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Message no. 1
From: Graelorn <Graelorn@***.NET>
Subject: Just thought I'd say hello
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 18:44:02 -0400
Hello folks,

I've first began playing SR since about a year after fist ed came out, but
up until recently (about 2 weeks ago) I havent really thought much about the
game.

And so, I thought joing this list would be a good way for me to get up to
date on the setting. Besides SRII, Shadowtech and SS catalougue2 I have not
bought any SR stuff at all. So, if no one cares I may occasionally ask for
quick overviews of products and such. :o)

Well here are a couple of starter questions...

1.) Has Japan (Mega-Tokyo?) been detailed in any source books, yet?

2.) What is the current stae of the SR universe from that described in SRII?
Has anything "big happened"? If so, what were the ramifications?

--Thanks!
Message no. 2
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: Re: Just thought I'd say hello
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 10:49:14 +0100
Graelorn said on 18:44/19 May 98...

A little request: could you disable the Reply-To field in your mailer
(look it up in the Options and make it blank)? It's overriding that of the
list.

> And so, I thought joing this list would be a good way for me to get up to
> date on the setting. Besides SRII, Shadowtech and SS catalougue2 I have not
> bought any SR stuff at all. So, if no one cares I may occasionally ask for
> quick overviews of products and such. :o)

If it's still available, you could download the first issue of The
Shadowrun Supplemental (Adam will probably give you the address if I
mention here that I've forgotten it and don't feel like starting up my WWW
browser :) where there's a bunch of reviews of most SR books published up
until early last year.

> Well here are a couple of starter questions...
>
> 1.) Has Japan (Mega-Tokyo?) been detailed in any source books, yet?

Not really; IIRC FASA has said they aren't going to do a Japan sourcebook
any time soon. I believe it's mainly because they like locals to write
location sourcebooks.

> 2.) What is the current stae of the SR universe from that described in SRII?
> Has anything "big happened"? If so, what were the ramifications?

Several big things happened, which I'll mention after the spoiler space
below:
















In August 2054 there was a major nreakout of insect spirits in Chicago.
This is described in the ug City sourcebook.

In August 2057, the great dragon Dunkelzahn was assassinated, a few hours
after being inaugurated as UCAS president. (See Portfolio Of A Dragon.)

1 January 2058 saw the murder of mafia don James O'Malley. (See Mob War!.)

Later in 2058, there's lots of stuff going on with the megacorps, but I
haven't got the book(s) yet so I don't know the details.

These are only the major events, there are smaller things happening as
well.

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Message no. 3
From: Alfredo B Alves <dghost@****.COM>
Subject: Re: Just thought I'd say hello
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 13:39:24 -0500
On Wed, 20 May 1998 10:49:14 +0100 Gurth <gurth@******.NL> writes:
>Graelorn said on 18:44/19 May 98...
<SNIP>
>> And so, I thought joing this list would be a good way for me to get up
to
>> date on the setting. Besides SRII, Shadowtech and SS catalougue2 I
have not
>> bought any SR stuff at all. So, if no one cares I may occasionally ask
for
>> quick overviews of products and such. :o)
>
>If it's still available, you could download the first issue of The
>Shadowrun Supplemental (Adam will probably give you the address if I
>mention here that I've forgotten it and don't feel like starting up my
WWW
>browser :) where there's a bunch of reviews of most SR books published
up
>until early last year.

TSS (The Shadowrun Supplemental) Productions is at:
http://www.interware.it/users/adamj/

>> Well here are a couple of starter questions...
>>
>> 1.) Has Japan (Mega-Tokyo?) been detailed in any source books, yet?
>
>Not really; IIRC FASA has said they aren't going to do a Japan
sourcebook
>any time soon. I believe it's mainly because they like locals to write
>location sourcebooks.

There are netbooks about Japan ... The best (IMO) I've seen so far is at:
http://www.sainet.or.jp/~fatcat/index-e.html

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>Gurth@******.nl - http://www.xs4all.nl/~gurth/index.html -
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Message no. 4
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Just thought I'd say hello
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 15:05:53 -0600
At 10:49 20/05/98 +0100, you wrote:

>If it's still available, you could download the first issue of The
>Shadowrun Supplemental (Adam will probably give you the address if I
>mention here that I've forgotten it and don't feel like starting up my WWW
>browser :) where there's a bunch of reviews of most SR books published up
>until early last year.

http://www.interware.it/users/adamj :)

-Adam J
-
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The Shadowrun Supplemental \ SR Archive Co-Maintainer \ RPGA Reviwer
Message no. 5
From: Adam J <fro@***.AB.CA>
Subject: Re: Just thought I'd say hello
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 15:14:09 -0600
At 13:39 20/05/98 -0500, you wrote:

>TSS (The Shadowrun Supplemental) Productions is at:
>http://www.interware.it/users/adamj/

*Beep* Wrong answer! The TSS in TSS Productions does not actually stand for
The Shadowrun Supplemental. And only about 5 people know what it really
does stand for :)

And no, this isn't an invitation to start an OT thread guessing what it
stands for.. :)

-Adam

-
http://www.interware.it/users/adamj \ fro@***.ab.ca \ ICQ# 2350330
ShadowRN Assistant Fearless Leader \ FreeRPG Webring \ TSS Productions
The Shadowrun Supplemental \ SR Archive Co-Maintainer \ RPGA Reviwer
Message no. 6
From: Graelorn <Graelorn@***.NET>
Subject: Re: Just thought I'd say hello
Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 23:46:43 -0400
Gurth typed:
>If it's still available, you could download the first issue of The
>Shadowrun Supplemental (Adam will probably give you the >address

I found this late last night actually. But thanks anyway.

>Not really; IIRC FASA has said they aren't going to do a Japan >sourcebook
>any time soon. I believe it's mainly because they like locals to write
>location sourcebooks.

That stinks. Japan seems to be such a big influence on the setting and yet
we still havent seen anything official yet. Oh, well.
Message no. 7
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: Just thought I'd say hello
Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 11:41:10 +0100
And verily, did Adam J hastily scribble thusly...
|
|At 13:39 20/05/98 -0500, you wrote:
|
|>TSS (The Shadowrun Supplemental) Productions is at:
|>http://www.interware.it/users/adamj/
|
|*Beep* Wrong answer! The TSS in TSS Productions does not actually stand for
|The Shadowrun Supplemental. And only about 5 people know what it really
|does stand for :)
|
|And no, this isn't an invitation to start an OT thread guessing what it
|stands for.. :)

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