Tuesday, June 29, 2021

Sprawl Site Generator- The Barrens

The Barrens are a zone of crushing poverty and urban decay. Between gang territory disputes and the slow rot of industrial buildings, the megacorps find the perfect place to sequester shadow operations. Consequentially, the Barrens are a veritable hive of cyber-runner activity.

 

Roll or choose elements from the following list of random tables to quickly generate varied sites within the Barrens. Designed for Chromatic Shadows but compatible with any other cyberpunk/urban fantasy game.

 

Structure

  1.  Apartment block/ row house.
  2.  Public Facility
        1. School
        2. Government office
        3. Police barracks
        4. Fire station
        5. Park
        6. Community center/ YMCA
  3.  Store
        1.  Market/ convenient store
        2. Liquor store
        3.  Pawn shop
        4. Guns n ammo/ army surplus
        5.  Restaurant/ Bar
        6. Electronics/ computer shop
  4. Office building
  5.  Medical clinic/ cybernetics chop shop
  6. Homeless camp
  7. Repair garage
  8. Warehouse/ factory
  9.  Laundromat
  10. Arcade 
  11. Junkyard/ scrap yard
  12.  Storage cubicles
  13. Subway station/ trestle
  14. Overpass
  15. Parking garage
  16. Coffin hotels
  17. Church/ orphanage
  18. Data spire
  19. Prison
  20. Kennel
     

Structural Quality

  1. Brutalist slab construction/ bunker
  2. Tumbling multi story block
  3. Grouping of conjoined geodesic domes
  4. Crowded stacks of trailers
  5. Composite of disparate architectural styles & materials
  6. Classic architecture- brownstone, townhouse, Victorian  mansion
  7. Raw, industrial building- exposed steel girders & concrete
  8. Shoddy- plywood & chipboard construction
  9. Temporary structure- vinyl tents,lean-to, pavilion
  10. Below ground- built within renovated subway stop, or tunnel
  11. Framed up with rebar scaffolding
  12. Prefab- Corrugated aluminum/ Precast concrete/ 3D printed

Details

  1. Covered in graffiti
  2. Under construction/ being painted/ renovated
  3. Caged doors & windows
  4. Heavily damaged/ collapsing
  5. Abandoned/ occupied by squatters
  6. Recently looted & burned
  7. Chain link and razor wire fence
  8. Numerous stripped bicycles chained to nearby posts
  9. Overrun with pigeons/ cages of pigeons
  10. Piles of industrial debris, crates, palettes
  11. Painted garish neon colors
  12. Thick with flakes of chipped paint/ scabs of rust

Cyberpunk Textures

  1. Antenna and satellite dishes cover roof
  2. Large glitching AR signage
  3. Covered in thick webs of telecom cable
  4. Exterior and windows traced in buzzing neon
  5. Crawling with numerous drones
  6. Large flickering 3D billboard
  7. Covered in solar panels
  8. Too many security cameras
  9. Stacks of video monitors playing television shows
  10. Draped in strands of LED lights
  11. Lit by numerous swaying fluorescent tube lights
  12. Stacks of shuddering generators/ machines

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