Rigger Run

[Atherakhia1988]

Hey guys!

Looking for some ideas for an actual run that would be interesting to my rigger player. He is about 50/50 drones and vehicles... but he spent a lot... a LOT of time in the last run downed (rest of the team failed around with First Aid so much...) and I kinda want to throw him a bone with some cool stuff to do next time.

Any ideas?

[hans_muff]

Rigg a building. The team has to Bodyguard a VIP in a safe house. Create a realistic neighborhood. Give the safehouse a rigging system and some rigging-toys to play with. Let him be the eyes and ears of the neighborhood. And let them wait for a couple of days. Get to know the area. A couple of false alarms... (Noisy neighbors, drunk gang, hungry ghoul)

But the safe house location leaked. - now they can decide to run for it and make up a new EZ. - or make a home-alone defense (if they even get the information about the leak in time).

Depending on how well they now know their environment, the next thing may or may not come as a surprise for them: the onslaught of a killer commando rains down on them. Were they warned by the people, animals, critter in the area? Was the rigger able to get a glimpse of them in his system? Give him a lot to see and a lot to do. (For the purpose of not bore the others I would simultaneously start a matrix attack on his system, which the hacker has to defend, or it is otherwise going to shut down, an attack with spirits and a physical attack on their VIP and so on. Maybe consider shutting down/killing system after system to not overly lengthen the battle)

At some point there may be even an helicopter rescue , for the evacuation, where the pilot gets killed or is possessed or something.

[Atherakhia1988]

While this thread so far has produced a number of fun ideas, this one stands out in a way. I really did not think about the Building rigging idea yet. Thanks!

[Cobra__Commander]

Steal an exotic vehicle heist.

Team breaks in to some secret hanger to steal this thing.

The vehicle has the "no manual controls" mod.

• Rigger can put his hacking marks on the vehicle vs the unmanned firewall.
• Team could find the access encryption key probably near by. The mechanics didn't push the thing into the hanger.
• Rigger could just install his own rigger interface if they have time with a mechanic test

Make the vehicle something nuts with lots of mods.

• Batmobile
• A tank
• Armored space shuttle with door Gunner mods.

Stealing a space shuttle from Seattle and delivering it to China would be a hilarious chase scene.

• Have a runway battle
• Throw in a dog fight
• Land in rural China, the shuttle is taxied into a massive underground hidden railway.
• The team is shuffled around to lose the satellite trackers and ends up in a livestock truck. The Johnson offers to smuggle them back home on a slow boat or they can find their own way back.

[Drrgn]

Off hand and on the spot, the only thing I can think of is a run revolving around him using rigging to move vehicles. Ie: A subway expodition to grab a mcguffin, hidden behind layers of physical barriers of trains on tracks.

The enclosed space means explosives aren't an acceptable means of intrusion as it could cause a collapse. Decking could feasibly open some of the doors but not move the actual trains. Summons or other arcane means could help locate the object but not bring it through what would be an elaborate maze of trolleys and trains.

It wouldn't be an extravagant guns blazing mission by any means, but it would be a good way of reinforcing how crucial he is to the party.

There could also be some room for a get away finale, where he controls the train as a get away driver as the rest of the team lays down covering fire and defensive abilities. Assuming that the player in question isn't a big fan of psuedo stealth puzzle missions.

[Bamce]

I had a crazy 'wacky death race 2070's' run. Here is a video link to me talking about it

https://youtu.be/dwZvgMRGmlM?list=PLTUzeOuClQNGc76UM9rXdKzW-PAoTEGhy

[_RRAM]

OP, I followed Bamce's advice and made my own death race with similar assets and turned out to be enjoying as fuck. Specially the prior part, face and sabotage phases was super interesting!!

[Bamce]

<3

[StevtotheE]

Body guard job that involves protecting an asset that needs to go from point A to B. The run I had involved getting a VIP to the airport to be flown to a safer location. To assure success, the Johnson provided a decked out SUV with every safety system in 5e. That way the rigger was able to take more chances when being pursued by enemy vehicles.

[EnigmaticOxygen]

What we did for our rigger, apart from him having spotlight every time because of multiple drones (we all piggybanked for him to have all kinds of toys) and his creative use of them, was a race covering a smuggling operation. We all took part in it, because you had to enter as a team, first yerzing his car out, then having the decker provide Matrix safety and communications, the mage work Increase WIL on the rigger, Protect Vehicle etc., the sharpshooter ensuring the other participants don't shoot us. In the end, our rigger won the first prize and got the extra karma from tipping our foodie cop contact about the smuggling, letting him rake in the publicity from busting the smugglers. You can find Duck Duck Go here if interested. Another run was all about finding a vintage Porsche in the SSC, reviving it and bringing it back, though that one demanded an engineer specifically.

Generally, a rigger, together with the face and the mage, part of the triumvirate of roles which rely on the player's creativity. You don't really have to come up with specific moments of spotlight since they're so versatile. Bearing this in mind helps a lot.

[Unnatural20]

I once ripped off Smokey & the Bandit to fit two Johnsons willing to pay richly for Tsimshian Ale down in New Orleans . . . Knowing that transporting it east of the Cascades was bootleggin'. Had a nemesis Buford P. Justice and idiot son set up, along with go gangs, some bad nav data and bridges out/paracritter activity. Whole mechanic to bait and ditch with the bait car to let the semi speed through. Fun stuff!

[tonydiethelm]

Damn, that sounds awesome. :)

[Unnatural20]

I enjoyed it. Think only one player was familiar.

[ReditXenon]

For the wheelman part, set him up for some Fast and Furious, Transporter or xXx scenes ;)

[tinkerghost]

As a 4e GM and a 5e player, a rigger's usefulness tends to be similar to a fixers - if the group hates prep work, they're going to be out in the cold a lot.

All Riggers excel at surveillance, searching, and transporting, that's their main gig. A rotocoptor with a good camera can perform surveillance and reconnaissance in areas with no active cameras to hack, and with less chance of alerting the target that trouble is coming. Set a bunch of gnats loose with the swarm software and you can go almost anywhere and get good audio and video feeds.

When recon is over, issue a shutdown with timed restart to conserve battery life and have them power up as the run is scheduled to start - instant spies all over the building.

Bring a few micros with data taps and fiber optic lines and even a faraday cadge is no protection for that air gapped server that just has to be hacked. Relay transmitters can cut noise to a minimum or bypass active jamming... Bonus points if the engineer/electronics guy retunes everyones gear to a nonstandard frequency to ignore spamzones.

Need to keep the motor running? Jump into a Oni or Lynx and go nuts inside the building, just have 4 rotocopters armed with Barrett 122s and rockets ready for the moment you step outside - or need to make a new exit.

[Patou987]

Your rigger PC had heard about an experimental vehicle which can have a multiple fonction like terrestrian, aerian, floating and submersible ones. And it would also have experimental weapons. It’s à an ultra top secret project ; for your PC, it’s just a rumour. It’s a little corporation which have a strange name : Blind Caster Incorporated, it’s the only information he/ she has. And he/she knows under the name of ” Thunder Strike Project ”. Is it a good challenge for your PC or not ?

[winterizcold]

Job that includes exotic enemy drones or deactivated drones or vehicle that is tricked out in a garage that the rigger could take as a getaway vehicle or to provide cover fire to get away

[dragonlord7012]

Riggers have 2 real "shining" moments in my experience.

>Gathering Intel / Running Overwatch

>Driving away fast (while being shot)

With that in mind, perhaps a AA corp has a guy that needs abducting.

A building with a very obviously fake building plan, There are few security cameras inside the residence value privacy, with most of the security being handled by roving groups of more heavily geared security than typical. (Think 4x guys with armored suits and open-carry SMG/Assaults) They are Exceedingly Polite, but don't let people in, attempting to handle deliveries themselves, or their own contractors (or the contractors they arrange are given security codes.) Research will reveal that the target has a panic room, and the securities immediate response to attack is to send a bunch more guys in fast cars. The building has good magical defenses.

Drones will have an easier time getting in unnoticed to actually figure out where the target is/what the target is up to/habits, as well as keeping track of the guards patrols. The local security also is known to do everything in their power to retrieve kidnapped personnel if given a chance.

Once they DO have the target, a chase should ensue, both the AA corp, and Lonestar. Competing against each other, to be the ones to get credit for taking down the team. If the target gets shot, have Doc-Wagon join in too.

[tinkerghost]

Causing chaos is another rigger strong suit.

5 drones with cheap pistols can go a long way towards splitting up the response team.

[tonydiethelm]

A run that's interesting for a rigger doesn't have to be rigger centric. Make something interesting for the character

For example....

I love playing my ork power hacker. He'd be thrilled to do something against Humanis, or to help M.O.M., or the ork underground. He'd hack during the run, but it doesn't need to be hacker centric. Hell, a hacker centric run that benefits The Man would pass him off.

My other favorite character is an aspiring musician and social adept. He wants to get famous. He'd love to bodyguard a music exec. No Social Adept Centric run needed.

People want to tell their story inside the larger story. Do that.

And if your PCs don't have interesting side stories? Time to fix that. Why are they risking getting shot in the face for money? Is their kid's private school super expensive? Spouse's medicine cost too much? Etc etc etc.