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Message no. 1
From: SMILING WOLF <SLEIBOWITZ@****.HAMPSHIRE.EDU>
Subject: New Sourcebooks
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 13:06:00 EDT
Hello, my SINless friends!

Recently, certain parts of the Matrix (well, Usenet, anyway) have been just
buzzing with talk about a couple new sourcebooks. Specifically, they're called
ShadowTech and ShadowBeat. However, no one seems to know much about one, and
the other was (or so I hear) dated for release last month. Anyone got any
paydata here?

BTW, these rumors have been circulating on rec.games.frp. Anyone who has Usenet
access and hasn't taken a peek would be well advised to do just that.


Your humble servant,
Smiling Wolf

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Message no. 2
From: Wendy Knight <71310.1653@**********.COM>
Subject: Re: New Sourcebooks
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 92 21:45:21 EST
> ShadowTech and ShadowBeat. However, no one seems to know much about one,
> and the other was (or so I hear) dated for release last month. Anyone got
> any paydata here?

Shadowbeat is a sourcebook that covers entertaiment, trideos, news, etc
in the world of 2050. I think they even had a program guide in the TV guide
format.

ShadowTech contains high tech gadgets stuff. That's all I know.
Message no. 3
From: Scott Taylor Spencer <sts100z@********.cc.odu.edu>
Subject: new source books
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 12:08:11 -0500 (EST)
Does anyone know when the new FASA source books for shadowrun, California
Free State and Threats, are being released.

Thank you
Scott
sts100z@********.cc.odu.edu
Message no. 4
From: Rick Jones <rick@******.COM>
Subject: Re: new source books
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 12:41:00 -0600 (CST)
Scott Taylor Spencer wrote:
> Does anyone know when the new FASA source books for shadowrun, California
> Free State and Threats, are being released.

My stuff's at home, but they were solicited in Advance Comics for
February (CFS) and April (Threats).

--
Rick Jones Never stand in, on, above, below, beside, or anywhere
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Meyrick@***.com of the dead. --The Horror Movie Survival Guide
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Message no. 5
From: fauxpas@******.net (Faux Pas)
Subject: Re: new source books
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 21:59:20 -0600
>> Does anyone know when the new FASA source books for shadowrun, California
>> Free State and Threats, are being released.

Actually, I'd like to see an Austin sourcebook. I thought that the Aztlan
Sourcebook would have info in there about the divided city, but only a brief
mention of Austin was in there. Ah, well. If anyone has thier game set in
Austin, please post some details or info on how you see the Austin of
2056/2057. Or e-mail me.

Currently, my group is set in Dallas/Fort Worth, and it's only there because
I've been able to find a copy of the NAGNA a few months back in a used book
store.

-Thomas
Cartoonist At Large

"No, I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo in festival terms."
-Benedick, _Much Ado About Nothing_ V.ii.40-41, W. Shakespeare
Message no. 6
From: "Rodney D'Armand" <rdarmand@*****.net>
Subject: Re: new source books
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 1996 22:24:08 -0500
At 12:08 PM 2/20/96 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
>Does anyone know when the new FASA source books for shadowrun, California
>Free State and Threats, are being released.
>
> Thank you
> Scott
> sts100z@********.cc.odu.edu
>
According to my info, California Free State is due out this month (Feb.
'96). Super Tuesday is due in March, but they "convieniently" left out any
mention of Threats. They have a nice picture of the cover, though. ;-)
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Message no. 7
From: "Mark Steedman" <M.J.Steedman@***.rgu.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: new source books
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 08:43:58 GMT
Rick Jones writes
>
> My stuff's at home, but they were solicited in Advance Comics for
> February (CFS) and April (Threats).
>
Some sources list Threats as May release.
The lastest info i saw was only firm over the two above and 'Super
Tuesday'[March as someone said] all other early 1996 releases seem to
have slipped.

Mark
Message no. 8
From: Rick Jones <rick@******.COM>
Subject: Re: new source books
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 09:09:13 -0600 (CST)
Faux Pas wrote:
> Actually, I'd like to see an Austin sourcebook. I thought that the Aztlan
> Sourcebook would have info in there about the divided city, but only a brief
> mention of Austin was in there. Ah, well. If anyone has thier game set in

Last GenCon, one of the "discussed around the water cooler" ideas at FASA
is to have a "Hot Spots" book about some of the troublespots in 205*.
Austin was one of the cities mentioned.

And, I'm running a SR game set in Houston in 2055 (they're about to see
the Bug City news coverage/coverup). If you want to take a look at my
notes, they're at:http://www-ece.rice.edu/~rickj/Shadowrun.html



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Rick Jones Never stand in, on, above, below, beside, or anywhere
rick@******.com near a grave, tomb, crypt, mausoleum, or other house
Meyrick@***.com of the dead. --The Horror Movie Survival Guide
http://www-ece.rice.edu/~rickj/
Message no. 9
From: scotthiller2002@*****.com (Scott Hiller)
Subject: New Sourcebooks
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 19:58:58 -0800 (PST)
On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Scott Hiller wrote:


> Basically, stuff like Population, demographics and

> generally where stuff is, number of districts,
what

> Megacorps are active in the City, what Shadow
groups

> (if any) are active in the city, what other
policial

> or religious groups (or fringe cults) are active
in

> the City, where the main Shadowrunner hang-outs
are

> and where Shadowrunners tend NOT to go, what gangs
are

> there, what threats are there, etc.

>

> I know it's impossible to abstract ALL this stuff
and

> a lot of it has to be left up to the GMs
imagination,

> but if there is a way to help GMs whip up a
general

> framework idea for a non-covered city (and go from

> there) then there should be a way to do that.

On Tue, Jan 21, 2003, Adam Wrote:

I'm unsure as to how any of this would be
"mechanics," though.

Guidelines,

yes - although I think you could distill it down to
the phrase "Do some

research, use your imagination, apply some logic."
in the end.


I'm not trying to be difficult, I just really don't
see what you're

asking

for.


Adam

You're probably right. I think 'guidelines' is a
better word than 'mechanics'. All I was saying was
that after the basic guidelines you mentioned in
yesterday's post: "I'd be completely interested in
publishing a variety of 1-3 page

writeups

on various cities in The Shadowrun Supplemental --
just the basic

information such as Demographics, Government, Crime,
Politics, Corps,

Important Landmarks, Interesting Unique Things, and
Plot Hooks. I feel

the

above information is enough for any GM to start
fleshing a city out on

his

own, and there's /plenty/ of bars, clubs,
restaurants, etc in other

sourcebooks that can be easily dropped into any city
on the globe, with

a

few adjustments for regional colour.


Adam". That is an excellent idea for building the
framework of any city so Wizkids or FanPro doesn't
have to come up with constant info on every little
city. The GMs can do it and, this way, they'll be able
to stay within the Shadowrun universe guidelines. I
don't think you're being difficult. What I am asking
for is: some information GMs can use to build up the
framework of ANY city in which they wish to set an
adventure, allowing them a base from which to flesh
out that city. Maybe that information could be put in
the Game Information Chapter of the Mr. Johnson's
Little Black Book (Gamemastering stuff, maps, NPCs,
and all that other stuff GMs need)you're planning this
year?

Also, as long as you're doing a Shadows of Europe and
a Shadows of Asia, will you also do a Shadows of
Africa? And a Shadows of South America (to include
Aztlan)?

-Scott

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Message no. 10
From: pentaj2@****.edu (Penta John C)
Subject: New Sourcebooks
Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 23:31:31 -0500
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Hiller <scotthiller2002@*****.com>
Date: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 10:58 pm
Subject: RE: New Sourcebooks

> On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Scott Hiller wrote:
> >
> Also, as long as you're doing a Shadows of Europe and
> a Shadows of Asia, will you also do a Shadows of
> Africa? And a Shadows of South America (to include
> Aztlan)?

Well, wait. What about a sourcebook on the Middle East?
Message no. 11
From: flakjacket@***********.com (flakjacket@***********.com)
Subject: New Sourcebooks
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 16:47:34 +0000 (GMT)
Penta John C wrote:

> > Also, as long as you're doing a Shadows of Europe and
> > a Shadows of Asia, will you also do a Shadows of
> > Africa? And a Shadows of South America (to include
> > Aztlan)?
>
> Well, wait. What about a sourcebook on the Middle East?

AFAIK, Rob would /like/ to be able to do more Shadows of... books in the future. At one of
the GenCon talks he was saying he'd like to fill in some of the blank spaces of the SR
world. Ideas mentioned have included areas like the forthcoming Asia book, Africa, Middle
East and South America. Mind you, since this is basically just a wish list of his and
there are bound to be other books that need doing, if they ever do decided to go ahead
with them they probably wouldn't turn up for a couple years yet. :/

Simon

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