| From: | the holy Entombed <rasputin@***.UMD.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Denver in a Box |
| Date: | Tue, 25 Oct 1994 15:57:24 -0400 |
> Denver is pretty interesting, but I don't know why they _had_ to
> put it in a boxed set...except for the maps and cards, everything
> would've fit just fine into another book.
Yes, it could've been a book, but it would've been a big one. Remember,
there's a sourcebook-sized book for general information, plus a
black-and-blue Gamemaster Info book, which contains a few new examples of
vehicles, rules on criminal offenses, and, thankfully, specific places to
go with ideas (options) on how to build stories around those places.
The maps were kind of nice. I'm not a huge fan of 3-D political
cartography, but it's a nice once-in-a-while kind of perspective.
> IMHO, they'd have been better advised to put the Germany info in a
> box, along with more detail on the culture and technology, simply because
> (to most of us Americans, Doctor Doom of course excepted) Germany is much
> more foreign (no pun) than Denver.
With additional material, Germany could've been a great boxed set. It
seems, however, that FASA is pushing to bring another major city in NA
into the SR spotlight, and Denver was a good choice. My only complaint
is that it's such a pain in the ass to move the party around the city!
> My guess is that FASA wanted to see how a boxed set would do,
> since there aren't any other Shadowrun boxes.
I'm sure that was part of it. I really hope they don't go the T$R route
and try to make the boxed set (and now BRIEFCASE) an RPG standard.
It's a really good looking box, isn't it?
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