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Message no. 1
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Mike and Jill Johnson)
Subject: first time player needs moviue for indoctrination to game!
Date: Tue Sep 11 13:45:00 2001
At 07:44 PM 9/10/01 -0600, you wrote:
>Ok,
>
>Got a brand new player coming on board. Shes not at all familiar with the
>cyberpunk/shadowrun concept or even rpg's. What one movie would you
>recomend her to watch.
>
>So far i got the folowing on my list:
>
>1) Johny Mnemonic
>2) Matrix
>3) Hardware
>4) Strange Days
>5) Ghost in the matrix
>
>Your thoughts??

I think that the new version of "Gone in 60 Seconds" shows how a well
organized team and good planning pay off.

PugWhan
Message no. 2
From: shadowrn@*********.com (david lowe-rogstad)
Subject: first time player needs moviue for indoctrination to game!
Date: Tue Sep 11 16:20:04 2001
At 11:51 AM -0600 9/11/01, Mike and Jill Johnson wrote:
>
>I think that the new version of "Gone in 60 Seconds" shows how a
>well organized team and good planning pay off.
>

this is totally not a shadowrun movie in genre, but "Made" (with john
favreau and vince vaughn) is a fun movie, and might give a gm or two
some good ideas. the two main characters are given a task that is
very "shadowrun" in feel, and might inspire some ideas to avoid the
usual "mr. johnson" set up.

plus, i enjoy keeping my players in the dark, which the movie's
characters spend a lot of time doing.

d.
--
david lowe-rogstad
flash designer +developer
dlowe@****.com
Message no. 3
From: shadowrn@*********.com (Lady Jestyr)
Subject: first time player needs moviue for indoctrination to game!
Date: Wed Sep 12 10:35:13 2001
At 04:54 PM 11/09/2001 -0400, Alex Rudnick wrote:
>Speaking of William Gibson and his work, I'd highly recommend _Idoru_ as
>well; it'd be especially helpful if you'd like to get into the media end
>of things in SR, but it has some wonderful city descriptions, organized
>crime, government corruption, corporate security, and some material that
>you could use in the Matrix. Colin Laney sounds like an Otaku that
>doesn't realize he's Otaku-ing with the way he finds "nodal points"...
>and perhaps most importantly, _Idoru_ has funny looking French research
>scientists.
>
>So _Idoru_ is good stuff for SR inspiration...

As is the semi-prequel, Virtual Light, and the third in the trilogy - All
Tomorrow's Parties - that ties the previous two together.

Lady Jestyr
"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just
have to be a horrible warning." - Catherine Aird
* jestyr@*****.com | URL: http://www.ladyjestyr.com/ *

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