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Message no. 1
From: Gurth <gurth@***.NL>
Subject: non-magic SR? (was: Re: ADMIN: Yet Another Topical Focus Edict)
Date: Fri, 9 Dec 1994 20:43:43 +0100
> Has anyone on the list taken part in a ShadowRun campaign that
>discluded mages and, with them, dragons, and all other demi-human races,
>and played strictly human characters in a world much like the one
>presented in William Gibson's books? Sammies are a rarer breed, more
>fearsome than previous conjecture, being no longer shadowed by the power
>of the mages. Deckers worth more and again than twice their weight in
>gold... Riggers become an ultimate necessity in any run. And everything
>is so much more dangerous.

What would be the point? If you chuck out all the magic, it's no longer
Shadowrun anymore. Unless you really like the SR game system, I think you
could better switch to a different system for such a campaign (IMO CP2020
sounds like the sort of thing you're aiming at, though with cyberware a bit
less common).

Hey, this reminds me: before the summer, someone wanted to introduce magic
into CP2020 because they liked the SR background but liked the Cp2020 game
system better (or something). If you're still around, did anything ever come
of that attempt?
Gurth@***.nl
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