From: | satinner@*********.net (Steven A. Tinner) |
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Subject: | Generating List Traffic |
Date: | Sat, 28 Feb 2004 14:23:39 -0800 (PST) |
I'd be glad to.;-)
1. SR Duels?
I have some. I like them as toys.
The game itself is horrible, yet novel.
Personally I wish Wizkids had just made Shadowrun
Clix.
SR has had a HORRIBLE history with spin-off products.
DMZ was awful. The Ral Partha minis were never widely
available (YMMV). The TCG was GREAT, but for whatever
reason FASA killed it at its peak. The SNES amd
Genesis games were fun, but really missed the boat as
far as being faithful to the game, and Microsloth
never botherd to come through with the SR: Assassin
vaporware.
DISCUSS: What other Spin-off's could be done, and how
could they succeed?
Personally, I'd like to see a miniatures based
boardgame. Something along the lines of GW's Space
Hulk, but with Runners vs. CorpSec, or Runners vs.
Bugs.
2. Fanpro's SR Character Dossier
Great stuff. Good design, excellent price point.
DISCUSS: Wouldn't this have been better as an
electronic document/PDF? Heck, put it on a CD, sell it
for $5 and I'll grab it! I'd love to be able to crank
out multiple copies for my players to use.
I notice that no permission to photcopy is given
either. Which forces me to either get all my players
to buy one for each PC. (Which I'm sure would help
Fanpro, but realistically just isn't gonna happen!) or
become a pirate and make copies. (Which I'll wager
will be available on Kazaa in a week or less.)
3. In my time away from the list, I served a three
year stint as a Storyteller for a One World by Night
networked Live-Action Vampire game. I can take or
leave Vampire and the WoD, but the experience was a
lot of fun. Being able to play a character in multiple
cities with the same continuity in a LARP environment
is highly enjoyable!
DISCUSS: Shadowrun LARP - Can it be done?
I've seen several rules sets for such games, I
remember SLARP, and I currently have my own Laws of
the Shadows document I'm finishing up.
The problem I'm finding is what kind of games can you
really run for SR in a LARP environment?
Vampire lends itself to LARP because of the political
scheming, and the entire "courtly" structure the
Kindred embrace (pun intended.)
SR doesn't have that.
You could run an all corp game, and have the office
politics be the backdrop, but then you're not really
playing "Classic SR" anymore.
I'm toying with the idea of setting the game at
Dante's Inferno, and making it more about the meets,
street rep etc. than about the actual runs.
There will still be Shadowruns of course, but the bulk
of the game will be hitting the Shadow community at
the club, doing legwork, and cutting deals - much more
appropriate for a social/larp game.
Comments? Suggestions?
4. My Ultimate Shadowrun Manifesto!
Just kidding ... we're not that desperate for list
traffic yet, are we? ;-)
Steven A. Tinner
Evil GM