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Message no. 1
From: SCHINDLER BENJAMIN <schind07@*****.RZ.UNI-PASSAU.DE>
Subject: Shadowrun in my country
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 16:39:31 +0100
In Germany it is very difficult with serious RPG. it gives a Game:
DSA and this is published by a great company while SR published by a
small company. And you can get no books in the stores. Only a few
stores has SR. And in Germany it is difficul to play: often I hear:
uhh it is so brutal and you kill people. It's so a false moral!!
:-) Bandit
Message no. 2
From: IEngelmann@***.COM
Subject: Re: Shadowrun in my country
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 19:39:42 -0400
SCHINDLER BENJAMIN wrote:

>In Germany it is very difficult with serious RPG. it gives a Game:
>DSA and this is published by a great company while SR published by a
>small company. And you can get no books in the stores. Only a few
>stores has SR. And in Germany it is difficul to play: often I hear:
>uhh it is so brutal and you kill people. It's so a false moral!!
>:-) Bandit

Well, as mentioned earlier I'm from Germany, too, but here in Luebeck we have
in our only RPG-Store lots of SR and all other important stuff, too. Until
now I haven't experienced that SR is difficult to play in Germany. Maybe down
there in Passau RPG-evolution hasn't reached thus far ? :)

Ilja
Message no. 3
From: "Norbert G. Matausch (BulletShower)"
Subject: Re: Shadowrun in my country
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 09:34:57 +1000
On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, SCHINDLER BENJAMIN told us:

> In Germany it is very difficult with serious RPG. it gives a Game:
> DSA and this is published by a great company while SR published by a
> small company. And you can get no books in the stores. Only a few
> stores has SR.

Nope, chum, that's not correct. Over here in Germany, almost every
games store does have SR stuff, because it sells big time. It's
correct that DSA (Das Schwarze Auge, or, in the UK, Realms Of
Arcadia) is published by a big corp, while FanPro, the German SR
makers, is a relatively small one. However, DSA is a pure fantasay
game, and I don't think it'll attract potential cyberpunk players too
much.


> And in Germany it is difficul to play: often I hear:
> uhh it is so brutal and you kill people. It's so a false moral!!

I think this reasoning can be found everywhere within the rpg
community. It's not Germany (ADL?)-specific.

Don't hesitate, this is *your* game!

:)

BulletShower
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Message no. 4
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Shadowrun in my country
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 14:47:18 +0000
On 24 Oct 96 at 16:39, SCHINDLER BENJAMIN wrote:
> In Germany it is very difficult with serious RPG. it gives a Game:
> DSA and this is published by a great company while SR published by a
> small company. And you can get no books in the stores. Only a few
> stores has SR. And in Germany it is difficul to play: often I hear:
> uhh it is so brutal and you kill people. It's so a false moral!!
Nope.
Get real, have a look around. Even in the small town I live in (~150K people)
I get SR stuff w/o problems, about 2 weeks after it is released in the USA.
And when one tries to get english books, it does wonders to ask a bookshop to
order them, I am quite sure you can do so even in Passau. So ka?
Message no. 5
From: Peter Leitch <pleitch_hpcs@*******.COM.AU>
Subject: Re: Shadowrun in my country
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 02:48:04 +1000
At 14:47 25/10/96 +0000, Sascha Pabst wrote:
> Even in the small town I live in (~150K people)
>I get SR stuff w/o problems, about 2 weeks after it is released in the USA.
>And when one tries to get english books, it does wonders to ask a bookshop to
>order them, I am quite sure you can do so even in Passau. So ka?

Sascha, you don't live in a small town!!!! In Australia, that would be a
major city.
A small town has about 3,000 people. The kind of place where you practically
know everyone else!

150k people...small town...my God!

<wanders off muttering & mumbling about overpopulated Europe>
PML

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Peter Leitch
<pleitch_hpcs@*******.com.au>
Canberra, Australia
Message no. 6
From: Sascha Pabst <Sascha.Pabst@**********.UNI-OLDENBURG.DE>
Subject: Re: Shadowrun in my country
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 18:36:57 +0000
On 26 Oct 96 at 2:48, Peter Leitch wrote:
> Sascha, you don't live in a small town!!!! In Australia, that would be a
> major city.
> A small town has about 3,000 people. The kind of place where you practically
> know everyone else!
*dirty grin* I bet you have enough kangoroos in town to fill the gaps :-)
And trust me, I know most (well, many) of the people about my age... this is
what 7 years working in a disco does to you :-)

Sascha
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Message no. 7
From: The Crucible <crucible@******.MUR.CSU.EDU.AU>
Subject: Re: Shadowrun in my country
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 10:12:28 +1100
> > Sascha, you don't live in a small town!!!! In Australia, that would be a
> > major city.
> > A small town has about 3,000 people. The kind of place where you practically
> > know everyone else!
> *dirty grin* I bet you have enough kangoroos in town to fill the gaps :-)
> And trust me, I know most (well, many) of the people about my age... this is
> what 7 years working in a disco does to you :-)
>
> Sascha

Nah.. they got killed by all the stampeding Koalas down here......

Andrew

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