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Message no. 1
From: Donny Rhye <Random337@***.COM>
Subject: Settings
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 01:42:59 -0400
I'm at the beginnings of creating a Shadowrun Campaign and I was wondering if
I could get different peoples thoughts about settings all over the Shadowrun
world.
For example California the Free State, Chicago, and Other Non-Seattle
campaigns.

Thanks for your time.
Donny Rhye
A.K.A Random 337
Message no. 2
From: Jimpy <lowfyr@***********.COM>
Subject: Re: Settings
Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 09:51:43 -0500
Donny Rhye wrote:
>
> I'm at the beginnings of creating a Shadowrun Campaign and I was wondering if
> I could get different peoples thoughts about settings all over the Shadowrun
> world.

> For example California the Free State,

IMHO this was the most marginal of the books detailing locales. It tried
to cover too much in too short a space from Hestaby and the Tir border
tension in the north all the way down through LA. But then again, that's
just my opinion, and well, you know what they say about opinions... ;)
This is, however, the perfect place to capture that "Road Warrior"
quasi-post apocolypse feeling.

> Chicago,

One of my favorties, here. This brings in a lot of detail and a campaign
set here changes all the traditional values in the SR game. You should
see the party haggle with a Johnson, and instead of nuyen, they are
trying to get clean water. I think this setting brings out all the
primal fears and needs of the characters, but can be limiting if you set
the whole campaign there. Again, all my opinions.


Denver is worth mentioning as well. I loved this boxed set, but the
reason I like it probably has to do with the fact that I lived there and
know it a little bit better than I do the other places. It has all the
tension of post WWII Berlin with the various international sectors and
constant espionage; criminal, national, and corporate. Throw in the
Nexus and a free spirit or two and walah...:)

Just my $.02 (actually it seems closer to a dollar in retrospect)

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