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Message no. 1
From: Rafael Vega fliavega@***.net.co
Subject: QUESTION ABOUT NEW SEATTLE
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:53:54 -0500
Is it really worth having the New Seattle sourcebook if you already have the
old seattle sourcebook?
What is new about it? is there new info worth paying the price or its the
same thing with some new diagraming????
Message no. 2
From: nocturnal@*******.net nocturnal@*******.net
Subject: QUESTION ABOUT NEW SEATTLE
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 17:21:02 -0500
Rafael Vega wrote:
>
> Is it really worth having the New Seattle sourcebook if you already have the
> old seattle sourcebook?
> What is new about it? is there new info worth paying the price or its the
> same thing with some new diagraming????


IMHO, New Seattle is one of the better SR3 books to hit the shelves.
Forgive me for being conservative, but most of the SR2 systems and rules
are so much better than their descendant's. That's only my opinion... I
don't mean to start a whole string on comparisons... <mutters> again.

New Seattle has a LOT of information. Not exactly a map with numbered
locations, but plenty of useful information as well as great artwork to
help you visualize everything. I think it's worth the money.

Nocturnal
Message no. 3
From: Stefan casanova@***.passagen.se
Subject: QUESTION ABOUT NEW SEATTLE
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 00:25:22 +0000
> Is it really worth having the New Seattle sourcebook if you already have the
> old seattle sourcebook?
> What is new about it? is there new info worth paying the price or its the
> same thing with some new diagraming????

Haven't really had the time to check it all out yet since I just
recieved my copy it. I guess you could say that the seattle
sourcebook is the seattle sourcebook it is just that in New Seattle
there is more of it. There is just more of everything but the main
concept is the same. Show the city, explain about sites to visit
places to go to, which gang is where, how long it takes Lonestar (or
whatever sec company is on hand) to respond. There is ofcause also
the update what has happend durring the years since the first
sourcebook came out.

I wouldn't say that New Seattle is a vital book but it is ok but you
can survive without it.

.stefan


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Message no. 4
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: QUESTION ABOUT NEW SEATTLE
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 16:54:47 -0700 (PDT)
--- Stefan <casanova@***.passagen.se> wrote:
> > Is it really worth having the New Seattle sourcebook if you already
have the old seattle sourcebook? What is new about it? is there new
info worth paying the price or its the same thing with some new
diagraming????
>
> Haven't really had the time to check it all out yet since I just
recieved my copy it. I guess you could say that the seattle sourcebook
is the seattle sourcebook it is just that in New Seattle there is more
of it. There is just more of everything but the main concept is the
same. Show the city, explain about sites to visit places to go to,
which gang is where, how long it takes Lonestar (or whatever sec
company is on hand) to respond. There is ofcause also the update what
has happend durring the years since the first sourcebook came out.
>
> I wouldn't say that New Seattle is a vital book but it is ok but you
can survive without it.
>
> .stefan

Guys, you're working from a flawed concept. New Seattle is NOT the same
as the original Seattle Sourcebook and it's not designed to be. It has
two major purposes - one is to update Seattle and what's going on there
for experienced GMs who might not know everything about everything - it
brings together all the changes due to Mob War, BitB, RA:S plus
anything else that's affected the city over the past ten years. The
other is to provide new GMs and players with basic details of the city
itself. In THAT way it resembles the original Seattle Sourcebook.

Now, I have both and I think they're both very useful. The original
book gives me intricate details that the new one doesn't, while the new
one lets me play Seattle as it truly is in 2060, according to FASA
canon.

If you play BattleTech, then think of the original book as a basic
setting, while New Seattle is more equivalent to the Thirty Year Update
(or whatever it was called). That's what it's really like and that's
how it can be useful. At the very least, it saves you carting around a
whole heap of other sourcebooks in order that you don't forget that
Dunkelzahn's dead or other such important details. :)

*Doc' would be more of a smartass at this point, but he's late for a meeting...*
==Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow)

.sig Sauer
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Message no. 5
From: AndMat3@***.com AndMat3@***.com
Subject: QUESTION ABOUT NEW SEATTLE
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 20:15:49 EDT
In a message dated 5/31/99 6:23:37 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
nocturnal@*******.net writes:

> New Seattle has a LOT of information. Not exactly a map with numbered
> locations, but plenty of useful information as well as great artwork to
> help you visualize everything. I think it's worth the money.

speaking of maps... i really miss them. the Old seattle book had lots
of cool, useful stuff that this one does not. color plates, maps of the
individual parts of town... i miss those.

andy
Message no. 6
From: Damon Harper nomad74@*******.com
Subject: QUESTION ABOUT NEW SEATTLE
Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 23:57:43 PDT
>Is it really worth having the New Seattle sourcebook if you already have
>the
>old seattle sourcebook?
>What is new about it? is there new info worth paying the price or its the
>same thing with some new diagraming????

New Seattle is just the "current" 2060 spin on Seattle. It covers, and
takes into consideration, events in the Mob War (by covering crime families
and delving more into gangs), Corp War (by covering the current megapowers
in Seattle, as well as the 'Ark shutdown) storylines. It also gives more
details to more locales for all your shadowrunning needs.
Since you already sound skeptical, my advice to you would be read before
you buy. If you don't have that option, then I would buy it only if I did
more GMing than I do playing a Character.
Worth the money? In my opinion, yes. But others would disagree.


-Damon Harper
"I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only
regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in
school so I could converse with those people."
-J. Danforth Quayle
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