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Message no. 1
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re:_Distinguishing_Features_(was_Sick_thing_to_do_to_a_dead______________Runner³
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 1998 12:15:44 +0100
Alfredo B Alves said on 19:31/1 Jun 98,...

> Lara Croft ... that name sounds familiar ... it's the back of my
> head somewhere ... who is she?

The main character in Tomb Raider I & II, the computer games.

> That pretty much covers the most interesting items in Cyberspace (most of
> the other gear in the main book are weapons, computers, Cyberware and a
> few some medical gear) ... there's still the drugs (perscription, over
> the counter, and Illegal) but this is long enough as it is ...

My main complaint about Cyberspace is how things aren't unique
enough; for example they give genric vehicles followed by one or
two specific models that have nearly the same stats as the
generic ones. Nothing that really sets them apart from the others
in their class.

> The reason for all this (primarily) is: What do you think Fashion is like
> in 205x? It seems to me that most of the stuff in SR is not too much of
> a departure from modern fashion ...

I think this is a bit like asking what music will sound like in the
2050s... First of all it's hard to describe only in words, and
furthermore fashion is subject to so many changes anyway that
anything that's said will probably be invalid (or at least partly so)
a few years later. There's about 10 years between the start of SR
and the current moment in the timeline; compare the fashion of
1988 with that of 1998...

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Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re:_Distinguishing_Features_(was_Sick_thing_to_do_to_a_dead______________Runner³
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 12:18:10 +0100
Alfredo B Alves said on 14:26/2 Jun 98,...

[Cyberspace]
> We're the sourcebook the same way? or were you like me and after you saw
> the Main book you gave up on it? I think the background information
> given was good but they just royally screwed up the game system (probably
> trying to snag SR fans & RM fans simultaneously and most likely acheiving
> neither)

I only bought the main rules, mainly to see what that system is
like; I've never really had the opportunity to take a look in the
sourcebooks, so I can't say whether they're any good. To me
Cyberspace feels like an attempt to add a setting to Rolemaster,
but RM's system is pretty hard to learn IMHO so I've never
actually played it (I GMed MERP once and gave up in frustration
after a few hours).

> I don't really feel like counting, but at a glance it looks like the
> Cyberspace mainbook gave more vehicles than SR's BBB /AND/ a wider range
> (Civilian, Commercial, Military, and Space ... commercial wasn't given in
> SR until NAGRL and still doesn't inglude trains or buses, and space
> hasn't been included yet AFAIK)

But they all appear to be variations on one basic model, instead
of giving some _real_ differences between vehicles. This is true
for the weapons as well, and to a larger degree even.

> BTW, Gurth what did your mailer do to the subjet? It appeared in mailbox
> as
>
Re:_Distinguishing_Feature_(was_Sick_thing_to_a_dead______________Runner³

No idea, I can only blame it on bugs in the new version of
Pegasus I'm using... I hope they fix it soon...

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