heading west to Kyoto, to seek service with one of the factions in the fight that everyone knows is coming. The characters will be either experienced or powerful, as you like. You may be young (high attributes) or old (lots of skills), depending on how you build your characters. You may be from very minor families or you might actually be related to the Imperial family. All of you will be samurai initially, though I might allow someone with a very strong concept to play something outside this mold. 

Character concepts with supernatural abilities, like Onmyoji, Shinto Priests, or Buddhist Clerics, will need to pass a thorough examination of the player's familiarity with the tropes and specifics involved in such an unconventional PC.  

Sir Kirby Shaw (Shao)

Sir Kirby Shaw (Shao) is a young mechwarrior of Warlock III, in service to Baron Von Zhao and the St. Ives Compact.

Trojan Trade War - Dramatis Personae

This is a list of the Player Characters (PC's) and significant Non-Player Characters (NPC) for the "Trojan Trade War" campaign. As players provide information, I will add it to their writeups. Check back frequently!

The PC’s were all hired by agents of a major trading corporation, Baraccai Technum, to serve on a privateer for several months or longer. The mission will take the PC well beyond Imperial borders, and be fairly risky. The PC was lured with the promise of a sizable monthly salary paid into an account with Hortalez et Cie LTC (known as utterly reliable) plus bonuses aplenty. The downside is that the PC will be frozen into a low berth and transported anonymously out to the launch-off point for the start of the cruise. This will minimize the chances of any inadvertent intelligence leaks happening. We will actually start play with everyone being thawed out and debriefed.

Trojan Trade War: Campaign Premise and Characters

The PC's are hired to crew an up-gunned Subsidized Merchant Q-Ship in the Outrim Void, mostly in the Trojan Reach. They will be operating semi-autonomously on behalf of the Baraccai Technum, which is currently engaged in a low-key trade war against McLellan Factors and the Arkesh Traders in the region.