I have a few recurring elements I like to use on the occasions when I run games. For Shadowrun, I’ve got a elven decker named Silver who I use if the team either doesn’t have a decker, or needs outside support. She was introduced years ago, and immediately became a favorite of my group, so I’ve brought her back whenever I’ve had the occasion to run Shadowrun.

I also have a location that’s something of an NPC of its own; The Needleview Cafe, which is (strangely enough) just down the street from the Seattle Sky Needle. It’s literally a mom and pop restaurant, with a motherly figure running the front who seems to know everyone, and a grunting, obviously cybered pop in the back doing all the cooking. It’s a runner hangout, and it’s common, unspoken knowledge that both mom and pop used to be runners back in the day, but no one who knew them really talks about it.