Get the CP2020 book and look in the back. There's day, evening, and night random encounters, many just sort of splash of life. Just add some magic & Indian shit and you're good to go.
Some off the top of my head:
- Techie takes an interest in any obvious & expensive cyberware installed in the runners and stops them to chat about it.
- A middling Rocker and entourage are leaving a restaurant/club/studio. Roll 1d6: on a 5+, a bodyguard mistakes one runner for a guy who's been tailing the talent and moves to intercept them with a hand on his gun.
A van with federal plates screeches to a stop, drags a middle-aged man inside, and tears off down the road. Up to the GM if he looks panicked or relieved when they snatch him.
A pickpocket tries to lift a runner's wallet. He's not that good. Feel free to tune him up.

This happens.

A rumor reaches the ears of the players that Vash The Stampede is in town.

>>2557345
win

Holy shit! I had so much fun writing up randoms for Shadowrun. Some which have yielded interesting results were:

You gotta get across town, but your only transport is the tubes.

You're in your favorite corner convenience store, when the local go-gang decides to rob the place.

Ork Separatists!

You're at the local dive, and the waitress with the shiner slips you a note.

The souffle one of the characters has just eaten turned out to be an alien ambassador.

>>2557343
Yeah, so go play fallout 3.

>>2557418

MAYBE I WILL, MAYBE I'LL GO GET THE LEATHER JACKET SO I CAN RECRUIT DOGMEAT, WOULD THAT MAKE YOU HAPPY?!

Try to get Sprawl Sites. It might be a little dated, but it works.

>>2557426
Underage B&s will not get this joke

You accidentally make a turning into the wrong burbclave.

bring the girls of old town(sin city) into shadowrun, just like your pic, OP

Awakend animal life and its impact on the sprawl, (can be everything from a kaiju-equivalent holding up traffic in the distance to "the awakend pidgeons droppings did WHAT to my car?!")

>>2559267
damnit, where's that picture of spider jerusalem with his cullmaster gear when you need it

Your players are recruited to be a team in a cannonball run.

A simsense dealer accosts the party trying to peddle his wares, one of the covers he's waving in the groups face looks surprisingly like one of the groups younger sisters.

one of the groups hideouts is rightin the middle of the next big-game Urbanbrawl zone. And guess where they left some of their gear?

random encounter: the Blutarski Gang speeds by in stolen parade floats, followed shortly by the heavily armed DPW.

One of the runners is wearing perfume or cologne that drives a vampire that retains his sanity into madness.

The building next to you explodes because someone elses run has just gone wrong. A van full of upset runners speeds past you and off into the distance with angry patrol drones chasing it.

>>2559656
I dunno, that sounds like a run that went just as planned.

rolled 4, 1 = 5

I used to have a huge table to have a huge table of random things somewhere... a lot of them were mundane, but that was mostly to offset the things that weren't. There would be ten or fifteen entries like "There is an empty shell casing lying on the ground" or "Accosted by aggressive hotdog salesman" followed by one like "Two ancient martial arts masters burst through a nearby wall, locked in unarmed combat"

>>2560371
>Two ancient martial arts masters burst through a nearby wall, locked in unarmed combat

Other random encounter ideas (some sporked from the Sega Genesis game):

- Random fixer flags down group, offering grenades or other restricted/forbidden gear for sale. Roll Perception + Intuition to see whether he's for real or a Lone Star plant.
- The party sees an injured man on the street. Roll Perception + Intuition to see whether he's for real or faking it for a trap.
- A set of spurs embeds itself in the side of the party's vehicle, with the go-ganger still attached.
- A disillusioned 3e decker charges toward the party, brandishing his otherwise useless cyberdeck as a weapon (treat as subdual equivalent of regular sword).
- Someone tripping on personafix BTLs runs toward the party, convinced that one of the members is a person of import to whoever they're emulating. Roll Perception + Intuition to determine friendly or hostile intent.
- A spirit randomly manifests in an empty seat in the party's vehicle.

>>2557308
Suddenly, Dropbears!

THOUSANDS OF THEM!

a black dog begins following one of the party members.
Unfortunately only one of them can actually see it.

The dog takes no notice of anyone except who is it following.

Men with 'racially insensitive' and 'poor impulse control' tatooed on their foreheads start harassing your party

>Men with 'racially insensitive' and 'poor impulse control' tatooed on their foreheads start harassing your party
>poor impulse control

OH FUCK, RUN FOR YOUR LIVES

>>2560528
>- A spirit randomly manifests in an empty seat in the party's vehicle.

And lulz ensue.

You see smoke in the distance. Almost instantly, a gargantuan fire spirit bursts into your area, screaming at the top of it's lungs. However, is it a fire spirit? or a dude on fire? He's really burnin', and the whole place is going up in smoke.

>>2560569
Said dog tells the party member who perceives it to find random items that curry its favor. Should the party member do this, treat as Latent Awakening (Street Magic).

- Party intercepts a text message addressed to a Great Dragon. The sender is curious how the intended recipient is able to type with talons on.

For lulz and to keep my players on their toes, I occasionally add NPCs that take after other mythological beings. Things like the Medusa or the Grendal. They are usually key NPCs or BBEGs. Plus, they are easy to fit into Shadowrun when you have HMHVV and megacorps that have whole branches dedicated to SCIENCE.

>>2560718
Key NPCs are more of a long-term thing. We're just looking to make a random encounter table here.

- Party member suddenly feels intense pain in arm akin to being hit with a Pain Inducer. Roll Perception to determine source.
- Party member suddenly feels intense burning in one hand. Unarmed Combat attacks with that hand deal Physical damage instead of stun for 2d6 Combat Turns.
- An unattended firearm discharges into some part of the party's vehicle.
- An unattended firearm discharges into some part of the vehicle in front of the party's vehicle.
- An attended firearm from the vehicle in front of the party discharges into the party's vehicle.
- The party's driver collapses, having come off a dose of Long Haul.
- CHICAGO MODE: A physically manifested Insect Spirit mauls and zombifies a random bystander. The bystander-corpse will generate a new Insect Spirit after 1d6 Combat Turns unless killed with fire.
- The party's hacker gets Black Hammered by a file he recently attempted to access. Bonus points if the header is obviously fake, say, a share of Saeder-Krupp stock.

A random PC's commlink downloaded a virus that's been going around the matrix.

A young woman suffering from HMHVV desperately begs the PCs for a blood fix.

-With little warning, one person with an active commlink and an AR/simsense interface is affected by a psychotropic gray IC. This seemingly has no effect, but the next time they go to sleep, they experience vivid, intense visions about products for sale.

-A small, aged Tibetan mystic politely offers to tell one of the players their future. If they accept, he vaugely implies something to happen soon. Pick another encounter that seems appropriate.

-A cult attempts to offer one of the players a pamphlet. It simply says "OPTIUMUS PRIME DIED FOR OUR SINS!"

-A large paracritter mistakes one of the runner's vehicles for a threat to it's territory.

-Hackers on Steroids

>>2560800
>- Party member suddenly feels intense burning in one hand. Unarmed Combat attacks with that hand deal Physical damage instead of stun for 2d6 Combat Turns.

Does his hand speak to him and tell him to defeat his enemies?

>>2561120
Transmetropoliton + Shadowrun? yes please.

>>2561120
>-A cult attempts to offer one of the players a pamphlet. It simply says "OPTIUMUS PRIME DIED FOR OUR SINS!"

CALFREE MODE: The above cultist is accosted by a nearby Scientologist, who is in turn accosted by a Humanis goon. The party must decide which of these goofballs to back in the coming shootout. If it's anybody but the "Transhumanist," feel free to pull a TPK.

>>2561120
>-Hackers on Steroids

A decker finds out a PC's commlink number and releases it on Shadownet (4chan for shadowrunners).

>>2561192
Yes. Yes, it does.

When it's not roaring and telling the PC to grasp victory, of course.

The PCs are stopped by prostitutes and their pimp.

-The players encounter a brothel that apparently specializes in Troll joygirls called "Candy's Big and Tall."

-They see a Lone Star beat cop dragging an apparently deranged man off a changling. The man keeps ranting at the top of his lugns "SUFFER NOT THE MUTANT TO LIVE!"

-Out of the blue, one of the player's mothers call, complaining why they never call or send a text occasionally.

-A chance hostile encounter with a single wiz-ganger turns south when he threatens to use then-unknown spell on his aggressors. He calls this spell. "Prolapse."

-A player is mistaken for a famous simporn star and asked to sign autographs. Most of these autographs are requested for power tools, or blowtorches torches

>>2561399
>-A player is mistaken for a famous simporn star and asked to sign autographs. Most of these autographs are requested for power tools, or blowtorches torches

>Most of these autographs are requested for power tools, or blowtorches torches

lol

.A mugger demands credsticks from one of the PCs at gunpoint

.The GM rolls to see if a cop notices the illegal firearms and armor on the runners walking down the street.

>>2561592
Too mundane.

>>2561399
>-They see a Lone Star beat cop dragging an apparently deranged man off a changling. The man keeps ranting at the top of his lugns "SUFFER NOT THE MUTANT TO LIVE!"
Getting better...

>-A chance hostile encounter with a single wiz-ganger turns south when he threatens to use then-unknown spell on his aggressors. He calls this spell. "Prolapse."
OH SHI- (Literally!)

>>2560800
>- CHICAGO MODE: A physically manifested Insect Spirit mauls and zombifies a random bystander. The bystander-corpse will generate a new Insect Spirit after 1d6 Combat Turns unless killed with fire.

ಠ_ಠ

-A pair of bored riggers playing an elaborate, scaled-up game of battleship with laser designators, a tall wall between them, and double-blind roto-drones that drop grenades atop wrecked cars, vans and trucks that serve as 'ships.'

-The leader of a Sprawl Gang who identifies himself as "The meanest, the baddest, the prteiest, the Shogun of Pullyup[Or your city's region of choice here.]"

-An Ork who walks around with a sandwich board that says "I wish to be a little girl."

>>2561629

How would a "Prolapse" spell work? Like the "Pain/Agony" and "Orgasm/Ectasy" spells from Street Magic?

NOT ENOUGH TIME UNITS

>>2562382
In before Spider Jerusalem.

Nazi elves/trolls appear and accost the characters with assault cannons and gauss cannons crafted to resemble Lugers.

bullets start landing randomly in the street, possibly from a fight on the opposite side of the city

>>2562382

Even though it would be a health spell...more or less the same.

Though I think that works better if it's left ambiguous. Could just be a bluff.

- A sniper takes a potshot at one of the PCs with his rifle
- A sniper takes a potshot at one of the PCs with a rocketlauncher
- A sniper takes a potshot at one of the PCs with a pot of MacNCheese
- Your vehicle hits a speedbump, roll 1d4. Odd numer means the cupholder fails and spills your drink
- Your vehicle hits a speedbump, roll 1d100. Rolling a 1 means the tank fails and spills the vehicle's fuel

>>2562537
Proplapse, not Prophylactic. The former is what happens when a woman's cervix can't support her bladder and/or uterus. The latter is a contraceptive device.

So, yeah, it'd have an effect similar to >>2562382's description (combination Pain series/Orgasm series). Woe betide the spellslinger who decides to cast an area effect version of this spell.

>>2562606

I could certainly see a Raven Shaman employing such a spell.

A dolorian appears in a puff of logic

korean hackers

npc jumps off a building to commit suicide, lands right next to or on PC

npc sneezes on pc in tight quarters

three strange men teleport down in front of pcs, one looks around yells into a hand held device at someone named scotty, then light envelopes them and they "beam up", except for the yelling mans pants

A Blade Runner shows up and demands to Voight-Kampf test the group.

A gang of hard gay goose shamans show up, calling themselves "silly gooses," and challenge the PCs to a game of twister.

How about some positive events?

.PC finds 50 nuyen on the street
.Turns out that there is a sale on the items the PC wants at the store and he gets them at half price
.A small package is left at the PC's house. Inside is a pretty ring.
.PC's house is mysteriously cleaned and repaired. It is treated as 1 lifestyle ranking above usual for 2 months.

>>2564302
>.A small package is left at the PC's house. Inside is a pretty ring.
>.PC's house is mysteriously cleaned and repaired. It is treated as 1 lifestyle ranking above usual for 2 months.
Because these are so fucking suspicious in a game of illegal operations in a world with magic that, should they happen to me, I would burn my home to the ground, salt the ashes, and move to another city.

In an open, public place, a wannabe shadowrunner approaches the group and begins to talk shop/mouth off/do something really stupid. Loudly.

Across the city, the temperature drops in localized areas to the point of water freezing.

A large, hairy metacritter expresses his/her/it's desire to mate with one of the runners.

A ghoul in a pinstripe suit offers the runners a business card - for body disposal.

>>2564330
Really? Sounds to me like a force 1 Hearth spirit moved in.

Just rip off a Quentin Tarantino flick.

>>2564415
I dunno chummer. I'm not wild about some free spirit hanging around my kip, with his hands and eyes on my business.

>>2564483
Is that you gramps? Don't you know 50s lingo went the way of the 'deck?

You're far from home and have to take a nasty shizer, like right away. The only place you can go is McBurger and the manager says the toilet is broken. WHERE DO YOU SHIT???

>>2564537
Silly boy, where do you think burgers come from? Cows?

>>2564503
Cut that drek, chummer.

>>2564572
Not in the GRIMCYBER future they dont.

>>2564577
You're not my chummer, buddy.

Shows what you fragging kids know nowadays; you're the ones using that slotting vintage profanity.

>>2564610

"Buddy"? Did'ja 'port in from back centi, ya relic?

>>2562382

More importantly, how would one stat up a Bowel Disrupter?

>>2566060

A weapon that forces a Composure test

I love this thread.

A body is sitting on your doorstep, and you didn't put it there.

You're invited to a party.

There's a clown at the party.

A skittish looking naked man walks up to you on the street, and inquires about where he might find some pants.

As you leave your place, there's a hole in the street that wasn't there the night before. It looks deep.

Your foot hurts.

You're poking around, and find:
-a full suit of clothes. Pity the poor man who must now be walking around the mean streets in the buff.
-a registered credstick with a strange corporate mark on it.
-a case of old and expensive booze!
-rats. Lots and lots of rats.

You head out to your new tricked ride, and find that it has been keyed.

You head out to your new tricked ride, and find that it has been booted.

You head out to your new tricked ride, and find that it has been towed away.

Nothing happens. Things are a bit TOO quiet.

An old-looking blue Police phonebox is sitting in the middle of the street, with crashed cars piled up around it. Evidently, it turned up suddenly.
As (if) the players approach it, it starts making mechanical noises and phases out of existence.

>>2564302
Haha, oh wow. This is Shadowrun. Last time I trusted anyone, my mage ended up knowing hte sacrificing metamagic and picked up a triple strength spirit bane for every fucking spirit that he runs into.

Except insect spirits. Those love me. I fucking hate my GM sometimes.

It's Shadowrun, seriously. Nothing good happens if a rocket launcher and a joygirl with a heart of gold wasn't involved, and it should take at least four game sessions. And that's just to get the joygirl to give you a freebie.

The runners are told of a facility which used to belong to a company called 'Cyberdyne'. Apparently, the computer has been messing around recently...

Use the random run generator in contacts and adventures.

>>2566241

WIN!
Even moreso if the building is being cleared out, and the computer in question is actually a program one of the removal guys found in the basement and thought "why the hell not?" *click*

>>2566281
Again. Even better idea here. The computer, disconnected from all other systems, is apparently self-aware and getting very irate at not being able to contact anyone/thing. As such, it's developing a severe personality problem. If the runners decide to visit the facility, it'll try and trick them into 'netting it up, and if they refuse (and at any other opportunity) it'll make smartass remarks about them and possibly their mothers.
If they destroy it, make sure to have it say something like "Daisy...Daisy...Ah, fuck it"

The players encounter a large gorilla in a top hat and monocle, who is forcing other people to be dapper and gentlemanly.

>>2566241

Shadowrun already had its Skynet analogue. I mean, was the Seattle Arcology Incident too subtle for you?

>>2567175
A 99% mortality rate for everybody in SCIRE hardly seems subtle.

Also, HOLY SHIT THIS THREAD IS STILL ALIVE. Archive y/n?

>>2567282
Screw it, I just archived it at sup/tg/.

Has autosage kicked in yet?

About 100 more posts til autosage.

>>2566206
You head out to your new tricked ride, and find that it has been looted. Upon its recovery from (or delivery by) the Ork fixer who did it, you find that it's been painted red, fitted with Rigger Adaptation (if it didn't already have it) and an extra Weapon Mount (even if the vehicle's natural cap was reached), and loaded down with all sorts of gubbinz. The fixer asks only your party's cooperation in the next WAAAAAAAAGH against [adjacent street gang or corporation].

>>2562700
>korean hackers
The party's hacker is dragged into a Starcraft game against a local Seoulpas head. Loss of the game or refusal to play results in unresisted Black Hammer 6 damage.

>>2557395
>You gotta get across town, but your only transport is the tubes.
- The party sees a group of bystanders/fellow runners engaged in what appears to be a Mornington Crescent LARP. Roll Intuition + Con to baffle them with a challenge to their most recent move or ruling.

>>2560895
- A heavily armed and noticably GRIMDARK person with HMHVV desperately begs the PCs for BLOOD FOR THE BLOOD GOD! SKULLS FOR THE SKULL THRONE!

>>2562763
A Junker and his drone can be seen at a nearby vendor. The Junker is despondent about the fate of his Neo Kobe Pizza.

>>2564483
>>2564503
>>2564577
>>2564610
>>2564612
>>2565234
- A group of NPCs in wildly different age ranges can be heard debating the antiquity of the last edition's slang terms.

>>2566208
- A human-sized pepperpot gives chase to the phone box, exterminating the crap out of any NPCs (and PCs) in its way.

>>2569333
>Mornington Crescent LARP
is it bad that i want to do this?

>- A group of NPCs in wildly different age ranges can be heard debating the antiquity of the last edition's slang terms.

Hahahahahaha

- The party has stumbled into a turf war between Lone Star and Knight Errant.
- The party has stumbled into a turf war between DocWagon and Medicarro and/or CrashCart.
- An AR-linked musician approaches the party, requesting that they "LISTEN TO MY SONG!". He is then accosted by a blonde guy with goggles whose own song has jammed all audio output devices within 2d6 meters.

alright chummers


*PC come upon a political eco activist rally, any characters with obvious cyberware are accosted by eco activist for not being in tune w/"mother nature"

*PC see a corp helicopter fly past over head very low and with trooper inside as well as a HMG mount scanning the area

*PC get followed by a watcher spirit

*PC get verbally assaulted by a watcher spirit , who also makes obscene gestures at the runners

*PC stumble upon a Native burial ground , anger nearby spirits/shaman

*PC during an escape stumble into a Soup Kitchen

*PC meet a women riding a horse in downtown of whatever major city they are in

>>2569582
I wonder that in the Grim and Dark Future of WH40K does the TROMBE INTERRUPT! still occur