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
- Apartment block/ row house.
- Public Facility
1. School
2. Government office
3. Police barracks
4. Fire station
5. Park
6. Community center/ YMCA - Store
1. Market/ convenient store
2. Liquor store
3. Pawn shop
4. Guns n ammo/ army surplus
5. Restaurant/ Bar
6. Electronics/ computer shop - Office building
- Medical clinic/ cybernetics chop shop
- Homeless camp
- Repair garage
- Warehouse/ factory
- Laundromat
- Arcade
- Junkyard/ scrap yard
- Storage cubicles
- Subway station/ trestle
- Overpass
- Parking garage
- Coffin hotels
- Church/ orphanage
- Data spire
- Prison
- Kennel
Structural Quality
- Brutalist slab construction/ bunker
- Tumbling multi story block
- Grouping of conjoined geodesic domes
- Crowded stacks of trailers
- Composite of disparate architectural styles & materials
- Classic architecture- brownstone, townhouse, Victorian mansion
- Raw, industrial building- exposed steel girders & concrete
- Shoddy- plywood & chipboard construction
- Temporary structure- vinyl tents,lean-to, pavilion
- Below ground- built within renovated subway stop, or tunnel
- Framed up with rebar scaffolding
- Prefab- Corrugated aluminum/ Precast concrete/ 3D printed
Details
- Covered in graffiti
- Under construction/ being painted/ renovated
- Caged doors & windows
- Heavily damaged/ collapsing
- Abandoned/ occupied by squatters
- Recently looted & burned
- Chain link and razor wire fence
- Numerous stripped bicycles chained to nearby posts
- Overrun with pigeons/ cages of pigeons
- Piles of industrial debris, crates, palettes
- Painted garish neon colors
- Thick with flakes of chipped paint/ scabs of rust
Cyberpunk Textures
- Antenna and satellite dishes cover roof
- Large glitching AR signage
- Covered in thick webs of telecom cable
- Exterior and windows traced in buzzing neon
- Crawling with numerous drones
- Large flickering 3D billboard
- Covered in solar panels
- Too many security cameras
- Stacks of video monitors playing television shows
- Draped in strands of LED lights
- Lit by numerous swaying fluorescent tube lights
- Stacks of shuddering generators/ machines
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