| From: | Marty <s457033@*******.GU.EDU.AU> |
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| Subject: | Re: NAGTW Iceland part |
| Date: | Fri, 8 Nov 1996 12:56:19 +1000 |
> country outside of the US, is IMHO disgusting... they write off huge
> tracts of land with barely thought out descriptions that are designed to
> prevent them having to write any follow up sourcebooks, just take a look
> at how many sourcebooks are aimed purely at the US continent, and how
> many *aren't* aimed at the next most important part of the world Europe.
>
In defnce of FASA; Look at how many of their customers are American, and
take into consideration that they DO try and get native authors for their
sourcebooks.
I do agree though that it seems most of the rest of the world is screwed
and america is reasonably 'good'..,.. Again that's because most of their
customers would like to play in america and the rest of the world is
therefore somewhere for the GM's to send their players when they need a
really nasty place that doesn't fit with normal game play.
> OK, we *should* consider the dark future of our own countries, I'm in
> full agreement with this, and my Britain of 2057-62 is a blackly
> terrifying place, but it is an active place, not a stagnating fascist
> regime due to self destruct and take the country down with it.
>
Kill the elf overlords!!
Sorry; Just had to put my two cents worth in.
> FASA cleverly designed the British regime to make it almost impossible
> to use Shadowrunners int he country...
>
True, and that sucks big-time. BTW, consider that it was Sargent and
Gascoigne who wrote the book. Take the issue up with them, instead.
> Now be honest... how many of you run or have run in 205* England (beyond
> Imago and the other sad module), how many of you have visited Europe and
> run there????
>
True enough. Berlin is a bitch'n place to run (anarchy=paradise), but I
don't bother with either England or Ireland.... for different reasons.
> room for intrigue, all FASA have done with the UK and Europe is lock it
> down so tight it no longer can breathe. Does anyone here seriously
> believe that the US will be the only power left in the world after all
> the SR events ....
>
I'd say it isn't a power at all, but that's just my dislike of power (in
others) that is speaking there.
> I for one do not want to go out and buy an American flag to wave, for
> all it's problems and foibles, for all the stupid things that happen
> here, and the wierd ideas the government and socially conscious have
> about what they think we should do in our lives.... I happen to *like*
> the country I live in. And I happen to like much of Europe.
>
Yay!!! Thankyou! A not-so-patroitic american.
*grin*
> the "nightmare future" that is Cyberpunk....
> (erm... FASA future is not
> dark Cyberpunk anyway... it's kinda medium gray)
>
With touches of fuzzy pink.
> Although much of Europe may fragment, as the USSR has today... but not
> in the way FASA has written off the oldest civilisation in the history
> of this planet.
You Caucasio-phile, you. Consider the Inca's and the Mayans, etc. It is
the oldest still existing covilisation, perhaps... and I'd dispute that WRT
Japan and or China, in any case.
> Civilisation advances by extending the number of important operations
> which we can perform without thinking about them.
>
Ie- Civilisation = Brain death????
Nice article, by the way.
Bleach
