| From: | Snake Eyes snake.eyes@********.att.net |
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| Subject: | Sick of Seattle (was: Wait and see) |
| Date: | Mon, 16 Aug 1999 20:23:51 -0700 |
> What if you are sick to death of Seattle? I don't care how big
> it is, or how many corps have offices there, or how many tons of stuff
> leaves from the harbor and airship docks, Seattle is still one
> city. One of the problems with the Star Wars RP is that everything
> happens on maybe ten or twelve planets; in SR, they all seem to happen in
> Seattle, LA, Chicago or DC.
> Maybe if they published more city books (just ONE city, not four
> or five, not a stuff book where they talk about a certain city as where
> something happened, just one city), they might sell them. I personally
> think they would sell as many or more copies of Target: Boston or Target:
> New York City (although this would have to be the NY/NJ megalopolis) than
> they would
>Target: UCAS.
I hear you on the sick of Seattle gripe. It's plenty ripe for adventure
and all, but it does get kind of stale. I liked NAGtNA a lot, and I'd like
to see more short write-ups of major places.
I'd also really like to see a "world atlas" sourcebook, maybe in the guise
of a Neo-A's Guide to Globetrotting. With a world map, showing national
borders and country names, with brief demographic write-ups of the nations,
their capitols, major cities, local underworld, air & sea ports, also
including guides to air/sea travel, customs procedures and "hot
spots." Even if it included re-hashed info from NAGtRL and Target:
Smuggler's Havens, and every other published place/travel book, that would
be OK by me.
A CIA World Fact Book
<http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html>;
formatted with a splash of Fielding's Dangerous Places
<http://www.fieldingtravel.com/df/index.htm>;
would be just the ticket.
And while I have no idea how well it sold, I think that the "Denver: City
of Shadows" boxed set pretty much kicked ass, and should serve as the
standard for development of new "places" in the Shadowrun world. Probably
not a very profitable way to go about it, but that's my stance as a player,
a GM and a consumer.
~ Snake Eyes
