N&S Organizations

[Guest]

No, I'm not talking about the ones in N&S. What other types of organizations do you use for your games? Do you use real world espionage agenices, military special operations units, mercenary companies or do you use made up agencies in the style if the classics (U.N.C.L.E., SPECTER, TAROT, THRUSH, IMF, etc)? What about homebrewed organizations? And then of course, what about martial art organizations, do your games even have any?

[Sentinel]

I came up with a group more for my HUII game, but using many concepts enhanced by N&SS.
The group is called the Tao of the Fist: They are a martial arts school, of sorts, who only accept advanced students with at least one mystic martial art ability, or with a super ability with a martial arts orientation (Power Channeling, for example).
They seek out ancient texts and tomes, and seek to purify the arts by eliminating pretenders, fakers, and glorified strongmen like the Physical Training character.
They will work with Oni and other supernatural creatures, as well as Chi mages and seekers of Immortality (especially if they can become immortal themselves).

[Slag]

I typically base things on real-world orgs. One of my old-time favs has been the "Manpower International" Merc group, based loosely on "Executive Operations", the merc company that single-handedly ended the genocide in Siera Leone (before the frelling UN got involved and re-FUBARed the place).

I've "created" rules for CIA, KGB, GRU, FBI, Mosad, MI-6, etc., as well as totally invented groups like the Space Intelligence Agency (SIA) for the BTiLC campaign.

For my upcomming Organized Crime article (in work; the one that will feature the revised Triad Assassin rules) I made Org rules for the "typical" organized crime syndicate and street gang.

[Guest]

So far I'm using:

TERRORIST ORG (135)
1 October Antifascist Resistance Group (GRAPO)
15 May Organization
Abu Nidal organization (ANO)
Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG)Al-Harakatul Islamia
Aden-Abyan Islamic Army
Ahl-e-Hadees/Jamiat-e-Ahl-e-Hadees
al-Jihad/Jihad Group
Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (The Islamic Group, IG)
Al-Qa'ida (the Base)Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK - Services Office)
Alex Boncayao Brigade (ABB)
Alliance of Eritrean National Force
Allied Democratic Forces National Army for the Liberation of Uganda (NALU)
Arewa People's Congress
Armed Islamic Group (GIA)
Armed Forces of Puerto Rican National Liberation/Fuerzas Armadas Liberacion Nacional Puertoriquena (FALN)
Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia (ASALA)/Orly Group/3rd October Organization
Aum Shinrikyo Supreme Truth
Babbar Khalsa [Sikh Terrorists]
Basque Fatherland and Liberty/Euzkadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA)
Caprivi Liberation Front
Chukaku-Ha (Nucleus or Middle Core Faction)
CNRT Timorese National Resistance Council
Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)
Conseil national pour la dééfense de la democratie (CNDD) Forces pour la dééfense de la democratie (FDD)
Continuity Irish Republican Army (CIRA)
Dayak
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP) aka. (PDFLP)
Dev Sol/Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHKP/C)
Eastern Shan State Army (ESSA)
Egbesu Boys
Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF)
Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front/Frente Farabundo Martíí para la Liberacióón Nacional (FMLN)
Fatah - Revolutionary Council (Abu Nidal Organization)
Fighting Islamic Group (FIG)
Free Papua Movement/Organisasi Papua Merdeka (OPM)
Free Aceh (Aceh Merdeka)
Front contre l''occupation tutsie (FLOT)
Front pour la liberation nationale (FROLINA)
Gray Wolves [Sivi Vukovi]
HAMAS (Islamic Resistance Movement)
Harakat ul-Mujahedin (HUM)
Harakat ul-Ansar (HUA)
Hawari Group
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HUM)
Hizb-i-Islami (Islamic Party)
Hizb-i Wahdat (The Unity Party)
Hizballah (Party of God)
Ikhwan-ul-Mussalmin
Iparretarrak
Iraqi National Accord (INA)
Iraqi National Congress {INC}
Irish National Liberation Army (INLA)
Irish Republican Army (IRA)
Islamic Union of the Mujahideen of Ogadin
Islamic Salvation Movement (FIS) Islamic Liberation Army (AIS)
Islamic Great Eastern Raiders/Front (IBDA/C)
Jamaat ul-Fuqra
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
Japanese Red Army (JRA) & Anti Imperialist International Brigade (AIIB)
Jihad Group
Kach and Kahane Chai
Karen National Union (KNU)
Komala
Kosovo Liberation Army [KLA]
Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI)
Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP)
Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK)
Lashkar-e-Toiba (Army of the Pure)
Lautaro Youth Movement (MJL)
Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)
Lord's Resistance Army
Loyalist Volunteer Force (LVF)
Malaita Eagles Force
Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front (FPMR)
Maoist Communist Centre (MCC)
Mayi-Mayi Alliance pour la resistance democratique (ARD)
Moranzanist Patriotic Front (FPM)
Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF)
Moro Islamic Liberation Front
Mouvement de liberation congolais (MLC)
Movement of Democratic Forces in the Casamance (MFDC)
Mozambican National Resistance/Resistencia Nacional Mocambicana RENAMO
Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization (MEK or MKO)
Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM)
National Liberation Army (ELN)--Bolivia
National Liberation Army (ELN)--Colombia
National United Front of Arakan (NUFA)
National Liberation Army (ELN) Colombia
Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (CNPZ)
New Mon State Party (NMSP)
New Irish Republican Army (NIRA)
New People's Army (NPA)
Northern Alliance
Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC)
Ordine Nuovo (New Order)/Armed Revolutionary Nuclei (ARN)
Organisation of Iranian People's Fedaian (Majority) OIPFM
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Palestine Islamic Jihad (PIJ)
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Parti pour la liberation du peuple hutu (PALIPEHUTU) Forces nationales de liberation (FNL)
Partido Democratico Popular Revolucionario (PDPR)
Party of Democratic Kampuchea (Khmer Rouge)
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK)
Peuple en armes pour la liberation du Rwanda (PALIR)
Popular Struggle Front (PSF)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Qibla and People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (PAGAD)
Rassemblement congolais pour la democratie (RCD)
Real IRA
Red Army Faction (RAF)
Red Brigades (BR)
Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)
Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia/Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia - FARC
Revolutionary People's Liberation Party/Front (DHCP/F)
Revolutionary Organization 17 November
Revolutionary People's Struggle (ELA)
Revolutionary United Front (RUF)
Rwandan Liberation Army
Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path)
Serb Volunteer Guard [SDG / SSJ] "Arkan's Tigers"
Shora-e-Jehad
Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA)
Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI)
Taleban ("the Seekers")
Terra Lliure (TL) (Free Land)
Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (MRTA)
Turkish Hizbullah
Uganda National Rescue Front
Uganda Salvation Front/Army
Uighur militants/Committee for Eastern Turkistan
Ulster Defence Association (UDA)
Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF)
Union pour la liberation nationale (ULINA) Forces de liberation nationale (FALINA)
United Jihad Council/Muttahida Jihad Council [MJC]
Vigorous Burmese Student Warriors
West Nile Bank Front
White Eagles/Serbian Radical Party [SRS]
Zapatista National Liberation Army

SPEC FORCES (115)
Argentina's Brigada Halcon
Argentina's Grupo De Operacoes Especiais (GOE)
Australia's TAG/OAT
Australia's Special Air Service Regiment (SASR)
Austria's GEK "Cobra"
Belgium's ESI
Belgium's Para-Commandoes
Brazil's 1 Batalhoo de Forcas Especials (1st Special Forces Battalion)
Brazil's Batalhao de Operacoes Especiais de Fuzilieros Navais do Comandos Anfibios "Tonelero" Tonelero Special Operations
Battalion COMANF
Canada's Joint Task Force-Two
Chile's UAT
Chile's Grupo de Operaciones Policiales Especiales (GOPE)
Colombia's Lanceros
Colombia's AFEU
Cuba's Comando Tropas Especiales
Cuba's Comando de Missiones Especiales
Denmark's Jaegerkorpset
Egypt's Task Force 777
Finland's Bear Force
France's (Commando D'Action Sous Marine) Commando Hubert
France's 13 RDP 13eme Regiment de Dragon Parachutistes
France's 1er RPIMa
France's Combat SAR Aircraft
France's Commandement des Fusiliers Marins Commandos COFUSCO
France's Detachement d'Intervention Operationnelle Subaquatique (DINOPS)
France's Escadrille des Operations Speciales (EOS)
France's Escadron Parachutiste d'Intervention de la Gendarmarie Nationale (EPIGN)
France's GIGN
France's Groupement Speciale Autonome (GSA) (Special Autonomous Group)
France's Le Groupe de Combat en Milieu Clos (GCMC)
France's RAID
Germany's GSG-9
Germany's Fernspah
Germany's KSK Kommando SpezialKraefte
Greece's EKAM
Greece's MYK Monada Ypovrixion Kastrofon (Underwater Destruction Unit)
India's Para Commandos " The Red Devils"
Indonesia's Kopassus
Irish Defense Force Army Ranger Wing
Israel's Mista'Aravim
Israel Navy Special Ops Units Shayet 13 Aka Flotilla 13D4 CT Unit, part of Shayet 13
Israel's Palsar 7 and 500
Israel's Sayeret Tzanhanim
Israel's Sayeret Golani
Israel's Sayeret Mat'Kal
Israel's Shaldag
Israel's Unit 669
Israel's Unit 5707
Israel's Ya'Ma'M
Italy's Raggruppamento Subacquei ed Incursori COM.SUB.IN
Italy's GIS
Italy's 9th Para-Assault Regiment
Japan's Special Assault Team
Mexico's Force F "Zorros"
Netherland's Dutch Marines 7NL Special Boat Section
Netherland's 108th KCT.
Netherland's BBE Bijzondere Bijstands Eenheid
Norway's Finmark 7th Jæger Company
Pakistan The Special Services Group (SSG)
Poland's GROM
Portugal's Destacamento do Accoes Especiais (DAE)
Portugal's G O E Grupo De Operacoes Especiais
Portuguese Army LRRP Detachment
Rojdykare Swedish Mine Clearance Divers
Royal Thai Marine Corps Amphibious Recon Battalion
Royal Australian Air Force - Airfield Defense Guards (RAAF-ADG)
South Africa's 1 Reconnaissance Commando The 'Recces'
South Korea's 707th Special Missions Btn
South Korea's National Police 868 Unit
South African Special Forces Brigade
Sweden's Air Force Rangers Flygbasjagara
Sweden's Attack Dykarna (Attack Divers)
Sweden's Bassakerhetskompaniet
Sweden's Fallskarmsjagare Airborne Rangers
Sweden's Forsvarsmaktens Sarskilda SkvddsGrupp SSG Special Protection Group
Sweden's Kustjagare Coastal Rangers
Sweden's ONI
Thailand's Royal Thai Navy SEALs & UDTs
The Spanish Legion
The Selous Scouts
Turkish Special Forces
United Kingdom 148 Commando Forward Observation Battery
United Kingdom's Gurka Brigade
United Kingdom Royal Navy Commando Helicopter Force (CHF)
United Kingdom Special Boat Squadrons
United Kingdom Special Air Service SAS
United Kingdom The 5 Airborne Brigade's Pathfinder Platoon
US ARMY 160TH SPECIAL OPERATIONS AVIATION REGIMENT (AIRBORNE)
US ARMY BATTALION HEADQUARTERS DETACHMENT (C DETACHMENT)
US ARMY CIVIL AFFAIRS & PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS COMMAND (AIRBORNE)
US ARMY Delta Force
US Army Intelligence Support Activity (ISA)
US ARMY JSOC's Joint Communication Unit (JCU)
US ARMY LRSU Long Range Surveillance Units
US Army MILITARY POLICE SPECIAL REACTION TEAMS
US Army Pathfinder Units
US ARMY Rangers
US ARMY SPECIAL OPERATIONS SUPPORT COMMAND (SOSCOM)
US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (AIRBORNE)
US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES COMMAND (AIRBORNE)
US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES BATTALION (AIRBORNE)
US ARMY SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND
US ARMY SPECIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND (AIRBORNE)
US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES OPERATIONAL DETACHMENT "A"
US ARMY SPECIAL FORCES COMPANY, SPECIAL FORCES BATTALION
US ARMY SUPPORT COMPANY, SPECIAL FORCES BATTALION (AIRBORNE)
US ARMY SUPPORT COMPANY, SPECIAL FORCES GROUP (AIRBORNE)
US ARMY THE 75th RANGER REGIMENT
US Marine Corps FAST Fleet Anti-Terrorism Security Team
US Marine Corps Reconnaissance Battalions
US Marine Corps MSPF Maritime Special Purpose Force
US Navy Special Boat Units (SBU)
US Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD)
US Navy SEALS
US's DEVGRU Developement Group
USA's Joint Special Operations Command JSOC

Spy Agencies (81)
Argentinean intelligence service (SIDE)

Australia
Australian Security Intelligence Organization (ASIO)
Office of National Assessments (ONA)

Bulgaria
Durzhavna Sigurnost (DS)

Canada
Royal Canadian Mounted Police — Security Systems (RCMP-SS)
Security Intelligence Service (SIS)

Chile
National Intelligence Directorate (Dirección Nacional de Inteligencia--DINA)
National Information Center (Centro Nacional de Información--CNI)
Directorate of Public Security and Information (Dirección de Seguridad Pública e Informaciones) DSPI

China, People's Republic
Central Control of Information CCI

Cuba
Direction Generale de Inteligencia (DGI)
Military Counterintelligence Department MCID

Czechoslovakia
State Secret Security (STB)

Egypt
Intelligence Service

France
Direction Générale de la Sécurité Exterieure (DGSE)
Deuxième Bureau (Second Bureau, 2nd Bureau)
Direction de la Sécurité du Territoire (DST, Directorate for Surveillance of the Territory)
DRM - Directorate of Military Intelligence
DPSD - Directorate for Defense Protection and Security
BRGE - Intelligence and Electronic Warfare Brigade
SCSSI - Central Service for Information System Security

Germany
Federal Intelligence Service [BND]
Office of Intelligence of the Federal Armed Forces [ANBw]

Hungary
Allami Vedelmi Batosag (AVB, State Security Guard)
Hungary State Security Department
Allamvedelmi Osztaly--AVO
Allamvedelmi Hatosag -AVH

India
Intelligence Bureau (IB)

Indonesia
BAKORSTANAS Coordinating Agency for National Stability
BAKIN State Intelligence Coordinating Agency
Armed Forces Strategic Intelligence Agency (BAIS)

Iran
Ministry of Security SAVAK
Ministry of Intelligence and Security [MOIS/VEVAK]

Iraq
National Security Council
Amn Al Khass - Special Security Service (SSS)
Intelligence Service - IIS [Mukhabarat]

Israel
Office of Intelligence and Special Missions (Mossad)
Israeli Military Intelligence (Aman)
Sherut Bitachon Kali (Shin Beth, SHABAK)

Italy
Office of Intelligence Coordination (abbreviated SID

Japan
Japanese Military Intelligence SDFI
Ministry of Justice (Homusho)
Public Security Investigation Agency [Koancho]
Ministry of Foreign Affairs [Gaimusho

Jordan
General Intelligence Department (GID)

Liberia
National Security Agency (NSA)
G2
Brigade S2

New Zealand Security Intelligence Service (SIS)

North Korea
Cabinet General Intelligence Bureau GCIB
State Safety & Security Agency SSSA
Ministry of Public Security MPS

Pakistan
Intelligence Bureau

Private
International Reporting and Information Service (IRIS)
Kilowatt

Russia
Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR)
Russian Central Intelligence Service [CSR]
Russian Federal Security Service (FSB)
Russian Federal Counterintelligence Service (FSK)

South Africa
South African Secret Service (SASS)
South African National Defence Force Intelligence Division (SANDF)
National Intelligence Agency
South African Police Service (SAPS)

South Korea
National Intelligence Service

Spain
State Security Secretariat (DGAS)

Switzerland
Swiss military intelligence

Taiwan
National Security Bureau
Special Service Command
Investigation Bureau

United Kingdom
Security Service (MI5)
Secret (Intelligence) Service (M16, SIS)
Defense Intelligence Service
Government Communications Center (GCHQ)

US
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
National Security Agency (NSA)
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM)
Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI)
Air Force Intelligence Service (AFIS)
National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
United States Marine Corps Intelligence
Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the Department of State (SBI)
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

MERCENARY ORGs (25)
Airscan (US)
Alpha Five
Combat Force (SA)
Corporate Trading International
Defence Systems Ltd. (UK)
Defense Systems Limited (DSL) [UK]
Executive Outcomes (SA)
Gurkha Security Guards (UK)
Honey Badger Arms and Ammunition (SA)
Human Armor Elite Protection Service (US)
Investments Surveys (SA)
Jardine Securicor Gurkha Services (Hong Kong)
Kas Enterprises (SA)
Longreach Security (SA)
Military Professional Resources Incorporated (US)
Omega Support Ltd.
Parasec Strategic Concept
Sandline International (UK)
Saracen International (SA)
Shibata Security Bridge Resources
Shield Security (SA)
Soldiers of Fortune Ltd
Special Project Service Ltd. (UK)
Stuart Mills International
Vinnell Corp (US)


In addition to several ninja, martial arts, organized crime (primarily Yakuza and Triads), and some other groups to round things out.

[Natalya]

In addition to several ninja, martial arts, organized crime (primarily Yakuza and Triads), and some other groups to round things out.

How do you work the Yakuza in? A friend started a game based in Japan, and we were thinking (due to my character's background) of working that in.

[Guest]

In addition to several ninja, martial arts, organized crime (primarily Yakuza and Triads), and some other groups to round things out.

How do you work the Yakuza in? A friend started a game based in Japan, and we were thinking (due to my character's background) of working that in.

It depends, everything from Bosozoku drive-bys to Pachinko pay offs.

[Puroresu]

Has anyone ever tried a campaign based on the real-life Troubles in Northern Ireland involving the IRA? I'm not talking about Catholics versus Protestants but rather the Unionists versus the Republicans.

I suppose you could create some very interesting superheroes and supervillains for a Heroes Unlimited campaign. Someone could try to break Brittania out of Gramercy Island, for example, and bring her to Northern Ireland for a Unionist scheme.

[Devari]

No, I'm not talking about the ones in N&S. What other types of organizations do you use for your games? Do you use real world espionage agenices, military special operations units, mercenary companies or do you use made up agencies in the style if the classics (U.N.C.L.E., SPECTER, TAROT, THRUSH, IMF, etc)? What about homebrewed organizations? And then of course, what about martial art organizations, do your games even have any?

Generally, I only use fictional organizations. It requires a lot of effort to accurately depict a real organization, and in many cases accurate information simply isn't available for how that organization operates. I do try to use certain elements from various real-world organizations though, since there are a lot of interesting real-world techniques and tactics that can be incorporated into a fictional group to make it seem more realistic and believable.

[gaby]

I only use Fictional organizations.

Like Tarot,who are ruled by a the 22 member council,each call by a tarot card.

[Aramanthus]

I use real life organizations in my game.

[jedi078]

Nice long list Kuseru Satsujin!

But you forgot DSS (Diplomatic Security Service) whose agents are responsible for overseeing the Security of U.S. Embassies, under the title of Regional Security Officer (RSO) and have operational command of a U.S. Embassies MSG (Marine Security Guard) Detachment.

Also while you did list US Marine Corps MSPF Maritime Special Purpose Force you didn't list the MEU (SOC) the unit would be part of.

[Guest]

Nice long list Kuseru Satsujin!

But you forgot DSS (Diplomatic Security Service) whose agents are responsible for overseeing the Security of U.S. Embassies, under the title of Regional Security Officer (RSO) and have operational command of a U.S. Embassies MSG (Marine Security Guard) Detachment.

Also while you did list US Marine Corps MSPF Maritime Special Purpose Force you didn't list the MEU (SOC) the unit would be part of.

That's becayse I've worked with MEU (SOC) before and I didn't find them all that "special." Though it does bring up a funny anecdote about a joint operation involving Navy SEALs who, it seems, couldn't find their target due to some navigation errors.